God Of War
Hellraiser Lyrics

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I picked a fight
I'm f**king right
gonna raise a hell
hey! here I'm coming
on my way
I'm a god of war
you! gonna knock
shit out of you

'cos I feel I'm right

left and right
blood and bones
corpses turn in their
stinky graves
open doors
down to hell
now you can't

break this spell
you feel desperate
knon fed in hate
change this lousy world
hey! here I'm coming
on my way
I'm a god of war
you! gonna knock
shit out of you
'cos I feel I'm right

left and right
blood and bones
corpses turn in their
stinky graves
open doors
down to hell
now you can't
break this spell

shot gun pointed at youreye
now you're gonna die
down to your trembling knees
and pray for your life
ten, nine, eight,
seven, six, five - fire!

what you feel
when the trigger clicks
what you feel
what you feel
when the bullet rips
into your brain
ten, nine, eight,
seven, six, five - fire!

I'm born to fight
I slash the night
you can hear me cry hey! here I'm coming
on my way
I'm a god of war
you! gonna knock
shit out of you
'cos I feel I'm right

left and right
blood and bones
corpses turn in their
stinky graves
open doors
down to hell
now you can't
break this spell

here comes a god of war
nobody's gonna be savedn
no rescue, it's a judgement day

all the world is wrapped up
in flame!

Overall Meaning

The lyrics to "God of War" by Hellraiser depict an aggressive, rebellious character who is confident in their fighting ability and unapologetic about their decision to engage in conflict. The persona of the song insists that they are right and that they will "knock the shit out of" their opponent, effectively overpowering them. The lyrics also refer to death and destruction, as corpses turn in their graves and the world is wrapped up in flames. The persona seems to relish in chaos, unleashing their wrath in order to change the world to their liking.

Line by Line Meaning

I picked a fight
I intentionally initiated a conflict

I'm f**king right
I believe that I am correct

gonna raise a hell
I will cause chaos and destruction

hey! here I'm coming
Attention, I am arriving

on my way
I am en route

I'm a god of war
I am powerful and invincible in battle

you! gonna knock
I will violently defeat you

shit out of you
You will suffer greatly

'cos I feel I'm right
Because I firmly believe that I am correct

left and right
Everywhere

blood and bones
Violence and death

corpses turn in their
The dead rise

stinky graves
Their tombs emit a foul odor

open doors
The gates of Hell are unlocked

down to hell
The Underworld beckons

now you can't
You no longer have a choice

break this spell
Escape is no longer possible

you feel desperate
You are overcome with hopelessness

knon fed in hate
Consumed by anger

change this lousy world
Revolution is necessary

shot gun pointed at youreye
A firearm is aimed squarely at your face

now you're gonna die
Your death is imminent

down to your trembling knees
You are cowering on the ground

and pray for your life
You plead for mercy

ten, nine, eight,
A countdown has begun

seven, six, five - fire!
And the trigger is pulled

what you feel
What you experience

when the trigger clicks
When the gun is fired

when the bullet rips
When the bullet tears through you

into your brain
Causing damage to your mind

I'm born to fight
I was made for battle

I slash the night
I bring violence to the darkness

here comes a god of war
I have arrived as a destructive force

nobody's gonna be savedn
No one will be spared from my wrath

no rescue, it's a judgement day
There will be no salvation, only reckoning

all the world is wrapped up
The entirety of the world is consumed

in flame!
By fire.

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Talisman Skulls

1y↑2

@Dr PickleSorry for the late reply,. I can break the concepts down more based on what Clive Barker originally stated that the Cenobites were human like beings in an extra-dimensional reality rather than a Hellish Afterlife type world.

So basically all the mutilations are a mix of body augmentation and implants.
The Leviathan is a Super Computer that all these beings are linked into.
The majority of Cenobites cannot distinguish any longer between their own augmented reality and distinct physical existence.
The few that "rebel" are those that became aware they are all trapped in a hive mind their own species created a very long time ago.
The Leviathan then being an AGI (Advanced General Intelligence) gives reference to itself in terms it can best equate with what it learns from the minds it is linked into (such as it comparing itself to the god/master controller of that world).

If we really go back to the very first we see more of this being the case and later the various studios choosing to :redefine things in terms of Hell and demons and the Devil more or less pushing the narrative movie goers at the time wouldn't understand it otherwise. One has to remember that the concepts of actually achieving some sort of virtual reality and augmented reality was already in place in 1987 so a lot of movies at the time dealing with ethics, morality, fear, fantasy and tech were some of the most common themes. Even Cartoons of the time were experimenting with such things.

All the Labyrinth is, is a representation of the "core mind" of the Leviathan and the things in it the various minds linked into it.

All comments from YouTube:

ZillaTheTegu

2y↑338

I always thought that Leviathan was the coolest thing in the entire Hellraiser franchise. How it towers ominously over the labyrinth, the sound it makes, and getting pierced by its black lights. It was so intimidating and almost Lovecraftian.

Cthulhu

2y↑25

The idea of evil from berserk is like the leviathan, the godhand are like the cenobites

Chris Stich

2y↑4

They need to give him a better backstory. Like " oh this being killed Lucifer and took over hell"

ZillaTheTegu

2y↑9

@Chris Stich They brought the Leviathan back for the new Hellraiser reboot.

