Line #14 Film/HellboundHellraiserII


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3	''Hellbound: Hellraiser II'' (1988) is the second film in the ''Franchise/{{Hellraiser}}'' series.
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5	After surviving the events of the first film, Kirsty Cotton has been institutionalized in the Channard Institute. Neither the detectives assigned to the case nor the doctors at the institute believe her when she tells them about extra-dimensional beings and her undead uncle killing her father, and warns them that her evil stepmother Julia could still return. After hearing about this, the head of the hospital Dr. Channard retrieves the mattress that Julia died on, and repeats the ritual from the first film, allowing Julia to rise from the grave. Dr. Channard and Julia then work together to access the portal to the Cenobite dimension again, while Kirsty and a mute friend she made at the hospital try to stop them.
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8	!!''Hellbound: Hellraiser II'' contains examples of:
9	* AgonyBeam: Leviathan is constantly projecting one from each of its faces [[spoiler:until Tiffany uses the puzzle box to force Leviathan out of its diamond form into the form of a giant puzzle box]].
10	* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:The Channard Cenobite]] slices off an unfortunate patient's arm with his [[CombatTentacles bladed tentacles]].
11	-->[[spoiler:'''Channard:''']] I recommend... amputation!
12	-->''(cue disturbing laughter)''
13	* BadassBoast: Julia to Kirsty:
14	--> "Oh, Kirsty. They didn't tell you, did they? I'm afraid they've changed the rules of the fairy tale--I'm no longer just the [[WickedStepmother wicked stepmother]]. Now I'm the [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen evil queen]]. So come on! Take your best shot, Snow White!"
15	* BadBoss: Leviathan, in its treatment of Pinhead and his fellow Cenobites the moment they rediscover the humanity it stolen from them, and turn against it. It also [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness discards Channard]], who actually enjoys being its slave, without any hesitation.
16	* BedlamHouse: The Channard Institute, where the most insane patients are kept ''in the steam tunnels'', and the head of the place is a psychopathic lunatic who feeds his patients alive to the hellish Cenobites.
17	* BigBadWannabe:
18	** [[spoiler: Frank's ploy to trap Kirsty ends up failing miserably and when he thinks his former [[TheDragon Dragon]] Julia has come to bail him out, she kills him instead.]]
19	** Even [[spoiler: Julia]] falls into this. No matter how much she TookALevelInBadass, she was absolutely nothing to the forces of hell and was sucked into the abyss with no fanfare. Heck, [[spoiler: Dr. Channard]] overtakes her as the BigBad once becomes a Cenobite.
20	* BilingualBonus: A very tough one to spot: the sounds made by the Leviathan aren't here just because [[RuleOfCool they sound impressive]]; it is actually Morse code for [[AGodAmI "God"]].
21	* BloodierAndGorier: The bloodshed is more extended and brutal compared to the original. To the point six whole minutes of footage are added in the extended version!
22	* BookEnds: [[spoiler: The ending of ''Hellbound'' calls back to the beginning of the first ''Hellraiser.'' A moving man who had been hired to help move furniture into the Cotton residence returns to help empty Channard's house. Also the homeless man from ''Hellraiser'' makes an appearance and asks "What's your pleasure, sir?", the same question that had been posed to Frank Cotton.]]
23	* ChewingTheScenery: Dr. Channard was relatively mild in his human form, but he steals the show once he [[spoiler:turns into a Cenobite.]]
24	-->'''Channard''': "The Doctor...is IN!"
25	* ContrivedCoincidence: Discussed and played with. The Cenobites find Kirsty again, but Kirsty points out she didn't summon them this time.
26	-->'''Female Cenobite''': "Didn't open the box?" And what was it last time? "Didn't know what the box was." And yet we do keep finding each other, don't we?"
27	* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler: Cenobite Channard effortlessly kills Pinhead and the other cenobites. Although, they had just been reminded of their lost humanity so were not at peak strength, to say nothing of Channard being possessed by Leviathan at the time, their creator who was vastly more powerful.]]
28	* CuteMute: Tiffany, a mute patient at the psychiatric institute obsessed with solving puzzles. [[spoiler:She gets better.]]
29	* DeadlyHug: [[spoiler:Julia lures Kyle into her embrace and devours him with a kiss.]]
30	* DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler:The Chatterer's original, human form is briefly revealed in one scene to be a young boy. Apparently, it didn't prevent him from being taken by the Cenobites to be killed and tortured over and over again until becoming a Cenobite himself.]]
31	* DoomedMoralVictor: Pinhead and his fellow Cenobites are murdered after defying the Leviathan-controlled Channard, but regain their humanity in the process.
