‘Clive Barker takes us on a descent into Hell.’
Hellbound: Hellraiser II is a 1988 British horror film directed by Tony Randel from a screenplay written by Peter Atkins, based on Clive Barker’s story.
The movie stars Doug Bradley, Ashley Laurence, Clare Higgins, Kenneth Cranham and Imogen Boorman.
Plot:
Kirsty (Ashley Laurence) is brought to an institution after the death of her family, where the occult-obsessive head resurrects Julia (Clare Higgins) and unleashes the Cenobites once again…
Reviews:
” …less about horror than some cheesy mythmaking and good guy/bad guy reductionism utterly out of place in this film. There was a really good story in here and some really striking imagery, but the demands of franchising […] really compromise it throughout.” A Lifetime in Dark Rooms
” …violates a basic convention of story construction, which suggests that we should get at least a vague idea of where the story began and where it might be headed. This movie has no plot in a conventional sense. It is simply a series of ugly and bloody episodes strung together one after another…” Roger Ebert
“Hellbound loses its sense of purpose once the labyrinth shows up, with too much of Kirsty and Tiffany running about, and not enough plot. The Cenobites are disappointingly revealed as ex-humans, with does nothing for their mystique, and they are overshadowed by Channard. Still, the effects are good…” The Spinning Image
“Great special effects and a more indepth look at a truly hellish world (get a load of the chase scene in which the young girl is running through what looks like something out of an N64 game.) Contains one of the all-time gross out scenes in which a man in the hospital cuts open his body because he thinks he’s covered in maggots…” The Terror Trap
” …taking the story into the labyrinths with minimal explanation for it just doesn’t work and it all ends-up becoming muddled, a bit slower than the original and just not that watchable. This is just a sloppy and, I suspect, quickly thrown together sequel that disappoints more than anything.” The Video Graveyard
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