Chris Stich

2y↑4

@ZillaTheTegu yeah but they don't explain how he got the throne of hell

Hedquarterz

2y↑6

@Chris Stich I thought he doesn't rule over hell. Only the labyrinth

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Ebony Atropus

1y↑23

Leviathan's geometric "body" apparently has "rooms" in it, according to some of the comics.
TBH, I always imagined Leviathan's true form, as the name implies, to be some immense aquatic beast, housed in an immense holding take at the centre of that geometric shape, the last of its kind from a dead universe, with near omnipotent psychic and psychokinetic power within its own realm.

Priinsu💎🌚

45w

Kind of like the Aboleths from DnD lore?

360 Entertainment

2y↑373

Imagine if Tiffany had been made a cenobite? Her puzzle solving skills could definitely be utilized in creating unsolvable puzzles for various victims!

Preston Jones

2y↑72

Eventually tiff does become one. After Kirstie becomes the hell preistess.
Yup. Canon

Chris Crippler Cruz

2y↑18

@Preston Jones i was just about to say that lol

360 Entertainment

2y↑9

@Chris Crippler Cruz dang that’s awesome, was this in IDW comics?

Remco Schedel—the SKULL

2y↑25

She does become a cenobite, but doesn't solve puzzles.
She acts rather aggressive and definitely isn't the quiet girl from Hellbound anymore.

360 Entertainment

2y↑7

@Remco Schedel—the SKULL oof, I was kind of hoping they’d incorporate the puzzle solving or at least something like that!

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winsomehax

2y↑54

"And to think I hesitated" is one of the creepiest and disturbing lines in movies. Also the fact that they show the beginning of Channard's torture and then rotate the cabinet around and down out of sight... just leaves it in the imagination.

Phily87

1y↑38

I love the special effects of old horror movies. I feel they give off an otherworldly vibe that modern films fail to capture.

WineNot

1y↑4

because they had to think of creative ways to show things using real objects instead of animating everything with CG

IamFromBeyond

It feels "otherworldly" because tons of movirs have similar fantasy-esque plots and even this plot is literally otherworldly lmao. So what you really mean is, the props and visual effects are practical as much as physically possible instead of lazy CGI for every little thing or detail.

MiKe MiDNiTe

2y↑208

That part with Leviathan spinning between those mirrored storm clouds on HR II is one of the most coolest things I've seen in movies...very artistic and symbolic

Virvum Juggernaut

2y↑12

HR2 :
“The Doctor is in. What’s on the agenda? Ah yes ... amputation.”

Charzell Claybrooks

Dude!!!!!

Mass Hysteria 40

2y↑3

Leviathan is more so a lord of hell. One of many presiding over a specific faction within Hell.

Jeanpaul Michell

2y↑2

The whole movie is shot with an Avant Garde style that makes things look strange, but cool at the same time. Especially the scenes in Hell; there's a psychological layer to the images that fascinated me as a kid (still does).

MadScientyst

1y↑6

An interesting insight could be that every Demon (for want of a better word) has his /her own particular niche of 'Hell'.
Anyone remembers the take on 'Lillith' in another great flick 'Night Angel' & even the original 'Constantine' where Keanu Reeves enters Hell to check on the suicide girl.
Coupled with 'Event Horizon,' I always found these 2 depictions of Hell to be totally disturbing & downright frightening.
The Leviathan concept was just brilliant with the connection to the puzzle box & it's relation to the subtle Labyrinth of unknown horrors awaiting in that other-dimensional maze.
Recalling the entities & structure of 'Midian' in 'NightBreed' ruled by Baphomet, it's possible Clive Barker opted to envision a version of Hell where the viewer /reader would draw their own conclusions, perhaps based on their own personal fear of the unknown....IMO

CptBarbossa

2y↑211

The creator of Hellraiser very specifically says for the first 2 movies that Leviathan is NOT SATAN and the other dimension in NOT HELL.

DommyBoy Smith

2y↑24

Why would he name Pinhead "hell priest"? "Hellbound heart".. etc.
To be honest, he always says one thing and his own work says something different. I truly beleive he tried to alter things after release. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Sam L

2y↑24

I believe the dimension is referred to as Hell, but it wasn't the Judeo-Christian Hell.

Well, until the Scarlet Gospels came out....

croaton07

2y↑6

13thExit Strategy
Nope
Plenty of options outside heaven and hell. This fits more into lovecraft than it does hell. Just because you personally see it as hell, doesn't mean it is or was ever meant to be.

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StopFear

2y↑60

What I find funny is how this movie when it originally came out was rather shocking and original. But as the mostly crappy sequels and a multitude of other movies on similar themes came out the concept and imagery of this film became less shocking and less controversial.

David O'Neal

2y↑16

Ages ago when I was toying around with an idea for a Hellraiser/Wishmaster crossover, I considered having Leviathan being the first Djinn who denounced their chaotic ways and took over Hell, where Leviathan continues to feed upon and pervert the desires of humankind. Either way, my Hellraiser/Wishmaster crossover would focus on the Djinn and the Cenobites seeking similar goals in distorting human desire but coming in conflict over their devotion to chaos and order, respectively.

hecatomb

2y↑49

In Book of Amos; it is also mentioned in the Book of Enoch. The Leviathan is often an embodiment of chaos and threatening to eat the damned after life

The Great Otaku

2y↑22

If the franchise is rebooted successfully, we need more exploration of the labyrinth.

