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Summary: Kirsty so eager to play, so reluctant to admit it!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: I loved this movie because it compliments the first one perfectly. I loved Julia almost as much as Pinhead in this brilliant masterpiece. This movie was filled with gore, horror, and brutality, just the way I thought a "Hellraiser" movie should be. I loved every minute of it.
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Summary: A Good Sequel, A Good Continuation
Review: I don't know about Leonard Maltin, but I really thought this was a good sequel. It still delivers the thrills and chills. Kirsty Cotton (Ashley Laurence) is now in a hospital talking to doctors who think she is crazy. Little do they know. Dr. Channard gets the magic box and tries to get a mute girl to solve it. Big mistake. Instead of the cenobites going after her, they go after Dr. Channard.The cenobites are more evil in this one. The beginning shows how Pinhead got his name, and that they were all normal people before. This is a good movie to rent when you are bored and don't know what to do.
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Summary: Society is a labyrinth of the brain
Review: This film is even more complex than the first one. It is a voyage inside the brain, not the individual brain of one person but inside the collective brain of humanity. The brain is a labyrinth and it is entirely dominated and controlled by desires. But this film transforms death into a fourth dimension of life because death is just a permanent imprisonment in this labyrinth facing a permanent non-satisfaction of one's desires that are thus perverted into suffering or the inflicting of suffering to new visitors or arrivers. But this film gives an explanation of whom the cenobites are. They are men, and eventually women, who made other humans suffer when they were humans themselves. Thus Pinhead was a colonial soldier who enjoyed torturing people. Julia becomes a guide in this labyrinth after her rebirth because she was a killer, a criminal, an assassin in real life. But a new cenobites is born in front of our eyes. The psychiatrist is transformed into a torturer because he was such a man in real life, using scalpels and saws to manipulate and mutilate brains. The twist of this film is that the cube produces a new shape, a double trihedra that is the very symbol of desires, of the flesh. And it is another victim of the psychiatrist, a young girl who was locked by her mother in the hospital of that man, who is able to solve the puzzle of this double trihedra in order to close the cube again, and it closes the labryinth of desires and the brain. This film is a metaphor, an enormous metaphor, of society, if we consider the brain as a representation or a mirror image of society, and it is. Hence Clive Barker reaches here a social level that is not always present, in such a complexity, in his work. Very often, the flesh, the desires, the feelings, the blood of life are more in the limelight. We must think that the reason is simple : this film is not based on a book. In other words it is purely and firstly visual ; not semantic or linguistic. Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, Paris Universities II and IX.
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Summary: Hellbound: Hellraiser II DVD
Review: This is the one of a kind horror movie. You never see horror movies like this anymore. Th is is the sequel to Clive Barker's classic Hellraiser. This is based on the story the hellbound heart. now lets get back to the dvd. This dvd was in the hellraiser tin so I know alot about it. It is THX mastered,48 stills in still gallery, theatrical trailer, lost in the labyrinth featurette, commentary by clive and ashley laurence, fullscreen and widescreen 1;85 anamophic format,this is all in a dvd keep case with a nice insert.
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Summary: Good
Review: This movie is definately not for people who have weak stomachs. This movie starts us where the first movie left off, but the script isn't as strong as the first, a good script does exsist in this movie. But this movie does have its moments and ends with some questions that still need to be answered. But does answer a few questions that came up in 1 but never were answered. This movies is one of the best SEQUALS I have seen. I suggest this movie to anyone who has a strong stomach.
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Summary: NOT FOR THE WEAK OF HEART!
Review: AND I THOUGHT NOTHING COULD BE MORE DISTURBING THAN THE ORIGINAL HELLRAISER. I WAS WRONG. THIS MOVIE TRULY SURPASSES THE ORIGINAL, ADDING MORE DIMENSION, SCARES, GORE, AND STORY. UNLIKE THE ORIGINAL HELLRAISER, WHERE PINHEAD AND HIS GANG COME UP TO OUR WORLD, THE CHARACTER KRISTY, JOURNEY'S INTO HELL TO SOLVE AN EVIL PUZZLE TO STOP THE CARNAGE THAT HAS BEEN UNLEASHED. ANOTHER GREAT PERFORMANCE BY BRADLEY AS PINHEAD. THIS STORY IS TRULY GOOD AND WILL MAKE YOU TURN YOUR HEAD QUITE A FEW TIMES IF YOU WATCH IT IN THE DARK. I SUGGEST YOU WATCH IT WITH A FRIEND. NOT FOR THE WEAK OF HEART! RATED R FOR: EXTREME VIOLENCE AND GORE, LANGUAGE, AND A BRIEF SEX SCENE.
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Summary: Who says sequels ....?
Review: This was absolutely the best of all the Hellraisers. Good story, tons of blood, and, of course, Pinhead. This movie has it all. Special effects are much clearer on DVD than on VHS. A must have for Hellraiser fans.
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Summary: Awesome sequell!
Review: Hellbound: Hellraiser 2 VHS~ Ashley Laurence is a gruesome sequel to Hellraiser I. The story takes place at an insane asylum where Christy is taken care of after the first movie. The violence is mind bending in its brutality and the story line is pretty well developed for not being the first movie. It does not hurt either that Imogen Boorman plays Tiffany. She is very pretty and a treat to watch in this movie. A pity that Barker did not give her more lines. The one-liners are not phony, like Terminator 2's "Hasta La Vista Baby", and when Pinhead says, " Your suffering will be legendary even in hell"; in a sick sort of way, you want that suffering to happen.
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Summary: Better than the first!
Review: Clive Barker takes us on another Roller Coaster ride through hell with HellBound: Hellraiser 2. Once every blue moon a sequel is made that surpasses the original, Hellraiser 2 is a stunning example of such a film. Kirsten is now in a Hospital for the mentally Ill because of her story about what happened in the previous film, She begs the docter to and the authorties to burn a blood splattered matress that her Stepmother had died on, but before she can release them, the docter takes a very mentally ill patient and with his blood raises Kirstens stepmom from the dead allowing her soul to escape from hell.What happens next is a blood splattered ride through hell. Another good thing about this film is that it actually tells a little about Pinheads past. Now there are 2 versions of this movie, the R version, and the uncut version. There isnt that much diffrence between the 2 so if you get the R rated version you still get all the gore from the unrated version. Both versions contain Graphic Violence and gore and a scene of sexuality. If you liked the first Hellraiser and didnt puke your guts out, You have to check this one out.
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Summary: Better than the first!
Review: This sequel is a little better than the first one. It's also gorier. At least my copy. I bought all the four Hellraiser movies in one package. A great box-set, when putting all the movies together, the back print, makes a pictur of Pinhead. It's an import from Holland, the only country where all the movies are totally uncut. But enough about that, and let's talk about Hellraiser II. Now the saga continues, as the characther of Ashley Laurence once again, has to face the evil cenobites. We also meet Clare Higgins from the first installment. The movie is not boring at all, and the last 30 minutes is a pleasure (? ). Buy the unrated version, and invite your grandmother. (At least if you don't like her very much, or she's very rich ;)
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