Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988)

User Rating:

6.1/10   

Director:

Tony Randel

Writers:

Clive Barker (story)
Peter Atkins (screenplay)

Release Date:

23 December 1988 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

It will tear your soul apart... again.

Plot:

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.

Plot Keywords:

Hell | Puzzle | Demon | Pain | Psychiatric Hospital

Awards:

1 win & 3 nominations

Cast

Clare Higgins	...	Julia Cotton
Ashley Laurence	...	Kirsty Cotton
Kenneth Cranham	...	Dr. Philip Channard / Channard Cenobite
Imogen Boorman	...	Tiffany
Sean Chapman	...	Frank Cotton (also archive footage)
William Hope	...	Kyle MacRae
Doug Bradley	...	Pinhead / Captain Elliot Spencer
Barbie Wilde	...	Female Cenobite
Simon Bamford	...	Butterball Cenobite
Nicholas Vince	...	Chatterer Cenobite
Oliver Smith	...	Browning / Skinless Frank
Angus MacInnes	...	Detective Ronson (as Angus McInnes)
Deborah Joel	...	Skinless Julia
James Tillitt	...	Officer Cortez
Bradley Lavelle	...	Officer Kucich

Also Known As:

Hellraiser II

Runtime:

97 min | USA:99 min (uncut version) | Germany:78 min (TV version) (heavily cut) | West Germany:88 min (theatrical version)

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

West Germany:18 (video rating) (heavily cut) | New Zealand:R16 | Sweden:15 | Finland:K-18 (2000) | Finland:(Banned) (1989) | France:-16 (original rating) | Australia:R | Canada:R | France:-12 | Iceland:(Banned) | Iceland:16 (cut) | Netherlands:16 (video rating) | Norway:18 | Singapore:R21 | Spain:18 | UK:18 | USA:R | USA:Unrated

Filming Locations:

Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Company:

Film Futures

Trivia:

Because of an neck accident, Kenneth Cranham only wore the Channard Cenobite makeup for one day. Stuntman Bronco McLoughlin played the Channard Cenobite for the rest of the shoot.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Julia bends the photo of Pinhead as a human, it's unbent in the photo album...but we'd already seen close ups of that same picture bent in the exact spot earlier in the film.

Quotes:

Julia Cotton: [to Frank] Nothing personal, babe!

Movie Connections:

Featured in Basic Instinct (1992)

The most shocking scene I've ever seen:the kiss

I watched Hellbound when I was a little boy.I took the film from the video store,but I never thought that what I would see at the first hour would be something that I've never seen before,something grotesque,intense and shocking.No other scene can be compared as the kiss,when Clare Higgins sucks the blood of William Hope.The sound effects still gives me willies,and when I remember the camera movement,showing William Hope's wounds,I realize that I never saw a humiliation like that.If you want to see a real terror movie,rent it.Because if you can watch it all,you will be able to see all the other horror movies,and,compared to Hellbound,the other horror movies are Disney's films.