Six years later, recovering addict Riley is living with her brother Matt, his boyfriend Colin, and their roommate Nora. Riley's boyfriend, Trevor, convinces her to help break into an abandoned storage warehouse, where they discover and take the puzzle box.
Why didn t Riley resurrect her brother in Hellraiser?
Hellraiser 2022 Doesn't Have a Happy Ending
Pinhead negotiates Riley's gift, showing her a revived Matt. But Riley senses it's a trick, as he'll come back cursed or deformed. Instead, Riley doesn't want anything, as she knows Matt would want her to accept her guilt and move on.
Brandon Flynn as Matt McKendry - Riley's brother who goes missing after having a falling out with his sister. Drew Starkey as Trevor - Riley's boyfriend who Matt disapproves of for drinking around Riley, and who discovers the puzzle box alongside her.
While taking Nora to the hospital in Trevor's van later to treat her injury, Nora is abruptly pulled into The Labyrinth where Pinhead mutilates her with her hook-chains and taunts her when she prays to god only to flay her and turn her into a cenobite.
As she comes to learn, though, the Cenobites have a pretty backward idea of what constitutes a reward. So, while she spends much of the movie working toward the Lazarus Configuration, at the end of Hellraiser 2022, she makes the right choice: the Lament Configuration.
Roland seemingly gets pulled into the Cenobite realm after he chooses the Leviathan configuration. In Hellraiser's closing scene, a powerful invisible force strips his skin and puts needles in his throat, which indicates that he, too, has been turned into a Cenobite.
The original book that it's based on, The Hellbound Heart, was suggestive of a female Pinhead, and the comic books also explored the idea. There's also plenty of fan art, wonderful works that all theorized the possibility of Pinhead as a woman. So it only felt appropriate to us.
Freddy is a member of the Cenobite council and the rival of Laughing Jack. He is also the most feared and dreaded enforcer of Zalgo, even more so than Pinhead. Freddy is played by Robert Englund.
The Cenobites are disfigured, sexless, sadomasochistic entities tasked with capturing whoever solved the riddle of the demonic puzzle box known as Lament Configuration and submitting them to extreme physical torture, an act meant to reveal all of the hidden pleasures of intense pain.
Spanning several generations, this final bloody entry in Clive Barker's horror tour de force acts both as prequel and sequel to the original Hellraiser films.
The ending proves that no one can ever escape this puzzle box and that it will always cause destruction, which is a powerful thought. Pinhead is definitely the reason why Hellraiser still stands out all these years later.
Because Frank didn't actually understand and desire all that Hell was offering. Frank thought he was going to get endless pleasure on his terms. Frank was an amateur, a tourist, a dabbler.
In the mythos, only those who are so obsessed with solving a puzzle that can open a gateway (or 'Schism') can be considered. Those who have a taste for the outermost reaches of human experience and have no moral limitations for what they will do to achieve those desires would even be considered to become a Cenobite.
After killing J.P. and releasing Pinhead, Terri was turned into the Cenobite known as Dreamer. It was one of the worst Cenobite designs, particularly because Dreamer had no real powers in comparison to her brethren. She was also far more human in appearance than the rest, which didn't add much to her own malevolence.
The Hellraiser reboot movie includes a female version of Pinhead, but this change to Hellraiser movie tradition actually closer to the character's original depiction.
Candyman is a Cenobite. Both stories which Hellraiser and Candyman are based off of are by Clive Barker. Each character only causes mayhem when they are summoned. To top it off all they know after their deaths are pain and pleasure.
Edward, then, is a Cenobite, which is why he has scissors instead of hands, he's so pale, and he wears black leather clothes that look very similar to the ones the Cenobites usually wear.
The Cenobites are a monastic order in service to their god Leviathan. Leviathan rules an extra-dimensional realm called The Labyrinth. In the movie it is depicted as a giant living Lament Configuration, but presumably a god can take many forms.
Kirsty reappears in Boom! Studios' Hellraiser comic series, set roughly twenty years after the events of the third film. By issue #8, she becomes a Cenobite, a female Pinhead, as the original Pinhead becomes human again.
All the evidence to me shows that Kirsty and Pinhead admire and do to an extent love each other. A kind of Romeo and Juliet thing going on, but even more of a horrific way of being in love.
Upon solving the box in the early 1920s, Spencer was given both the pain and pleasure he was looking for, and subsequently transformed into Pinhead, as depicted briefly in the opening of Hellraiser 2.
