the actual history of the box
Ive watched the hellraiser movies all completely out of order, i saw 1 then 3 then 6 then 5 then 2 and just recently 4. I used to think that the box was just something created by clive barker for the purpose of this movie, but when i saw infrerno, i heard the guy mention a name for the box, and a name for the creator of it. Of coruse i did some interneting right away and landed on a site that had the history of the lament configuration and philip lemarchand. first off, aparently the dude had created over 200 of these boxes. The boxes are supposedly made partly from human parts, oil that was taken from human fat. It's said 16 people died in order for the first box to be made. Aparently lemarchand is known as a mass murderer. I was pretty bummed when the movie tried to make him seem like a good guy, or just a toy maker....bogus. Second, it's been documented that he lived to be 96 years old, it's said that his body was never found, when his place was searched, there was only one of his boxes lying in a puddle of blood. He was living somewhere in america.
Although I was bummed about the conflicting histories and what not, i still liked it, most of it anyways....I like the latter hellraisers because pinhead isn't contested, I like it when the badguy wins.....BTW, what's up with that stupid girl not dying at the end, that part bummed me out the most.