Hellbound: Hellraiser 2
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Movie Reviews of Hellbound: Hellraiser 2
Movie Review: "Trick us again, and your suffering will be legendary, even in hell."
Summary: 5 Stars
Can you die again in hell? Play a game with the Cenobites and you will find out. Kirsty (Ashley Laurence) is now in an insane asylum after her involvement with the Cenobites in the first Hellraiser movie. There's evil afoot in the asylum, in the form of Doctor Philip Channard (Kenneth Cranham). Instead of throwing away the mattress Julia Cotton (Clare Higgins) died on, Dr. Channard brings it to his home along with a mental patient, for the sole purpose of spilling fresh blood onto it. The fresh blood brings Julia back from hell, and she's thirsty for more. "All we need now ... is skin."
Meanwhile, Kirsty is receiving messages from her father, written in blood on her walls, telling her he's trapped in hell. Together with an autistic puzzle-solver named Tiffany (Imogen Boorman) Kirsty uses the Lemarchand's Box to enter hell, trying to save her father. But Tiffany has been used by Dr. Channard, and the good doctor finds his own hell.
While the movie focuses on Kirsty, Tiffany, and Dr. Channard's trials and travails in hell, it in no sense of the way becomes boring. The doctor wins over Pinhead in sheer grotesquerie, traveling through hell from a large gooey worm attached to his head and snakes with different talents extending from his palms. Julia shines as the evil temptress she is, unveiled in her hellish realm. At the center of hell is a diamond shape oracle, emitting a hellish negative-light that is fantastically frightening. Kirsty reveals insight into Pinhead, and Pinhead faces off with the good doctor.
This second installment in the Hellraiser series is directed this time by Tony Randel rather than Clive Barker, and contains much more graphic (if that's possible) scenes of what it would be like in hell. The creation of hell in this movie is pure genius. If this movie doesn't scare you straight, nothing will. Enjoy!
Movie Review: It is Not Hands that Call Us. It is Desire.
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought the unrated version of this the other day. Wow. This is probably the most gory piece of movie I have ever seen! It picks off right after the end of Hellraiser with Kirsty waking up in a psychiatric hospital under the care of Dr. Chanard. And this other doctor guy who she sort of likes. On a sneak visit we find a dark side to the doctor. He has a collection of the puzzleboxes, corpses, and even takes the matress with Julia's blook on it (from the first movie). He eventually brings in the psychotic mental patient who sees maggots on his skin. The doctor gives him a knife and in probably the scariest scene of the movie, the man screams and cuts up his body. The blood ressurects Julia who grabs him and drains his blood. Julia pretty much takes up what Frank was in the first movie. The seducer. The doctor eventually falls for her.
He brings this mute girl who Kirsty meets, who does nothing but solve puzzles to his house to solve the Lament Configuration. The girl does and is freaked out when the cenobites show up. But they leave her alone, Pinhead knows it isn't her who *truly* called for them. So they leave her. And the doc and Julia are exploring the labyrinth of hell and so does the girl out of curiosity and eventually Kirsty in search of her Father, but instead has a run in with Frank and with Julia, while the doctor gets what he secretly wants when he meets Leviathan (who appeared as a giant puzzlebox, but as true fans of the comic books know, is really satan), he is made into a cenobite and starts terrorizing patients.
There a many cool things throughout the movie such as the individual hells, the labyrinth of hell, the humanity of the cenobites, and the fight between the cenobites and the Dr. Chanard cenobite. Really good and really gory movie.
Movie Review: Puzzled...that's what it's all about
Summary: 5 Stars
Hellraiser Hellbound shows what happened after the fateful night Uncle Frank came back after escaping the cenobites.
Kirsty has lost days it appears since that fateful night and the mental facility where she finds herself is run by a chap who knows more than he is letting on.
He has a penchant for the dark side, he finds her story intriguing and gets the mattress Julia died on in order that he be able to bring her back.
He makes an offering on the mattress and out she comes, sans skin, and promises to show the doctor the dark sites he craves.
Kirsty meanwhile gets a night time visit from her dad, he's in hell and suffering, she makes her mind up to go in to the other side and get him out.
The doctor's apprentice doesn't believe any of it until he visits the doctors house and sees the cenobites work first hand. He takes on to help Kirsty.
Another pleasing twist to this is the young mute girl who is also institutionalised because a traumatic event that robbed her of voice, she sits all day solving puzzles, she is ideal to open the box and the doctor takes her home to open the box for him with Julia in attendance.
The gate opens, the doctor wanders into the labyrinth with Julia, and gets sucked in!
Kirsty tried in vein to find her father after the doorway opened, the mute girl also gets lost inside.
The doctor gets a cenobite make-over and he really does enjoy his new found talents by wiping out most of the hospital.
It's not a happy ending - it IS a fabulously atmospheric film.
The doctor is in!
Movie Review: a very good followup.
Summary: 5 Stars
Hellraiser was strange but the sequel is just plain screwed up. It takes place immediatly after Hellraiser and Kirsty is in an asylum. Her dad and stepmom are both dead curtisy of Frank and the Cenobites and she is all alone. But the nightmare is far from over as the head ward of the asylum is obsessed with the box and wants the information that Kirsty holds. Then with the help of a child who refused to speak primarily becasue she witnessed her moms brutal murder but does nothing but puzzles. Meanwhile the Ward finds the matress that Julia (the stepmom) died on and after he gives a mentally insane patient a razor Julia is revived and in the same manner as Frank, from there they cut through the details as Julia revives herself and soon the puzzle solving girl solves the puzzle of the box and the Cenobites are back. However they don't take the girl as it was not her who wanted the box open. Instead they leave the gates open and hunt for the Ward. Kirsty soon follows and it leads to a trip through their world filled with images to make you go insane, images of pleasure and torture, and so on. Eventually the ward becomes the ultimate Cenobotie and it leads to Pinhead and the others to fight back, with help of Kirsty to stop the ultimate Evil.This is one of the best entries in the series due to the fact that it holds the truest essence of the story Hellbound Heart. IT is so weird that it must be checked out if loved the book at all.
Movie Review: Brilliant, Cynical film reflecting dark, brooding times
Summary: 5 Stars
There are few horror films that produce truly great sequels. Hellbound delivers this greatness in full realization. The gore level was turned up a notch, (which is saying quite a bit), the screenplay, though uneven, is witty and creative, with many dark, sadistic touches. The directing is top-notch and visionary. Nobody, save Clive barker, could have done a better job than Tony Randall. On the dvd's featurette "lost in the labyrinth," Randall explains his mental demeanor at the time the film was made, and he believes that his outlook on life was quite bleak and pessimistic. These attitudes carry over beautifully to this disturbing, unsettling picture. Hellbound boasts, hands down, some of the most bizarre and nihlistic images in film since Salo. The image of the woman with her skull cracked open as she receives a labotmoy from Dr. Channard, the scene where a delusional man takes a razor to his skin, and over his groin, spilling blood in every direction, the image of the reborn Dr. Channard in cenobite form, the cracked out funhouse that is hell...I could really do this all day.Hellbound doesn't have the grand scope nor does it have the finesse and style of Hellraiser (which is, in my opinion the greatest horror film of all time), but it surely delivers some very genuine originality and flash. if only all sequels were this spellbinding.