Hellraiser Box With Chains Drawing Back and White

The Lament Configuration is a fictional lock puzzle or puzzle box appearing in horror stories by Clive Barker, or in works based on his original stories. The best known of these boxes is Lemarchand's Box, which features prominently throughout the Hellraiser motion-picture show serial. This was designed and made past Simon Sayce, one of the original creative squad. A Lemarchand'southward box is a mystical/mechanical device that acts as a door — or a key to a door — to some other dimension or plane of beingness. The solution of the puzzle creates a span through which beings may travel in either direction beyond this "Schism". The inhabitants of these other realms may seem demonic to humans. An ongoing debate in the film series is whether the realm accessed by the Lament Configuration is intended to be the Christian version of Hell, or some other dimension of endless pain and suffering.

Contents

• one Philip Lemarchand
  • one.ane Origin
• 2 The Lament Configuration
• 3 Other boxes
• 4 Appearances
  • 4.1 Hellraiser
  • iv.ii Hellbound: Hellraiser Ii
  • iv.3 Hellraiser Three: Hell on World
  • 4.4 Hellraiser IV: Bloodline
  • 4.5 Hellraiser V: Inferno
  • 4.6 Hellraiser Vi: Hellseeker
  • 4.7 Hellraiser VII: Deader
  • 4.eight Hellraiser Viii: Hellworld
  • 4.9 Hellraiser X: Judgment

Philip Lemarchand [ ]

Fictionally, the boxes were created by Philip LeMarchand, who is mentioned in The Hellbound Middle (the novella upon which the film Hellraiser was based) equally a maker of mechanical singing birds.

He get-go appeared equally a character in the Epic Hellraiser comics series and was portrayed every bit an older human, though notwithstanding a creator of toys and singing birds. This version, created with the support of Clive Barker, was a mass murderer who used human fatty and bone in the construction of his boxes. He was aided past a material given to him by the Cenobite known as Baron.

The film Hellraiser: Bloodline, written several years later, portrays the character as much less morally reprehensible. In this version, Le' Marchand is a immature ingenious toymaker known for his intricate mechanical designs. The grapheme Dr. Paul Merchant (portrayed by Canadian thespian Bruce Ramsay), is supposed to exist Philip'southward descendant in the far futurity. Information technology says in the film that the Lament Configuration was commissioned from Lemarchand by the aristocrat Duc de Fifty'Isle in 1784.

Origin [ ]

In the 18th century, Phillip Lemarchand, a French toymaker, makes the Lament Configuration for a wealthy aristocrat named Duc de 50'Isle, who is obsessed with night magic. He and his servant, Jacques, kill a woman and remove her insides from her skin, and L'Isle uses dark magic with the Lament Configuration to summon a demon princess named Angelique in the woman's skin. She is theirs to command unless they stand in Hell's mode. However, Angelique and Jacques betray and kill de L'Isle. Lemarchand, in the procedure of inventing a design (the Elysium Configuration) to destroy the demons, is discovered attempting to steal back the box. Jacques maliciously informs the toymaker that he and his bloodline are cursed until the cease of fourth dimension considering of the box he created, before ordering Angelique to kill him. Withal, his wife survives, every bit does Philip'southward bloodline.

The Complaining Configuration [ ]

The LeMarchand box that has become known in the pic serial as the Lament Configuration was introduced in The Hellbound Heart novella as "the Lemarchand Configuration". Ready as the picture's adaptation of Pandora'due south box, it appeared as an antique blackness lacquered puzzle box of unparalleled workmanship. A clever individual with a passion for solving the puzzle might spend the better part of a day loosening the beginning piece. Equally described by Barker on the first page of the novella:

The interior surfaces were brilliantly polished. Frank'due south reflection — distorted, fragmented — skated beyond the lacquer.... Lemarchand, who had been in his time a maker of singing birds, had constructed the box and then that opening it tripped a musical mechanism, which began to tinkle a short rondo of sublime boiler.

The tune continues to evolve every bit each additional piece is moved:

And there was music likewise; a elementary tune emerged from the box, played on a machinery that she could not nonetheless see. Enchanted, she delved further. Though one piece had been removed, the rest did not come readily. Each segment presented a fresh challenge to fingers and mind, the victories rewarded with a farther filigree added to the melody.

The puzzle draws the thespian onward until suddenly the puzzle is solved and the gateway is opened. As the puzzle is nearly completed, the sound of a large bell can be heard tolling mournfully. The sound comes from the realm of the Cenobites, and announces their impending arrival. One time the gate is opened, the box begins reassembling itself.

