Hellbound – Hellraiser II

Hellbound - Hellraiser II is the first sequel to Hellraiser - The gateway to hell.

Content

After the events of the first part Kirsty Cotton wakes up in a mental hospital, which is led by Dr. Philip Channard. This will unlock the secrets of the cube and the cenobites, where he is investigating for years. For this reason, he sacrifices one of his patients to the cenobites, he binds those mattress on which once Julia Cotton died. By this sacrifice begins Julia, to form a new body, it is supported by Channard. With their help, the brain surgeon wants to explore hell. Kirsty on the other hand would free her slain father from hell, from which it believes to have received a call for help. As the psychiatrist finally opens the gates of hell to Kirsty makes along with the talented Tiffany, another patient of Dr. Channard, on the way to free her father. The two young women caught in a nightmare during which they are fooled by the inhabitants of Hell and followed by their opponents and the cenobites. As Channard of the cenobites to a will made ​​her, finally gets everything out of control.

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  • Pinhead appears in this part also in his human form once the Captain Elliot Spencer.
  • The film played in the United States over 12 million dollars.
  • Christopher Young's score was recorded by the Munich Symphony Orchestra.
  • The only official German VHS version is from the original severely cut due to censorship. Are missing in the sum almost ten minutes, which restricts you to trace the story told. Uncut versions on VHS or DVD are therefore only as bootlegs in circulation. However, world cinema published in the summer of 2011, the film, like its predecessor, in Austria in full on BluRay.

Reviews

Despite his success at genre fans were reviews for the film rather badly from:

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times, who wrote to Part 1 already: "This film has no wit, no style and no sense, and the true horror of this is that the actors playing these creative total bankruptcy and the technicians have to implement it. " criticized that also Hellraiser II " violates basic rules of story construction " and others against.

" All in all, contains Hellraiser II the same kind of surrealism as the first part, it drives even further, but this comes at the expense of the plot. Who do not mind this, will be delighted with this B-movie. "

" An effect of overloaded horror film that slides into an illogical blood orgy with many tastelessness. Even for die-hard fans of the genre to the limit of endurance. "

"Despite all the superficial blood excesses make the Hellraiser movies also one of the truly imaginative and innovative entrances into the genre represents the extremely bloody and realistic special effects, which are significantly reduced in the German version are, in addition to the products manufactured by many production designers hell world optical highlights of the also very exciting second part. "

Awards

  • Christopher Young won a Saturn Award in 1990 for his film music. In the categories of Best Horror Film and Best Supporting Actress (Clare Higgins) was Hellbound - Hellraiser II also nominated for the award, but there could not decide for the race.
  • For the International Fantasy Film Award, the film received a nomination for Best Picture.
1988 in film Screenplay Clive Barker Film score William Hope (actor)
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