>>108055617The box is more than just the key to the door that leads to hell: the box is a puzzle. Something that needs to be solved. Something that requires the DESIRE of someone to work at it in order to unlock its secrets. Finally, with its secrets solved and its pieces in their places, the puzzle reveals something that wasn't evident before -- in this case, the reality of hell.
The box is only the latest puzzle created from the Leviathan-material, designed by a man named Phillip LeMarchand. Like other artists through time, LeMarchand had heard of a perfect material in which to work, a perfect medium in which to express his talents. And like other damned artists through time, LeMarchand never dreamed just what it was he would create with that most perfect, most ORDERLY material...
Leviathan took LeMarchand's puzzle boxes (as it had taken all the puzzles before his) and scattered the boxes through time and space, spreading 100,000 keys to hell through all of creation.
The puzzles WAIT, each indestructible and watched over by a guardian angel -- or, in this case, demon: a creature blending in with those around it (as the grumpy guy at the newsstand, as the hairdresser on the corner, as little Tommy's unruly housecat -- in the first HELLRAISER film, the weird old bum wandering around is that box's guardian), each guardian seeing that each box reaches the hands of a prospective candidate for hell.
Each box is unique for each person, a different puzzle requiring a different solution, a solution that is a RITUAL. It can never be easy to solve the box; it is something someone has to work at, and something someone has to want.
Leviathan's puzzles takes on a life of their own, pervading everything around them. Any puzzle, anywhere, makes the characters in the stories slightly neurotic: worried as to what will happen should they solve it...