An of import difference between the book and flick versions — bated from the name — is that the picture show version of the box is but twisted into new alignments or shapes, whereas the version in the novella is completely disassembled and reassembled. The film version is likewise trimmed in brass or gold, and appears to take arcane symbols etched on its surface. The novella version is completely smooth and has no obvious designs save for an virtually imperceptible etching along the seams between the pieces, only seems to brandish the faces of its victims in the reflection of light over its surfaces.

Other boxes [ ]

Dr. Philip Channard'southward Puzzle Box collection.

Other LeMarchand boxes announced throughout the Hellraiser film series. Dr. Philip Channard is depicted every bit a collector in Hellbound: Hellraiser II; he has three on display in his study. The demon princess Angelique is narrated to have created several in Hellraiser: Bloodline. The Host in Hellraiser: Hellworld too possesses several. Most of the boxes seen in the films are not named or used onscreen, then their powers — if any — are unknown. They may simply be fakes or nonfunctional replicas.

At the end of The Hellbound Heart, the grapheme Kirsty Cotton wonders if there are other puzzles that might offer access to paradise instead of hell.

Appearances [ ]

Hellraiser [ ]

Frank Cotton buys an antique puzzle box from a dealer. Back at his house he solves the puzzle box and hooked bondage immediately fly out of it, tearing into his flesh. Demons called "Cenobites" then announced from another world to audit Frank's remains. Their leader, "Pinhead" (Doug Bradley), picks upwards the box and twists information technology back into its original state, and the room immediately returns to normal - but with Frank and the box nowhere to be found.

When Frank is later partially resurrected later on an incident where blood is spilled on the exact spot of his abduction, he has the box in his possession, though it is unclear whether it was subconscious in the room or Frank somehow brought it back with him. He shows information technology to his mistress and sister-in-law Julia Cotton, explaining its powers and dangers. Afterwards on, when coming face to face with Frank, Kirsty seizes the box. Realizing it holds value for Frank, she throws it out the window and escapes from the house, picking up the box off the ground equally she flees. A disoriented Kirsty collapses in the street and awakens in the infirmary. She tells herself it all was a terrible dream, until the doctors hand her the puzzle box. Kirsty begins to play with the puzzle box and is seduced into solving information technology. The walls of her hospital room open a dimensional door and Kirsty encounters the Cenobites.

When trying to escape the Cenobites, Kirsty finds the puzzle box clutched in the hands of Julia's corpse. One by ane she banishes the Cenobites back to their realm past reversing the solution to the puzzle box.

Afterwards, Kirsty tries to burn the box in a burn outdoors, but a strange man appears (who appeared a few other times in the film) and picks information technology out of the flames. Every bit the homo is consumed by the flames he transforms into a winged, skeletal creature that flies away into the night. In the concluding scene, the box is shown in the hands of the merchant who originally sold it to Frank, request another prospective customer, "What's your pleasure, sir?"

Hellbound: Hellraiser II [ ]

"How can it transport u.s.a. dorsum, child? We are already here. And now, so are you!"

— Hell Priest 'Pinhead', Order of the Gash

In Hellbound Dr. Channard, obsessed with the Complaining Configuration and the portal to Hell, has Kirsty Cotton wool placed nether his intendance afterward hearing her case. He uses the information from her account of the original movie's events to deduce how to open the box, and has Tiffany, a savant and puzzle solver, open the puzzle box so Channard tin can experience Hell. The Cenobites are released, but Pinhead stops the others from taking Tiffany, declaring that it was non her desire that made her open the box, but Channard'southward.

When Kirsty finds and enters the portal to Hell, she immediately encounters the Cenobites. Her starting time reaction is to effort and use the box confronting them. The box, however, changes into its lozenge (diamond) shape, becoming inoperable. Abandoning the box, Kirsty and Tiffany escape the hellscape to notice Dr. Channard's patients, manipulated into opening dozens of more boxes. In a flash of insight, Tiffany runs back to the original box and operates it, forcing Leviathan into mimicking the shape of the puzzle box and sealing off the hellscape permanently. Nonetheless, the box is later transported back to earth by the vengeful dark half of Pinhead, becoming trapped with him in a sculpted colonnade that rises from the encarmine mattress that Julia had originally died on.

In the film's prologue, Captain Elliott Spencer buys the box and solves it, releasing its hooked chains which tear into his flesh. He's transported to Hell where he's transformed into Pinhead by knives that slash the pare on his caput and claws and a hammer that drive long nails into his skull.

Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth [ ]

The box is trapped with Pinhead in the pillar until purchased by J.P. Monroe, who mistakenly assumes it to be a grotesque piece of fine art. Ane of Monroe's assembly manages to pry the box out of the pillar, intending to fence it for cash, but mistakenly opens it and is pierced by chains. Monroe's ex-girlfriend Terri finds the box and brings it to news reporter Joey Summerskill , who immediately begins to investigate. Meanwhile Pinhead reveals himself to Monroe and uses him to resurrect his flesh form. He sets out to destroy the puzzle box then he need never return to Hell again. Joey, however, having been contacted by the other, formerly human being one-half of Pinhead's spirit, manages to convert the box into the diamond shape, previously shown in Hellbound, and stab Pinhead, causing him to exist pulled back into hell along with his human side. Joey then buries the box deep into a pit of cement on a building site. The pic ends with a shot of the completed edifice which is covered in patterns that match the Lament Configuration.

Hellraiser IV: Bloodline [ ]

The motion-picture show begins at Space Station Minos in the year 2127. Paul Merchant, the man who congenital the station, has a robot solve the Complaining Configuration (the robot is subsequently destroyed).

A flashback is shown to effectually 400 years ago. Philip Le' Marchant, a French toymaker, makes the Lament Configuration for a wealthy aristrocrat named Duc de L'Isle, who is obsessed with dark magic. Le'Marchant, in the procedure of inventing a design (the Elysium Configuration) to destroy the demons, attempts to steal back the box but is discovered. The toymaker is informed that he and his bloodline are cursed until the stop of fourth dimension because of the box he created.

Around 200 years later, John Merchant has built the building witnessed at the stop of Hellraiser Three.

Angelique finds the Lament Configuration in a cement pillar in the basement and makes a man solve information technology, and he is killed by Pinhead. Pinhead wants to make John use the Elysium Configuration to keep the gateway to Hell open up so he tin come and go as he pleases. He gets John to use the Elysium Configuration, but it does not work, so Pinhead kills John. John's wife, Bobbi, sends Pinhead, Angelique, and a monstrous canis familiaris called Chatter Animal back to Hell using the box.

Afterwards locking him up, Rimmer releases Paul Merchant from his prison cell. He has a plan to destroy the Cenobites (having built Minos for that specific reason). Paul distracts Pinhead with a hologram while he gets on the shuttle with Rimmer, and activates the Elysium Configuration. A series of powerful lasers and mirrors create a field of perpetual low-cal, while the station transforms and folds around the low-cal to create a massive box. The light is trapped within the box, which then self destructs, destroying the Cenobites and severing the connection between Hell and Earth forever.

Hellraiser V: Inferno [ ]

Detective Joseph Thorne discovers the Complaining Configuration while working on a series of sadistic ritualistic murders with connections to an enigmatic figure known merely as The Engineer. After sleeping with a sexual practice worker he goes to the bathroom, taking the box with him. He sits and tries to solve the box. He has what appears to be a bad dream. What he does not realise is that he is trapped in Hell, constantly enkindling next to the box on the bath flooring.

The Lament Configuration is featured only a small number of times as this pic and those after it were more psychological thrillers than horror movies and independent very piffling of what had been seen in previous movies.

Hellraiser VI: Hellseeker [ ]

Again the Lament configuration is only shown a few times. It is seen in a scene where Trevor gives the box to Kirsty as a gift and has her open information technology. Also in one scene we meet a flashback of Trevor buying the box from the guardian. It appears as a ball at kickoff but when rolled beyond the desk information technology becomes a box.

Hellraiser 7: Deader [ ]

At the address given to her by her editor, Amy Klein finds the corpse of a daughter named Marla and a puzzle box. In her hotel room, despite beingness told not to practise so by Marla, she opens the puzzle box. Hooks appear which try to pull her into the box. Pinhead the Cenobite appears, warning her she is in danger.

Also the puzzle box was shown to be safe and intact despite the explosion which brought downwards the whole building at the end of the movie.

Hellraiser 8: Hellworld [ ]

Film opens at the funeral of Adam, one of the friends who was obsessed with the game and was murdered by the Cenobites after, unknowingly, releasing them by solving the puzzle box, which was in his father's possession.

After, the Adam'south father sits in a sleeping room, going through souvenirs of his son. He finds and opens an bodily Le'Marchant'southward box, which summons the Cenobites. Pinhead praises Adam'due south ingenuity and mocks the Host'southward disbelief. The Host frantically tries to wake up from his supposed nightmare, but the Chatterer Cenobite slices him into chunks.

Hellraiser X: Judgment [ ]

6 Puzzle Boxes are prominently displayed atop the fireplace during interviews featuring the Accountant of the Stygian Inquisition.

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