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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