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110-504: Hellraiser is a British horror franchise that consists of eleven films, a series of comic books , as well as merchandise based on the series. 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 . The series' storyline focuses on

220-627: A Hellraiser license for the Nintendo Entertainment System. During the course of its development, the game's abandoned the Hellraiser license and converted it into a simplified game based on the Bible. Prior to the release of Bloodline , Magnet Interactive Studios developed an unrelated and ultimately unreleased video game called Hellraiser: Virtual Hell . Bradley acted in the game during filming of Bloodline . Miriam Van Scott, writing in

330-406: A Hellworld centered party at Leviathan House. While at the party, Chelsea is plagued by several bizarre incidents seemingly caused by the host of the party and, after escaping Leviathan House, witnesses Pinhead murder a police officer she had found patrolling the woods. Returning to the now abandoned Leviathan House after receiving a fake cell phone call from her friend Jake, Chelsea is chased to

440-803: A bodysuit -like undergarment used to thicken the appearance of an actress or actor of light to medium build into an overweight or obese character, in conjunction with prosthetic makeup . Fatsuits worn by characters are either deliberately visible or mainly concealed. Most are intended as unseen body padding beneath a costume (e.g., Rosemary Shanahan in Shallow Hal , and Sherman Klump in The Nutty Professor ), others appear as realistic flesh and are viewed directly (e.g., Fat Bastard in Austin Powers , and Les Grossman's hands in Tropic Thunder ). A fatsuit

550-527: A fatsuit and foam latex mask. He was designed to look as if it would be impossible for him to eat anything else. His torn-open stomach was meant to give the impression that he could directly interact with his organs at will. Butterball is first introduced in the novella The Hellbound Heart , in which he is the first of the Cenobites to appear, and their apparent second-in-command behind the Engineer, whose presence

660-496: A wind tunnel . Hellraiser creator Clive Barker had originally intended to have Julia become the main villain of the Hellraiser series and be one of the few female slasher villains , but these plans fell through when Clare Higgins declined playing Julia again and the popularity of Cenobite leader Pinhead rose dramatically. Kyle Macrae is a character in Hellbound: Hellraiser II portrayed by William Hope . Kyle

770-489: A "subject" in their sadomasochistic experiments. Frank manages to escape when his brother Larry cuts his hand and bleeds onto the spot where Frank was taken by the Cenobites. He convinces his sister-in-law, Julia, to murder men for him so that he can consume their blood and internal organs, which progressively regenerates his body and allows them to resume an affair they began on her wedding day. After Frank kills Larry to harvest his skin, Larry's daughter, Kirsty, turns him over to

880-522: A Cenobite Transformation Chamber. After a girl named Tiffany solves the Lament Configuration, which had been changed into a miniature replica of Leviathan by the Cenobite Pinhead , Leviathan itself changes into a giant puzzle box. As Leviathan changes forms, it quickly loses its captive souls; the souls escape to Earth before the gateways to the realm close. A reference to Leviathan is made in

990-453: A Cenobite, he is confronted by Captain Spencer, who forcibly fuses with his evil side. Free from Pinhead's machinery, Joey sends the now whole Cenobite back to Hell by stabbing him in the chest with the Lament Configuration when the puzzle box changes into a diamond shape. With Pinhead banished, Joey disposes of the Lament Configuration in some newly laid cement . Julia Cotton is a character in

1100-463: A character in the film Hellraiser: Hellworld where she is played by Katheryn Winnick . A teenaged girl, Chelsea is a fan of the MMORPG computer game Hellworld , a game based upon the Hellraiser mythology. After her friend Adam immolates himself with gasoline due to his obsession with Hellworld , Chelsea abandons the game, but two years after Adam's funeral is pressured by her friends into attending

1210-417: A child and being possessed by Samhain fleeing from Hell, and the Cenobites pursuing him in the present day. Although Dimension Films initially turned the project down because it believed the upcoming film Freddy vs. Jason would fail, the studio reconsidered after it grossed $ 114 million on a $ 30 million budget. According to Bradley, Clive Barker intended to return to write a screenplay while John Carpenter

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1320-472: A child. A largely corrupt detective with a penchant for sleight of hand and puzzles, Joseph believes himself to be above the law and regularly engages in illegal behavior all the while neglecting his family. While investigating the murder of an old acquaintance of his, who was seemingly torn apart by hooked chains, Joseph is given the Lament Configuration puzzle box by a fellow detective who discovered

1430-535: A crew showing that was ostensibly open to the public. It was suggested by Bloody Disgusting that the film was only shot so that The Weinstein Company would not lose its filming rights before it could produce a remake of the original. The film was released in DVD format on October 18, 2011. The tenth film in the franchise, it began filming in early 2016. Like Revelations , it does not feature Doug Bradley as Pinhead. Bradley

1540-520: A deal to deliver Frank to them in exchange for her own life. After taking Frank's soul, the Cenobites still try to take Kirsty's soul as well, but solving the puzzle box, Kirsty sends the Cenobites back to Hell. Dr. Philip Channard ( Kenneth Cranham ) resurrects Julia, who was stuck in Hell with the Cenobites. Kirsty is pulled back into the Cenobite world, where the demons decide to keep her, but, having discovered

