FYI I realise they have been revealed as demons, my take on it though is from the standpoint they ended up that way from aeons of time in hell, either way though, hope you enjoyed the video :)

I like the engineer better in the book, the hellbound heart. It's more ominous. Mysterious and lovecraftian in it's incomprehension. It's implied that it's a force above the cenobites.

My theory was that the monster was the Cenobite's type of guard dog doing it's duty. Guarding the dark halls for naive intruders like Kirsty

Can't wait to see the Disney musical version of this.

So it's a politician

As a 10 year old (hell even now) watching that scene, seeing the Engineer crawl-walking through the hallway was fucking surreal!!! It opened my mind to horror. Sure it gave me months of restless sleep but it also made me love and appreciate good horror visual storytelling. We have such sights to show you indeed!!

Thank you Mr. H. As a kid my parents were very special, in that they loved to see me scared out of my mind to these movies and others like it. Having you go through and explain all the different creatures and worlds has really allowed me to step back into these places with a new light and appreciate them for their ideas and for the works of art a lot of them are. Thank you.

I first encountered the "Engineer" in the "Hellbound heart" novelette. It was nothing like the later iterations.

In the new hellraiser comics, written by clive barker, the engineer comes from a deeper circle of hell and is insinuated to be a demon.

Mmmmm, cinna-bites.

Is it me, or does the narrator sound like he could be a Cenobite himself?

I always thought the Engineer was a demon born in Hell. it was never a human, and it's purpose was to create cenobites out of damned souls. That's why I didn't think it was trying to kill Kirstie. I thought it was trying to turn her into a cenobite

I remember thinking "what the f**** am I watching?!"

Really enjoyed that, the history behind the Hellraiser abominations is extremely fascinating ...subbed !

In the comics, it can literally repair itself. It's painful, but it legitimately puts all of its organs back into itself in a sloppy fashion. This is exactly part of the reason these things looked all messed up; constant repair to their own bodies.

You should do those jobs doing audiobooks. Voice is perfect for it 👌

These explained videos were a brilliant idea,really good,it's almost like a narrative Wikipedia of the characters we all know from our childhood.Keep em coming!

Thanks for that. Once upon a time I knew one of the special effects guys from Hellraiser's 1 & 2 and apparently The Engineer ended up hung up above his fireplace.

When I first saw the engineer​ in the hellraiser movies was like "what the hell is that?" now I know what it is. Thanks mr. H 👌

This one was always my favorite Hellraiser creature.

Do a video about the homeless man/skeleton creature who took the box at the end of Hellraiser 1.

I didn't even realize he was even part of the labyrinth or hell. They said the box opens doorways. I thought this meant there was many possible places you could reach with the box. I thought he was a horrible creature from a different world or dimension or something. From one of the "less desirable" doorways. I thought he was so aggressive because he was hungry, since there were many configurations to the box, and the chances of someone landing on his was very low... Meaning he'd go ages without eating.

your videos make me want to binge watch all the good movies in the hellraiser series.....

YES! Thankyou, I've been waiting to hear about the Engineer ever since you started talking about the Hellraiser franchise.

I only listen to your videos of Hellraiser. What drew me in at first...your gothic voice. I remain a faithful listener.

What i would like to see explained is who was the derelict guy in the first Hellraiser who at the end of the movie walked into the fire to get the puzzlebox and then turned into a skeleton dragon creature.

I don't know about the movies, but I was quite taken with her in the novel. She's the only cenobite given an actual gender and even at one time puts on Julia's old wedding gown. I wish Barker would've written a novel all about her.

Spy's sappin' mah Sentry!

Please consider doing more of Barker's work . I'd like to see you explore the Midnight Meat Train ✌️

Don Rickles is the General.

I never understood these things until now. It certainly creeped me out and I always thought it was some kind of guardian or just something that resided in the maze and had no idea there was more than one. Knowing more about them though makes me very interested in them. I love these videos!

My first reaction was that it was just a basic monster. No sign of intelligence or indication that it builds torture devices.

The cenobite general bares a striking resemblance to Don Rickles.

Hellraiser Engineer > Prometheus/Covenant Engineer

In Hellraiser Inferno, which I maintain is underrated, the main antagonist is the mysterious "Engineer". Spoilers to those who haven't seen it; The "Engineer" turns out to be the protagonist himself, or at least a cenobite version. Could this mean that the "Engineer" is really the manifestation of what twists people into the cenobites that they become?

It's a disturbing image to picture the Engineer huddled in some dark, dank corner of Hell crying in the voice of a screaming infant

Your videos on Hellraiser never stops amazing me

Awww man he was the scariest thing in the movie for me.

I like to think that the engineer was never human at all. Just a denizen of the labyrinth. Doesn't seem to make much sense for it to have been human when compared to the cenobites. Just like the dragon monster at the end of the first hellraiser

Love this channel. Mr H would make a truly fantastic audiobook voice artist!

Someone needs to hire you for vo work. Good stuff.

This was the first scene I came across in the movie! It scared me and I had nightmares for years! Yet i could not turn away.

that shit scared me as a kid, used to dream of it all the time.

