More like Nailhead.

We're gonna redesign him so he looks exactly the same!

Backwards chanting and keyboard string voice combined with iMovie filters certainly have improved the icon. I was also impressed with the use of the typewriter font.

Looks cool but I prefer the original. I think the nail depth is too uniform. The flayed skin is even and regular.

I like the eyes.

American McGee's: Clive Barker's: Hellraiser

Grimy is scarier!

I prefer the regularity of the old layout. Something about methodically putting nails into a dude's head according to a carefully-measured pattern of cuts seems way more evil and painful than just randomly slashing his face and poking nails in where the lines happen to intersect.

Also, old Pinhead had, like, a hundred more nails in his skull.

Remakes.

Five stars because it's like a self parody on the futility of remakes.

Let's make what was good about the original look like it was a complete and total happy accident.

This is excrement: the end result of cultural cannibalism, what happens when something is devoured, half digested and shit out.

Cenobytes were not filthy derelict creatures: this design is a rebours the whole notion of why Pinhead was horrific.

Fuck you.

Fuck everything.

Love Hellraiser, not a fan of this re-design.

Blah.

I'm not some hellraiser afficianado or anything, but I always liked that aside from the pin grid he had a handsome face. It made him appear stately and dignified in addition to being evil. He had this kind of noble bearing. Caking on a bunch of makeup and giving him GOOGLY EYES doesn't help.

I like the chanting, I think I heard it first in Eyes Wide Shut in what was a fucking amazing scene. So good job aping that I guess.

He wanted to play soccer but everyone got mad at him and wouldn't pick him for their team.

Ugh, I don't like it. 3 for effort, but it's just not Pinhead.

DADDY DIDN'T HUG ME.

Why would you change pinhead? Why?

You SAW him getting made in one of the movies - it's very specific why his head looks the way it does.

By the way, I was tempted to one star this because fuck this retarded redesign, but then I remembered this is PoE, so the stars go for the evil of changing a classic horror movie icon based on some childish whim. Definitely and evil thing to do to one of my all-time favorite horror icons.

Hellraiser doesn't need to be remade, it was perfect the first time.

Also that make-up looks like some kid at a VNV Nation show fell in to a bucket of nails, which just makes me laugh really hard.

I'd like to take the time to point out a few things:

1. Tunnicliffe hates the idea that they're redesigning Pinhead as much as anyone. His purpose for doing the redesign was to encourage the new film to keep as much of the original intent as possible.

2. This redesign isn't official.

3. The official redesign will likely be much, much worse as the last screenwriters to touch the project are those responsible for the Feast trilogy and the last few Saw films. Read that again, let it sink in.

4. It seems I sparked a reaction by submitting this, but I do find it genuinely creepy, mostly due to the eyes and unhealed scars. Still, it is nowhere near as disturbing as the original, as the cenobites' wounds definitely communicated a sense of twisting the boundaries between pleasure and pain in a very dignified, yet grotesque, manner.

The problem is Pinhead and the Cenobites were cooler than the movies they were originally in - it was a relief when they showed up, because you knew things were going to get a lot more interesting. Particularly with the shittier Hellraiser sequels.
They didn't need a redesign; the scripts needed a redesign.

I love Hellraiser but this design would look better in something else. I think it would be more fitting for a Silent Hill monster or a Hellraiser universe based game like if this guy were some kind of wannabe Cenobite or some form of lesser Cenobite or something. I do dig the music though and I LOVE Tunnicliffe so 5 stars.