32	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Just look at that huge, phallic tendril burrowing its way into [[spoiler:the Channard Cenobite's]] head.
33	** Several of Julia's murders as she reconstitutes her body are ''very much'' framed like rape scenes.
34	* DrunkOnTheDarkSide: [[spoiler:Dr. Channard]], after becoming a Cenobite, joins their revelry of pain.
35	* DyingAsYourself: As Channard kills the original four Cenobites, they each revert to their human forms, except for Pinhead. Kirsty had reminded him of who he was as a mortal before Channard attacked him, allowing him to reclaim his lost humanity before Channard kills him.
36	* EvenEvilHasStandards: Pinheard leaves Tiffany unharmed and commands the other Cenobites to do likewise, noting "It is not hands that call us. It is desire."
37	* EvilFeelsGood: When [[spoiler:Dr. Channard]] becomes a Cenobite, which comes with a fair amount of body horror, and a giant tendril burrowed into his head, what is his reaction?
38	-->'''[[spoiler:Channard:]]''' And to think... I hesitated.
39	* EvilIsNotAToy: Probably even more true for this film, where [[spoiler:Dr. Channard's obsession with the Lament Configuration ultimately leads to him becoming horrifically tortured and turned into a Cenobite himself.]] He's horrified at first, but in the end... ''And to think, I hesitated.''
40	* EvilLaugh: The [[spoiler:Channard]] Cenobite had a weird one.
41	* FakeShemp: Due to Kenneth Cranham being unable to sit in the rig required for [[spoiler:the Channard Cenobite]], he only appears as said character in close-up shots, with stuntman Bronco [=McLoughlin=] playing him the rest of the time.
42	* FanDisservice: Channard makes out with Julia and lifts up her dress... while she's still skinless. Covered with bandages, but skinless nonetheless.
43	** [[spoiler:Kirsty, wearing Julia's skin, later makes out with Cenobite-Channard to distract him.]]
44	** Julia wreathing around on the floor naked, moaning, and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick skinless]]. Did we mention the floor is also coated in the blood of the guy she just ate?
45	** At one point, we see an attractive, completely naked woman... as she's about to have her life force sucked out by Julia.
46	* FlayingAlive: [[spoiler:Frank has his skin melt after Kirsty burns his photo, and Julia is ripped out of her freshly grown skin by a powerful gale.]]
47	* GenreShift: From a horror film (as the first movie was) to an outright CosmicHorrorStory by the end[[note]] though it can be argued upon a second viewing that the nature of the Lament Configuration makes ''both'' films a CosmicHorrorStory...[[/note]]. This was deliberate, as WordOfGod states that ''Hellbound'' is meant to be a DarkFantasy in order to differentiate the film from [[Film/{{Hellraiser}} its predecessor]].
48	* GenuineHumanHide: [[spoiler:Kristy distracts Dr. Channard, allowing Tiffany to close the Lament Configuration, by "dressing up" in Julia's shed skin.]]
49	* GoOutWithASmile: Right before his HeroicSacrifice, the now human Pinhead looks at Kirsty and the two share a small smile, showing he's at peace in the end.
50	* GroinAttack: The patient who slices himself up with a straight razor drags the blade across his ''crotch'' at one point.
51	* HarmfulToMinors: Imagine being a parent and your young daughter starts showing signs of obsessive compulsive disorder, becoming obsessed with solving puzzles to the point where it is consuming her life. So, being the loving and responsible parent you are, you take her to a reputable psychiatrist in hopes that he can help her. Instead [[spoiler:he brutally murders you ''right in front of your child,'' further scarring her. Then he essentially kidnaps your daughter, taking her into his asylum where he subjects her to torturous “treatments” that basically render her catatonic to the point where she can only focus on solving puzzles.]] Why does he do this? [[spoiler: So he can use her to open a HellGate.]] Poor Tiffany has been through some serious shit.
52	* {{Hell}}: The film depicts a gothic-looking, otherworldly area of Hell (or, at least, a very Hell-like dimension [[FromACertainPointOfView that promises unimaginable sensations]]) called the Labyrinth, where the people who [[SchmuckBait solve a cursed puzzle box]] end up. [[EscapedFromHell Escape is possible]], and the first two movies focus more on human villains who've returned to the real world and [[OurVampiresAreDifferent need blood]] [[SelfConstructedBeing to restore their bodies]] than on [[TheLegionsOfHell the cenobites themselves]].
53	* IDieFree: Although Pinhead and his companions are killed by the Leviathan controlled Channard, they remember their humanity and rebel against the Lord Of The Labyrinth. As [[{{Unishment}} punishment]], Pinhead is stripped of his powers and forcibly reverted by Leviathan back to the man he once was, Captain Elliot Spencer. Before he dies Elliot possesses a serene, grateful expression and sacrifices his life for Kirsty, finally freed from his eternal torment.
