Pinhead | Creature Statblock

Next up on the horror icon list is Pinhead from Hellraiser. The box! You opened it, we came!

The Lead Cenobite, often referred to by the nickname "Pinhead", is the main antagonist of the Hellraiser films. First appearing in Clive Barker's novella "The Hellbound Heart", he served Leviathan and was tasked with collecting those who solved the Lament Configuration box, taking their souls to the Labyrinth. 

Pinhead was not always a Cenobite. He was once known as Elliott Spencer and was a Captain in the British army who served during World War One. After the war came to an end, many of its survivors became hopelessly depressed and withdrawn from society. Spencer would find himself drawn to unknown and forbidden pleasures and his final discovery in his exploration of the taboo would be the Lament Configuration, a mysterious puzzle box. 

Spencer solved the puzzle and found himself being dragged to Hell where his body and spirit were mutilated beyond recognition, transforming him into something beyond human.