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So at what point does Joseph go home the first time?

posted 10 years ago by Draco-Spurious
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...When he
first get's the box,
or after has he passed on
and everything takes place in some hereafter?

first a Gravesender.now a New Yorker.always a Gravesender.

[–] HellboundHero 10 years ago

He goes home once before solving the box at the motel and being killed by Pinhead. Joseph's actual death is when Pinhead appears at the front door of that house and rips his face with his bare hands.

[–] Blake4014 9 years ago

So he was somehow teleported to his old house? What? As far as Im aware, as soon as the box is open, you're gone, Lost in another dimension. Except you may not realize it at first, and it will play games with you. Let you think you're still in the real world, still in your own reality. Infact, he never was, since the box was opened. Thats how I understand most hellraiser films. Except the first 3

[–] HellboundHero 9 years ago

So he was somehow teleported to his old house? What?

I was referring to his current home where he lives with his wife and daughter. The OP didn't specify which home he was talking about. No, any time Joseph is in his old house, he's in Hell. I believe it's his personal Hell, similar to the Hells in Hellbound: Hellraiser II.

As far as Im aware, as soon as the box is open, you're gone, Lost in another dimension. Except you may not realize it at first, and it will play games with you. Let you think you're still in the real world, still in your own reality. Infact, he never was, since the box was opened. Thats how I understand most hellraiser films. Except the first 3.

I wouldn't dismiss the first three so easily. They did come first, after all, and if the box always teleported the solvers to Hell instantly, the protagonists wouldn't have stood a chance at escaping the cenobites. I'm not even sure if Joseph was in Hell until he walked out of the motel bathroom and into his childhood bedroom. For all we know, the door itself could have been a doorway to Hell disguised as a mundane bathroom door by way of the cenobites' ability to manipulate reality.

Inferno may have preserved its twist better if Joseph hadn't been killed by Pinhead near the start. It would be easy to trick the viewer by having Joseph walk into Hell and then try to escape through a false exit which leads into a personal Hell that's seemingly identical to the real world.