1650-480: A descendant of Philip Lemarchand, who claims to be able to bring back the dead and who believes that it is his birthright to open the puzzle box and control the Cenobites. She is gradually drawn into their world and eventually sees no way out other than to join them. In the end she opens the puzzle box, summoning up Pinhead and the Cenobites, who kill everyone for attempting to invade their world. To prevent Pinhead from taking her soul, Amy kills herself. Taking place in

1760-442: A girl named Tiffany solve the Lament Configuration puzzle box, Julia and Channard enter Hell, where Julia betrays Channard and knocks him into a Cenobite Transformation Chamber, revealing that the god of Hell, Leviathan, had allowed her to return to Earth to collect souls. Afterward, in the personal Hell of Frank, Julia, after turning against Frank, attacks Tiffany and Kirsty, only to be sucked out of her skin and be sent tumbling down

1870-473: A holiday special, in addition to an adaptation of Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth and a collection of the first two issues. Other releases included the limited series Clive Barker's Book of the Damned and Pinhead , as well as the crossovers Hellraiser vs. Nightbreed : Jihad and Pinhead vs. Marshal Law : Law in Hell . The following series were released by Epic Comics: In March 2011 Boom! Studios commenced

1980-417: A larger portal to Hell by his family's captors, John sabotages the portal and is promptly killed afterward by Pinhead with a scissor-like chain. Shortly after John's death, Bobbi and Jack manage to banish both Pinhead and Angelique back to Hell with the Lament Configuration. Joseph Thorne is a character in the film Hellraiser: Inferno where he is portrayed by Craig Sheffer as an adult and J.B. Gaynor as

2090-556: A man and Oliver Smith as an undead being. The criminal brother of Larry Cotton, Frank, believing he has experienced everything the world has to offer, buys the Lament Configuration puzzle box from a merchant in North Africa and brings it back to his dead mother's home in England . Solving the puzzle box, Frank opens a portal and summons the Cenobites , who take him to their realm for use as

2200-425: A nail on the wall by trying to push a mattress up the stairs, he thought he was going to faint or throw up. His blood revived his deceased brother, Frank Cotton, whom Julia had an affair with and secretly began luring men to the house while Larry was at work to get Frank more blood to help him regenerate. Larry is later murdered by Julia and Frank, the latter using his brother's skin as a disguise. Although unseen, Larry

2310-458: A new Hellraiser series, written by Clive Barker and Christopher Monfette. Separately, reprints of selected Epic Comics stories appeared under the title of Hellraiser Masterpieces . The following series were released by Boom! Studios: Seraphim Incorporated, a graphic novel imprint headed by Clive Barker, began publishing a series of original graphic novels titled Hellraiser: Anthology in 2017. They are collections of stories taking place within

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2420-454: A nun who willingly sacrifices her humanity to become a Cenobite, is about a non-specific female Cenobite, not necessarily the one she portrayed in Hellraiser II . In 2004, NECA released a Female Cenobite action figure. In ranking the character fourth in their list of ten best Cenobites, Shock Till You Drop praised both actresses' acting and said that she brings "a charming nastiness" to

2530-435: A puzzle box that opens a gateway to another dimension, where the Cenobites come forth to take whoever opened the box back to their world, delivering an eternity of torture and experimentation. As well as the Cenobites other recurring characters include heroine Kirsty Cotton and several others. Amy Klein is a character in the film Hellraiser: Deader , where she is portrayed by Kari Wührer as an adult and Maria Pintea as

2640-561: A relic of the Cenobite realm. The pillar is purchased by a night club owner, J.P. Monroe (Kevin Bernhardt), who begins assisting Pinhead in his resurrection. A television reporter, Joey Summerskill ( Terry Farrell ), begins to learn about Pinhead and the puzzle box, which leads her to Monroe's night club. Pinhead is eventually resurrected, and begins creating new Cenobite followers in an effort to establish Hell on Earth. Joey manages to reunite Spencer and Pinhead, fusing them back into one entity, and

2750-400: A remote-controlled robot to open the Lament Configuration, summoning the Cenobite Pinhead and his minions. After releasing Pinhead, Paul is captured by a group of soldiers, who contain him while they investigate what he has been doing on the station. Left alone with a female soldier named Rimmer, Paul tells her of his family's history, telling her he must complete his work or else everyone on

2860-445: A script written by Todd Farmer . The film's story would have differed from the original film, as the creative team did not want to retell the same story. The story was intended to center on the world, and functions of the puzzle box. By 2011 however, the pair had dropped out of the project. In October 2013, Clive Barker was once again attached to the next Hellraiser film. Barker was hired to serve as writer/director, while Doug Bradley

2970-428: A second chance, only to discover upon going to work that he is still in Hell. Shooting himself in the mouth with his own gun, Joseph awakens once more in the motel room and, upon exiting it, finds himself in his childhood bedroom. Fully realizing he is doomed, Joseph breaks down completely and is left screaming hysterically. Joanne "Joey" Summerskill is a character in the film Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth where she

3080-456: A sequel, instead. Inspired by the success of the Halloween (2018) from Universal Pictures , Miramax Films announced plans to adapt future installments in the Hellraiser franchise. In May 2019, Gary Barber stated that Spyglass Media Group will develop the next film in the franchise, described as a reboot. David S. Goyer will serve as writer and producer. By April 2020, David Bruckner

