
Doctor Channard is sent a new patient, a girl warning of the terrible creatures that have destroyed her family, Cenobites who offer the most intense sensations of pleasure and pain. But Channard has been searching for the doorway to Hell for years, and Kirsty must follow him to save her father and witness the power struggles among the newly damned.... (Full plot summary below)
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Doctor Channard is sent a new patient, a girl warning of the terrible creatures that have destroyed her family, Cenobites who offer the most intense sensations of pleasure and pain. But Channard has been searching for the doorway to Hell for years, and Kirsty must follow him to save her father and witness the power struggles among the newly damned.
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| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonWhen I first caught it around 1989 on VHS video, it was unlike anything I had ever seen before. |
| Antagony & EcstasyTim BraytonA thoroughly worthy successor to the freakishly original Hellraiser. |
| VarietyVariety StaffA maggotty carnival of mayhem, mutation and dismemberment, awash in blood and recommended only for those who thrive on such junk. |
| Los Angeles TimesChris WillmanThis 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. |
| IGN MoviesChristopher MonfetteHellbound 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. |
| VODzilla.coAnton BitelThe first (and best) Hellraiser sequel takes us to an Escher-like underworld of surrealist psychodramas. |
| Birth.Movies.Death.Brian CollinsIt's...the best kind of sequel, one that lets the surviving characters continue their journeys while new characters get to kind of rehash the original's plot with different results. |
| New York TimesCaryn JamesThough the script for Hellbound is related to the Barker story, the film drops its plot whenever a fake-looking monster walks on the screen. Ogling strange creatures is the film's true reason for being. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jay ScottThe 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. |
| Time OutDerek AdamsSimply performs cosmetic surgery on the original. |