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Now confined to a mental hospital, young Kirsty insists her supposedly dead father is actually stuck in Hell following his wife’s betrayal. Few believe the young woman’s lurid stories aside from the thrill-seeking Dr. Channard. Kirsty is undeterred and, with the help of a fellow patient, heads to Hell for a rescue.
- Body horror
- Suicide or self-harm
- Graphic violence
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Unpretentious, grave, bleak and plot-driven.
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
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“Is Ashley Laurence the best thing in Hellbound: Hellraiser II?”
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- kevin2019on TMDB · Aug 20245/10
"Hellbound: Hellraiser II" is watchable enough even though it very quickly slides down the steep slope into becoming a messy shambles. It is really nothing more than a tour through the diseased imagination of Clive Barker - it is hard to believe somebody out there actually thought this was a good basis for a film instead of seeking out some description of psychiatric treatment for the poor soul - and its major handicap is that the special effects just aren't up to the challenge of supporting his thoroughly twisted and uniquely original vision. There is also a desperately heavy reliance on copious amounts of blood and gore just for the hell of it and when you add in the fact that sadly a good portion of it is also totally forgettable what you're left with is nothing more than a modest gore fest of desperately limited impact.
Read the whole review on TMDB - JPV852on TMDB · Sep 20197/10
Pretty out there (in a good way) sequel that doesn't make a whole lot of sense but still was an entertaining supernatural horror flick, the kind of horror I'm generally not a fan of. Kind of surprising Ashley Laurence didn't go on to bigger things (her last movie was 2008). **3.5/5**
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Cast
- Ashley LaurenceKirsty Cotton
- Clare HigginsJulia Cotton
- Kenneth CranhamDr. Philip Channard / Channard Cenobite
- Imogen BoormanTiffany
- William HopeKyle MacRae
- Sean ChapmanFrank Cotton
- Doug BradleyPinhead
- Barbie WildeFemale Cenobite
- Simon Bamford‘Butterball’ Cenobite
- Nicholas VinceChatterer Cenobite
Crew
- Tony RandelDirector
- Peter AtkinsScreenplay
- Robin VidgeonDirector of Photography
- Christopher YoungOriginal Music Composer
- Richard MardenEditor
- Tony RandelEditor
- Christopher FiggProducer
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