𝔖𝔞𝔪𝔲𝔢𝔩 𝔅𝔩𝔞𝔠𝔨

1y↑1

An exploration of countless unspeakable desires

Wolfc72

2y↑214

So I feel that Leviathan's hell is only one part of hell. That there are other levels over seen by different demons. Also the floating diamond is not Leviathan, but its where Leviathan resides.

Just wanna Be Happy

2y↑20

Boom studious confirmed this.

Evan Abbott

2y↑40

Cool, I’ve always wanted to know what’s inside of that thing.😁

Yondu

2y↑36

@Evan Abbott Solve the riddle box and find out.

Shiftstart

2y↑24

That’s the problem with this Channels I often find statements about Hellraiser mythology which isn’t true.

Preston Jones

2y↑43

Each deadly sin had a hell.
Leviathan is lust.
Anger is right below this.

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Gary Keyes

1y↑2

The Epic Comics from the early 90s give an interesting origin story for everything in the original movies. They expand on what was partially explained in HR1 and HR2 especially. That Leviathan came from a universe where it alone resided, until chaotic energies from (possibly from life itself) came through and "corrupted" his/it's realm of seamless perfection. Leviathan attempt to understand, attack and control life from our universe came into the form of the earliest Cenobites.

ltpvs

2y↑4

Still in love with how much the one person who makes this entire channel commits to making it as professional as possible!

JNNFC cc

1y↑1

leviathan was certainly one of the best villain concepts out there! It made a lot of sense to me as an explanation to our biblical understanding of hell and Satan. Biblical events are very humanized, which makes sense given the writers of the bible could only draw from nature and primitive existence, and it can fall short of making sense in a more modern time. I wouldn't expect angels to be humanoid, nor would I God, and the raw nature of leviathan certainly lacked all human features and understanding. It was an amazing cross between biblical hell and Lovecraft horror, and our brief encounter with this being certainly stokes the imagination while making it clear why it has its dogmatic motivations. Like with all creatures of this magnitude of power we can only hope (or fear) to get a glimpse of it and its actions in direct observation, and of course we only get that privilege due to the fact that we are a removed audience that is not really there. Wow!

Talisman Skulls

2y↑33

I have always considered this "Leviathan" as some sort of combined biological and computer brain with its own sort of AGI as a sort of concept of both Skynet from Terminator and the Borg hive mind, and Cenobites originally being the species that created it that it eventually turned on creating tormented and twisted versions of terminators meet borg in one, and its conclusion that free will violates Order is the basis behind its initial motivations.

That's why it hates dimensions with any form of sentient life expressing independence and uses "pleasure and pain" to overload its victims brains to create an annihilation of independent self awareness. Those few made from humans that have periodic recalls of their humanity is simply a factor of it learning to configure its methods and all the "horrors" are half real and half illusion like a waking nightmare just between that point of dream and awake states. That's how I considered the original Hellraiser.

The boxes in turn I always though of as its own efforts to hide the "real key" to its own destruction or Kill Switch, so that whenever anyone happens upon one of its traps it then signals its hordes to carry out its directive and not just like the last movie a special one created to simply shut down the portals between this dimension and those it has infested.

So basically there is a cube somewhere in our dimension possibly dropped out of its reach from one of its rebel Cenobites that having had a moment of lucidity dropped it out of this Leviathan's reach knowing it's hordes were going to find the rebel and destroy them before the said rebel could activate the kill switch themselves, in hopes that perhaps a species would become sentient enough to find this device, and figure out what it is for and how to use it to rid all dimensions of this Machine Mind's existence in any and all forms.

Ric S

2y↑2

Wow

Dr Pickle

2y↑5

You're insanely creative, dude! I want to know more

Adrianos S. Bougas

2y↑4

Impressive

Talisman Skulls

1y↑2

Zack Attack

Barnesofthenorth

1y↑1

Feel like I should point out for the first 2 the cenobites were the antagonists, it was Julia, Chanard and Frank. The Cenobites are just explorers in experience who come when people summon then.

That was what made them interesting in the first films, the monsters weren't the monsters in the film, it was normal people.

Farmertate

2y↑15

The first one was fantastic. I was born in 1998 so i semi grew up with these when i became of age. My mother showed these to me around 14-15. To this day I think the second one is decent, watchable for a awhile until the maze. The first one balls so hard at times. Idk if it was the writing team ir directing for everything that followed left a bad taste for me. But this series is one that could use a facelift. Not Michael Myers
EDIT: i know this is a long shot, but i like to think Event Horizon and Hellraiser are one in the same worlds. Like the ship went to the hell dimension of hell raiser.

Hawk66100

2y↑1

Event Horizon takes place in the 40K universe. It’s the first ship that travelled to the Warp and fell victim to Chaos.

ditkarulz34ify

1y↑1

@Hawk66100 Cenobites could be Dark Eldar

Hawk66100

@ditkarulz34ify I like it.

03chrisv

2y↑7

If we take the comics into account Leviathan is basically a lord of ONE of the circles of hell. There are other lords of hell, including Lucifer, that are in charge of their own respective hells. In fact there was a small scene in the comics where one of the lords of hell openly spoke out against Leviathan and his underlyings in contempt and disgust.

Leviathan may be a fallen angel or something else, however in the comics even Leviathan acknowledges that the only being that can cast judgment against it is God himself, it even stated that it's prepared to accept such judgment.

