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Were those metal bars in the house supposed to be made from supernatural properties?

posted 2 years ago by [deleted]
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I don't understand how those metal bars that surround the house and close off the rooms supposed to keep the cenobites from getting through. It's the dumbest thing I've ever seen in a decent budgeted horror movie in a long time. At least in "Thirteen Ghosts" it was clear that etched in spells kept the ghosts from crossing through the glass panes. The movie had already established the cenobites have the ability to pop up in any place. Even when they take Nora from inside a speeding van. So, why can't they cross through those bars?

[–] [deleted] 2 years ago

It's definitely implied in a manner that those bars are able to stop and contain them, I'm thinking it's due to patterning and styling as opposed to the material it's made from.

I made a post about it a month back. The Night House (2020) is a film from the same team and originated as a Hellraiser screenplay, it utilized a similar concept;

The house to trap evil spirts - The house was rigged to trap and contain the cenobites. In TNH the husband was building a house to trick the entity and was utilizing the Louvre doll to try bind it. He was reading about confusing patterns, mazes and labyrinths in a book called Caerdroia. The house in Hellraiser has a peculiar patterning to the barricaded outer layer and the inner gates. It's likely to have some powers to stop the cenobites? The character who built the house was an 'occult' expert.

[–] [deleted] 2 years ago

It's strange that it's not mentioned how in the movie besides Voight telling Pinhead, "I built a cage." I guess the similarities to "Thirteen Ghosts" would look too much like a rip off. It's a JJ Abrams mystery box.