I'm not sure even Clive Barker knew who the vagrant was supposed to be, but eventually it was revealed to be a guardian of the box, yes. Oddly though, in one of the old DVD releases of Hellraiser, the last chapter is titled "Satan revealed". Hellbound reveals the god of Hell to be Leviathan and the mythos have built upon that interpretation ever since, with maybe the exception of the Scarlet Gospels.
shareI think he just protects the box. He seems to bbe the errand boy of the old man who was in charge of getting people to take the box.
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These films have never depicted a Christian version of Hell, so I would not think of anything in these films as representing Satan.
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I see these movies as taking place in a pagan or H.P. Lovecraft type of universe with gods, souls, spirits, demons and afterlife places of a sort but none of it Christian or representing any real world religion really.
Perhaps "Hell" in these movies is the "truth behind the myth". Maybe religious ideas about God, Heaven and Hell were distorted versions of knowledge people obtained about Leviathan and his Hell.
I remember reading about a Hellraiser comic which revealed that Leviathan created the real world religions we know of such as Christianity in order to create discipline in humanity. And that religious symbols and relics were really more puzzles that open the gates of Hell. Sounds interesting.
Does anybody know anything about any of this?
I agree. Good post!
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I am not a fan. I just happen to enjoy movies. Fans are embarrassing.
In the beginning of the Hellraiser franchise, the Cenobites weren't demons and their dimension wasn't "hell". They were extra-dimensional sadomasochistic beings who enjoyed pain, and saw no difference between pain and pleasure. They actually thought they were doing the humans they dragged into their dimension a service, letting them taste of their "pleasures".
In a sense, they were just aliens, that from a human perspective, would seem like demons. Of course, as we all know, eventually the lore changed and now, they are demons, their dimension is hell, and their purpose is to punish the wicked.
I much prefer thinking of them as aliens. Much more interesting.
Agree with your preference/interpretation.
shareVery creepy and cool interpretation
shareI could never understand this character
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