Friday, 10 January 2025

757 Hellbound : Hellraiser II (1988 )

 This  quickfire  sequel  picks  up  exactly where the original  left off  with  heroine Kirsty  detained by police who  find  her explanation of  the  carnage at her family home a  little hard  to  believe. She is  passed on  to a psychiatric hospital where the  head  doctor, Crannard ( Kenneth  Cranham )  beliees  her  only  too  well and  is  looking after  a  mute  teenager with a predilection for puzzle boxes  for  a  very  specific  purpose. The  film  works  very  well for  the  first  hour  then  it  loses  all coherence  with  the  characters  bumping  into each  other  in   a  labyrinth  with  no clear  purpose  and  the  terrifying  Cenobites getting a  meagre  amount  of  screen  time. It's  not  atrocious  and  Cranham   is  great  but  it  could have  been a  lot  better.

Clare  Higgins ( as Julia )

Sex :  Julia  uses  her  seductive  charms on all  the  male  characters

Death : Julia  is  pulled out  of  her  skin by  some  inexplicable  force  but  she's  come  back  from  the  dead  before


Clare  bowed  out  of  the  franchise after  this  film  and  hasn't  returned to  the  horror  genre.  

Ashley Laurence ( as Kirsty )

Sex : No

Death : Survives


Unlike Clare, Ashley signed up for the next one.

Imogen Boorman ( as Tiffany )

Sex : No

Death : Survives


Imogen was  born in Kent. Despite her surname. she is not thought to be  related to director John Boorman. She  started out as a child  actress in 2002. Although this was her second and last  film  role , she  was  successful in British TV with  brief  runs in Casualty and Coronation Street before  quitting  acting in 1993.  In  recent  years  she  has frequently  been in  trouble  with  the  law  over  alcohol-related  misbehaviour and  she  is  now on  the Sex  Offenders Register after a  naked  rampage in a pub in Montrose.


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