Fruitful Spirit

2y↑2

Interesting concept. What's the comic?

frenchbatman

49w

Lucifer > leviathan

Michael Lyscas

2y↑5

The boom comics went into this more. They basically state there are many hells, anger and rage, remorse and sadness etc each with a ruling god, each with types of minions like cenobites. They even have hells invading each other and pinhead swapping sides for a bit. The scarlet gospels book reveals Satan is real and has been missing for sometime in which pinhead is seeking out and eve tually finds him.

CyberSloth

2y↑47

Leviathan reminds me of the Ideal Masters from Skyrim, they're also floating diamonds who rule souls trapped in a hellish realm.

DreamzPlayerN1

1y↑1

Wow that's insane

The Skooma Cat

1y↑2

Whoa. Yeah there is definitely some inspiration

Razer

2y↑17

I wouldn't really say that leviathan is the fallen angel himself considering leviathan is just a godlike hell lord ruling over his own layer of hell (Lust), i did always wonder (And still do like many others) how his true form would look.. It was said to be either organic or mechanic but it can also pretty much be a shadow.

Robert Righter

1y↑2

Speaking directly from the books technically technically the hell which the hell which Leviathan lords over is the circle of gluttony

Sean Davis

2y↑16

The milkman manifestation he takes when talking to kirsty cotton hell priest in the comics was truely epic

Stanimir Georgiev

2y↑9

Great video.
When it comes to my favorite things, I always like to add some things which I know but they are not mentioned in the video.
Ha ha ha that's true; Leviathan is obsessed with law and order, and he really finds humans chaotic beings. And he gives free will to the Cenobites to serve him of their own free will. So Leviathan does not impose his will on anyone. You once mentioned that the Cenobites have their own understandings of good and evil, and that was fair to say, because it is true; so, in some cases we can tel it's not the Cenobites who are really evil, it is as, humans. Humans as Frank of Hellraiser 1. Sinner, adulterer and murderer. Ready for anything to satisfy his greedy appetite. in Cenobites world they do what is customary to do, they are outspoken, they are not hypocrites, as some of the earthly religion --- people doing religion which they do not actually accept, and they commit sins , priests rape children, that are the opposite of the religion they profess, but they commit these sins hiding themselves, because they know that what they are doing is wrong. It is not accepted in our world. Cenobites ,in another hands, do their job, without hiding themselves, which job is normal thing for their world. Something more ---they keep every hell candidate , no matter from what dimension he is from, to knowing what awaits him.
Hellraiser has great comic book art; I'm talking about the old classic comics that are more than 17 years old. And I have the whole collection. And there have some good explanations for Leviathan, Cenobites, the other hell societies and the Hell world. But in "The Scarlet Gospels" it is clearly explained that Lucifer is the lord of Hell. Lucifer has never been mentioned before. His first and only appearance was in "The Scarlet Gospels". And as far as i understand Leviathan cannot be destroyed ( maybe only from other Divine forces ) . After Lucifer destroys Hell, there is nothing left of Hell but Leviathan soaring in the emptiness above the ruins of Hell, and this is the last image of Hell that we see in "The Scarlet Gospels". Leviathan is left to levitate alone over a empty void of destructed Hell.

Brent Maher

Very well said

Mecanotech

2y↑9

I'm thinking... why does the little box have so much power over leviathan. Well i can hypothesize that... Leviathan is a cosmic force obviously and it's existence is bound to all those negative traits you mention. Risk, gamble is one of them. So he knows there is risk in the box, but that's part it, and he likes it.

kinerry

2y↑11

Major correction;
The lament configuration is merely a solution to the box, there are several solutions.
It's called a "Lemerchand's Box"

N9olan

2y↑12

They were not going to kill Tiffany, they were going to take her back to be turned or tortured.

Night Owl

2y↑25

This is why Hellbound is my all-time favorite horror movie.

WM Smith

2 got me truly into it

Ife Newsome

2y↑18

leviathan guards the gates of hell leading to earth and needs to use the cubes to convert humans into its army. It fights with the other 7 princes of hell to keep them in. Cubes based on design can bring you to another dimension like heaven realms or hell realms. he has the ability to augment flesh to superhuman levels but cant travel out without cubes. they dont chill in the real world for too long because the angel Ezekiel the Slaughterer slaughters magical beings roaming the mortal realm. Leviathan has a sister who uses her harrowers to fight him on occasion. When you die you go to a realm of hell or heaven. if baphomet makes it to you you become a night breed. Bows and leaves

Rick Storm

2y↑1

Wtf?

P4nzerk93

1y↑1

Tiffanys first words "shit" was so unexpected it was also a bit comical considering she had already seen all kinds of unholy stuff before.

SOLTEX

2y↑5

I always had a suspicion that leviathan was actually some kind of other being that resides inside the diamond

ol' Swole

2y↑2

Hellraiser 1 and 2 take place back to back in time making them one very long film. Very enjoyable indeed

Japhet Zayas

2y↑1

The Leviathan reminds me of REM's album cover for AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE, albeit with less spikes, and the labyrinth reminds me of the infinite landscapes of MC Escher.

Kevin

2y↑6

I find it odd that there is no mention of Leviathan in The Scarlet Gospels, but by then Pinhead was maybe more powerful than it.

jonestly

Because Lucifer was the true master of Hell in the novels. Leviathan didn't exist.

