updated: 08/11/2006
Although the Hellraiser franchise has been going downhill ever since Hellbound, the cenobites remain one of the great ideas of the horror genre. This is Grace Kirby (Clive Barkers cousin) as the first female cenobite a role that recured in Hellbound: Hellraiser played by Barbie Wilde. This is the only image I have found of Grace, who is I believe now a teacher: if anyone can help with a better image, please email me.
But the cenobites were not the only special feature of the early Hellraiser movies: a quite incredible range of talented British makeup artists worked on the first three movies in particular: the links below will indicate how some have moved on since. I was fortunate to see Image Animation applying the skinless-Frank makeup on one of their crew: you should have seen my daughter jump when the Chatterer tapped her on the shoulder.
Bob Keen (with beard above) was special makeup effects designer; Geoff Portass was special makeup effects workshop supervisor; the special makeup effects and creature crew consisted of: Nigel Booth, Julian Caldow, Paul Catling, Stuart Conran, Dave Elsey, Little John, David Keen, William Petty, Roy Puddefoot, Jason Reed, Ian Rolph, Jim Sandys, Simon Sayce, & Cliff Wallace. Straight makeup and hair were handled by: Sally Sutton as makeup artist and Aileen Seaton as hair stylist.