Who would win in a fight between Hellraiser's Pinhead and Halloween's Michael Myers?

Once upon a time, Dimension Films wanted to make a Hellraiser/Halloween crossover in which the two horror icons, Pinhead and Michael Myers, would have battled to the death. The early 2000swas a popular time for mega franchises to crossover in "versus" films, and Dimension wanted a piece of the market. Plans for the film originally started before the release of Freddy vs Jason in 2003, butthe studio reportedlydidn't know how to make it work.It rejected two scripts andwas overwhelmed while working in the shadow of the highly anticipated Freddy vs Jason,whichit assumed would've been a box office failure.

Whenthat film became amassive success, Dimension went back to what some have dubbed "Helloween,"but the crossover never happened. As fun as it would've been to see the boogeyman take on Pinhead, it's also hard to fathom. How could a serial killer armed only with a butcher knife take on a demon working with the powers of Hell behind him?

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The biggest issue with Myers vs Pinhead is that Pinhead is already dead. In the Hellraiser films, Pinhead was once a man named Elliot Spencer who was taken to Hell after he solved the Lament Configuration, a puzzle box serving as the opening to Hell's door. After years of torture, he was transformed into a demonand becamethe leader of the Cenobites, the most favorite of their god Leviathan. Such a title comes with many benefits, including Hellish powers and invulnerability to most weapons of defense. Hellraiser II showed that the Cenobites, including Pinhead, can be wounded if you get close enough when their guard is down, but they all return in the next film more powerful than ever.

In contrast, Michael Myers is not supernatural at all. The Halloween franchise is a complete mess and there's no word on which timeline the "Helloween" crossover would have dealt with -- the Curse of Thorn or the H2O reimagining. The original concept for Michael Myers as he appeared in 1978Halloween was that he wasan unstoppable killing machine. He was evil incarnated, but still very human. As the films progressed, Michael was then given immortality and revealed to have been cursed by a Druid cult. Later, when the franchise decided to rework their timeline,the Curse of Thorn storyline was erased and Michael was reverted back to his original self. So depending on the timeline,the two competitors wouldn't be evenly matched. Even if Michael kept his immortality powers, they are still severely uneven.

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