BlurryFilms

2y↑2

hm...i don't know if this has already been confirmed, but wasn't it said in this video that when the cube is complete the leviathan becomes weak? and souls can escape?...well what if that is why the cenobites come out to punish anyone who completes the box? because each time souls they were punishing and tormenting get to go free and they want to replace the ones they lost with whoever was dumb enough to screw with their box?

Xavier Franco

The souls in hell are at a disadvantage. They aren't just walking around intact. They're being tortured and dismembered, etc.... Only the lucky ones who: 1. Have their bodies more or less intact, 2. Realize that the portals to earth are open, and 3. Can actually somehow escape their individual torments and find a way to the portal, can escape. That's not a lot. You have to be ready to escape from "a fucking labyrinth" at the moment the portal opens.

Nightlock

2y↑3

Considering the body horror I can’t help but wonder if this is the type of eldritch angels and leviathan being the “prettiestAngel” might just mean it’s not wrong like all the other angels.

Elliot Goon

2y↑3

Is that one of Slannesh's greater daemons from Warhammer 40k? Looks like Pinhead and company would fit perfectly within the 40k setting

Jay Sherman

2y↑5

This is my personal idea. Clive Barker did add God and Satan into the universe and The Leviathan was stated not to be either. So my idea is that the primordial chaos leftover from when God created the universe came together and formed the Leviathan. It is obsessed with order, but not the order we are familiar with. It is order that makes sense to the Leviathan and it created a universe to reflect that.

The reason the Lament Configuration has power over it is because it is in geometrically perfect order as the Leviathan sees it. If there is one thing the Leviathan isn't, it is a hypocrite. So the Leviathan obeys the Lament Configuration's "perfection" so as to obey it's own rules.

SigríðrAlex

Hachi machi!

Duke Sparrow

Hence why the Cenobites are perceived to be neither good nor bad but are neutral beings

Stefano Giannaccini

2y↑46

Leviathan: Here I will torture souls forever!
Pinhead: How so?
L: Tomorrow Half Life 3 will be released.
P: But time never flows here!
L: Exactly!

yeh

43w

The realm where the leviathan and cenobites reside is meant to portray the earth we currently live in. When you open the cube you get into the world of the god of flesh, hunger and desire. Your soul will get tortured there for infinity. Its your "hellbound" heart that ties you to this world. Clive Barker clearly knows about these occult, kabbalastic things..

Goblin Twink

2y↑9

Leviathan is a biblically accurate angel

NATEDOG

2y↑23

I really hope they don’t do another movie. The last one they did pissed off Barker so much we went on a cussing tirade and told everyone not to associate him with that trainwreck

Brent Maher

2y↑5

They are doing a remake but Clive Barker is the producer of the film and Pinhead in this new one is a female.

NATEDOG

2y↑2

@Brent Maher if he's the director, it's gonna be good

名無名的

Didn't they have to do it to keep the rights?

NATEDOG

@名無名的 yeah, but they should have thought really hard about the story and used all experienced actors (one of the teens did his acting debut in the next to last one and his acting was terrible

名無名的

2y↑2

@NATEDOG they're not going to do that for a rights movie. Easier to just make a cheap flick and retcon it later

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KJames Jr

In the books this is an inter dimensional plane and the cenobites are inter dimensional beings. They are entirely ambiguous. Not evil or good. They worship sensation, that of pain. They’re motivated purely by curiosity. The producers of the film twisted the lore into this “hellscape”. It was supposed to be more lovecraftian/cosmic horror than biblical. The leviathan is more of an eldritch horror type being than a satanic one.

Daniel Human

2y↑1

The Tribe of Levi were the caretakers of the Lost Ark.
Is Leviathan a living being, or a primordial machine?

Japhet Zayas

I feel that Hellraiser might have been inspired by Greco-Roman Mythology. The dual nature of man is manifested by the antithetical natures of Apollo, the god of order, sun, light, and "averter of evil", and Dionysis "the god of wine, desire, and pleasure".

Anna M.

2y↑35

I love Hellraiser. It's my all time fav franchise,next to A Nightmare On Elm Street..
If only these videos were made by someone who has better knowledge about it. Some things are twisted (like Leviathan is not the shape above the hell, he only resides inside), most of the words are mispronounced or they give us only the recap of the movie. Nothing's here explained!
It's better not to make a video than to make it superficial!

pointysidedown

2y↑2

I like the way he says see-no-bites instead of cenobites. I appreciate this persons effort, I think he did his best.

Brent Maher

2y↑1

I agree with you !

Anna M.

2y↑4

@Suggie Thames oh baby,it was only the truth 🤷

Shamus McDrunkenen

2y↑2

Repeats the same information several times. He also back tracks, muddling the timeline with the incorrect order of events.

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Rob Mills

1y↑1

I hated seeing leviathan. I thought it was when the absolute worst part of Hellraiser. It was so awesome to see the Cenobites and their marks of doom and damnation, just to show their god as a ridiculous diamond shaped crystal. Seriously, anything would have been better.

DSWynne

My problem with the franchise is that it moved away from the concept in favor of the shock value of gore. To me, IMO, the cenobites are the manifestation of the dark desire that lies within human beings. Only the most twisted can become "cenobites". The rest? Consumed by Leviathan for failing to be worthy to serve as a cenobite. Leviathan existed BEFORE creation, as one of many primordial entities that existed before Creation, which is why the darkness is its modus operandi. I don't know about H2, since I thought Leviathan being a giant puzzle was a bit silly.