3190-502: A series of tremors to shake Frank's house. Butterball reappears in Hellbound: Hellraiser II , with no explanation given as to his revival. Like Pinhead, he is reminded of his humanity by Kirsty, after which he fights to protect her against the newly created Cenobite, Dr. Channard . He is killed by Channard after a brief fight, after which he reverts to a non-mutilated human form. This is his last cinematic appearance, though he

3300-401: A spell that liquefies Butterball's innards, causing him to vomit up his internal organs in a geyser of blood. In a final show of contempt, Butterball restrains Pinhead as he dies, so that the projectile of blood strikes Pinhead in the face. Shock Till You Drop ranked him number seven in their list of the ten best Cenobites, calling him "infamously creepy and mysterious". Chelsea Murdock is

3410-543: A theatrical release, though it was released direct-to-video in the UK . Corrupt police Detective Joseph Thorne ( Craig Sheffer ) discovers the puzzle box while investigating a series of ritualistic murders. As time goes on he begins to uncover clues that suggest that he is the killer. Eventually, Pinhead appears and informs Thorne that the events of the movie have been transpiring in Thorne's own personal Hell, and that he will be reliving

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3520-455: A young girl. A gonzo-style reporter , Amy was physically (and possibly sexually) abused by her father as a child, which led her to stab him to death. After viewing a videotape her boss Charles received in the mail which depicts a member of a cult known as the Deaders committing suicide and subsequently being resurrected by Deaders leader Winter, Amy travels from London to Bucharest to look into

3630-557: Is a character in the film Hellraiser portrayed by Frank Baker. A filthy-looking vagrant, the Puzzle Guardian acts as the protector of the Lament Configuration puzzle box, passing it from hand to hand and saving it from danger. The Puzzle Guardian first appears in Morocco , where it sells Frank Cotton the Lament Configuration. Later, the Puzzle Guardian, having traveled to England , begins stalking Kirsty Cotton , at one point going into

3740-470: Is a character in the film Hellraiser: Bloodline where he is portrayed by Bruce Ramsay . A future descendant of Phillip LeMerchand, the creator of the gateway to Hell known as the Lament Configuration , Paul, being the last of his bloodline, is the only one who can permanently close the gateway to Hell his ancestor opened centuries ago. Hijacking a space station known as the Minos , which he designed, Paul uses

3850-470: Is a series of stitches through his eyelids, which he usually keeps hidden by a pair of round sunglasses. Although he is apparently a high-ranking member of the Cenobites in the novella, and has the most dialogue in the book, in the films he is the most removed of Pinhead's entourage. Butterball is completely stationary and silent, occasionally licking his lips with a bloated tongue. He only becomes physically aggressive during climactic battles, attacking Kirsty at

3960-451: Is able to use the puzzle box to send Pinhead back to his dimension. Afterward, Joey submerges the box into freshly laid cement at a construction site. A toymaker named Philip Lemarchand ( Bruce Ramsay ) is commissioned by the Duc de L'Isle ( Mickey Cottrell ), a wealthy Aristocrat and master of the dark arts, to create the box as a gateway to Hell so that de L'Isle can enslave a demon. Beginning in

4070-464: Is an entity introduced in Hellbound: Hellraiser II . A giant silver diamond which emits a constant beam of black light which can cause those caught in it to experience past memories, Leviathan is introduced as the god of Hell, lord of its labyrinth, and creator of the Cenobites . After Doctor Phillip Channard is taken to Hell by Julia Cotton, she reveals that Leviathan had allowed her to return to Earth to bring it more souls before knocking Channard into

4180-591: Is continually contacted by Captain Elliot Spencer, the human side of the Cenobite Pinhead . Meeting with Elliot in Purgatory , Joey learns from the captain that his evil side, Pinhead, has been released from his imprisonment in the Pillar of Souls and that it is up to her to stop the Cenobite. After being told that she must trick Pinhead into fusing back together with Elliot, Joey heads to The Boiler Room, where she finds all

4290-409: Is expecting, Frank willingly goes along with the Cenobites, only to find that—past an initial euphoria—the experiences to which the Cenobites subject him are so intense as to be torturous. Butterball is later part of the Cenobite contingent that makes a deal with Frank's brother, Rory's friend, Kirsty, to return Frank to them in exchange for her own freedom, after she unwittingly makes a deal to return to

4400-522: Is finally defeated when Julia appears and tears out his heart. Frank is mentioned in Hellraiser: Hellseeker , which states that he and Larry had both stockpiled large fortunes, of which Kirsty is the sole beneficiary. The Female Cenobite is a Cenobite appearing in the movies Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II , and in Clive Barker 's comic book by BOOM! comics in 2011. The role

4510-494: Is killed by Julia, who drains his life force. Larry Cotton is the father of Kirsty Cotton who appears only in Hellraiser and is portrayed by Andrew Robinson . Larry was originally the husband of Kirsty's mother, who had died, and married to Julia. He was most caring about his daughter Kirsty. He had a tough life and all he was trying to do is keep his family together. Larry hates watching himself bleed and when he cut his hand by

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4620-628: Is made white with no hairs on her head. When she is killed at the end of the second Hellraiser film (after Channard throws a knife into her open neck wound), she reverts to her original human form, revealing that she had once been a pretty woman. Clive Barker recruited his cousin, Grace Kirby, for the role. The Female Cenobite was inspired by scarification and body piercing in National Geographic articles. The make-up took three hours to apply, caused her discomfort, and prevented Kirby from sitting. When Kirby declined to return, Barbie Wilde took over

