Roland’s choice to mark Colin (Adam Faison) as a sacrifice and not the trapped Asphyx Cenobite reveals his villainous intentions. Roland becomes the film’s antagonist in complete form - Pinhead is simply fulfilling requests by offering exceptional experiences, not of Earth’s limitations. ![]() ![]() Roland’s been living for years with the machinery tugging his nerves in opposite directions so that he always feels just enough agony yet never grows numb. He chose the Liminal configuration upon his completion of the puzzle, translating to Sensation - but the Cenobites’ gift isn’t of human pleasure it’s of mortal pain. Roland is also fitted with a golden mechanism that protrudes like an ax through his spine and out his rib cage, pulling his nerves around churning gears. Surprise! Roland Voight is still very much alive and paid Riley’s boyfriend Trevor (Drew Starkey) handsomely to lure new tributes into the box’s clutches. What she finds is a labyrinth of horrors akin to Dark Castle Entertainment’s 2000s remake Thir13en Ghosts. The Priest aka Pinhead has given Riley a choice to sacrifice herself or others to feed the box’s bloodlust, and she’s hoping answers that save lives exist in Voight’s mansion. The purified pearly architecture is now covered with an iron shell that resembles patterns on Riley’s box, and the inside has been rigged with countless drop-down gates at the flick of a switch. ![]() Riley’s investigation of the evolving puzzle box - with 6 unique phases that offer an “Audience with God” upon completion - leads her to the Berkshire estate of vanished billionaire art dealer Roland Voight (Goran Visnjic). Odessa A’zion plays Riley McKendry, an addict and the unlucky inheritor of an unholy puzzle box known to fans as the Lemarchand Box or Lament Configuration. It’s a departure from the leather BDSM costumes and sex-dungeon massacre aesthetic but still evokes the franchise’s emphasis on blurred lines between pleasure and pain, fear and excitement. If you want our spoiler-free thoughts, be sure to check out our Hellraiser Review !Īfter decades of underfunded Hellraiser sequels as an excuse to retain property rights, David Bruckner’s Hulu reboot brings glory back to Cenobite lore. This story contains spoilers for Hellraiser (2022), which is available to stream now.
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