This might be the coolest thing you see all week.
The 1987 classic Hellraiser introduced not only Pinhead but also his army of Cenobites, characters that went on to appear in so many sequels that it’s honestly become hard to keep count – though if you are keeping score, the franchise to date includes nine films, with another on the way. Characters like Butterball and Chatterer are as iconic as Pinhead himself, and thanks to a rare makeup test photo that’s just been unearthed, you can now see them all as you’ve never seen them before.
As shared by Hellraiser actor Nicholas “Chatterer” Vince over on Facebook today, the test photo shows off the original incarnations of Pinhead, Butterball, and Chatterer (known as Poor Bastard at the time), and Vince noted the changes that were made before filming actually began:
Doug’s pins were literally pins, but didn’t ‘read’ on camera; so were replaced by ‘nails’ and he gained black contact lenses to cover his blue eyes. Chatterer’s teeth are pointed here, but Clive thought I didn’t look human, so the teeth you see in the film are replicas of mine taken from the molds for the dentures I wore.
Vince also posted a photo of a makeup test call sheet, dated exactly 30 years ago today.
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