Synopsis
Julia Cotton, her step daughter Kirsty, and the sinister Dr. Channard are sent into the dominion of the Cenobites themselves.
Your Movie Library
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
Recommendations
- 70
IGN
Hellbound is gorier, larger, and more accessible than the first. It rehashes the original at the outset so people can grasp it whether or not they'd seen the first and as a result is an easier film to enjoy. - 70
Los Angeles Times
This follow-up is faster and campier than its mostly somber predecessor, but the basic grim tenets of British horror author Clive Barker's supernatural worldview are still intact: a universe with a senseless hell but no heaven, without a god but with plenty of demons, without real good but oozing evil to spare. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
The obsessive lust that drives Higgins to horrific extremes in Hellraiser was almost enough to carry that film, but Hellbound has no such straw to cling to, and the film collapses into a bloody mess of bravura set pieces that never add up to a satisfying whole. - 50
Variety
Hellraiser II is a maggotty carnival of mayhem, mutation and dismemberment, awash in blood and recommended only for those who thrive on such junk. - 50
Washington Post
The effects are generally good, and those Cenobites are definitely not the kind of folks you'd have over on New Year's Eve. Still, it's odd that the most intriguing, and threatening, items in the film are those darn puzzle boxes. - 50
Slant Magazine
The sequel’s cure proves infinitely bloodier than the original’s disease, and its over-the-top depictions of brimstone and flesh are so loopy and unmoored, you’d swear the place where nobody dared to go suddenly became Xanadu. - 50
Chicago Tribune
Hellbound offers a consistent, low-level queasiness, an effect more of revulsion than horror. It's nothing that a good shot of Pepto-Bismol wouldn't take care of. - 42
The A.V. Club
Offering memorable imagery and little more, it eventually devolves into distasteful gore for its own sake. It's far less compelling than its no less bloody but far more intelligent inspiration.
