History Film / HellraiserRevelations

* BrotherSisterIncest: Steven and Emma start kissing on his bed until she starts having disturbing flashes. [[spoiler:{{Subverted|Trope}}; it later turns out to be her missing boyfriend Niko wearing her brother's skin. [[DoubleSubversion But she didn't know that]], and still willingly made out with what she thought was her brother, which he calls her out on]]. This hints towards what Pinhead later says about Emma having a seed of twisted desires within her.

* BrotherSisterIncest: Steven and Emma start kissing on his bed until she starts having disturbing flashes. [[spoiler:Subverted; it later turns out to be her missing boyfriend Niko wearing her brother's skin. But she didn't know that, and still willingly made out with what she thought was her brother, which he calls her out on]]. This hints towards what Pinhead later says about Emma having a seed of twisted desires within her.

** The Cenobites are again pure {{Sense Freak}}s like in the the first two films, without the MotiveDecay of the later ones.

** When Steven first shows up out of nowhere after being missing for so long, he appears to be completely shellshocked because of whatever's happened to him and his dialog is very similar to the dialog Frank had with Julie when he first resurrected. [[spoiler:It's a hint that "Steven" is actually the character who takes Frank's place in the plot, wearing Steven's skin.]]

* BrotherSisterIncest: Steven and Emma start kissing on his bed until she starts having disturbing flashes. [[spoiler:Subverted; it later turns out to be her missing boyfriend Niko wearing her brother's skin. But she didn't know that, and still willingly made out with him, which he calls her out on]]. This hints towards what Pinhead later says about Emma having a seed of twisted desires within her.

** [[spoiler: Niko stealing someone else's skin.]]

** As established in ''Hellbound,'' the Cenobites are not fooled into taking the wrong person when they are forced to solve the box.

* FinalGirl: [[spoiler: Emma is the only character left alive after all is said and done.]]

* ThatManisDead: [[spoiler: Explained by Pinhead about Steven at the end of the film, when he appears in front of everyone in his Cenobite form. It is further affirmed by Steven not hesitating to mutilate Niko's mother and not sparing his mother, despite remembering his blood relation to her. ]]

* StockSubtitle: And it only took seven sequels to get there, good job!

* BrotherSisterIncest: Steven and Emma start kissing on her bed until she starts having disturbing flashes. [[spoiler:Subverted; it later turns out to be her missing boyfriend Niko wearing her brother's skin. But she didn't know that, and still willingly made out with him, which he calls her out on]]. This hints towards what Pinhead later says about Emma having a seed of twisted desires within her.

* BrotherSisterIncest: Steven and Emma. [[spoiler:Subverted and downplayed; it's her missing boyfriend wearing her brother's skin. But she didn't know that, and still willingly made out with him on the bed.]]

* DealWithTheDevil: Played with: [[spoiler:Niko tries to make a deal with Pinhead like Kirsty did, but Pinhead takes one look at the person he wants to trade for himself and realizes she's the kind of person who will open the box of her own accord one day, thus making her worthless as a trade.]]

** When Steven first shows up out of nowhere after being missing for so long, he appears to be completely shellshocked because of whatever's happened to him and his dialog is very similar to the dialog Frank had with Julie when he first resurrected. [[spoiler: It's a hint that "Steven" is actually the character who takes Frank's place in the plot, wearing Steven's skin.]]

* HereWeGoAgain: [[spoiler: The way Emma contemplates the box at the very end after she's become the FinalGirl and the Cenobites have left suggests that Pinhead's assessment of her is right on the money; despite knowing the consequences, she will indeed open the box of her own free will to escape the severe dissatisfaction with everything a normal life can offer.]]
* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler: The flashbacks to Niko and Steven's trip make it clear that Niko is the insatiable hedonist who bullies an increasingly disturbed Steven into going along with whatever he does. In the end, it turns out Steven is ''far'' more receptive to the Cenobites than Niko.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Just before [[spoiler:Pinhead drags Niko away, Ross shoots him, saying that he has more of a claim to Niko's life than anyone. Niko thanks him with his last breath, [[KarmaHoudini as he's now spared an eternity with the Cenobites]]. Pinhead, annoyed, promptly [[BreakThemByTalking breaks Ross]] by explaining that the suffering Niko would've endured is beyond what vengeance would call for, and calls him out for having acted purely out of a selfish need to be the instrument of vengeance himself. To satiate their appetite and claim their debt of flesh, they take his wife as a replacement for Niko. Oh, and Ross is slowly dying of blood loss, so his last moments alive are with the knowledge that he condemned his wife to a FateWorseThanDeath]].

* LittleNo: Pinhead sure likes to overuse this trope for some reason, which is something that {{WebVideo/Phelous}} found amusing.

* CatchPhrase: Pinhead sure likes to say "no" a lot for some reason, which is something that {{WebVideo/Phelous}} found amusing.

* Catchphrase: Pinhead sure likes to say "no" a lot for some reason, which is something that {{WebVideo/Phelous}} found amusing.