James Roa

In alot of Barker's books, alot of hell god's fight against themselves to preserve order or the status even in the most perverse ways, and it's not to protect humans but to satisfy a system, case in point, the midnight meat train.

StopFear

2y↑3

The core concept of this film is very similar to what we see in Yuzna’s From Beyond.

PD Zombie

Great video, but I wish you could have also touch upon the Mythological inspiration from where the Leviathan word comes from. Thanx!!!

B Wilson

I'd like to see a sort of crossover between the Biblical Hell and the cenobite realm which isn't actually Hell.

David Dean

2y↑4

Leviathan is NOT the Lord of Hell - He is the Lord of the Labyrinth. The Labyrinth is "A" Hell. Not "THE" Hell! This very detail is covered by the 2011 Comic series.

There are OTHER rulers (of their own Hells) such as Abaddon and Lucifer. The 2013 Boom (For example) comic series "The Dark Watch" covers Abaddon vs Leviathan. It confirms that there are multiple Hells - Each that deal with differing sins.

Clive Barker himself made it a point when he created the franchise to ensure that the Labyrinth and Cenobites remain OUTSIDE of such things and thus enigmatic.

We need to also note that Clive Barker is NOT a fan of the current Hellraiser universe. With the "Scarlet Gospels" he has distanced himself from what the film franchise has become - And has aligned his versioning of "Hell" with that of the Christian faith. Satan is NOT Leviathan - That title DOES go to Lucifer - Whom is the one that has (most recently) killed "The Hell Priest" (Pinhead) in the "Scarlet Gospels".

Saoirse Wolf

Leviathian is but one of the rulers of a hell. Insofar as there is several versions in the series, which are discussed in the Dark Horse comics.

Seto Kaiba

2y↑1

It seems that Clive is suggesting higher beings literally operate on higher dimensional planes. Like leviathan representing Lucifer, but still being a geometrical shape that is sentient somehow. So God would just be a more elaborate and technical geometric shape. But they’d be unique and have identity in THEIR plane of existence

Manuel Luna

2y↑1

Hellraiser II Hellboumd is my absolute favorite of the franchise.

Tunguska Lumberjack

2y↑74

“Leviathan is fascinated by Law and Order…” Would that be SVU or Criminal Intent? Or the original one?

wakingohiomama 91

2y↑3

😂😂😂

Jessica Gonzàlez

2y↑4

Good one👍 ☝️

Chris Glover

2y↑1

All 3

Tunguska Lumberjack

2y↑1

@Chris Glover 👍🏻

Mike Rosado

2y↑2

Las Vegas. :v

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Albert Wesker

I loved seeing it again in reboot complete with labyrinth.was awesome and a great reboot

Jersey Johnnys' Electronics & Entertainment

2y↑2

In the newer books which I don't know if it's cannon. They combined hellraiser with Judeo Christian beliefs. In this version, pinhead angered that Satan has never showed his face to torture or punished went on a journey to the deepest darkest parts of hell where Satan was supposed to have hidden himself to be as far away as possible from gods light. Pinhead finally finds lucifers castle and enters. Inside he finds that it appears luckier killed himself, eventually giving in to his despair of being out of the touch of God's light. All that's left is lucifers angelic armor and weapons. Pinhead , thinking he know is the real ruler of hell, puts on lucifers armor and declares himself the new ruler of hell as the other cynobites surround him.
Suddenly lucifers armor begins to crush pinheads body and falls to the floor. In a cloud of smoke and dust a shape begins to take form and lucifer now stands tall, back in his angelic armor and "pissed off " that anyone would dare question his authority. Immediately chains begin flying from all directions hitting lucifer and just bouncing off his skin, not even leaving a scratch. Lucifer uses pinheads own chains to rip him to pieces. The other cynobites attempt to flee but they realize they are now in a room with no doors. Lucifer quickly destroys all the cynobites, and now haven been awakened after millenia of slumber, has a new found purpose to clean hell of all its "false gods".
Thr title I believe had the word "heart" in it, and again I don't think it's cannon. But I would have loved to see it on the big screen. It's been along time since I read it also so I apologize for details I missed. It's much better of a concept when you read it by the author.

Fruitful Spirit

2y↑3

Please find out

Jersey Johnnys' Electronics & Entertainment

2y↑1

@Fruitful Spirit, I will. I really wish we could see it on TV. I mean let's be honest hellraiser fans are fans of the cynobites. But watching lucifer stomp them and leviathan into nothingness would be awesome!!! And alittle more realistic.

azatos009

actually that labyrinth is the universe as we perceive , which is formed by enormous sentient beings' brain cells ,it has macroscopic and microscopic sides at the same time , according to my deduction , leviathan is the first born even before time and space was formed

Мария Петрова

I still remember seeng Hellriser 2 for the first time. It has some flaws mainly in logic but I was yong and Leviothan strack me as some dark lovecraftian diety. It was something incomprehansible and facinating.
Imagine my disappointment when I got aquainted with comics version of Leviothan. "He just loves order and humanity disturbes order so he uses lament boxes to crate an army of cenobites to conquer the realm of humans" thing.
It's so utterly stupid. Humans is not the only sentient race. There are tribes of the moon pro minimum and that's just in one of many parallel worlds in Barker's multiverse. The strategy of recruting through lament configurations is remarcably ineffective. And what cenobites have to do with an army? They are monastic order. From all that we have seen they are some kind of ascets (or hedonistes), explorers, torturers but neither some conquerers, nor ground troops.
It looks like someone had to give some explanation to the whole Leviothan and cenobites thing and they went with jeneric one.