4730-479: Is mentioned in Hellbound: Hellraiser II when Frank, pretending to be Larry once more, appears as a vision to Kirsty saying that he is trapped in hell. Later, Pinhead informs Kirsty, who had come to hell to save her father, that Larry is "in his own personal hell and quite unreachable". Larry is again mentioned during an extended scene in Hellraiser: Hellseeker where Kirsty confronts Pinhead who says that Frank, Julia, and Larry are all waiting for her in Hell. Larry

4840-431: Is never mentioned again after this. Andrew Robinson was going to reprise his role as Larry Cotton in Hellbound: Hellraiser II , but according to the Hellraiser 20th Anniversary Edition he said that "they didn't want to pay me as they did for Hellraiser , so I said forget it. And that was that". In The Hellbound Heart , Larry's name was Rory and he is simply a friend of Kirsty rather than her father. Leviathan

4950-436: Is often used to provide comedic effect, as in music videos for " Fat " by "Weird Al" Yankovic , " Marblehead Johnson " by The Bluetones , " Keine Lust " by Rammstein and " Way 2 Sexy " by Drake , and the episode " The Cooper Extraction " of The Big Bang Theory . Fatsuits may also be used to impart the experience of being obese to the wearer, not just the appearance of obesity to their audience. The suit in this case

5060-463: Is only summoned in special circumstances: "...the hooks that transfixed the flaps of its eyes... were wed by an intricate system of chains passed through flesh and bone alike..." Along with the other Cenobites, Butterball takes antagonist Frank Cotton back to the Cenobite realm after Cotton opens the Lament Configuration, expecting to find a hedonistic paradise that will cure his sensual nihilism. Despite being warned that what he finds may not be what he

5170-409: Is portrayed by Terry Farrell . A news reporter for Channel 8, Joey, after witnessing a teenaged boy be torn apart by hooked chains in a hospital room, begins investigating The Boiler Room, the nightclub where the boy was found by a girl named Terri, who Joey befriends. As she investigates the club and the Lament Configuration puzzle box which was found in a pillar bought by club owner J.P. Monroe, Joey

5280-416: The Cenobites when his brother Larry ( Andrew Robinson ) spills his own blood on the spot where Frank died after opening the puzzle box that opened a gateway to the Cenobites. With the help of Larry's wife Julia ( Clare Higgins ), Frank begins regenerating his body with the blood of victims that Julia supplies him. Larry's daughter, Kirsty ( Ashley Laurence ), accidentally unleashes the Cenobites, but makes

5390-455: The Encyclopedia of Hell , called it "a slick adventure" that "truly involves the player". In 2011, The Weinstein Company announced video games based on several of their franchises, including Hellraiser . A downloadable content chapter for Dead by Daylight featuring Pinhead was released on September 7, 2021. Fatsuit A fatsuit , also known as a fat suit or a fat-suit , is

5500-505: The Epic comic series, in the seventh issue of the Clive Barker's Hellraiser anthology series. In the story "Under the Knife", the Engineer, along with several Cenobites, is summoned via the puzzle known as The Heart of Damnation and, shortly after being summoned, is returned to Hell when the puzzle is damaged. Frank Cotton appears in the film Hellraiser where he is portrayed by Sean Chapman as

5610-407: The Hellraiser franchise in a prestige format. Epic's title, entitled simply Hellraiser , had Clive Barker acting as a consultant for the comics. These included "Wordsworth", written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Gaiman's frequent collaborator Dave McKean . Between 1989 and 1992, Epic published twenty regular series comics. They also published three special issues from 1992 to 1994, one being

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5720-457: The Hellraiser universe hailing from various creators, including Barker himself. There have been two non-fiction books released that chronicle the Hellraiser films. The first, released on 21 May 2004, was published by Titan Books and titled The Hellraiser Chronicles . Written by Peter Atkins and Stephen Jones , with a foreword by Clive Barker, The Hellraiser Chronicles is a collection of production photographs, design sketches, excerpts from

5830-406: The Lament Configuration puzzle box in her hospital room. Later, after Kirsty banishes the Cenobites back to Hell and attempts to escape her rapidly decaying house, the Engineer appears again. Grappling with Kirsty and her boyfriend Steve as they attempt to reclaim the Lament Configuration, the Engineer is banished back to Hell when Kirsty manages to grab the puzzle box and solves it. The Engineer

5940-493: The "real-life world", in which the Hellraiser franchise has spawned a successful MMORPG . Five friends mourning the death of one of their fellow players—who committed suicide after becoming obsessed with the game—receive in-game invitations to a party at the Leviathan House. At the house, the host of the party ( Lance Henriksen ) takes them on a tour of the many layers of the home, after which they are picked off one-by-one by

6050-515: The Cenobite Orno, who tampers with the mind of a denizen of Hell (referred to as "Raw Material") and imbues them with some of his own seed before sending them to Earth to have sex with a woman; after impregnating a woman, who will die during child birth, the Raw Material will commit suicide. When the child of the Raw Material reaches the age of sixteen, Orno reveals their destiny to them, giving them

6160-410: The Cenobite realm by opening the box. Butterball would later appear — and receive a name — in the closing credits of the film adaptation Hellraiser . Unlike the other Cenobites, who are sent back by Kirsty (here presented as Frank's niece) to the Cenobite realm during the film's climax, Butterball is seemingly "killed" when a section of roof collapses on him as the schism opened by the puzzle box causes

