Pinhead had only brief appearances in the first two films and was not intended to be the series' primary villain. See more ideas about clare higgins, hellraiser, horror. Of note are: The very first story in the first issue, which is illustrated like a painting and revolves around the wife of a French nobleman who finds the Lament Configuration during a crusade in Jerusalem. The same can be said for the members of Pinhead's entourage that appeared in the first two films. After a long delay, Hellraiser: Judgment - the latest entry in the long-running horror franchise - has finally gotten a release date. They're probably a part of his face. Register Start a Wiki. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Hellraiser. From left to right: Butterball, Pinhead, the Female, and the Chatterer. Demons to some, Angels to others. In Judgement he claims David and Allison for opening the box, even though they did against their will and at gunpoint. Philip Lemarchand, a French toymaker, makes the Lament Configurationfor a wealthy aristrocrat named Duc de L'Isle, who is ob… To write a new Hellraiser article, visit CreatePage. Pretty much. He gets a robot to solve the Lament Configuration (tearing the robot to shreds), before security guards, led by Rimmer, capture him. Frank cackles maniacally as the chains rip him apart in the climax. Hellraiser is a British horror franchise that consists of nine films, a series of comic books, as well as merchandise based on the series. dramatically underestimated Pinhead's popularity. Butterball had some lines in the original script but due to the makeup preventing the actor from speaking, his lines were either cut or given to the female Cenobite. Since her husband went to Hell partly due to his desire to murder her, this implies she's condemned herself. Pinhead never agreed to anything. The Chatterer could not speak (and the actor could not see), the Engineer was demoted and completely remade to the point of being unrecognizable, and the female Cenobite—while capable of speaking—had makeup that severely limited the actress' head and facial movements. "Hellraiser is a movie that's so fucked up, you don't even look at it unless you want to be freaked out of your mind!" The original film has Frank Cotton, who the cenobites are on Earth to retrieve. Soon it was all she desired, to the point of obsession. Paul Merchant, the creator of Space Station Minos, hijacks it and takes it out of orbit. Frank is reclaimed by the Cenobites, who are promptly banished when they try to take Kirsty too. The franchise is based on the novella The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker, who would go on to write and direct the adaptation of his story, titled Hellraiser.The films, as well as the comic book series, continually features the Cenobite Pinhead. Hello there Guys my Name is John! Jul 7, 2018 - Explore STEVEN GRANT's board "Clare Higgins", followed by 115 people on Pinterest. Though fixed by the sequel, these problems meant Pinhead took point. The name "Pinhead" was coined by the makeup crew and does not appear in the dialogue until the third film. All There in the Manual : Blurbs on the packaging of several of the minor Cenobites' action figures give them backstories. Now he's the face of the franchise. Adaptation Displacement: The number of fans unaware there was ever a book is astounding. How does Frank reward Julia for bringing him victims to regenerate his body? The female Cenobite, the Chatterer, and the Engineer all have more prominent roles, but the film adaptation prevented this. He stabs her in the stomach and leaves her for the Cenobites. He tells Julia (with whom he had an affair in the past) that he has escaped from a dimension ruled by beings called Cenobites who merge the boundaries between pleasure and pain, and convinces her to keep it a secret from Larry and find men for him to feed off on. The puzzle box is a portal. Some time later, his brother Larry (Andrew Robinson) and Larry's second wife Julia (Clare Higgins) visit the house, and with Frank seemingly gone, decide to move in. Larry pays so little attention to his house and to his wife's strange behavior that it gets him killed. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. I am a fortnite creative professional with over 100 maps built. Hellraiser is a series based on Clive Barker's novella "The Hellbound Heart".The novella has a novel-length sequel, The Scarlet Gospels by Barker himself, but the movies based on the novella have garnered the most attention. At his home in London he eventually figures out the configuration, before he is is dragged off by unseen forces. Welcome, fellow explorer of the nerve endings, to the Hellraiser Wiki, a collaborative library of information on Clive Barker's Hellraiser metaseries.. Clive Barker's Book of the Damned: A Hellraiser Companion. Merchant : "Welcome to oblivion." Both Hell on Earth and Inferno have scenes where characters are killed behind closed doors. A alternate ending for Hellraiser: Hellworld. A flashback is shown to around 400 years ago. It is implied that having his orderly half split off at the end of the second film is largely to blame for this. a large statue of Jesus to fall out and startle her. He simply said that they. It has also spun off into countless comic books, some of which have had input from Barker. The first film, an adaptation of the original novellas, has inspired eight film sequels, only one of which (the second), had any direct involvement by Barker himself. 110 Pages. the mutilated corpse of one of Frank and Julia's victims falls onto her and drops maggots all over her. The Cenobites ignore her, and proceed to hunt him — his was the desire that led to the box opening. Tropes used in Hellraiser include: Above Good and Evil : The Cenobites, usually, there was Pinhead's little descent into Chaotic Evil in Hell on Earth . the cenobites didnt betray Kirsty after taking Frank. "when Dr. Channard walks past him. Hell is really Metropolis, and the Cenobites are Awakened Human servants of the Archon who are attempting to help the other human captives Awaken. a homeless man walking into fire, transforming into a skeletal dragon, and flying off with the puzzle box in its talons. 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