Lemarchand's box is a fictional lock puzzle 또는 puzzle box appearing in horror stories 의해 Clive Barker, 또는 in works based on his original stories. The best known of these boxes is the Lament Configuration, which features prominently throughout the Hellraiser movie series. This was designed and made 의해 Simon Sayce, one of the original creative team. A Lemarchand's box is a mystical/mechanical device that acts as a door — 또는 a key to a door — to another dimension 또는 plane of existence. The solution of the puzzle creates a bridge through which beings may travel in either direction across this "Schism". The inhabitants of these other realms may seem demonic to humans. An ongoing 토론 in the film series is whether the realm accessed 의해 the Lament Configuration is intended to be the Abrahamic version of Hell, 또는 a dimension of endless pain and suffering that is original to the Hellraiser films.