54	* ImmediateSequel: This film starts several hours after the ending of the first.
55	* IronicEcho:
56	** When Frank accidentally stabs Julia in the first film, he states that it's "nothing personal, baby" [[UngratefulBastard before leaving her for the Cenobites]]. In the second film, Julia throws that line back at Frank when she quite intentionally (and quite literally) rips his heart out.
57	** When the Cenobites finally recapture Frank in the first film, he delivers this last line to Kirsty before being ripped apart: "Jesus wept." Kirsty throws that line back to him in the second.
58	* IronicHell: Frank's own Hell, where he is constantly teased by moaning naked women, but as soon as he pulls the shroud off of them, they disappear.
59	* LargeHam: [[spoiler: The Channard Cenobite.]] All his lines were doctor-related and he had a rather strange evil laugh.
60	-->[[spoiler: '''Channard Cenobite:''']] Surgery's open, Tiffany. What is today's agenda? Ah yes... ''evisceration!''
61	* LoopholeAbuse: Dr. Channard has Tiffany solve the puzzle box in order to not suffer the Cenobites' wrath. They, however, are having none of it, so once she does summon them, they ignore her and head right for the good doctor.
62	* MadDoctor: Dr. Channard, later upgraded to a DeadlyDoctor when [[spoiler:he becomes a Cenobite]].
63	* MobileMaze: The world of the Cenobites is presented as an infinite, ever-changing dark labyrinth of stone under the control of a floating rotating silver lozenge called Leviathan.
64	* MonsterClown: One shows up in Tiffany's Hell.
65	* MouthStitchedShut: Surprisingly ''not'' done with a Cenobite, but with [[spoiler: one of the disturbing adornments on the torture-pylon that arises at the film's end. Just before the "What's your pleasure?" CallBack, the spinning display shows a baby with its lips sewn together and the needle that did it clutched in one hand.]]
66	** Tiffany sees a baby with its mouth being stitched shut, when she first enters Hell.
67	* MythologyGag: The film's title, Hellbound: Hellraiser 2, is a reference to the book which Hellraiser is based on, The Hellbound Heart.
68	* OffTheShelfFX: Pinhead's "pins" are Q-tips without the cotton-balls, painted gray.
69	* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler: The Channard-Cenobite gets his head ripped in two when the tentacle controlling him retreats.]]
70	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Tiffany (that was a name given to her by the staff).
71	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Tiffany spends almost all of the film as TheVoiceless. Her first line, when first encountering [[spoiler: Dr. Channard in Cenobite form]], is [[OhCrap "Shit!"]].
72	* PetTheDog: Pinhead interceding on Tiffany's behalf before the other Cenobites can tear her apart, pointing out she has been manipulated into opening the puzzle box, sparing her life.
73	* PutOnABus: Steve, Kirsty's boyfriend from the first movie, is not seen or referred to aside from a brief mention at the beginning.
74	* RageAgainstTheReflection: [[FlayingAlive Skinless]] Julia.
75	* RedemptionDemotion: The movie presents an extremely glaring example. [[spoiler: Near the climax, the heroine talks the four main Cenobites of the previous film -- including Pinhead, the series' most popular villain -- into a HeelFaceTurn by reminding them they were once human. Minutes later, they are unceremoniously {{Curb Stomp\|Battle}}ed by a newly-converted and thoroughly evil Cenobite.]] The screenwriter received so much hate mail over this, he wound up invoking WorfHadTheFlu.
76	* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Pinhead, Butterball, Chatterer and the Female all die shortly after remembering their humanity.]]
77	* SamusIsAGirl: A shocking variant was used, in which the gruesome Cenobites are involuntarily transformed back to their original human guises by the Lament Configuration. The Chatterer is revealed to be [[spoiler:a young boy]].
78	* SayMyName: ''Series/SiskelAndEbert'' savagely mocked the film by saying all of the dialog was either "TIFFANY!" or "KIRSTY!"
79	* SequelHook: [[spoiler:A pair of movers move stuff from Channard's house, when one of them happens upon Julia's bloodied mattress and is attacked by a pair of skinless arms. As the other one checks on his partner, the torture pillar erupts from the floor, with various objects and entities embedded in it, such as Pinhead's stretched face, Julia's skinless head and torture devices. Finally, it stops spinning, and a head of a hairy vagrant asks the man "[[HereWeGoAgain What is your pleasure, sir?]]"]]
80	* SequelTheOriginalTitle: The subtitle and series title were inverted for this film. It's derived from ''The Hellbound Heart'', the original novella by Clive Barker that he based the first movie on.
