Spooktober 2020: Hellbound: Hellraiser 2

Well I watched this like a week ago so I'm probably gonna get plenty wrong but eh. No one is gonna read this or correct it.

Hellbound starts basically immediately after the end of Hellraiser. Kirsty is in an asylum for fairly obvious reasons. Her dad was murdered by his dead brother reincarnated and terror/ pleasure cenobites attempted to take her to Hell. I mean, that seems like a reasonable response. She also has some terror dreams/ visions of her father.

A reasonable request.

I guess it actually starts with a 5-10 min recap of Hellraiser. We get to re-see some good deaths and murders and cool stuff and cenobites. We quickly meet some kind of psychiatrist/ surgeon/ insane man who is all about seeking pleasure. He's done some research and he somehow knows of the cube puzzle that summons the cenobites/ the gateway to hell. Through conversations he learns that Kirsty's step mom died on a mattress and he does his best and easily obtains it, taking it back to his mansion. He brings one of his patients home, who, well, imagines maggots and bugs on himself and tries to clean them off with a straight razor. Using the same nonsense that brought back murder/ rape uncle in the first, step mom is revived.

Tricking a insane man into summoning a hell demon.

Doc makes out with her, she convinces him to bring people for her to kill to reconstruct herself, and well you can probably guess where this is going.

The crazy doctor's assistant goes to the asylum to help Kirsty get out and go to said mansion for some reason. She notes she doesn't have anything to wear and he responds with a line summing up a doctor's true super powers:

"I can get you clothes; I'm a doctor."

Some more things happen, and the evil doctor convinces the mute girl, who happens to be really good at puzzles, to solve the puzzle box and unleash the cenobites. Pinhead, in a moment of being kinda cool, tells the other cenobites to stay back and not take her, because, well, she didn't have intent to summon hell, she just wanted to do a puzzle.

It's not cool to use the mute girl to open up hell.

Kirsty and the mute girl go into hell, Kirsty trying to save her father (see above). Hell looks rad at least!

Hell is laid out like the director's cut ending of Phase IV

And that's where I'll leave discussing the plot because it really doesn't matter in this. This movie abandons the plot and pacing of the original to focus on some pretty fantastic visuals and a lot more gore. I don't think it's quite as good as the first, but it's a very effective sequel. It picks off and builds from the original without just being a pure re-hash. It's creepy and the cenobites get a lot more screen time. This movie is definitely worth a watch if you enjoyed the first. Plus, you get a little look into how Pinhead was made! Sit down, pour a glass of red wine, and let Pinhead show you new dimensions in pleasure.

Pinhead gets his pins.