Kirsty is brought to an institution after the horrible events of Hellraiser (1987), where the occult-obsessive head doctor resurrects Julia and unleashes the Cenobites and their demonic underworld.
Doctor Channard is sent a new patient, a girl warning of the terrible creatures that have destroyed her family, Cenobites who offer the most intense sensations of pleasure and pain. But Channard has been searching for the doorway to Hell for years, and Kirsty must follow him to save her father and witness the power struggles among the newly damned.Written by
David Carroll <davidc@atom.ansto.gov.au>
The horn sound that is continually made by Leviathan is Morse code for "God". See more »
Goofs
In the first film, the Cenobites are only referred to by name twice, and only by Frank to Julia. And yet, in the second film, Kirsty refers to them twice by name, despite her having no way of knowing what they're called. See more »
Quotes
Pinhead:
Ah, Kirsty. We thought we lost you.
Female Cenobite:
So sweet of you to come back.
Pinhead:
How can it send us back, child? We're already here... and so are you!
[Pinhead transforms the box into the Leviathan Configuration]
Kirsty Cotton:
I didn't open the box!
Female Cenobite:
"Didn't open the box." And what was it last time, "Didn't know what the box was?" And yet, we do keep finding each other, don't we?
Pinhead:
Oh, Kirsty. So eager to play, so reluctant to admit it.
Female Cenobite:
Perhaps you're teasing us. Are you teasing us?
Kirsty Cotton:
I've come for my father!
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Alternate Versions
Another uncut video version is reportedly available on a Japanese laserdisc edition and features an extra scene in hell where Kirsty finds herself in a normal-looking room she associates with her childhood; a framed photograph of her parents is displayed on a bureau. She admires the photo and looks yearningly at her mother. After taking a short look around the room, she finds that Julia has replaced her mother in the photo. Suddenly, it begins to ripple and a bevy of cockroaches burst forth from the frame. Roaches crawl forth from behind the bureau, toppling it, and she screams. This scene is inserted during the spinning shot of Kirsty screaming, but before the Cenobites appear. A subsequent shot of Kirsty running along a hellish path with Tiffany is also slightly extended. See more »
Tiresome sequel picks up shortly after the events in the first film as Kristy (Ashley Laurence) wants to journey to Hell to try and save her father. Unfortunately for her Julia (Clare Higgins) is back as well and after getting her skin back she sets out for Hell where we're going to have a battle. I know this film has a large group of fans but I'm certainly not one of them. I will admit that it's always a good idea to start a sequel soon after the events in the first film but to me everything that needed to be told was done so in the original and this film just comes off as something made in order to make more money. Again, I'm sure fans would say everything that happens here is logical and carries on the original story but I just don't see it that way. This "sequel" really doesn't start to nearly the forty-minute mark and that's because we get several recaps of the first film and we have to get all the characters from that film back in action. Once we get to Hell nothing really picks up as we get all sorts of bad special effects with fake looking zaps and lasers. I think the biggest problem with the film is its screenplay as you never really can tell where the movie is headed or what it's trying to do. It just seems like a film that shows us one ugly scene after another hoping that we take something from it but usually we never do. What the film does have going for it are the gore scenes, which there are plenty of and especially if you watch the unrated version. Gorehounds, such as myself, will at least be able to sit through everything for the gore as we get countless scenes of stabbings, cuttings, flesh ripping and various other forms of gore. The highlight of the film has to be the sequence where Julia comes back from the dead but even this here isn't nearly as good as the sequence in the original with Frank. The performances are decent if nothing overly great and the same can be said about the direction. This is far from one of the worst movies ever made as there's some decent stuff here and there but in the end I couldn't help but feel no one knew where this movie was headed and why we were even bothering to get there.
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Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988)
* 1/2 (out of 4)
Tiresome sequel picks up shortly after the events in the first film as Kristy (Ashley Laurence) wants to journey to Hell to try and save her father. Unfortunately for her Julia (Clare Higgins) is back as well and after getting her skin back she sets out for Hell where we're going to have a battle. I know this film has a large group of fans but I'm certainly not one of them. I will admit that it's always a good idea to start a sequel soon after the events in the first film but to me everything that needed to be told was done so in the original and this film just comes off as something made in order to make more money. Again, I'm sure fans would say everything that happens here is logical and carries on the original story but I just don't see it that way. This "sequel" really doesn't start to nearly the forty-minute mark and that's because we get several recaps of the first film and we have to get all the characters from that film back in action. Once we get to Hell nothing really picks up as we get all sorts of bad special effects with fake looking zaps and lasers. I think the biggest problem with the film is its screenplay as you never really can tell where the movie is headed or what it's trying to do. It just seems like a film that shows us one ugly scene after another hoping that we take something from it but usually we never do. What the film does have going for it are the gore scenes, which there are plenty of and especially if you watch the unrated version. Gorehounds, such as myself, will at least be able to sit through everything for the gore as we get countless scenes of stabbings, cuttings, flesh ripping and various other forms of gore. The highlight of the film has to be the sequence where Julia comes back from the dead but even this here isn't nearly as good as the sequence in the original with Frank. The performances are decent if nothing overly great and the same can be said about the direction. This is far from one of the worst movies ever made as there's some decent stuff here and there but in the end I couldn't help but feel no one knew where this movie was headed and why we were even bothering to get there.