JL Payne78

If they really want to make a decent Hellraiser film they should bring back Doug Bradley as Pinhead and maybe even get Scott Bakula to play the older version of Harry D'mour and do a film adaptation of The Scarlet Gospels. Put the original version of Pinhead to bed in the same story that Clive used to do just that before they go off on a tangent by rebooting (and probably ruining) the universe for good. If it is done right it would be the best movie in this universe since the original.

TheAngryDanishViking

I dun like that it's stated that Leviathan is the ruler of 'hell'. It is a ruler of some otherworldly realm that seems to be very much opposite to our own reality. Light is dark, shape is uniform, one rules all, life is brought there, rather than created, etc.

James McCool

I have to say 2 was my favorite. One of the very few movies that I gave me nightmares.

Slowbro

Glad it makes an appearance in the Hulu Hellraiser. Looks just the same .. was relieved upon seeing it.

The Marmeladian

Great video, you had many insights I had not considered.

Chris Crippler Cruz

2y↑6

Out of all the horror films from back then hellraiser 2 scared the shit out of me as a kid lol

alanguages

2y↑6

Out of the 7 Deadly Sins, Leviathan is the demon of ENVY.
Asmodeus is the demon of LUST.

I wonder why Hellraiser made their mythology notably different for references.

Anton Åkesson

2y↑5

Because they where made by many different authors with different ideas or interpretations of the previous work. In the first movie the cenobites are more eldritch then Abrahamic. The cenobites and Leviathan was not demons from Abrahams faiths but more like Chtulu and other HP Lovecraft beings. The best line for me to demonstrate this is Pinhead answering "Who are you?" with "Demons to some, angels to others." The usage of hell was more symbolic then literal but as the movies went on that changed for the worse and soon it truly became hell as seen in Judgement where we even have designless angels and God.
The usage of Leviathan I belive was just used as it sounded cool and was less derivative then just calling it Satan or the Devil, and less brainpower needed then coming up with an original name or title.

Anton Åkesson

2y↑4

Even Clive himself seems to have doubled down on this Heaven and Hell thing. In his book The Scarlet Gospels even Lucifer and Angels from Heaven are in it. It saddens me because I always thought having them be more mysterious and eldritch was better then having a real connection to an actual mythology. Takes away a bit of its own identity.

alanguages

2y↑1

@Anton Åkesson Actually, I thought the Cenobites were effectively not angels, nor demons. They were suppose to be beings from in between. I think Frank said, that the box could open a portal to heaven or hell, but he did not care which one, as he thought he could get his wishes fulfilled by either God or the devil. The chances were so slim, that the overwhelming odds the Cenobites realm would be opened, thus that is exactly what occurred.

Then in the sequel all of a sudden the Cenobites were from a dimension from hell. That is where it no longer made sense, from the first movie.

Jason Santos

To Dante's inferno

Anton Åkesson

@R Atreides Isn't good old Leviathan a creature in the bible rather then a demon? And technically the closest connection Leviathan has is when the Dragon (often viewed as the devil) gave the first beast of the sea (potentially Leviathan) great authority of the people. I say potentially just because of its weird apperance and never being named but who if not the Leviathan would be the beast of the sea?

Virvum Juggernaut

2y↑116

“You opened the box, we came, now you must come with us .... taste our pleasures.” GONG!🔔

Jeremy Stevens

2y↑17

We have such sights to show you 😈

King Cobra Chris

2y↑12

"Angels to some,Demons to others."

PumpkinSpiceCatte

2y↑13

"We have eternity to know your flesh."

Virvum Juggernaut

2y↑2

@Jeremy Stevens Love that line man. Pinhead almost sings it.

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Joseph Johnson

2y↑4

Love Hellrasier!👏

rvsawyer67

your summation of the franchise was accurate and almost thorough. That being said, you mispronunciations of work like lament and cenobite damage my OCD. good work regardless of my cringes.

gizzykat kat

2y↑1

I love Hellraiser!

itchyb

2y↑1

I was 14 when part 2 came out. The guy on the mattress with the straight razor got me good.

StopFear

2y↑2

It is like the makers of this movie almost exploded the popularity of the Rubik’s Cube

General Zod

H2 is a nice sequel however, it could have been even better. Unfortunately, they had to abandon some story lines because of budget shortfalls.

simbriant

2y↑2

Imagine if Jigsaw learned the secrets of the box....

USN luna

my take on leviathan is that it has no true form, it chose the shape its in because it creates both awe and fear. leviathan doesnt sent out the cinobites out just to kill but to bring souls back for eternal torture by keeping them alive as cinobites, think about it like this if leviathan is obsessed with law and order what reason would it have with utter slaughter of humans. instead it creates a way for humans to kill eachother in the most brutal ways human imagination cant even fathom. since it cant interact with the human realm directly it uses the cinobites to make the human realm like its own. half dead and half alive.

i dont remember where i read it but it said not all humans can become cinobites but all humans can if they accept the torment.

