Line #49 YMMV/Hellraiser


1	Works in this franchise with their own YMMV pages:
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3	* ''YMMV/HellboundHellraiserII''
4	* ''YMMV/HellraiserIIIHellOnEarth''
5	* ''YMMV/HellraiserBloodline''
6	* ''YMMV/HellraiserInferno''
7	* ''YMMV/HellraiserDeader''
8	* ''YMMV/HellraiserHellworld''
9	* ''YMMV/HellraiserRevelations''
10	* ''YMMV/HellraiserJudgement''
11	* ''YMMV/Hellraiser2022''
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13	!![[Franchise/{{Hellraiser}} The Franchise in general]]:
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15	* CompleteMonster: [[Monster/{{Hellraiser}} here]].
16	* DracoInLeatherPants: Clive Barker famously quipped about how much fan mail Creator/DougBradley gets from women and how they love Pinhead, even though he hasn't done a good, benevolent thing over the course of the entire film franchise.[[note]] Though telling Kirsty to avert her eyes so she doesn't watch Frank's gruesome death at the hands of the Cenobites in the first movie, along with preventing Frank from stabbing her in retaliation for setting him up, then sparing Tiffany after she is manipulated into opening the box in the second movie, and his HeroicSacrifice for Kirsty and Tiffany at the end ought to count. And of course, while not good in a heroic sense, punishing evildoers like Frank, J.P. Monroe, Joseph, Trevor, Winter, and The Host is hard to describe as anything but just.[[/note]]
17	* EnsembleDarkhorse:
18	** Chatterer, who's the second most recurring Cenobite after Pinhead.
19	** Pinhead himself started as this in the first film before being promoted as a BreakoutVillain. Julia was intended to be the BigBad.
20	* EvilIsCool: Pinhead is the face of the ''Hellraiser'' series. Also, the other Cenobites who appears throughout the franchise also qualify, mainly due to their and Pinhead's unique physical appearances and creative supernatural kills.
21	* {{Fanon}}: ''Film/EventHorizon'' is considered by many as an unofficial ''Hellraiser'' film.
22	* FanNickname: Pinhead was originally listed in the first film's credits as "Lead Cenobite," and Barker himself has been known to say calling him "Pinhead" makes him sound stupid. Which didn't stop the sequels from [[AscendedFanon adopting the fan nickname as the official one]].
23	* FoeYayShipping: Between Kirsty and Pinhead. Especially in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4tLxQakYK4 deleted scene in Hellseeker.]]
24	* IAmNotShazam: Though not as common as other examples, there are a few works that reference Pinhead by calling him [[ProtagonistTitleFallacy Hellraiser.]]
25	* LesYay: In the first two movies, the female Cenobite seems more intent on getting her hands on Kirsty than the others.
26	* MagnificentBitch: [[ActionSurvivor Kirsty Cotton]], daughter of Larry Cotton, [[Film/{{Hellraiser}} begins the series]] as a kindhearted young woman whose hedonistic, monstrous uncle Frank was taken by the Order of the Gash, aka the Cenobites. Upon the undead Frank's return to the land of the living, Kirsty inadvertently opens the Lament Configuration and bargains with the Cenobites to offer Frank to them in her stead. Tricking him into exposing himself, Kirsty later banishes the Cenobites and demonstrates her penchant for planning when she [[Film/HellboundHellraiserII wears the skin of her revived evil stepmother]] Julia to outwit the Cenobites' God, Leviathan. [[Film/HellraiserHellseeker Years later]], Kirsty's husband plots to kill her for her money and forces her to open the Lament Configuration again, but Kirsty turns the tables and [[DealWithTheDevil bargains with the Hell Priest]]. Killing her husband's co-conspirator and mistresses, Kirsty then murders him and makes it look like an accident to hand his soul to the Cenobites.
27	* NauseaFuel: It's Clive Barker. Hellbound is the worst, with the maggot-infested corpses and [[spoiler: the inmate shredding himself with a razor,]] but all of the movies have it to some extent.
28	* OneSceneWonder: Pinhead has very little screen time in most of the films. He generally shows up around the end after very short appearances earlier on, sometimes as a JumpScare.
29	** ''Inferno:'' Pinhead turns out to be [[spoiler: Joseph's psychiatrist. When he reveals himself as such during the climax, he explains why things have gone the way they have for Joseph, and the behavior he's indulged in to warrant such consequences.]]
30	** ''Hellseeker:'' Turns up at the end as we learn [[spoiler: Kirsty made a deal with him to take her husband.]]
31	** ''Deader:'' [[spoiler: During the climax, Winter and the Deaders fail to take over the Cenobite's realm/purpose, and Pinhead takes great pleasure in making them pay for the attempt.]]
32	** ''Hellworld:'' [[spoiler: It turns out the brief glimpses we get of Pinhead aren't even real, just the main characters hallucinating. It appears that Pinhead doesn't even exist and is only a character for an online RPG based on the Lament Configuration's mythos... until the very, very end, when he turns out to be quite real after all.]]
33	** ''Revelations:'' This film's plot is patterned after the first one's, but the Cenobites have their biggest on-screen summoning much closer to the end.
34	* OnlyTheCreatorDoesItRight: The first two films that directly involved Clive Barker are not coincidentally the most positively received entries in the series.
35	* {{Sequelitis}}:
36	** The first two films are worth watching. The others are all over the place, with ''Hell on Earth'', ''Bloodline'', and ''Inferno'' being the only generally-well-liked ones.
