I wasn't sure whether to post this here or on the Hellbound board. I'm also sure this has been asked tons of times by other people and you all might be sick of it. But...we see in this one that Frank is torn to shreads by the Cenobites. In part II at the beginning we see a guy playing with the same box and he gets made into a Cenobite.
So why wasn't Frank made into a Cenobite?
I gotta go feed that thing in Room 33.
Some people have the personality traits Hell looks for in cenobites while others don't. I think because Frank didn't fully grasp Hell's philosophy about pain and was always longing for Earthly pleasures, he didn't qualify.
shareThis is one of the things I really don't care for in the sequels. The Cenobites as originally depicted were explorers of experience. They weren't even necessarily from hell, but just a dark and scary dimension that we humans can't understand. It's the sequels that made the Cenobites human at one time (though someone can correct me if I am wrong and The Hellbound Heart revealed this). The sequels made it hell. The sequels turned hooks and chains into Cenobite superpowers...a gimmick like Michael Myers' mask and butcher knife, Jason's machete and hockey mask, and Freddy's fedora and hand-knives glove.
Originally, Frank got what he was looking for...intense pleasure unlike anything he could comprehend...and something he was not truly ready for and wanted to escape from. He was into hard core sex and was a masochist, and the Cenobites delivered this to him times a thousand. I think the box would deliver different experiences for different people, all in the utmost extreme of course. Pain and masochism came from Frank first and foremost. To me, this is why the Cenboites tell Kirsty that they are angels to some, demons to others. To Frank, they are obviously demons.
Just my two cents.
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