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Driven by an insatiable craving for extreme sensual experiences, dissolute adventurer Larry Cotton acquires an enigmatic, ornate puzzle box known as the Lament Configuration. Solving its intricate mechanical secrets in a derelict attic, Larry summons the Cenobites—demonic, transdimensional beings of extreme pain and pleasure led by the sadistic Lead Cenobite, infamously dubbed Pinhead. The entities flay Larry alive, consuming his soul and leaving his ruined, bloodless body behind in the shadows.Shortly thereafter, Larry moves into his ancestral, dilapidated family home alongside his naive second wife, Julia, and his cynical, street-smart daughter from a previous marriage, Kirsty. Julia, who once engaged in a passionate, illicit affair with Larry’s charismatic and dangerous brother, Frank, feels trapped and deeply unsatisfied by her mundane domestic life.Fate intervenes when Larry accidentally cuts his hand while moving furniture, spilling his blood onto the attic floorboards where Frank died. The life-giving fluid seeps into the abyss, resurrecting Frank from hell. However, because his skin was entirely stripped away, Frank is a grotesque, skinless, breathing corpse barely clinging to existence. Discovered by Julia, Frank persuades his former lover to hide him. Consumed by her lingering lust and a twisted sense of devotion, Julia agrees to procure sustenance for Frank, seducing and murdering various local men in seedy motels, bringing their bodies back so Frank can consume their life force to regenerate his flesh.Kirsty becomes deeply suspicious of her stepmother’s erratic behavior and secretive nocturnal excursions. One night, while home alone, she investigates the attic and stumbles upon the horrifying reality of Frank’s gruesome resurrection and Julia’s murderous betrayal. Terrified and pursued by the skinless monster, Kirsty flees the house, grabbing the Lament Configuration in a desperate bid to save her own life.Out on the street, Kirsty collapses and inadvertently solves the puzzle box, opening the gateway to hell and summoning Pinhead and his gruesome acolytes. Desperate to cheat her own doom, Kirsty bargains with the Cenobites, offering to lead them directly to Frank, who has illegally escaped their realm. The Cenobites agree to spare her. Back at the house, a bloody confrontation ensues. Frank accidentally kills Julia in the chaotic struggle, believing she was Kirsty. As the Cenobites arrive to claim their fugitive, Frank attempts to fight his fate, but the hooks and chains tear him apart. Kirsty manages to solve the box once more, banishing the demons back to hell, and escapes the burning house.