Pinhead
Interesting Facts About Pinhead
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Interestingly, Pinhead was intended to be an intelligent and articulate character but this concept was not received well by the producers. Since the Hellraiser script was done during the height of popularity for Halloween, Friday the 13th and A Nightmare On Elm Street, producers wanted him to act a littler more beastly and even crack jokes like Freddy Krueger was so well-known for.
Pinhead is stronger and more powerful than both Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees put together, possessing a list of supernatural abilities. He enjoyes mutilating victims with hooks and chains that are maneuvered by mental control.
Pinhead is extremely resistant to direct assault and other types of damage like gun shots and he can teleport, make objects appear out of thin air, use illusions for deception and even create distant explosions. Due to his occult and magical background, he can also read minds and use dead and living victims to create Cenobites.
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Lifeline
• 1987 – Pinhead is introduced to the world in Hellraiser as Kristy Cotton accidentally summons him along with his clan of Cenobites. Fortunately, she is able to be spared by making a deal with the generous group to take them to her uncle who they’re really after. The Cenobites go back on their word and turn on Kristy but she uses the Lament Configuration to banish them.
• 1988 – Fans learn a little about the history of Pinhead and the Cenobites in Hellbound. It is revealed that they all once were human but have no recollection of their human lives. Pinhead is shown a picture of himself by Kristy which causes memories to surface. He also briefly battles Channard Cenobite in this sequel who changes him to his past human form, only to kill him again.
• 1992 – In Hell On Earth, Pinhead is conflicted with his Cenobite and human sides. One side is condemned, forced
to stay in limbo while the other is unbound from the laws of Hell.
• 1996 – Pinhead joins forces with Angelique, a demon princess in Bloodline. His goal is to force John Merchant, who is related to the original creator of the Lament Configuration, to create a gateway to Hell. It is suggested that Pinhead is destroyed in 2127 because Merchant designs a space station that closes this gateway, trapping Pinhead inside.
• 2000 – In Inferno, Pinhead appears disguised as Dr. Paul Gregory, a police psychiatrist and it isn’t until near the end that he reveals that he is in Hell to Detective Joseph Thorne.
• 2002 – Pinhead’s character is similar to his last role in the 2002 release of Hellseeker. He mocks Trevor Gooden throughout the film who is Kristy’s husband. Trevor planned to eliminate Kristy using the Lament Configuration but it backfires so once again, Kristy makes a deal with Pinhead. In exchange for her life, she gives him Trevor, his three mistresses and his best friend. Fair trade!
• 2005 – In Deader, Pinhead appears a few times to Amy, who is tinkering with the box. Amy becomes so desperate to escape Pinhead that she ends up committing suicide.
• 2005 – Released the same year, Hellworld has Pinhead appearing in hallucinations of a group of friends who have been drugged with psychedelics and buried alive. They were at a Hellraiser-centric party when the host turned on them, blaming the group for his son’s death who was addicted to the Hellworld game and committed suicide. Pinhead is summoned at the end who oversees the host’s brutal death.