Directed by: Tony Randel
Starring: Ashley Laurence, Doug Bradley, Kenneth Cranham, Clare Higgins, Imogen Boorman
Channard Cenobite: And to think... I hesitated.
Kirsty: You have got to destroy that mattress!
Pinhead: Your suffering will be legendary, even in hell.
Channard Cenobite: I recommend... amputation.
Kyle MacRae: I'll get your clothes. I can do that. I'm a doctor.
Pinhead: It is not hands that summon us. It is desire.
Julia: Take your best shot, Snow White!
Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the movie, policemen are inspecting the deceased Rory's house to retrieve the bloody mattress for Dr. Channard yet at the end of the first Hellraiser, the house completely collapsed.
Question: When Elliot Spenser is being transformed into Pinhead, who was cutting lines into his face and head and driving nails into him?
Answer: Presumably another cenobite/cenobites. The choice not to show them makes for a better scene, as that moment is all about him, becoming the iconic Pinhead; the cenobites who made him that way are of no consequence to the story, and their own grotesque appearance would have distracted from his transformation.
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Answer: All we can see (in abstract closeup) is serpent-like tendrils cutting him and driving the pins into his head. As someone else said, it's likely another cenobite, although alternately it could also be the same "contraption" that turns Channard into a cenobite late in the film, given the tendrils are similar to the ones he sprouts.