#CHATTERBOX HELLRAISER MOVIE#

Suffering from the severe effects of post traumatic stress disorder, the disillusioned and jaded Spencer wandered the Earth indulging in a hedonistic lifestyle, turning to the baser methods of gratification for satisfaction and pleasure, until finding the Lament Configuration in British India and finally understanding the true pleasures of pain and suffering. Captain Spencer did not believe he had the right to live after watching many of his comrades perish in such horrific circumstances. He also loses his faith in God, whom he believed failed mankind. He was a charismatic and eloquent man, who could feel great empathy and compassion for those around him, however after participating in one of the Battles of Flanders, he loses his faith in humanity after witnessing the inhumanity enacted upon one another. 1920's, India.ĭuring World War I, Elliott Spencer served as a Captain in the British Expeditionary Force. As a young adult, he would join the British Army and later serve in France during World War I.ġ921 ' To us, God fell at Flanders too.' - Captain Elliot Spencer, from Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (Film)Įlliot Spencer solving the Lament Configuration, c. The Cenobite known as Pinhead was once a human known as Elliot Spencer who was born in England during the Victorian Era in 1887.

The second time, Pinhead makes Riley cut herself with the puzzle, forcing her to choose between sacrificing herself or two others for its completion.Ĭaptain Elliot Spencer, old photograph, circa 1918, World War I. The first time, when Riley resolves the first configuration, but doesn't cut herself, she begins seeing the cenobites and the Priestess/Pinhead demands she choose another as sacrifice. However, in more of one occasion, she pushes Riley to complete the configurations of the puzzle.

#CHATTERBOX HELLRAISER MOVIE#

Pinhead is more faithful to the original sources (the movie and the novella), her personality is quite neutral. The eleventh movie is a reboot of the first film. The seventh film reverts closer to the original film, with the Cenobites responsible for pleasure and pain, but the characters seem more demonic as in later installments. In this film, he goes by the title of 'Engineer', a name derived from the lead cenobite in Clive Barker's original novella. In the fourth film he is presented as a megalomaniac bent on world domination, and by the fifth he acts as a judge, punishing those who open the box for their sins by making them face their personal demons.

The third film radically altered the original concept, making Pinhead into a purely evil demon of chaos, explained by Pinhead losing the human, 'orderly', part of himself during the previous film. Angels to others.' The second film expounds on the idea of the Cenobites as demons by depicting them as denizens of a realm called Hell, a maze-like dimension ruled over by an entity known as Leviathan, where they subject their quarry to emotional and psychological torture. In the script for the original film, Barker describes Pinhead and the other cenobites as 'demons' in his notes the character himself, however, upon capturing Kirsty Cotton, identifies himself as neither explicitly angelic or demonic, stating that he and his fellow entourage are 'Explorers in the further regions of experience. Pinhead's role has varied with each Hellraiser installment.

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