The English horror flick, written and directed by scare-master Clive Barker, is a campy and grotesque. In many ways, Pinhead is a tragic figure, although it's a bit hard to feel sympathy for his origins when he's ripping victims apart with hooks. Hellraiser had no right to build such a rich universe. Thankfully, Spencer and Pinhead were eventually re-merged before being sent back to Hell. Pinhead's recovered memories in that film actually resulted in him splitting into two entities for Hellraiser 3, Spencer and a super-evil Pinhead completely unconstrained by what remained of his former humanity. Upon solving the box in the early 1920s, Spencer was given both the pain and pleasure he was looking for, and subsequently transformed into Pinhead, as depicted briefly in the opening of Hellraiser 2. That combined with the guilt of outliving so many of his friends and comrades led him to indulge in more base pleasures of the flesh, which eventually brought him to the Hellraiser box, officially known as the Lament Configuration. It turns out that Elliot Spencer was a captain in the British army, but his horrifying experiences serving in World War I led him to lose his faith in humanity and belief in God. In 1992's Hellraiser 3: Hell on Earth, Pinhead's origins are expanded on further.
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