6270-400: The Cenobite world and close the gateway behind them. The revelation of Pinhead's humanity has resulted in a schism, splitting him into two separate parts: his human self, World War I veteran Elliot Spencer, and Pinhead, now a living embodiment of Spencer's id . While Spencer is trapped in limbo , Pinhead is trapped, along with the puzzle box, in the surface of an intricately carved pillar,

6380-603: The Cenobites, who tear his body to pieces before taking him back to their realm. In Hellbound: Hellraiser II , Frank appears before the now institutionalized Kirsty in her room, pretending to be her father and leaving her a message written in his own blood asking for help. When Kirsty enters the Cenobite realm, she finds herself in Frank's personal Hell, a chamber filled with writhing female forms where Frank can never sate his lust. Attempting to rape Kirsty, Frank reverts to his skinless appearance when Kirsty causes him to catch fire. Frank

6490-456: The Deaders once and for all. When the Cenobites turn their attention on her, Amy, to rob them of collecting her soul, commits suicide by stabbing herself, causing the Lament Configuration to make the Cenobites vanish and cause the Deader's lair to collapse. Butterball is one of the first Cenobites introduced in the franchise, appearing both in the initial novella, The Hellbound Heart , as well as

6600-431: The Deaders. Finding another tape and the Lament Configuration puzzle box in the apartment of a heavily decayed-looking Deader named Marla, who subsequently appears to her several times, Amy tinkers with the box, causing her to have a brief encounter with the Cenobite Pinhead . Tracking down Winter and the Deader's home, Amy is forced into experiencing something of a vision quest by Winter, who wishes to use her to solve

6710-499: The Engineer possesses are illusions or actually exist remains unknown; its first conduit was the then dead Julia, whose severed head was able to speak, which the book draws special attention to describing as impossible: "Bereft of lungs, how could it speak? It spoke nevertheless--" In the film Hellraiser , the Engineer is a demon which prowls the corridors of Hell, and appears as an amalgam of various animals. The Engineer first appears to chase Kirsty Cotton out of Hell when she solves

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6820-487: The Lament Configuration, something neither he nor his followers can do. Eventually snapping out of her trance-like state, Amy is almost goaded into killing herself (so she can be resurrected later) with a knife by Winter, but relents and inadvertently solves the Lament Configuration by hurling it at a wall. Summoning Pinhead and the Cenobites, Amy witnesses them rip Winter (revealed to be a descendant of box creator Phillip Lemarchand) apart with hooked chains and subsequently kill

6930-515: The Lament Configuration, stating that the price of the box is far larger than he can imagine, which Trevor will learn eventually. Later, when Trevor returns to the Puzzle Guardian's warehouse, he finds it abandoned. The Hellraiser comics by Epic explain the origin of the Puzzle Guardian, revealing there is one for every puzzle to Hell. The story "Mazes of the Mind" in the fifth issue of Clive Barker's Hellraiser states that Puzzle Guardians are created by

7040-469: The Pyramid Gallery, they learn the shop has been closed for over a month, the owner having gone on vacation to Hawaii . Doug Bradley portrays the Puzzle Guardian in Hellraiser: Hellseeker , where the Puzzle Guardian owns a sweatshop in a warehouse. The Puzzle Guardian, when Trevor Gooden appears in the warehouse after receiving a business card with "All Problems Solved" inscribed on it, sells Trevor

7150-602: The attic of the mansion by the Cenobites and undead versions of her friends Mike and Allison. While in the attic, Chelsea is called by Jake, who realizes that everything they are experienced is some sort of mass hallucination . After rejoining Jake, Chelsea is confronted by the party host, who she had discovered was Adam's father. After the host causes Jake to become trapped in a coffin, he begins burying Chelsea alive, revealing he had drugged her and her friends and buried them, using cell phones to send messages to them and cause them to hallucinate everything, all in an attempt to avenge

7260-465: The box at the scene of the crime. Solving the box in the bathroom of a motel after having sex with a prostitute, Joseph subsequently has a dream where he is attacked by the Cenobites before awakening. After solving the box, bizarre events begin to plague Joseph as he searches for a child abducted by a being simply referred to as the Engineer. As those close to him begin to die, Joseph is directed to his childhood home by Pinhead , where Joseph, after facing

7370-457: The child it has presumably kidnapped, the Engineer continually taunts the detective, systematically killing the man's friends and loved ones while leaving a child's finger at all the crime scenes. When it is revealed to Joseph by Pinhead that the detective has been in Hell ever since he solved the Lament Configuration, Pinhead also reveals that the Engineer is Joseph's "flesh", the embodiment of his carnal desires which have doomed his soul to repeat

7480-406: The club patrons and her friend and cameraman Doc Fisher slaughtered by Pinhead, who confronts Joey and demands she give him the Lament Configuration. Fleeing from Pinhead, Joey manages to send his newly created Cenobite minions to Hell before Pinhead, appearing as Joey's dead father in a Heaven -like setting, tricks Joey into giving him the Lament Configuration. As Pinhead prepares to change Joey into