37	** One interesting aversion is that ''Inferno'' and ''Hellseeker'' operate on similar formulas. Whichever one the person sees first might makes them favor that one over the other. ''Hellseeker'' bringing back Kirsty also helps, while ''Inferno'' uses an actor from ''Film/{{Nightbreed}}'' giving it another connection to Clive Barker’s work. ''Inferno'' precedes ''Hellseeker'' historically, but given the later sequels don't number anymore, plenty of people may not have watched in order.
38	* {{Squick}}: Again, it's Clive Barker.
39	* VillainDecay: Pinhead is a rare inversion. In making him ''more'' evil (and usually the main villain) after the second film, the writers also made him less interesting. He's also an odd case in that how malevolent he is goes back and forth across the films. He's pure evil in the third and fourth films; the fifth, sixth and seventh installments feature Pinhead about as much as the first two and in the eighth, [[spoiler:the real Pinhead only shows up at the end.]]
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41	!![[Film/{{Hellraiser}} The first film]]:
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43	* AdaptationDisplacement: The number of fans unaware there was ever a book is astounding. The fact that the book and the film have distinctly different titles doesn't help.
44	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The film has not one but ''two'' awesome scores -- the CreepyAwesome rejected score by Music/{{Coil}} and the terrorizing, brooding orchestral music score by Music/ChristopherYoung that appears in the completed film.
45	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: When Kirsty first opens the puzzle box, you would expect the Cenobites to appear. And they do...after a scene where a door to a hallway opens, Kirsty enters it, and is promptly chased back down it by a horrifying monster.[[note]]Credited as "the Engineer"[[/note]] When she gets back to the hospital room, the hallway disappears, ''then'' the Cenobites appear, with the previous chase sequence not being spoken of again and the monster itself only showing up in the climax to provide the movie with one last scare, which ''also'' comes off like a Big Lipped Alligator Moment.
46	* CommonKnowledge: There are quite a few videos on Youtube that claim the Cenobites welsh on their deal with Kirsty during the climax. However, Pinhead never actually agreed to her deal. When Kirsty offered to return Frank to them in exchange for her life, he answers with a “maybe.”. Even if you assume the "maybe" means some kind of agreement was struck, Kirsty is the one who (unknowingly) backs out first by telling the Cenobites they can't have "her father" (who's actually Frank in disguise, something she didn't know at that point) and the Cenobites explicitly noted that if Kirsty ''tried'' to cheat them, all bets were off. So no matter how you cut it the whole thing was moot.
47	* CompleteMonster: This duo also appears in [[Film/HellboundHellraiserII the second film]]:
48	** [[FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon Frank Cotton]] is a cruel [[TheHedonist hedonist]], who was taken by the Cenobites in his search for ultimate pleasure. After escaping, he manipulates Julia Cotton in to helping him murder several innocent people in order to complete his return to normal world. After murdering his brother and disguising himself in his skin, he tries to [[EvilUncle rape his own niece]] Kirsty. When he killed Julia by accident, he just tossed her aside to continue his hunt for Kirsty. When he's taken by the Cenobites again, Frank languishes in a private hell and sends Kirsty letters begging for help, pretending to be her father so she'll come to save him, solely so [[VillainousIncest he can keep her]] as a SexSlave.
49	** [[CardCarryingVillain Julia Cotton]] is Kirsty's WickedStepmother who helped Frank accomplish his murders and was trying to help him rape her own adopted daughter Kirsty. After she is revived, she gleefully drains people at a mental hospital of their life while relishing in their pain and suffering to restore herself. She [[UngratefulBastard feeds her rescuer]] Dr. Channard to her master to turn him into a Cenobite and tries to kill her stepdaughter and an innocent, mentally handicapped girl. When she encounters Frank again, she murders him by ripping his heart out.
50	* FirstInstallmentWins: Far and away the most positively received entry in the whole series and the most iconic as well.
51	* JerkassWoobie: Julia, when we first see her, she's clearly miserable and in an unhappy marriage. Not to mention she's completely obsessed with a [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] {{Jerkass}} who clearly doesn't care about her and treats her like an object. Her initial attempt to restore Frank also left her shaken to the point where she begged Frank not to make her do it again. She quickly loses any and all sympathy points, however, when she [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope continues to kill]] for Frank and [[EvilFeelsGood starts to enjoy it.]]
52	* LoveToHate: Frank may not be as iconic as the Cenobites but he still makes an impression as a creepy, slimy scuzzbag who's horrifying all his own and provides some of the movie's most memorable quotes.
53	* MemeticMutation: "Jeeeeesuuuuuussss wept....."
54	* {{Narm}}:
55	** When Frank says "Come to daddy!"
56	** Pinhead's attempt to express fear, in his deep, monotone voice: '''NO. DON'T DO THAT.'''
57	* SpecialEffectsFailure:
58	** There was no budget left to complete the special effects in the first film, so Clive Barker and "a Greek guy" hand-drew them on the film over the course of a weekend. Barker was impressed with the results, considering how much alcohol the two of them had consumed.
59	** During the scene with the Engineer, you can clearly see the tracks the puppet is riding on. Harder to catch in VHS copies, but in HD it's more than visible.
60	* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: The scene where Frank crawls out of the attic floor features some amazing BodyHorror effects that could rival that of Creator/DavidCronenberg.
61	* TheWoobie:
62	** Kirsty, who endures trauma no girl should have to endure.
63	** Larry. The poor guy never really had a chance.

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