81	* SinisterGeometry: Leviathan is a lozenge!
82	* SuddenlySpeaking: Tiffany, who was TheVoiceless, after seeing the Channard Cenobite:
83	--> '''Tiffany:''' "[[OhCrap Shit!]]"
84	* ThisWasHisTrueForm: After being killed by the [[spoiler: Channard]] Cenobite, the other Cenobites turn back into humans.
85	* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:Kyle]] from the second; went to a house where [[spoiler:Julia]] was, then decided to split up, didn't ask a strange woman who she was and what was doing there, and when she started to behave oddly didn't run away.
86	* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:Julia]] went from being a reluctant and remorseful killer who tried her best to save [[spoiler:Larry Cotton]] from Frank in the first film to a hardened killer in the second, who took great joy in being evil. Probably an after-effect from being [[spoiler:betrayed, killed, tortured and resurrected.]] This is explicitly stated in the sequel [[spoiler: as Julia is now an agent of the Leviathan, the same possibly divine entity that commands the Cenobites]].
87	* TooKinkyToTorture: [[spoiler:Channard]]'s reaction after [[spoiler:his transformation into a Cenobite]] is to question why he had any doubts about it.
88	* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Pinhead and his companions, on rediscovering their humanity, turn against Leviathan. A Leviathan-controlled Channard ruthlessly murders them for it, but the Cenobites win a moral and existential victory. Freeing themselves and their souls, where Channard remains a slave, and is simply discarded by Leviathan the moment it's convenient.
89	* UndignifiedDeath: Julia is unceremoniously [[spoiler: sucked right out of her skin into the abyss.]] Compared to everyone else’s death, Julia’s demise is largely unspectacular.
90	* UngratefulBastard: Dr. Channard brings Julia back from Hell, and restores her skin by bringing her numerous victims to feed off of. How does she repay him? [[spoiler:By offering him to Leviathan and having him transformed into a Cenobite.]]
91	* UnholyMatrimony: Sociopathic doctor Channard and newly demonic Julia really hit it off. [[spoiler: Even her betraying him and turning him into a Cenobite doesn't deter this given how happy he is to see "Julia" during the climax.]]
92	* VillainOpeningScene: In a way - it begins with the StartOfDarkness for Pinhead, as Captain Elliot Spencer is ensnared by Cenobite chains.
93	* VillainousBSOD: The Cenobites have this when they [[TomatoInTheMirror realized they were once human]].
94	* WhamShot: After [[spoiler: the Channard-Cenobite]] kills the main four Cenobites, we see them reverting back to their human selves. The last one to be reverted is Chatterer, in which he reverts to...[[spoiler: a young boy.]]
95	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Early in the film Kirsty sees messages from his father Larry calling out to her, trapped in "Hell" after being killed in the previous movie. This forms at least part of her reason for entering and exploring the Cenobites' dimension. Along the way, this finding-Larry plot thread is dropped. In-character, the message is revealed to be Frank's doing, impersonating his brother yet again to get to Kristy. The Meta reason is that the script for the sequel was already being written when the first film was still in production, and Andrew Robinson, who played Larry, ultimately did not sign on for the sequel.
96	** Also, Kristy's boyfriend Steve is nowhere in sight and only given a brief mention that he was "sent home" by the psychiatric ward, never to be seen or referred to again.
97	* WhiteAndRedAndEerieAllOver: The flayed and bleeding Julia in her pristinely elegant white suit makes for an unsettling visual contrast.
98	* WordsDoNotMakeTheMagic: The psychopathic psychologist uses a traumatized girl to open the puzzle box, thus summoning the Cenobites to Earth, figuring that this way it'll be the girl who gets dragged to Hell and not himself. But as Pinhead puts it, "It is not hands that call us, it is desire". They leave the girl in peace and go off in search of the one who ''truly'' summoned them.
99	* WorfHadTheFlu: Many fans were disappointed to see series villain Pinhead and his cronies taken out by the new Cenobite, [[spoiler:Dr. Channard]]. Many have written off his easy defeat due to him being weakened and disoriented by learning he was once human, a notion supported by ''Hellbound'' screenwriter Peter Atkins. Not to mention they were acting in defiance of Leviathan, their master and creator, who was connected directly to, controlling and empowering Channard. They never stood a chance.
100	* WoundedGazelleGambit: [[spoiler: Julia lures Kyle into a false sense of security by acting like a harmless, scared woman until she's locked the door and promptly kills him.]]
101	* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[OrangeAndBlueMorality Leviathan]] [[BadBoss does this]] to Pinhead and his Cenobites for defying him, as well as to Channard as soon as it's convenient.
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