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1987’sHellraiserwas author / film producer Clive Barker ’s most famous creative activity . His macabre tale of unholy creatures ( " cenobite " ) who come for the great unwashed ’s souls to take them back to an infinity of sadomasochistic pain became an instant horror classic . The moving-picture show go one of the most popular franchise in revulsion story with the Cenobites , specially their leader " Pinhead , " being some of the most reverence tool in all genre filmmaking .
Clive Barker took the sick flavour of horror picture to violent and shocking top with his distorted and dreadful Cenobite creation . audience had never experienced such terrors , and there are some unfeignedly terrify cenobite in theHellraiserseries .
UPDATE: 2022/09/27 18:17 EST BY SHAWN S. LEALOS
Hellraiseris coming back with a novel picture arriving on Hulu in 2022 . However , this is n’t another one of the long line of sequels for the original movies . This clock time , the producers have rebootedHellraiserfor a new contemporaries , and have exchange thing up so that Pinhead is now a female , an interesting turn based on the demon ’s description in the germ novella . However , one thing that wo n’t change is the creative ways the Cenobites are brought to the Earth of the flick . Whether the new Cenobites match the creepy-crawly factor of the one in the movies that come before is yet to be fix , but to do so they have some iconic demon to equate with .
CD - Hellraiser III
InHellraiser III , a brand - new Cenobite appeared prognosticate certificate of deposit . This one was a world by Pinhead himself after he gate-crash J.P. Monroe ’s popular nightclub and massacred everyone , including the DJ himself . This was one of the first all - out walloping scenes in the dealership , thanks to Pinhead no longer stick to his honor .
The name CD was found on his look , which included Cd lodged in his skull , make what looked like a annulus around his principal . He also used cd as projectile weapons to drink down his victims . It was creepy-crawly , but also campy and showed a lack of the seriousnature of the first twoHellraisermovies .
Surgeon - Hellraiser: Hellseeker
Not to be confused with The Doctor , who was Dr. Channard , the Surgeon come along in one of the straight - to - video releases , Hellraiser : Hellseeker . However , like Channard , Surgeon was a former doctor call Deacon Vrainian , a skilled surgeon who unexpectedly kill his wife during surgical operation and misplace all promise , turn his life over to the Cenobites .
However , this ended up resulting in his transformation into a very creepy-crawly Cenobite in his own rightfulness . Because he did n’t want to see his aliveness and painful sensation anymore , Pinhead seal his middle closed . He is terrorise , with a permanent sneer , and he is aterrifying part of theHellraiseruniverse .
Conjoined Twins - Hellraiser: Bloodline
The Conjoined Twins made their debut inHellraiser : Bloodlines . Before their transformation into Cenobites , they were twin crony who worked as security system safety gadget , and they accidentally walked in on a conversation between Pinhead and Angelique . This induce Pinhead to merge their body together forever .
The look of these twins is unlike any other Cenobite , and has a similar feel to the grotesque burn remains merge together in John Carpenter’sThe Thing . While the flesh tie their read/write head is a petty strange , the two bodies act as one is as creepy-crawly as it start for the diabolic existence .
Barbie - Hellraiser III
Barbie showed up inHellraiser IIIas one of the ft soldier that Pinhead create as he started to massacre people on Earth . He was the mixologist at J.P. Monroe ’s nightclub , and finish up turn into a Cenobite with burred wire wrapped around his human face and head .
This was a in effect replacement for Butterball , but was nowhere near as iconic . disregardless , the barbed wire was a decent touch and the fact he could vaunt ardour from his mouth was an interesting twist to how Cenobites killed their dupe .
The Wire Twins - Hellraiser: Inferno
The Wire Twins are a really creepy-crawly design . Their face are pierce together with retentive , painful - looking steel wires , and they have long snakelike tongues .
Sadly , while twisted and perfect - looking for the serial , they are n’t used well . appear inHellraiser : Inferno , the 5th flick in the serial , the Wire Twins torment a police police detective , but witness never really see enough of the carnage that we make love they can inflict . However , as is , they are really creepy .
The Chatterer Beast - Hellraiser: Bloodline
look inHellraiser : Bloodline(part 4 of the serial publication ) , The Chatterer Beast is a four - legged teras bear of human flesh who is now , quite literally , a pawl from Hell .
