Hellraiser

Your most treasured depravity is child’s play beside the experiences we offer. - pg 12 im not going to lie i totally forgot to log this rewatch whenever i had finished reading The Hellbound Heart. so let me come out of retirement to talk about it :’) first things first, the cenobites. chatterer is the only one who stays the exact same with the description of “Now the third spoke. Its features were so heavily scarified — the wounds nurtured until they ballooned — that its eyes were invisible and its words corrupted by the disfigurement of its mouth.” oh & he speaks ! unlike his movie counterpart who just makes teeth noises 👁️🦷 butterball is gone & replaced by the actual lead cenobite who is described as, “Its clothes, some of which were sewn to and through its skin, hid its private parts, and there was nothing in the dregs of its voice, or in its willfully disfigured features that offered the least clue. When it spoke, the hooks that transfixed the flaps of its eyes and were wed, by an intricate system of chains passed through flesh and bone alike, to similar hooks through the lower lip, were teased by the motion, exposing the glistening meat beneath.” pinhead is actually the second cenobite introduced! they have the voice of an excited girl — which was also described as light and breathy :’). pinhead also stays almost the same but imagine jewels on their pins & “Its tongue was similarly decorated.” finally, the fourth cenobite Deep throat is described as, “It was the fourth cenobite, the one that had never spoken, nor shown its face. Not it, he (frank) now saw: but she. The hood it had worn had been discarded, as had the robes. The woman beneath was gray yet gleaming, her lips bloody, her legs parted so that the elaborate scarification of her pubis was displayed. She sat on a pile of rotting human heads, and smiled in welcome.” frank also makes a note that her thighs are oiled ?? thanks i guess. also frank mentions there is supposed to be five of them, the response was “The Engineer will arrive should the moment merit,”. which we meet the engineer half way through the movie or so? when its chasing kirsty in the hospital — it’s very scorpion like but in the book it’s described as not having a body of its own. “A cone of white fire that shines with the brilliance of a minor sun." for its head & it made the torture devices for the cenobites. i want everyone to know that we shouldn’t give the cenobites any crap for what they do because when you open that box you are giving them consent. i see them as basically genies, you ask for what you want & they’ll give it to you — literally. In the book, they even give frank a “There’s no going back. You do understand that?” which he then gives the okay! he cannot be upset. but then they never gave kirsty a chance.. so im pretty sure they were just toying with him :’) also kirsty is not larry’s daughter. just a friend. there’s a weird love triangle with kirsty, julia, & larry. which then just becomes a square i guess with kirsty, larry, julia, & frank. ultimately same ending though. oh & larry isn’t even named larry. his name is rory 🙁 other fun facts are: frank was only resurrected by larry dropping blood on the .. dried semen he left on the attic floor. The box is called the lemarchand’s box. julia is 10x more fucked up & very head over heels for frank. the ending has the engineer giving the box to kirsty after surviving, suggesting the cycle continues. i didn’t want to make this too long but i really love the book. it is so much more intimate than what we got in the movie but hey! read the book for yourselves :’)