I hate to break this to you, but that scorpion mutant from the first movie is not the Engineer, keyword being "the". Here's an excerpt from the Hellbound Heart that describes his only appearance: "It was Julia. There was blood on the hall floor, marking a trail from the spot where Frank had abandoned her, through into the dining room. "Kirsty..." she called again. It was a pitiable sound and despite the wing-choked air, she could not help but go in pursuit of it, stepping through into the dining room. The furniture was smoldering charcoal; the ash that she'd glimpsed was a foul-smelling carpet and there, in the middle of this domestic wasteland, sat a bride. By some extraordinary act of will, Julia had managed to put her wedding dress on and secure her veil upon her head. Now she sat in the dirt, the dress besmirched but she looked radiant nevertheless, more beautiful, indeed, for the fact of the ruin that surrounded her. "Help me," she said and only now did Kirsty realize that the voice she heard was not coming from beneath the lush veil but form the Bride's lap and now the copious folds of the dress were parting and there was Julia's head--set on a pillow of scarlet silk and framed with a fall of auburn hair. Bereft of lungs, how could it speak? It spoke nevertheless "Kirsty..." it said, it begged--and sighed and rolled back and forth in the bride's lap as if it hoped to unlodge its reason. Kirsty might have aided it--might have snatched the head up and dashed out its brains--but that the bride's veil had started to twitch and was rising now, as if plucked at by invisible fingers. Beneath it, a light flickered and grew brighter and brighter yet and with the light, a voice: "I am the Engineer," it sighed. No more than that. Then the fluted folds rose higher and the head beneath gained the brilliance of a minor sun. She did not wait for the blaze to blind her. Instead she backed out into the hallway--the birds almost solid now, the wolves insane--and flung herself at the front door even as the hallway ceiling began to give way. The night came to meet her--a clean darkness. She breathed it in greedy gulps as she departed the house at a run. It was her second departure. God help her, her sanity that there ever be a third. At the corner of Lodovico Street, she looked back. The house had not capitulated to the forces unleashed within. It stood now as quiet as a grave. No, quieter." Not only that, the Engineer reappears immediately after as a pedestrian: "As she turned away somebody collided with her. She yelped with surprise but the huddled pedestrian was already hurrying away into the anxious murk that preceded morning. As the figure hovered on the outskirts of solidity, it glanced back and its head flared in the gloom, a cone of white fire. It was the Engineer. She had no time to look away; it was gone again in one instant, leaving its glamour in her eye." In the first chapter, it's implied the Engineer is the leader of what would later be called Pinhead's gash. ""Kircher told me there would be five of you," Frank said. "The Engineer will arrive should the moment merit," came the reply, "Now again, we ask you: What do you want?""

Their should be a video on the Twin Cenobites depicted in Hellraiser Bloodline

wow I love these info vids. And, find it kinda hilarious the General Engineer looks like Don Rickles! lmao

When James points out the little cart behind it

This part of Hellraiser always bothered me between the book and the movie. In the book, the Engineer was a humanoid with a face that could flare to the brilliance of the sun. He made the devices of torture that the cenobites used on the people that solved the configuration. I don't view the wall-crawler in the movie as the Engineer. To me it is just one of Hell's monsters, possibly a guardian guarding a entrance into Hell. In the book I always thought (though it was never confirmed) that the Engineer could possibly be a fallen angel. Also, I don't view the wall-crawler as something that Hell gradually changed over time. Looking at that thing I can only come to the conclusion that it was tortured and made purposely into the thing that it is.

Fascinating interpretation. I never gave much thought to it as I was busy changing my trousers... anyway, looking at it now I think the eyes are like that of a snake, or some "old serpent".

Cool video, wish they would do more with that character in later movies.

Having read The Hellbound Heart it surprised me how much more information you are given regarding the Engineer... If I think on the films I can't remember any reason or indication to even know that creature was the Engineer. Shame he wasn't expanded on much in the films. I haven't read the comics yet but planning to buy the Hellraiser Omnibus when it's available in my country at the end of this month. I have heard it comes efter the second film and ignores 3 onward... (edited to correct a couple English fails lol)

I always assumed the Engineer possesses a Highly Intelligent, yet Highly, Inconceivably Alien mind akin to Cthulu. And are pretty much what happens to Cenobites as they "Age". Angel's to some. Demons to Others...

I remember having nightmares involving him for WEEKS ! 🖤

You know based on the name" engineer," I always felt that they should have been the corrupted souls of those who created the lament configurations through out time. Based on the comic lines, where there had been many boxes. It just seemed to make sense to me.

I honestly can't remember, I watched this movie as a young kid.... However I wasted no time in watching it again. But honestly I think this creature is fucking amazing, but I don't think it was ever a human...... Just a twisted demon of hell that almost ripped a you girl apart. I like it's Origin story to be unknown, that makes it more creepy and exciting.

You should narrate books. Your voice is perfect I can hear you reading Lovecraft's 'The Lurking Fear' you would be perfect for that.

This scene freaked me out so much as a kid.

