Hellraiser - Das Tor zur Hölle (2024)

FAQs

Why was Hellraiser banned? ›

It was banned because of its "brutal, graphic violence with blood-letting throughout, horror, degradation and torture".

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 sad*stic experiments.

Although an Eremite appears in various human forms, its true form is that of a large demonic skeletal draconic creature, with long black horns growing from it's empty eye sockets, skeletal bat-like wings and tail. Some of the only abilities it is shown to have is flight, shapeshifting and fire resistance.

The main reason Hellraiser stands out among horror films is because of its themes. Barker weaves shades of love, eroticism and, of course, pain and pleasure into his tale of demons and scarred flesh - and this really makes the film.

After he was let free due to a technicality, Freddy mocked the mother of one of his victims, and laughed in her face. As a Cenobite, Freddy has great loyalty to his master, Zalgo, the one who gave him his powers.

Parents need to know that Hellraiser is extremely gory. Killing and mutilating befalls both humans and animals (rats), with bloody death by knife, hammer, and hooks. Nightmare imagery includes a vampire-like man without skin cannibalizing others to regenerate, and the cyborg-like demons called cenobites.

The Cenobites are fictional, extra-dimensional, and seemingly demonic beings who appear in the works of Clive Barker.

In the 2022 film, Pinhead is played by Jamie Clayton. On the decision to cast Clayton, a trans woman, as the character, the film's director, David Bruckner, explained: "We felt a kind of anticipation around the fans to reimagine the character. We knew we wanted Pinhead to be a woman.

The use of nails and pins evolved out of one of Barker's short stories called The Forbidden, which featured a board hammered with nails at specific intersections of laid out squares. This aesthetic would resurface for the Pinhead character years later.

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.

Who is the angel in Hellraiser? ›

Other acting credits include Jeff Fenter as sinner Karl Watkins and Helena Grace Donald as the angel Jophiel. Judgment is the first Hellraiser film to include heaven in its mythology.

The third of the original four cenobites, Butterball appears in both Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II. He is an obese figure with eyes that have been sewn shut — though he wears sunglasses through much of his screen appearance to hide them.

Once summoned, it is a Cenobite's duty to take the person who has solved the Lament Configuration puzzle to the Labyrinth/Hell in order to receive their "reward" of an eternity of torture that would reveal to them all of the different levels of pain and ecstasy that the Cenobites know of.

So the point of “Hellraiser” is to understand three things: Your actions have consequences. They can be good or bad and can affect people in good or bad ways. The first thing you never do is do something without thinking about what could happen.

1 Pinhead, AKA The Hell Priest

Even now, Pinhead is undoubtedly the strongest Cenobite. Even after being killed by Dr. Channard/The Doctor in Hellbound: Hellraiser 2, Pinhead comes back to life and is still in control of the Cenobites.