Random Cenobites From The 'Hellraiser' Films By Nastiness (15 items)

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  (#6) Female Cenobite

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  Sure, she doesn't get many ines, but the "Female Cenobite," sometimes referred to by fans as "Deep Throat" due to the peeled-open throat wound she sports, gets to deliver some particularly chilling dialogue during her two appearances, helping Pinhead to explain to Kristy how Cenobites work. 

  Appearances: She never gets a real name, but the Female Cenobite shows up alongside Pinhead and the rest of his original crew in both Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II. A different Female Cenobite also appears in Hellraiser: Revelations.

  Origins: The films don't give the Female Cenobite an origin, but like the other Cenobites, she reverts back to her human form when she is slain by Dr. Channard in Hellraiser II.

  What Makes Them Nasty: Because she wasn't covered over with as much prosthesis as some of the others, the Female Cenobite is the only one of the original group besides Pinhead who has any lines, meaning that she gets to say things like, "Perhaps we prefer you," when Kristy offers to lead them to Frank.
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  (#8) Butterball

  As his name might suggest, Butterball is an obese Cenobite who was part of Pinhead's coterie in the original Hellraiser films. He wears round sunglasses, and when he takes them off, reveals his eyes are sewn shut. He also has a bloody gash in his stomach held open with hooks. 

  Appearances: Butterball showed up in the first two Hellraiser films and was slain by Dr. Channard in the labyrinth at the end of Hellbound: Hellraiser II.

  Origins: The films don't tell us much about Butterball's origins before he was a Cenobite, but we know that he, like the other Cenobites, was once human.

  What Makes Them Nasty: Obese in life, Butterball has taken that corpulence to disturbing lengths as a Cenobite, his skin appearing as waxy folds and bulges of flesh. His eyes are sewn shut, and a bloody gash disfigures his stomach. He was also originally intended to utter the line that ultimately went to the "Female Cenobite," when she tells Kristy "perhaps we prefer you," but the actor was under so much makeup that speech was impossible.
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  (#10) Siamese Twins

  Formerly twin security guards, Mark and Michael Norrington had the misfortune of walking in on a conversation between Pinhead and Angelique. After that, they were transformed into the Siamese Twins Cenobite because Pinhead sensed they never wanted to be apart. The flesh of their faces are melded and twisted together, so that one face looks happy and one looks sad, reflecting masks that are used to represent drama.

  Appearances: The Siamese Twins Cenobite shows up in Hellraiser: Bloodline, along with Angelique and the Chatterer Beast.

  Origins: Twin brotherrs who became security guard partners, Mark and Michael Norrington were afraid of ever being separated - so when Pinhead transformed them into Cenobites, he made sure they never would be.

  What Makes Them Nasty: When the Siamese Twins Cenobite encounters Captain Edwards on the Space Station Minos, they separate briefly into two individuals and then reattached with Captain Edwards in-between them, crushing him gruesomely.
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  (#14) CDhead

  Generally regarded by fans as a real low point in Cenobite design, when you mention Hellraiser III to casual horror fans, they'll usually respond with some variant of, "Is that the one with the CDhead Cenobite in it?"

  Appearances: Thankfully, CDhead only appeared in Hellraiser III , along with the other "pseudo" Cenobites created by Pinhead.

  Origins: He was the DJ at the nightclub that Pinhead attacked, slaying everyone inside. To transform him into CDhead, his own CDs rose up and went after him.

  What Makes Them Nasty: Looking like something that was designed exclusively to sell action figures in the '90s, he ejects CDs from himself and throws them at people. Beyond that, we've got nothing.
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  (#4) Wire Twins

  True to their name, the Wire Twins are twin Cenobites in revealing costumes whose frames and faces are pierced with thin wires. They also have long, black, serpentine tongues. 

  Appearances: Along with Pinhead and the Torso Cenobite, the Wire Twins appear in Hellraiser: Inferno where they torment a crooked police detective named Joseph Thorne.

  Origins: The packaging of a toy line featuring the Wire Twins calls them, "Leviathan's sisters of tormented pleasures, two perfect twins in their human form who stumbled into the dark world of the Labyrinth." Elsewhere, we're told that one or both of them may have been a centerfold in their former life, "who worshiped at the altar of beauty myth but found herself wanting."

  What Makes Them Nasty: More than perhaps any of the other Cenobites, the Wire Twins seem to really relish the sadomasochistic ideals of the Order of the Gash, mixing sensual pleasure with exquisite pain.
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  (#13) Dreamer

  When Pinhead needed minions on Earth, he created a crew of "pseudo" Cenobites, including the Dreamer Cenobite, who was formed from a homeless girl named Terri who had always longed for the ability to dream. When her boyfriend (who became the Pistonhead Cenobite) tried to sacrifice her to Pinhead, she instead overpowered him, but Pinhead made a deal with her, offering to give her the ability to dream. She took him up on his offer and, well, in her own words, "you wouldn't believe what I can dream of now..."

  Appearances: The Dreamer "pseudo" Cenobite shows up in Hellraiser III, when Pinhead uses some of his victims to create new minions to serve him on Earth.

  Origins: A homeless girl named Terri who had drifted from place to place and fallen in with JP, the owner of the Boiler Room club who discovered Pinhead after the events of Hellraiser II, Terri befriended Joey, the protagonist of Hellraiser III, only to be lured back to her boyfriend's side after a misunderstanding. JP tried to sacrifice her to Pinhead, but Terri got the upper hand and ultimately made a deal with Pinhead in exchange for being able to dream.

  What Makes Them Nasty: We guess it's hard to represent "dreaming" as a theme for a Cenobite, so instead the Dreamer looks a lot like the Female Cenobite from previous films, only with a lit cigarette - which she uses to burn people - in the hole in her neck.

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