The Hellraiser game - Sorry Mario Your princess is in another sex dungeon.

[Quiritium]

Tbh, that goes kinda against some of the movie stuff (that is clearly sexualised), but then again, this one is a separate canon.

My own bullshit writing (long-divorced from Hellraiser) ended in vaguely the same aesthetical postal code, but fully at the "purification through suffering" endgame.

I'm not dismissing the sexualization or the depravity, they're very much at the forefront of who the Cenobites are. I just think we are confusing their means with their ends. Like your interpretation of "purification through suffering" or my "understanding of the universe", these are what I see as their ends. The gooning, depravity, masochism and sadism are just their means to reach them. Which again contrasts with the cult, who seem to be focused on hedonism as the end itself.

 

[Buckaroo]

Trying to rescue your awful girlfriend from a hellish dimension where she was ripped apart by hooks (after she gives you a vision where she asks you to rescue her), "An object to be won back, infantilized". Oh, tv tropes.

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Again, I have to wonder why people use this retard site full of people that actually engage with the media they claim to love. The scene where Sunny is taken clearly depicts her as not being in her right mind (blank stare, droning tone of voice) and she even begs him to save her when he tried to leave the cult's club. Meanwhile the murder rape cult exists purely because the cenobites chose a narcissist for a role in their ritual that he was incapable of understanding.

 

[Quarterback Rex Grossman]

As cool as Pinhead is, never forget he ultimately gets taken out by a space incel.

Best Hellraiser movie.

 

[God of Nothing]

Trying to rescue your awful girlfriend from a hellish dimension where she was ripped apart by hooks (after she gives you a vision where she asks you to rescue her), "An object to be won back, infantilized". Oh, tv tropes.

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afraid autism doesnt translate to intelligence

 

[Evil Peter Griffin]

I wondered why the puzzle box wasnt called Lament Configuration in the game and I found out that name is only used in the shitty sequels.

 

[Buckaroo]

I wondered why the puzzle box wasnt called Lament Configuration in the game and I found out that name is only used in the shitty sequels.

There's multiple boxes.

 

[Evil Peter Griffin]

There's multiple boxes.

Really? Do they all do the same thing?

 

[Illuminati Order Official]

Looking at their behavior after becoming Cenobites, I kind of see them as very twisted versions of monks, trying to obtain "enlightenment", a full understanding of the universe through the lens of Leviathan and their twisted nature.

Outside of Hellraiser, the word "cenobite" means "member of a monastic order" so even in the universe they are meant to be monks.

Some guy actually left a bigass note in an edit, complaining that niggers there keep yapping about "consent", where cenobites AT BEST consider a lot of things as such, at worst, do not care unless you are a tard who did not mean it.

I assumed they wanted Channard more, so instead of taking Tiffany and closing the gate, they left it open for him or possibly knew that more people will enter their domain willingly. They seem to honor their agreements but are more than happy to include some fine print and to interpret it unfavorably for the other side (like in Hellraiser, where they manipulated Kirsty to unknowingly defend Frank, thus breaking their agreement and making herself a fair target).

I wondered why the puzzle box wasnt called Lament Configuration in the game and I found out that name is only used in the shitty sequels.

In the novel it was called "LeMarchand's box".

There's multiple boxes.

True, Kyle finds at least three in Channard's office.

 

[Buckaroo]

Really? Do they all do the same thing?

They can all summon cenobites, but the cube in the game is specifically required for the rite of rebirth, the other ones probably do something unique too.

True, Kyle finds at least three in Channard's office.

Also Bruno mentions solving other boxes in a note you can find.