YMMV / Hellbound: Hellraiser II

• Anti-Climax Boss: Despite becoming the Big Bad of the film, Julia is unceremoniously sucked out of her skin into the abyss with zero fanfare.
• Awesome Music: Christopher Young delivers an even more epic score than the one from the first movie, something one does not usually associate with horror.
• Complete Monster: Besides Frank and Julia again, Dr. Philip Channard is a psychiatrist and head of the Channard Institute with an obsession with the occult, specifically Hell. Using his facility as the front for his studies, Channard has his patients solve the Lament Configuration, and observes them being taken by the Cenobites. When he gets his hands on the mattress Julia Cotton died on, Channard takes his patients to be sacrificed to complete Julia's resurrection. In return, Julia takes Channard to Hell where Leviathan looks into his mind, revealing that he would dissect animals as a child. Channard is turned into an abnormally chaotic Cenobite, at which point he drops his affable façade and revels in his sadistic side, proceeding to slaughter every living thing that crosses his path, including the other Cenobites when they stand against him.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: This is the film where Pinhead stakes his claim as the franchise's main baddie. Overshadowing the intended Big Bad of the franchise, Julia, who is never seen again after this film.
• Evil Is Cool: Despite have some rather cheesy one-liners, Channard is still a creepy and badass villain.
• Fridge Horror: When Cenobites die, they revert back to their human, pre-Cenobite form. When the Chatterer dies, he turns into a teenage boy. What kind of twisted desires could a boy so young possibly have to become that?
• Les Yay: Given how the events of the film bring Kirsty and Tiffany together as Fire-Forged Friends, some people would prefer they end up together instead of Kirsty ending up with a cheating jerk in Hellseeker.
• Nightmare Retardant: The Channard Cenobite, as his presentation has more common with the oneliner-spouting boogeymen of the eighties ("The doctor is in", "I recommend amputation!" etc.) than the dark twisted S/M demons that are the Cenobites. Not to mention his phallic head.
  • The events of the film seem to suggest that Channard is a true Cenobite only immediately after his Viral Transformation (when he steps out of the chamber, he's pleased about what he's become). A moment later, though, some kind of tentacle or appendage rises above him and attaches itself to his head, and from then on, whatever that limb belongs to is controlling him. In that sense, it crosses right back over into Nightmare Fuel.
• Special Effect Failure:
  • One of the "stone" walls of the hell labyrinth wobbles when Kirsty leans on it.
  • Presumably the Channard Cenobite was meant to emerge from an elaborate puzzle box rather than an extremely cheap-looking plywood elevator.
  • At the end, you can clearly see the cutoff point when the pillar emerges from the mattress.
• Tear Jerker: The scene where Pinhead sacrifices himself to save Kirsty is quite upsetting.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Despite her becoming the “Evil Queen”, Julia falls under this once the story shifts to hell. She’s largely overshadowed by the likes of Pinhead and the Cenobites and her role of Big Bad is eventually taken by Dr Channard. Her death is also unspectacular in comparison to the other villains as Julia is simply sucked into the abyss with no fanfare and is promptly forgotten about.
• The Woobie: Tiffany, oh so very much. Thankfully, she makes it out all right.

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