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Gonna do a random little thread on why Pinhead is one of my favorite characters in horror, because I think the reasons why I love him are different than most. I just think there's something fascinating about a preacher who doesn't believe a word of his own sermons.
Like, absolutely all the reasons people are drawn to this character are valid. The eloquence, the manipulation, the presence, all valid. But there's also something a little bit pathetic about him and for me it's honestly his most endearing trait.
There's something so Sphinx-like about Pinhead that makes you think there's so much below the surface, when there really isn't, but the part of him that clearly knows that is ALWAYS trying to prove that he is more than he is, throughout the series.
He will take any opportunity throughout the franchise to usurp his position or defy the authority that he himself represents. Whether it's the deal with Kirsty in the first film or the much bigger ambitions of HELL ON EARTH and BLOODLINE.
No other villain in horror that I can think of is fueled by more of a hunger to be more than what he is than this one. I've often wondered about why that is. I've thought a lot about why Pinhead is THE Cenobite. Why's he the guy when evidence suggests he doesn't really want it?
At the end of the day, though, I think that IS the reason. When you look at every other Cenobite, each transformed by their own obsession, this is the one guy for whom being plucked out of the world and being reformed into a Priest in Hell wasn't enough.
Every single person who found that box was driven by an emptiness that consumed them to the point that they had to look beyond their own WORLD for answers. Pinhead is ultimately the one guy who saw those sights and shrugged. It did absolutely nothing to cure the emptiness in him.