He scared the shit out of me as a kid. I've had many nightmares about him.

Millions of years ago, there were no humans who could stumble over anything...

Love your vids and great voice for these types of narratives. Keep up the good work.

From what I'm hearing and how the engineers usually are, I wonder if that engineer was just trying to keep her out of hell

Great video. I read in a comic that they generally build the labyrinth,repair things ect..And they didnt seem to get along with the cenobytes. Till this vid, thats about all i ever read or heard about them.

Cover the Derelict! if there is more info about him. and I love ure videos so please keep up the damn good work

The Engineer; once human, but grotesquely mutated beyond all recognition...

Saucy Jack. Wasn't this the title of Spinal Tap's next piece of work about Jack the Ripper ?

3:40 What were my initial thoughts when I saw the Engineer in a Hellraiser movie the first time? Since I was about 7 years old at that time it was along the lines of, "Holy shit that thing's scary! I know what I'll be having nightmares about for the next month."

I swear I just had a Mandela effect moment where I swore The Engineer’s name was The Monster and it had a torso with another head on top of its body

First thought on The Engineer: Fuck That. Upon further reflection, my second thought on The Engineer: Fuck That!

Do you have a video of the general cenobite? I swear you make things way easier than having to read hellraiser wiki haha

Dude, you voice is so fucking amazing! Have you ever tried to get a part for a movie villian yet!?

My 1st thoughts were "Oh, shit!"

Everything about the hellraiser series is, in one word.... unsettling

Who takes the box at the end of hellbound? Who asks "what is your pleasure sir?"

Engineer ? Bah ! I don't think that thing could even drive a train .

What are my thoughts? First of all what a series, I was never really that interested in the Hellraiser mythos until I've stumbled upon your great channel. I've seen only hell raiser one and two and skip the others as I read great number of reviews that were less than flattering to those sequels. Be that as it may though I would definitely don't want to meet the engineer in a side allay. and that is saying a lot because I'm an engineer myself. Anyhow great channel and great vid, I've been seriously lucky last two weeks, I've discovered so many interested channels, wishing you all the best good sir.

One of the first to disorientate me from reality.

"And to think...I hesitated..."

These videos finally got me to watch the first movie. I'm not generally a fan of horror movies, but I found the universe and themes extremely interesting. Thanks!

Could you do a video on Berserk's Godhand? More specifically their similarities and differences from the Cenobytes? I love your videos.

I want to throw out a big ass thanks to Mr. H Reviews for doing Hellraiser videos. Hellraiser was one of my first horror movies i seen as a kid after Evil Dead series. Pinhead and the whole fantasy of it all has always been very interesting to me and seeing someone do reviews on this content is just great. Keep up the Great videos! I also enjoyed your wishmaster video. I havent looked to see if you done any videos on Phantasm but if you have not please do so in the future if you enjoyed the series. :)

Always great info H. Nice one maestro.

My question: Why did the Doctor kill the cenobites? Why would one cenobite want to kill another?

I love that thing! It's mean, ugly and AWESOME!

"Tell us, if the creature caught your eye"... Oh, not at all, thank God! Can't even imagine what he would do with it, should he catch it... probably *eat it* or something... ;-)

when I first saw the engineer....."Fucking RUNNNNNNNN!!!!"

One way or the other, the "engineer" needs a DENTIST badly !

Millions of years ago? 🧐

I like Clive's original concept of white fire light humanoid as it implies Lucifer or some other form of fallen angel, name engineer imply probably to the labyrinth, and as doctor says brain is the labyrinth, mind is the labyrinth and the puzzle that needs to be solved.I will not reveal more.

a type of apparition perhaps a guardian of some kind.

Interesting. Had not really paid attention to this creature before. One question: whose „hands“ or claws transform Dr. Channard in a cenobite? The wire around his face is wrapped by some hands or claws.

Yes it did catch my eye and the first time I saw it my reaction was, " What the hell is that?'

Engineer...crushed bug clean up in aisle 666. Crushed bug clean up in aisle 666.

I once met a Cenobite in Alaska! He said "I'll tear your seal apart"!

Have you done a piece on Suffering Bob? He’s a MacFarlane Figure -tortured soul-that I saw over a Strange Adventure Store in Halifax NS

are any of the following up for consideration for you someday? Fallout, The Elder Scrolls and the The Deadric Princes in particular, Diablo, Unsounded, Dragon's Dogma,

The body looks kind of like a mole rat or Gila monster, I don't think it was human but perhaps a hybrid or an experiment or a hell spawn of some sorts and assigned with the task to act as a guardian catching any wanderers for the higher ups

1...2...3...4... I ❤ the Engineer Corps!!! Spoken as an ex U.S. Army Engineer.... and a Scorpio by Zodiac sign. I ❤ this cenobite, reminds me of a xenomorph... perhaps a xenobite or cenomorph.

I could think up darker bunkam than this on my dinner break

I had no idea about how interesting the background about this monster. I just thought it was a random baby demon thing. That was very interesting!

(0:43) Homo sapiens are believed to have existed between 300,000 and 500,000 years ago, not "millions".