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- 1988
- R
- New World Pictures
- 1 h 37 m
- 1988
- R
- New World Pictures
- 1 h 37 m
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.
Directed By: Tony Randel
Written By: Peter Atkins, Clive Barker
- 1988
- R
- New World Pictures
- 1 h 37 m
- 1988
- R
- New World Pictures
- 1 h 37 m
Hellbound: Hellraiser II
41
8.3
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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.
Directed By: Tony Randel
Written By: Peter Atkins, Clive Barker
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
41
23% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
62% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
15% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
41
23% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
62% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
15% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
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.
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]
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 110 User Ratings
8.3
79% Positive
87 Ratings
87 Ratings
12% Mixed
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
9% Negative
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 110 User Ratings
8.3
79% Positive
87 Ratings
87 Ratings
12% Mixed
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
9% Negative
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
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.
Hellraiser II is a maggotty carnival of mayhem, mutation and dismemberment, awash in blood and recommended only for those who thrive on such junk.
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.
Though the script for Hellbound is related to the Barker story, the film drops its plot whenever a fake-looking monster walks on the screen. Ogling strange creatures is the film's true reason for being.
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.
Hellbound: Hellraiser II is my favorite Hellraiser movie.
It's terrifying, fascinating, the story is amazing, and the characters are great actors!
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Completely convoluted. Old characters are brought back for no real reason or character purpose. Should of been new characters/victims. The gore is significantly upgraded and grosser than the previous.
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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)... 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 ****.
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Awards
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Fantasporto
• 1 Nomination
