10 Absurdly Enchanting But Deadly Female Cenobites From Hellraiser Universe - Backstories Explained

What Clive Barker created in his 1986 novella The Hellbound Heart, was nothing short of a masterpiece as far as horror is concerned. While he is not comparable to writers like Stephen King or H. P. Lovecraft, he definitely has made a mark so deep in Hollywood that it has become eternal. Clive Barker’s Cenobites are not your regular movie monsters who kill teenagers while they make love to one another. The Cenobites are something much more sinister; they have a vision and goal which they follow in every deed they perform and every step that they take. Cenobites are essentially demons working for the Satan-like Leviathan and they come to take away anyone who opens the Lament Configuration or the portal that links Hell with Earth. Leviathan is the God of flesh and pleasure, and all Cenobites see flesh as an object of craft, something that should be worked upon to create pieces of art. Now, to a layman, they might look like humans with a severely serious love for sadomasochism, but that would be an understatement as well as an oversimplification. We have to understand that the Cenobites are created when a man or a woman desires such levels of hedonistic pleasures that are unimaginable for the human mind. Naturally, these are unprecedented and otherworldy pleasures, and with such extreme desires come equally extreme results. These minions of Leviathan take the human who opens the Lament Configuration and subject him to such extremities of pain that they fail to differentiate between pain and pleasure. Pinhead, Leviathan’s most favorite Cenobite, once said that they are angels to some and demons to others. And no other definition is more apt. In this video, we will explore the ten most beautiful but deadly Female Cenobites that have ever been featured in films and comics. So, sit tight as we explore the greatest hedonistic odyssey ever produced by English and American cinema.