BooM Borgoyari

reminding us to subscribe at the middle of the video really takes the immersion out and away from the experience

tim white

Is it actually hell? I'm not that deep in the lore, but I didn't think it ruled hell like Satan. I thought it was some other thing or maybe corner of hell.

Gokush Kameha-ha-ha

I'll never forget how the leviathan hell got swamped by the insect hell

Jailan Haskett

I can’t believe I’m saying this…. Can we get a remake?

Hozza

julias body flying down the hallway was comedy gold.

Andrew Varcoe

Odd observation on the "creature", laviathan, I don't think angel or demon in the living physical form. I believe this to be a tool or creation that filters or transfers essence from its creator into other forms and visa versa. It probably was created by a very powerful entity, that considering itself perfect and a god, marks all things lesser than it with a mark of possession or a label of sort. If you were to consider hive mindset an "evolved" space living/existing creature would consider humans to be chaotic (not controlled or managed) and fleshy ( not energy waves or mental beings) and weak (because laviathan has no predators of its own?). There would be a bit more to add considering objective and living conditions as well. On the biblical ideas, angel or demon, the movie never really brought a representative of "heaven" or beings like that, it mainly focused on the "evil"or hell dimenson, so its easy to lose the concept of what if this was another dimension with a life form that has connected with other dimensions utilizing the "puzzle" boxes. It brings to mind the idea that heaven and hell are our imaginations "peeking" at other dimensions.

Reece Chapman

2y↑9

Would be cool to see what's inside of the diamond thing be cool to have a scp crossover where the scp foundation are sending teams in

Gilroy Joshua

2y↑8

they really need to keep it abstract. the mystery makes it much more powerful

austin willcut

They do show what's inside the diamond in Hellraiser vol.2: Requiem put out by Boom! Comics.

Jason Santos

2y↑9

Leviathan vs the Godhand who will win Well most of the demons from the Berserk were heavily inspired by hellraiser

Strix

2y↑31

"saddle-masochism" "seen oh bites" good lord

pauly smallz

2y↑1

lol I was like what is he trying to say

FacePunchMcGee

2y↑2

I’m a stickler for pronunciation, so I was watching this vid like 😬

One more: “Lay-ment” configuration.

Devil Ghostface

Yet the entity from Dead by Daylight is stronger . And even commands pinhead himself to an extent . As well as taking back any sound pinhead sends to hell.. you should look into that

Lucas Baladi

2y↑4

Leviathan remembers me of Mantorok, from Eternal Darkness

wakingohiomama 91

2y↑2

I always liked to think when Tiffany was spared it was some sort of pins humanity showing. Wishful thinking lol.

Tree

My favorite part was at The End When that pillar came out of that mattress

The Marmeladian

have you not seen the rest of the movies. I believe there are five in total. I had the book it was called the Hellbound Heart I had a signed copy. very strange cover

munstrumridcully

2y↑43

Cenobites is pronounced "sehn-oh-bytes", the "cen" part sounds like the "sen" in "send" or "senator". Just Saiyan.

munstrumridcully

@Dave Willey where did I mistakenly use flute in place of float? Or is this some mean or something that I'm unaware of?

Risque

2y↑5

I'm glad I'm not the only person who notices all the times they mispronounce words.

Nicholas Winchcombe

2y↑10

Exactly! Did you also notice how he pronounced sadomasochism?

munstrumridcully

2y↑4

@Nicholas Winchcombe no I got annoyed with the cenobites and then the lament configuration was the last straw, I just gave up. Why how do you pronounce it? Was it with a soft ch sound? 🙂

Jorge Reyes

2y↑2

it's the Venom Smy-by-oat pronunciation all over again...LOL..

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Miguel Dóctor strangė

2y↑9

THIS FILM IS AWESOME

Cold Blizzard

2y↑1

Something about this series always reminded me of Obituary - Cause Of Death

joshua mourning

2y↑5

Leviathan sees Life is chaotic: screams geometrically

Evan AB

2y↑9

My own personal hell would be musicals. Good God damn that's almost worth being good to avoid!

will huey

2y↑2

unless its the good musicals because there are some good ones like little shop of horrors.

Evan AB

2y↑1

@will huey
You happened to name the single musical that would be especially torturous to me. Back in the olden days when we had like 6 channels max, that show was played on HBO all summer long, multiple times a day. Very, very disturbing to a young mind!

will huey

2y↑2

@Evan AB but i loved the song mean greeen mother from outer space.

Serioussmile51

2y↑4

MrH reviews channel has a wonderful selection of hellraiser videos

Sam Deane

I think I hear his trademark music in the background of this video.🤔

zaqzilla1

2y↑9

Supposedly there is going to be a female Pinhead in the 2022 movie. I hope they're going with how Kirsty became the hell priestess in the comics, & not just doing some gender swap bs.

Evil Nick

2y↑2

its gender swap BUT supposedly there are two projects in the works. One is HBO and the other HULU. One is a film style reboot and the other is the gender swap BUT (again) if you go by the hellbound heart pinhead isnt actually a character in the story. Its an androgenous demon being with a squirrely voice that has no gender. If they go that route and make it off the book verbatim thats fine. IF they call the character pinhead then its not. Honestly I dont like the direction the comics went with pinhead and elliot. I liked it much better when elliot was just a war beaten soldier who decided he was done with the human race after so much bloodshed. In the comics they turned him into a sadistic abuser and all around POS.