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| “ | Isn't it obvious? I claimed my reward. I had experienced everything afforded to man and still.. I wanted more. I chose Liminal. I chose sensation. But the cenobites.. their tastes are not what I imagined. They preyed on my nerves, pulling them at random cycles, stopping just enough... so I could never grow numb. I don't know what they promised you.. knowledge? Love? I sought pleasure... but all they had to give is PAIN! | „ |
| ~ Voight explaining his motives to Riley McKendry. |
| “ | Come and get it you bastard! I'm still here and I demand an audience! | „ |
| ~ Voight summoning The Leviathan. |
Roland Voight is one of the two secondary antagonists (alongside Trevor) of the 2022 supernatural horror film Hellraiser, a reboot of the Hellraiser film series and a prequel to Clive Barker's 1986 horror novella The Hellbound Heart.
He is a wealthy businessman and art dealer who solved the Configuration Box and sacrificed multiple souls to Pinhead in exchange for great sensations, which backfired when he received the Liminal Configuration, which twists and contorts his nerves perpetually, damning him to an endless state of pain for the rest of his life. To end his own suffering, Voight builds a puzzle-like prison within his estate and plans to lure and trap the Cenobites by bringing more victims in order to summon the Leviathan to convince him to free him of the Liminal Configuration Box.
He was portrayed by Goran Višnjić, who also played Soto in Ice Age, Garcia Flynn in Timeless and Alastair Adana in The Boys.
Biography[]
Roland Voight is a wealthy business-man, art dealer and criminal who made an empire of selling and dealing artworks of his own as well as trafficking men and women and selling prostitutes within his estate. Due to being extremely wealthy, he had experienced every perverse pleasure known to man which leaves him in a state of boredom so he decides to seek more extreme forms of pleasure through any means necessary. In his search, he learns about the a puzzle box with different configurations that can summon demons from a hell known as The Labyrinth called the Cenobites led by their Priest Pinhead and that whomever who can solve the puzzles within the box and provide souls to be sacrificed to the them, he would be rewarded with "a gift" which is in accordance to his deepest, darkest desires.
Voight manages to acquire the Configuration Box through his lawyer Serena Menaker and solves the puzzle, causing a blade to come out from the box and pierce his hand, marking his blood and summoning Pinhead and the cenobites, before they could mutilate him and bring him to the Labyrinth, he offers to bring them multiple souls in exchange for pleasure, they agreed and spared him as a result. From then on, Voight would constantly be stalked by Pinhead and the cenobites and he repeatedly sacrificed multiple people, mostly prostitutes in his estate to them and after his final sacrifice, he is given a choice of configurations to choose from, Voight chooses the Liminal Configuration and esthetically awaits his gift only to be impaled by the contraption through his chest and back, as it latches on and pulls his nerves, only stopping when he is about to go numb before repeating the cycle again, giving him sensation albeit a painfully agonizing one. Being perpetually in pain all the time, he slowly loses his sanity as he fails multiple times to remove the contraption from his nerves.
Out of bitter desperation, Voight strategically plans to trap Pinhead and the cenobites within his estate, summon the Leviathan and force it to free him of the Liminal Configuration. He puts his plan into action by staging his "disappearance" from the public eye, and slowly constructs a set of puzzle-like fortress and steel doors within his estate to outsmart and trap the cenobites, the construction took 6 years and when he was done, he personally locked the Configuration Box in a safe in an abandoned warehouse and hired a local thief named Trevor to lure unsuspecting victims towards the box for several of them to be sacrificed to Pinhead which in turn leads them in a rabbit-hole towards his estate, bringing along Pinhead and the cenobites in the process. Trevor however in a rehabilitation center meets a young girl named Riley McKendry and they soon start dating as he chooses her to be Voight's victim.
A few weeks later, Trevor alongside Riley and her brother Matt's boyfriend Colin and his roommate Nora arrive at Voight's estate and as they are all separated while looking for clues in the house after Matt's been taken by the cenobites prior, Trevor purposely allows Nora to hold and tinker around with the box, causing it to stab her in the stomach. They all leave to take Nora to the hospital but she is taken by Pinhead and the cenobites and is tortured midway, after being attacked by the cenobites, Riley, Trevor and Colin head back to Voight's mansion but the puzzle-like infrastructure and steel doors prevents the cenobites from following them in. As they once again split up, Trevor who is injured rests in Voight's office and is angrily confronted by Voight himself who demands that Riley and Colin be sacrificed immediately as he presses on Trevor's room before disappearing once again.
Voight with a distraction from Trevor manages to snatch the box from Riley and stabs Colin in the stomach, marking his blood. Voight then exposes Trevor's true intentions to a distraught Riley before explaining his motives to her. He then uses the box to summon the Leviathan, prompting Pinhead and the cenobites to enter the mansion. However, before Pinhead could reach Voight, he locks them behind the steel doors and demands that he be released from the Liminal Configuration in exchange for their freedom. Riley sneaks up from behind Voight and opens the steel doors causing Voight to stumble and panic, as Pinhead approaches him, he begs for his life to be ended while she reminds him that his offer cannot be given back, only exchanged for a greater one. Pinhead however soon realizes that Voight's true desire is pleasure through power to which he agrees and as a result, she offers him the Leviathan Configuration to which he accepts. Pinhead frees Voight from the Liminal Configuration and he briefly rejoices in his freedom only to be impaled by a large chain summoned by the Leviathan and he is slowly pulled up to the Labyrinth to undergo a "transformation" as he begs for his life.
Later, after she leaves the Lament Configuration with Riley, who opts to live with the guilt instead of risking herself to be tricked with her brother's resurrection just like Voight warned, Pinhead returns, along with her fellow Cenobites, to the Labyrinth where she witnesses Voight's painful mutilation and transformation into a Cenobite to serve the Leviathan for all eternity under her command.
Personality[]
Roland Voight initially presents himself as a charismatic and sophisticated businessman. However, his true personality is that of a selfish and perverted megalomaniac who had no qualms sacrificing innocent people to the cenobites with the use of the box as well as watching them being mutilated and tortured in front of him. He also developed a superiority complex as he felt in power and in control by thinking that he would be rewarded as he formed an accordance with Pinhead who in actuality was using him to get more souls for the Labyrinth and plans to have his reward be a painful one. After receiving the Liminal Configuration as his reward however, he becomes far more bitter than he was before due to the sheer amount of pain he's been in on a daily basis and though, he initially sacrificed prostitutes and those within his estate to the cenobites, his desperation causes him to target random people on the street, making him even worse than he was before. He is also implied to be a genius, as he for years constructed a puzzle-like infrastructure for his mansion as well as steel doors that could trap the cenobites.
However, despite his superior intelligence, he is also somewhat dimwitted as he could not see that the cenobites "gifts" causes pain the first time despite studying and learning all about them even after he was freed from the Liminal configuration box, he still thought that he would receive a gift that would grant him power and even rejoiced while awaiting it. He did receive his gift, which is even more painful than the one he previously received as he is turned into a cenobite.
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Trivia[]
- Roland Voight, who is Serbian, is portrayed by Goran Visnjic, who is an American citizen born in Yugoslav, Croatia.
- Roland Voight shares similarities with The Host from Hellraiser: Hellworld as they both are wealthy men who had their victims trapped in their mansion.
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