* Catchphrase: Pinhead sure likes to say "no" a lot for some reason, which is something that WebVideo/Phelous found amusing.

* KarmaHoudini: See NiceJobBreakingItHero, below. [[spoiler:[[SarcasmMode Good job stopping the Cenobites from giving Niko what was coming to him just for one last ego trip before you die, Ross!]] Now your wife's gonna be tortured by sadomasochistic demons for eternity!]]

* BrotherSisterIncest: Steven and Emma. [[spoiler:Subverted and downplayed; it's her missing boyfriend wearing her brother's skin.]]

** The Cenobites are again pure [[SenseFreak Sense Freaks]] like in the the first two films, without the MotiveDecay of the later ones.

* Main/FinalGirl: [[spoiler: Emma is the only character left alive after all is said and done.]]

** Emma making out with her brother [[spoiler:(even though it turns out not to be her brother later on) hints at what Pinhead's opinion of her will be.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Just before [[spoiler:Pinhead drags Niko away, Ross shoots him, saying that he has more of a claim to Niko's life than anyone. Niko thanks him with his last breath, [[KarmaHoudini as he's now spared an eternity with the Cenobites]]. Pinhead, annoyed, promptly gives Ross a BreakingSpeech explaining that the suffering Niko would've endured is beyond what vengeance would call for, and calls him out for having acted purely out of a selfish need to be the instrument of vengeance himself. To satiate their appetite and claim their debt of flesh, they take his wife as a replacement for Niko. Oh, and Ross is slowly dying of blood loss, so his last moments alive are with the knowledge that he condemned his wife to a FateWorseThanDeath.]]

** As established in ''Hellbound,'' the Cenobytes are not fooled into taking the wrong person when they are forced to solve the box.

* HereWeGoAgain: [[spoiler: The way Emma contemplates the box at the very end after she's become the FinalGirl and the Cenobytes have left suggests that Pinhead's assessment of her is right on the money; despite knowing the consequences, she will indeed open the box of her own free will to escape the severe dissatisfaction with everything a normal life can offer.]]
* {{Irony:}} [[spoiler: The flashbacks to Niko and Steven's trip make it clear that Niko is the insatiable hedonist who bullies an increasingly disturbed Steven into going along with whatever he does. In the end, it turns out Steven is ''far'' more receptive to the Cenobites than Niko.]]

** The Cenobytes are again pure [[SenseFreak Sense Freaks]] like in the the first two films, without the MotiveDecay of the later ones.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Emma making out with her brother [[spoiler:(even though it turns out not to be her brother later on) hints at what Pinhead's opinion of her will be.]]

* CallBack: To [[Film/{{Hellraiser}} the first film]] in many scenes. Niko is essentially a younger Frank, and even his first opening the box is a visual callback to Frank doing the same. [[spoiler:As is Niko stealing someone else's skin.]] There's even a callback to the original novella when someone looks up the word 'Cenobite' in a dictionary and reads the actual definition aloud.

* KarmaHoudini: See NiceJobBreakingItHero, below. [[spoiler: [[SarcasmmMode Good job stopping the Cenobites from giving Niko what was coming to him just for one last ego trip before you die, Ross!]] Now your wife's gonna be tortured by sadomasochistic demons for eternity!]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Just before [[spoiler:Pinhead drags Niko away, Ross shoots him, saying that he has more of a claim to Niko's life than anyone. Niko thanks him with his last breath, as he's now spared an eternity with the Cenobites. Pinhead, annoyed, promptly gives Ross a BreakingSpeech explaining that the suffering Niko would've endured is beyond what vengeance would call for, and calls him out for having acted purely out of a selfish need to be the instrument of vengeance himself. To satiate their appetite and claim their debt of flesh, they take his wife as a replacement for Niko.]]

!!''Revelations'' has the examples of:

* CallBack: To [[Film/{{Hellraiser}} the first film]] in many scenes. Niko is essentially a younger Frank, and even his first opening the box is a visual callback to Frank doing the same. [[spoiler: As is Niko stealing someone else's skin.]] There's even a callback to the original novella when someone looks up the word 'Cenobite' in a dictionary and reads the actual definition aloud.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Emma making out with her brother [[spoiler: (even though it turns out not to be her brother later on) hints at what Pinhead's opinion of her will be.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Just before [[spoiler: Pinhead drags Niko away, Ross shoots him, saying that he has more of a claim to Niko's life than anyone. Niko thanks him with his last breath, as he's now spared an eternity with the Cenobites. Pinhead, annoyed, promptly gives Ross a BreakingSpeech explaining that the suffering Niko would've endured is beyond what vengeance would call for, and calls him out for having acted purely out of a selfish need to be the instrument of vengeance himself. To satiate their appetite and claim their debt of flesh, they take his wife as a replacement for Niko.]]

* TwistEnding: [[spoiler: The second Pinhead is Steven, the skin-stealing trick hasn't fooled Pinhead at all, and Niko's bargaining chip is worthless.]]