7590-421: The crash that killed his wife. Pinhead appears in the end, and informs Trevor that he was the one that died in the car crash, his own plot to murder Kirsty for her inheritance backfired when Kirsty offered the Cenobites the lives of Trevor, his mistresses and his co-conspirators in exchange for her own. Reporter Amy Klein ( Kari Wuhrer ), is sent to Bucharest to investigate an underground suicide cult founded by

7700-474: The crew gave the character various obscene nicknames referencing this. The Female Cenobite originally did not have a backstory, and Wilde said Hellraiser II director Tony Randel 's description of her character's motivation amounted to, "You're dead". Gary J. Tunnicliffe later made the character a former nun. In 2009, Wilde contributed to The Hellbound Hearts , a collection of short stories inspired by Clive Barker's original novella. Wilde says her story, about

7810-403: The death of Adam. Before the host can finish burying her, Chelsea returns to consciousness and is dug up by the police along with Jake. The police reveal to Chelsea that she and Jake have been buried for days and that they were only found due to anonymous call from Leviathan House, which Chelsea believes was made by Adam's spirit, which she briefly spots gazing out a window of Leviathan House. After

7920-471: The demon Angelique, who was summoned when his ancestor Phillip created the Lament Configuration , a puzzle box which can open a gateway to Hell. Shortly after Angelique appears at a ceremony celebrating the completion of a new building (which resembles the Lament Configuration) designed by him, John's family is kidnapped by the demon and the recently summoned Cenobite Pinhead . Forced into working on

8030-554: The distant future, and tracing the history of the box from its creation in 1796, Bloodline shows how the Lemarchand family attempts to close the box forever after learning what L'Isle uses it for. Eventually, Dr. Paul Merchant creates the Elysium Configuration, a space station capable of closing the gateway for good, and he traps Pinhead inside and destroys him and the box. Bloodline was the final Hellraiser film to receive

8140-430: The end of Hellbound: Hellraiser II , Little John plays the cricket-covered face of the Puzzle Guardian, which appears on the Pillar of Souls, asking a shocked moving man, "What is your pleasure, sir?" In Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth , Lawrence Mortorff plays the Puzzle Guardian, who sells nightclub owner J.P. Monroe the Pillar of Souls in the Pyramid Gallery. A week later, when Joey Summerskill and Terri investigate

8250-486: The end of the original Hellraiser , Channard at the end of Hellbound , and Kirsty again in the seventh issue of Barker's BOOM! Hellraiser series. Actor Simon Bamford met Clive Barker through a friend who was doing prop work for Barker's plays. Bamford and Barker became friends, and Bamford joined his theater company. After the company disbanded, Bamford contacted Barker to see what he was doing, and Barker invited him to join his latest project, Hellraiser . Bamford wore

8360-503: The events of the Hellworld party, Chelsea and Jake, having become a couple, decide to go on vacation together, only to be visited by the apparent spirit of the host, who had earlier been killed by the real Cenobites (summoned by a puzzle box Adam had created shortly before killing himself). The host causes Chelsea's car to spin out of control before disappearing, leaving both Chelsea and Jake unharmed but severely shaken. Doctor Paul Merchant

8470-534: The film Hellraiser where she is portrayed by Clare Higgins . The second wife of Larry Cotton and stepmother of Kirsty Cotton, Julia and her family, after living in Boston , move to England and into the house of Larry's deceased mother. While in the house, Julia discovers the zombified version of Larry's brother Frank, with whom Julia had had an affair. At first horrified of Frank, Julia begins to do his bidding in attempt to resurrect him, seducing men and bringing them to

8580-501: The film Hellraiser: Hellworld , the main setting of which is an old mansion known as Leviathan House. Hellraiser (franchise) The overall plot of the franchise focuses on a puzzle box , the Lament Configuration. It opens a gateway to the Hell-like realm of the Cenobite lifeforms. The Cenobites are an order of former humans who have become monsters who harvest human souls to torture in their sadistic experiments. Barker created

8690-552: The film characters, and interpretations of the choices those characters make in the film. Hellraiser Films also provides a brief look at the fan short film No More Souls . A feature-length documentary, Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II , was originally due for release in 2015, and comprises interviews with the cast and crew. It is being directed by K. John McDonagh and produced by Cult Film Screenings, based in Birmingham , who used Kickstarter to raise

8800-692: The films Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II . Butterball also made an appearance in Clive Barker's comic book sequel to Hellbound , the Hellraiser comic book series published by BOOM! comics in 2011. Despite appearing to be the second-in-command of the Cenobites in The Hellbound Heart , in the film and comics he primarily functions as a member of Pinhead 's entourage. Like the other Cenobites, Butterball has undergone extreme body modification and ritual scarification; other than his massive size and obesity, Butterball's other distinguishing feature

8910-474: The films. Jake is a character in the film Hellraiser: Hellworld where he is portrayed by Christopher Jacot. John Merchant is a character in the film Hellraiser: Bloodline where he is portrayed by Bruce Ramsay . An architect and descendant of Phillip LeMerchand, John lives with his wife Bobbi and young son Jack in New York City . Due to a curse placed upon his family, John has recurring dreams of

9020-467: The franchise and served as writer/director of the original film. He has stated that he signed away the story and character rights to the production company prior to the release of the first film, not realizing the critical and financial success it would be. The franchise was rebooted with an eleventh film , which was released on Hulu in 2022, as well as a television series continuation in development at HBO . Frank Cotton ( Sean Chapman ) escapes from

