VILLAINS WIKI VILLAINS WIKI Pinhead EDIT FULL NAME Elliott Spencer ALIAS Pinhead Captain Spencer The Lead Cenobite The Hell Priest The Dark Priest Xipe Totec The Cenobite ORIGIN Hellraiser OCCUPATION Captain in the British Expeditionary Force (formerly) Leader of the Cenobites POWERS / SKILLS Vast demonic powers Torture methodology Immortality Superhuman durability Superhuman reflexes Pain immunity High intellect Manipulation Telepathy Magic Reality warping Electrokinesis Cryokinesis Telekinesis Pyrokinesis Shapeshifting Summoning Necromancy Leadership Alysídakinesis Conjuration Teleportation HOBBY Condemning any living being that purposely opens the box to an eternal life of torture and suffering. Transforming certain humans or animals into cenobites. GOALS Torture anyone who opens the Lament Configuration. Conquer the world (formerly, failed). CRIMES Attempted omnicide Torture Mass murder Grand theft animarum Malefic Enslavement Mutilation TYPE OF VILLAIN Sadomasochistic Torturer LESS Others like you also viewed Killers (Dead by Daylight) Killers (Dead by Daylight) Chucky (Child's Play) Chucky (Child's Play) Michael Myers (original) Michael Myers (original) Cenobites Cenobites Leviathan (Hellraiser) Leviathan (Hellraiser) Sadako Yamamura Sadako Yamamura Freddy Krueger (original) Freddy Krueger (original) Main Page Main Page Leatherface (original) Leatherface (original) We'll tear your soul apart! PINHEAD No tears, please! It's a waste of good suffering! PINHEAD TO KIRSTY COTTON. Pinhead's most iconic quote. THE BOX, YOU OPENED IT. WE CAME. Captain Elliott Spencer, better known as Pinhead, is the main antagonist of the Hellraiser film series. He is the leader of the Order of the Gash, a sadomasochistic religion whose adherents are the demonic torturers known as the Cenobites who can be summoned along with Pinhead himself via the demonic, mechanical puzzle box known as the Lament Configuration. Aside from the iron pins jabbed in his skull, Pinhead is renowned in the slasher movie genre for being one of the very few villains who is highly intelligent and eloquent. He usually kills his victims by tearing them apart with hooked chains, but he also has an arsenal of demonic powers and is a master of torture and pain. He often prefers to drag his victims into an eternity of suffering rather than kill outright. He was portrayed mostly by Doug Bradley, with Stephan Smith Collins and Paul T. Taylor as his stunt doubles. Creation and Influences While designing the setting for the Hellraiser universe, Clive Barker had openly expressed great dissatisfaction with the slasher genre, claiming it to be dull and boring. His assumption was that villains such as Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, and Freddy Krueger were not frightening since he believed them to be merely "dumb things". Barker claimed to have taken inspiration for Pinhead's overall character from Count Dracula, most notably the Christopher Lee version: "Part of the chill of Dracula surely lies in the fact that he is very clearly and articulately aware of what he is doing, you feel that this is a penetrating intelligence and I don’t find dumb things terribly scary, I find intelligence scary, particularly twisted intelligence; it’s one of the reasons why Hannibal Lecter is scary, isn’t it? It’s because you always feel that he’s going to be three jumps ahead of you." When describing Pinhead, actor Doug Bradley compares him to Oscar Wilde and Noel Coward. When discussing the character over with Barker, Bradley was told to play the villain as he would "a cross between an administrator and a surgeon who's responsible which running a hospital where there are no wards, only operating theaters. As well as the man who wields the knife, he's the man who has to keep the timetable going.". Barker had designed the Cenobites based on punk fashion, Catholicism, and sadomasochism. Barker drew inspiration for the latter thanks to his visits at S&M clubs in New York and Amsterdam. Pinhead had been distinctively designed to resemble African fetish sculptures, giving him a distinct shamanistic look, further illustrating his religious appearance. Initially, Pinhead was going to have navel piercings which would have implied the existence of genital piercings. The first Hellraiser movie's credits had identified the Head Piercing Cenobite character as Lead Cenobite, a title which had been initially coined for the Eyelid Cenobite in The Hellbound Heart. Earlier drafts of the script had intended for the character to be named Priest. The name "Pinhead" was first used the Hellraiser makeup crew in charge which Dog Bradley's prosthetics, a simply means to identify the character. Barker expressed dislike towards "Pinhead" as he believed it to be undignified, an unsuitable name for an otherwise suave and refined character. Despite this objection the name had been loosely incorporated in the movie sequels, starting with Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth, in which main protagonist, Joey Summerskill, shouts out "Pinhead" to the main villain. Also of note, in the eighth installment of the series, Hellworld, the name was used to identify the main boss villain for the eponymous MMORPG, based around the Cenobite mythology. Appearance Pinhead's unique physical description has made him a notable figure in the horror genre. Rather than a hulking brute, Pinhead is lean and thin, his musculature is that of an average soldier. While not massive, the cenobite lord is particularly tall, easily towering over his fellow adherents, as well most of the cenobite's victims. As a Cenobite, the being which would eventually become Pinhead had undergone drastic cosmetic surgery which had stripped him of any remains of his previous mammal self. He is completely hairless, having a fully shaved head. His skin has been bleached nearly entirely white, a product of either the blue blood circulating through his veins (within the movies), or due to the white ash doused over him (within the novella). Several scars can be noticed on his chest. His namesake is derived from the complex scarification and piercing of his entire head: a heavily detailed grid which had been either sliced over his head, according to the films, or tattooed, if we look at The Hellbound Heart. At every intersection of horizontal and vertical lines there has been rammed a jeweled pin. Within The Hellbound Heart, Pinhead's tongue has been similarly decorated.