Hellbound: Hellraiser II

Name: Hellbound: Hellraiser II
Genre: Thriller, Horror
Released: December 23, 1988
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 41
Cast: Ashley Laurence, Barbie Wilde, Clare Higgins, Doug Bradley, Imogen Boorman

1988

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New World Pictures | Release Date: December 23, 1988 | Not Rated

Starring: Ashley Laurence, Barbie Wilde, Clare Higgins, Doug Bradley, Imogen Boorman, Kenneth Cranham, Nicholas Vince, Sean Chapman, Simon Bamford, William Hope

Summary: Kirsty is brought to an institution after the death of her family, where the occult-obsessive head resurrects Julia and unleashes the Cenobites once again.

Director: Tony Randel

Genre(s): Thriller, Horror

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 97 min

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Christopher Monfette

Hellbound is gorier, larger, and more accessible than the first. It rehashes the original at the outset so people can grasp it whether or not they'd seen the first and as a result is an easier film to enjoy. Read full review

Chris Willman

This follow-up is faster and campier than its mostly somber predecessor, but the basic grim tenets of British horror author Clive Barker's supernatural worldview are still intact: a universe with a senseless hell but no heaven, without a god but with plenty of demons, without real good but oozing evil to spare. Read full review

Jay Scott

Clive Barker is not without a sense of humor. And he's certainly not without a sense of what will scare his audiences senseless. [28 Dec 1988]

Dave Kehr

Hellbound offers a consistent, low-level queasiness, an effect more of revulsion than horror. It's nothing that a good shot of Pepto-Bismol wouldn't take care of. Read full review

Eric Henderson

The sequel’s cure proves infinitely bloodier than the original’s disease, and its over-the-top depictions of brimstone and flesh are so loopy and unmoored, you’d swear the place where nobody dared to go suddenly became Xanadu. Read full review

Keith Phipps

Offering memorable imagery and little more, it eventually devolves into distasteful gore for its own sake. It's far less compelling than its no less bloody but far more intelligent inspiration. Read full review

Roger Ebert

Hellbound: Hellraiser II is like some kind of avant-garde film strip in which there is no beginning, no middle, no end, but simply a series of gruesome images that can be watched in any order. Read full review

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imthenoob

Oct 24, 2018

One of the best horror sequels of all time without a doubt. It still remains visually impressive, It provides a lot more background to the cenobites and more than tops the gore from the first film.

14 of 14 users found this helpful140

Tom11th

Nov 28, 2022

A masterpiece of the horror genre. Another classic for anyone who can appreciate the idea of horror.

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

robertoiglesias

Oct 14, 2018

Hellbound: Hellraiser II is my favorite Hellraiser movie.
It's terrifying, fascinating, the story is amazing, and the characters are great actors!

11 of 15 users found this helpful114

JPK

Dec 22, 2019

Satisfying Enough
Though not as good as the first one, Hellraiser II still has fun scares, cool kills, and of course Pinhead.

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Giugi

Oct 2, 2022

Sufficient sequel, less brilliant than the first but still acceptable. It delves into a little bit of things about the world of the cube and the monsters that populate it by answering many questions that the predecessor had left.

0 of 1 users found this helpful01

MrIslamic

Apr 14, 2021

Hellraiser II expands from the first but I couldn't help but feel slightly bored during it, I just didn't find it very entertaining.

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Steven1981

Mar 21, 2020

Hellbound: Hellraiser II continues on from the first Hellraiser movie. We see Kirsty (Ashley Laurence) who's a traumatised victim from the original movie in a psychiatric hospital run by the weird Dr. Channard (Kenneth Cranham) and we also see William Hope from Aliens (1986)... DoctorHellbound: Hellraiser II continues on from the first Hellraiser movie. We see Kirsty (Ashley Laurence) who's a traumatised victim from the original movie in a psychiatric hospital run by the weird Dr. Channard (Kenneth Cranham) and we also see William Hope from Aliens (1986)... Doctor Channard resurrects Julia's (Clare Higgins) dead body from a bloody mattress after somebody slashes themselves on it. Julia (Higgins) is Kirsty's stepmother and we get some girl who never speaks if hardly named Tiffany who solves puzzles and we get taken into the world of the cenobites and Doctor Channard becomes a badguy killing the original cenobites and Pinhead (Doug Bradley) at the end.... A truly horrible, unnecessary sequel with horrible acting and an ugly storyline and weak performances. Even the gore doesn't save how bad this film is and how stupid it is and I hated Hellraiser II apart from when Kyle (William Hope) sneaks into Doctor Channard's apartment and see's puzzle boxes everywhere and says "Weird, fkg weird! Jesus Christ, Jeeesus Christ!!!" and the way he says it makes me laugh because that was great acting, comedy gold and amusing... Besides that scene this horror sequel sucks.… Expand

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