9130-525: The funds necessary to conduct further interviews in the United States, although Clive Barker pulled out at the last minute due to ill health. In an interview, Doug Bradley stated that in 2002 Dimension Films received two scripts for a crossover featuring both Pinhead and Michael Myers , the antagonist of the Halloween series . One of the pitches involved Michael Myers opening the Lament Configuration as

9240-541: The ground and is prematurely aged when Frank uses his powers of absorption against her. Kirsty later finds Julia's corpse chained to a bed by the Cenobites . In Hellbound: Hellraiser II , Julia is released from Hell when Doctor Phillip Channard has one of the mentally ill patients in his care mutilate himself on the mattress Julia died on. A skinless being (played by Deborah Joel), Julia seduces Channard and has him bring her victims which she can feed on to restore her human form, which she succeeds in doing. After Channard has

9350-452: The host escapes to a decrepit motel with a suitcase of his son's belongings. The host discovers a real puzzle box inside, and upon opening it is killed by Pinhead and a pair of Cenobites. The ninth film in the franchise, Revelations is the first film not to feature Doug Bradley as Pinhead and was shot in two weeks for $ 300,000. In 2011, it was released to a single theater in California for

9460-402: The host or Pinhead. The final two victims ultimately realize that most of the events of the movie have been a hallucination, after the host—the father of their deceased friend, who blames his son's fellow players for not breaking his addiction to the game—drugged them and buried them alive. The police rescue the surviving teenagers, Chelsea ( Katheryn Winnick ) and Jake ( Christopher Jacot ), while

9570-544: The house so Frank can feed off them. Eventually, after an encounter with Kirsty and when Frank is almost fully human looking, Julia leads Larry to Frank, who kills him and steals his skin; afterward, Julia and Frank have sex. When Kirsty returns home in search of Frank, Julia and Frank attempt to trick and kill her, an attack which results in Julia's death at Frank's hands, when, as Julia restrains Kirsty, Frank accidentally stabs her with his switchblade . As Kirsty flees, Julia slumps to

9680-403: The human identity of the Cenobites earlier, Kirsty appeals to their latent humanity, specifically the Cenobite leader Pinhead ( Doug Bradley ). Pinhead decides to release her, but he and his followers are killed by Channard, who has become a Cenobite himself. With the help of a teenage girl, Tiffany ( Imogen Boorman ), who unknowingly assisted Channard in opening the box, Kirsty and Tiffany escape

9790-507: The main writers, while David Gordon Green will direct several of the episodes. The series will be "an elevated continuation and expansion" of the film series. Verheiden, Dougherty, and Green will serve as executive producers , alongside Danny McBride , Jody Hill , Brandon James , and Roy Lee . The project will be a joint-venture production between HBO , Rough House Pictures and Vertigo Entertainment . Later in October, Clive Barker joined

9900-462: The orphaned shot (interlaced with shots of Kirsty and Tiffany fleeing), which takes place just as Leviathan begins to transform into a puzzle box. The orphaned shot remains in the stand-alone DVD released in Region 1 . In Hellraiser: Inferno , another being called the Engineer appears, a faceless and near-mythic criminal played by Ray Miceli. When a detective named Joseph Thorne begins hunting for it and

10010-479: The pet shop where the young woman works and eating a large amount of crickets before being shooed away. When Kirsty and her boyfriend Steve attempt to burn the Lament Configuration, the Puzzle Guardian appears and saves the box before transforming into a skeletal dragon and flying away. The Puzzle Guardian is last seen back in India with the Lament Configuration, asking a prospective customer "What's your pleasure, sir?" At

10120-478: The puzzle they will guard. Emma Craven is a character in the film Hellraiser: Revelations where she is portrayed by Tracey Fairaway. The Engineer is a character first appearing at the end of The Hellbound Heart as the unseen leader of Pinhead's Order of the Gash who appears only as flashes of light (some minute and others blinding) using living and dead people alike as conduits of its will. Whether these people

10230-424: The reanimated corpses of his dead friends and family members, finds himself in a dark void, where Pinhead reveals to Joseph he is in Hell, his sinful lifestyle and disregard for everyone but himself having doomed him to relive the events of the past few days over and over again. After being torn apart by Pinhead's hooked chains, Joseph awakens back in the motel room where he solved the box and believes he has been given

10340-444: The role. Wilde speculated that the producers were interested in her because of her background in mime, which was commonly believed in the industry to help with performing under prosthetic make-up. Wilde's different facial features contributed to the change in appearance for the character. Paul Kane , author of The Hellraiser Films and Their Legacy , describes her throat wound as representative of male fears of female sexuality. Kane says

10450-514: The same sequence of events for all eternity. The Engineer is referenced to in Hellraiser: Hellworld as an enemy in the online computer game Hellworld ; later in the film, when the characters begin to question whether they are actually in Hell, one of them sarcastically asks "Where are the Engineers?" The version of the Engineer from the first Hellraiser film made only one appearance in

10560-417: The same series of events for eternity. Kirsty Cotton and her husband, Trevor ( Dean Winters ), end up in a car accident that kills her. One month later, Trevor wakes up in a hospital, but because of a head injury, his memory is uncertain and he cannot distinguish between fantasy and reality. As he begins to uncover evidence that he was having a series of affairs, he also comes under suspicion for orchestrating