It does n’t have a backstory and its rootage are unclear , but the Chatterer Beast is a vicious and frightening Cenobite that is unforgiving in its bestial carnage , and its design is as alone as it is grotesque .
Butterball - Hellraiser/Hellbound: Hellraiser II
The competently named " Butterball " was a Cenobite who appeared at Pinhead ’s side in the first twoHellraiserfilms , what fans look at to be the two best of the serial .
With his eyes run up shut and crashing gashes all over his breadbasket , Butterball up the creep constituent as one of the original three Cenobites . Disfigured and full of rolling , rotted , pelt , the reference had no product line and move slowly , which made him even scarier .
Torso - Hellraiser: Inferno
Hellraiser : Infernowas the serial ' fifth motion picture and most fan weigh it to be the beginning of a diminution in quality . As the films got worse , so did the Cenobites . However , Torso stands as one of the creepiest of the later films .
The character has a peeled - back face and had his body altered to where he is nothing but arms , read/write head , and torso . As he crawls his fucking creeping , it is quite a terrific sight that elevates the film when he is on the screen .
The Engineer - Hellraiser
The dealership set about in 1987 with Clive Barker ’s jaw - droppingly violentHellraiser . One of the most unique Cenobites in the entire franchise is " The Engineer , " a fully non - human Cenobite .
Guardian of The Leviathan , The Engineer is a masterfully designed creature that was the first to ever launch the Bill Gates of Hell , allowing the Cenobites to rise up and seek out their mortal . Creepy and ghastly , this puppet is one of the standouts of the entire series .
Angelique - Hellraiser: Bloodline
While her design is splendid and the actress give it her all , her origin story is rather amazing . Part 4 was subpar as a picture , but this fictional character was a serial publication standout . Angelique was never a human but a " design " of role meant to mobilize a demon princess until Pinhead found her and made her an official Cenobite .
Angelique ’s look is great ( except for too human of a face ) and is one of the creepiest and most vicious of all Cenobites , as she was " assume " to raise a devil and has been hunting souls for 400 class .
Chatterer - Hellraiser/ Hellbound: Hellraiser II
With a completely fantastical , marred , and bloody face of exposed chattering teeth with his peel pulled back by wires , Chatterer is a fan best-loved Cenobiteand appeared in the first two picture in the serial .
This fictional character has the most tragical and creepiest of all the Cenobite backstories . As a unseasoned male child , he work the puzzle of the box and fell quarry to the bloody horrors of the Cenobites . Now he comes from Hell to torture the psyche of human beings . Chatterer has the ability to create more cenobite in his image , generate each one the monstrous smiling . In presence and in the account , Chatterer is truly one of the creepy Cenobites .
Female Cenobite - Hellraiser/ Hellbound: Hellraiser II
break no name but " distaff Cenobite , " this character has no make love backstory but is terrifying in her presence . With her ripped - undefendable pharynx , Female Cenobite was one of the original three and her very front is high on creep agent . Her shuddery delivery of the line " mayhap we prefer you . " is one of the most pop lines in the enfranchisement and helped make her one of the most feared of all the Cenobites .
The character appear inHellraiser : Revalations(the 9th motion picture in the series ) but is played by a different actress and is n’t used nearly as well as she was in the first two film .
Dr. Channard - Hellbound: Hellraiser II
Dr. Channard was malign already . Appearing in part 2 , Channard is a disturbed doc who lives to resurrect Julia Cotton ( the wife from the first film ) and used affected role from the mental hospital where he worked to feed what Julia has become .
finally transform into a Cenobite after meeting Pinhead and his crew , the doctor becomes even more sadistic , as he delight in his own look ( a bloodied face wrapped in barbed wire and a tentacle with whirring blades ) and power to bring pain and torture to his victims .
Pinhead - The Hellraiser Series
Originally born to be just one of the Cenobites , Pinhead was so lovedby fans of the firstHellraiserfilm that Barker and the company decided to make him the principal fictional character . Doug Bradley played the case in all the films except for parts 9 and 10 .
Pinhead is the head of the Cenobites and is responsible for every torment soul that had the ill luck of happen this " Manson Family " from Hell . He is , indeed , the human face of infliction . Pinhead ’s smell and line deliveries ( " We will shoot down your somebody aside " ) are the poppycock of nightmares and helped to make him one of the most iconic horror characters in film chronicle .
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