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The box-like palace at the end?

posted 10 years ago by Rena_Mahone
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The palace with box-like decorations... Does it exist for real somewhere or is was just CGI modified? That place looked wicked cool!

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[–] HellboundHero 10 years ago

It wasn't a palace, just an office building/skyscraper. The exterior with the scuplture does exist(don't ask me where), but most likely, the interior was just a set or they just decorated a normal building lobby with puzzle panels.

[–] morganthemouse 10 years ago

Maybe I missed something, but why did they even show the boxlike building?

[–] HellboundHero 10 years ago

Hellraiser: Bloodline explains it. The building was designed by architect John Merchant, a descendant of Philip LeMarchand, the man who built the puzzle box. LeMarchand's bloodline was cursed by his creating a gateway to Hell, causing all his descendants to be influenced by nightmares of Hell into continuing his work.

[–] morganthemouse 10 years ago

Thank you!

[–] sillyspaghetti 9 years ago

I have often dreamed about the Hellraiser films. The building you mention has sometimes appeared in said dreams, after I have escaped Pinhead.

[–] webwarrior601543 8 years ago

The building Merchant built looks nothing like the Puzzle Building from Hell on Earth. They butchered Bloodline so badly from its original intention that whether or not they were meant to be the same building is anyone's guess.

According to the original screenplay of Hell on Earth that building is explained. When I aquired it, I was surprised.

In the screenplay, when Joey and Pinhead have their final confrontation, Pinhead offers a deal to her: his freedom from hell in exchange for granting her great power and wealth (he is a demon after all). Then the story cuts to a large office building modeled after the Lemarchand Configuration and we travel to the top floor to a grand, opulent office with the impression of being within a billion dollar business empire with Joey sitting at a desk overlooking the city with a smile on her face. The camera is supposed to drift to a high shelf with the Lemarchand Configuration behind glass. Then the credits roll.

If it had ended that way it would have made more sense regarding the Box remaining in play for future movies which didn't make sense if she buried it in cement and it explained the office building.

Unfortunately, American audiences do not accept the good guys losing.

[–] TheSolarSailor 7 years ago

Thanks for sharing that. It sounds more interesting than the stupid story they pursued in Bloodline about the whole toymaker nonsense.

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