10670-434: The scripts, and interviews with the cast and crew. The next book, The Hellraiser Films And Their Legacy , was released by McFarland & Company on 27 November 2006; it was written by Paul Kane , and features foreword by Pinhead actor Doug Bradley. Hellraiser Films collects the production history of all eight films, their spin-offs, as well as how the series relates to popular culture. The book provides an in-depth look at

10780-558: The series as an executive producer. The series has not yet been produced, as of 2024. The Scarlet Gospels , a novel-length sequel to The Hellbound Heart also featuring Barker's recurring Harry D'Amour character, was released in 2015. Hellraiser: The Toll , set before The Scarlet Gospels and after The Hellbound Heart , was written by Mark Alan Miller and published by Subterranean Press in February 2018. Hellbound Hearts , an anthology coedited by Paul Kane and Marie O'Regan

10890-499: The station is doomed. When it becomes apparent that something really is stalking through the space station, Paul is released by the soldiers, who are killed one by one by the Cenobites. Managing to finish his work and narrowly escape Pinhead through the use of a hologram, Paul flies away from the Minos in a space shuttle with Rimmer while the Minos changes into a giant puzzle box, originally designed by Phillip LeMerchand, which completely destroys Pinhead. Derelict, The Puzzle Guardian

11000-466: Was Channard's student. Both Kyle and Channard were intrigued by Kirsty's tale of what happened to her family. Kyle stumbled upon multiple Lament Configuration boxes in Channard's house, and witnessed him using a mental patient to summon Julia. Kyle watched as Julia killed the patient. He alerted Kirsty, and they went to the house to bring back Larry. Kyle searched the house after telling Kirsty to stay put, and

11110-418: Was announced to reprise his role as Pinhead. By 2014, Barker stated that he had completed a second draft for the script, stating that he may not serve as director on the project. The story was described as a "very loose" remake of the original film. In March 2017, the filmmaker stated that the "script was written and delivered to Dimension years ago". He acknowledged that the franchise is now looking at adapting

11220-425: Was approached by Dimension Films to pitch a continuation to the franchise, to be called Hellraiser: Lament . His treatment, judged by Dimension Films to be "too expensive", concerned the mining town of Lament and the creation of the original puzzle boxes. The story would then have flashed forward to the present day and an attempt for Leviathan to break through into our world. Super 3D Noah's Ark originated as

11330-465: Was being considered to direct. The project ultimately ended when Halloween 's producer Moustapha Akkad rejected the idea and due to a negative response from the fans of both franchises. Inspired by the success of the slasher film Freddy vs. Jason , Miramax contemplated a crossover between Hellraiser and Candyman . Barker, originator of both franchises, recommended against the idea. Separately in 2002, Hellboy co-writer Peter Briggs

11440-404: Was hired as director, from a script he co-wrote with Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski . Later in October, Jamie Clayton was cast as Pinhead. The film was released as a Hulu Original Film , exclusively via streaming on Hulu on October 7, 2022. In 2020, a television series adaptation of the franchise was announced to be in development. Mark Verheiden and Michael Dougherty will serve as

11550-403: Was offered the part but turned it down because the production company refused to let him read the script without signing a non-disclosure agreement regarding its contents. This film was released in DVD format on February 13, 2018. In October 2006, Clive Barker announced on his official website that he would be writing the script for a forthcoming remake of the original Hellraiser film, which

11660-480: Was played by Grace Kirby in the first film and Barbie Wilde in the sequel. Like the other Cenobites, she is clad in black leather and is mutilated. In the original film, several wires peel back the skin around her neck, causing her to have a raspy, whispery voice. She is given deeply sunken facial features with bluish skin and a few hairs left on her head. In the sequel four of the wires holding her throat open have been removed, leaving just one frame, and her skin tone

11770-577: Was released on 29 September 2009. It had a cover painted by Barker and included a reprint of "Wordsworth", a short comic by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean originally printed in Epic Comics ' Hellraiser comic book. Paul Kane alone authored Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell , a 2016 crossover with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 's Sherlock Holmes . Epic Comics , a more adult imprint of Marvel Comics , began publishing series of comic book spin-offs for

11880-605: Was revived in the comics. Butterball reappears in Clive Barker's comic book series for BOOM! comics. Butterball appears in the fifth issue as Pinhead's "secret weapon", ambushing and restraining Kirsty when she finally confronts Pinhead. The confrontation turns out to be a trap arranged by Pinhead to betray his fellow Cenobites, and Pinhead slips Kirsty one of his knives, which she uses to kill Butterball. Butterball reappears yet again in The Scarlet Gospels , once again being betrayed by Pinhead. This time, Pinhead kills him with

11990-475: Was to appear in Hellbound: Hellraiser II , but was removed completely, except from the ending scene when the Pillar of Souls appears, where his face is attached. However, the character can still be briefly seen through an editing error at the end of Hellbound , as Kirsty and Tiffany flee the Labyrinth racing for the closing gate as souls flee all around them. Only the Engineer, and the souls fleeing, are visible in

12100-409: Was to be produced by Dimension Films . Pascal Laugier was hired as director, before ultimately dropping out of the production due to creative differences. Laugier reportedly wanted the film to have a dark and serious tone, while producers wanted the target audience to be teenagers. In October 2010, Patrick Lussier was hired to serve as director on a reboot of the Hellraiser franchise, with

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