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Hellbound: Hellraiser II is a 1988 film directed by Tony Randel. It is the second film in the Hellraiser
series of films.

Plot

Doctor Channard (Kenneth Cranham) is sent a new patient, Kirsty Cotton (Ashley Laurance). As she lies in a psychiatric hospital, Kirsty is haunted by visions of the unspeakable horror that destroyed her family. The only person who believes her story is a young, kind assistant of Doctor Channard, named Kyle MacRae (William Hope).

Now the nightmare is beginning again. The obsessive Doctor Channard has been searching for the Lament Configuration, the doorway to to the world of the Cenobites, for years. He hears of the blood stained mattress that Kirsty's murderous stepmother Julia Cotton (Clare Higgins) died on, and has it secretly brought to his home. Kirsty needs to destroy the mattress in order to rid the world of Julia, but Channard brings patients to his home and conducts grisly human sacrifices on the mattress in order to resurrect her.

Together, Channard and Julia unlock the secret of the Lament Configuration puzzle box and release the unlimited horrors and ultimate pleasures of the Cenobites and their perverse Order. For the second time, Kirsty journeys beyond the limits of the mortal realm into the Stygian corridors along with a gifted young girl named Tiffany (Imogen Boorman). There she must confront the Cenobites and the darkest desires of their nightmarish world to free her father's soul from eternal torment.

A major plot element in this movie establishes that, despite the series title, the world of the Cenobites is neither Hell nor the afterlife (this is also true in the original novella), but is instead another reality obliquely referred to as "the Labyrinth." This world is not seen again in the later sequels and some have suggested it is treated as the more traditional Hell though there is little evidence one way or the other.

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