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[Kofi Drinka]

So yeah, they're some kind of extra-dimensional demonic beings, but whether or not people want to consider them actual demons from hell is open to interpretation.

They're corrupted humans sent to Hell and tormented so hard they became torturers themselves. Pinhead is a priest who leads and creates other cenobites. In the 2nd film they have their demonic powers sucked out of them and return to their human form. 3 has Pinhead performing a black mass and mocking God, so heaven must exist in some form.

Demons do exist, one possesses a girl's corpse in the 4th film. But she doesn't take on a cenobite form until Pinhead meets her.

The later films are really trippy and it's hard to tell what is real and isn't. They're early 2000s psycho sexual noir thrillers and I like that. The first 2 films are great for effects but Barker can't write an ending. 3 is the best one but a goofy and bad ending. 4 is IN SPACE and a pre-quel mixed together so you know it jumped the shark. 5 and beyond are like Silent Hill but Pinhead doesn't fit the stories and he often makes them worse by existing. But you can look past a 3 minute cameo of him.