Hellbound: Hellraiser II

Hellbound: Hellraiser II
Theatrical release poster
Directed byTony Randel
Screenplay byPeter Atkins
Story byClive Barker
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyRobin Vidgeon
Edited by
  • Richard Marden
Music byChristopher Young
Production
companies
  • Film Futures
  • Troopstar
Distributed byNew World Pictures (United States)
Premier Releasing (United Kingdom)[1]
Release dates
  • 9 September 1988 (1988-09-09) (Toronto International Film Festival)
  • 23 December 1988 (1988-12-23) (United States)
Running time
93 minutes[1]
CountriesUnited Kingdom
United States[2]
LanguageEnglish
Box office$12.1 million[3]

Hellbound: Hellraiser II is a 1988 supernatural horror film directed by Tony Randel and starring Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, Kenneth Cranham and Doug Bradley.[4][5] The second film in the Hellraiser franchise, Hellraiser II draws heavily upon (and was made by much of the same cast and crew as) its precursor, Hellraiser, which was released a year before. Laurence reprises her role as Kirsty Cotton, who is admitted into a psychiatric hospital after the events of the first film. There, the head doctor (Cranham) unleashes the Cenobites, a group of sadomasochistic beings from another dimension.

Clive Barker, who wrote and directed the first Hellraiser film, wrote the story of Hellraiser II and served as executive producer. An international co-production of the United Kingdom and the United States, Hellraiser II screened at the Toronto Festival of Festivals on 9 September 1988, and received mixed reviews upon release. It grossed $12.1 million at the box office and was followed by Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth in 1992.

  1. ^ a b "HELLBOUND - HELLRAISER II (18)". British Board of Film Classification. 3 January 1989. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
  2. ^ "Hellbound: Hellraiser II". American Film Institute. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  3. ^ "Hellbound: Hellraiser II". Box Office Mojo. Amazon.com. Retrieved 14 May 2011.
  4. ^ "Hellbound Hellraiser II". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 15 November 2018. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
  5. ^ "Hellbound: Hellraiser II". American Film Institute. Archived from the original on 15 December 2018. Retrieved 29 May 2017.

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