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A 1988 horror film and the second installment of the Hellraiser franchise. It follows Kirsty Cotton, who tries to stop a doctor from unleashing the Cenobites, a group of sadomasochistic beings from another dimension.
With Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, Kenneth Cranham, Imogen Boorman. 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.
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- Horror, Thriller
- Tony Randel
- 1988-12-23
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The movie opens up with Captain Elliott Spenser (Doug Bradley) playing with the Lament Configuration box, only to send him to Hell and transforms him to the Cenobite "Pinhead". Flash forward to the present, where Kirsty Cotton(Ashley Laurence) is placed inside the Channard Institute, a psychiatric hospital, and is questioned by Homicide Detective R...
Ashley Laurence as Kirsty CottonImogen Boorman as TiffanyKenneth Cranham as Dr. Philip Channard/Channard CenobiteClare Higgins as Julia CottonClive Barker returned as producer for the sequel, with Tony Randel directing due to his experience of working with Barker on Hellraiser. Randell claims the dark tone of the move reflected his own mindset on the world at the time. The picture was due to have a much larger budget but it decreased after financial issues with New World Pictures. Nichol...
Released December 1988 in the US, Hellbound would gross $12,090,735 (USA) and £980,503 (UK) against an estimated $6,000,000 budget. Critically response was initially mixed, many critics citing stronger violence and an incoherent plot. Roger Ebert, who derided the original, commented "this movie violates more rules than the First Rule of Repetition....
Hellbound: Hellraiser II was shown at the Toronto Festival of Festivals in Canada on 9 September 1988. It officially premiered on December 23, 1988 in the United States.
Screenwriter Peter Atkins received hate mail from fans who were outraged that the Dr. Channard Cenobite could so easily kill Pinhead and the other three Cenobites from the original Hellraiser film....Dr. Channard's name in the script was Dr. Malahide. "Channard" is derived from Christiaan Bernard, who performed the world's first successful heart transplant.Andrew Robinson refused to reprise his role as Larry Cotton, forcing hasty script rewrites. This partially accounts for the muddled story structure of the final film. But on the Hellraiser 20th Ann...A sequel to the 1987 horror film Hellraiser, directed by Tony Randel and written by Clive Barker and Peter Atkins. It follows Kirsty Cotton, who tries to stop a madman from bringing back her father from Hell with the Lament Configuration box.
Check out the official Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988) Trailer starring Doug Bradley! Watch on Vudu: https://www.vudu.com/content/movies/details/Hellbound-...
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A young girl named Kirsty has been placed in a hospital after a night in which she was tortured by the flayed corpses of her parents, who were under the supervision of the demons of hell. What this girl needs is a lot of rest and a set of those positive-thinking cassettes they advertise late at night on cable TV. But no such luck.
Kirsty Cotton is sent to a psychiatric hospital after her family is killed by the Cenobites, demonic creatures from Hell. She must stop the head doctor from resurrecting her stepmother and opening the portal to Hell with the Lament Configuration box.
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Hellbound: Hellraiser II is the shocking follow-up to the film that redefined the face of horror. Two decades later, it remains the most brutally original sequel in horror film history.
