Reports that this film originally began as a non-Hellraiser related horror script owned by Dimension and was edited to insert the Pinhead and the Cenobites are incorrect. According to movie's writer and director Scott Derrickson, it was pitched as a Hellraiser sequel and completed as such.
The special effects budget was only $50,000.
The door knocker at the first murder (04:43) is 1 of the 2 knockers that talk to Sarah in the Labyrinth from 1986. With Jennifer Connolly and David Bowie.
The word Cenobite means a member of a monastic order.