Pinhead’s Backstory Will Change The Whole Movie For You

Hellraiser’s iconic Pinhead is a touchstone of cinematic horror, but he didn’t begin that way. In fact, he’s not even called Pinhead until the third movie. It took multiple movies to make the Hell Priest into the monster we know and love. This is his story in its gruesome entirety. So, what is Pinhead? While he’s presented as a simple extra-dimensional pain-monster in the original Hellraiser, later movies in the series dive into Pinhead’s backstory, revealing that he was once a British soldier named Elliot