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occult
1988 · R · 1h 37m
It will tear your soul apart... again.
The Cenobites are not the worst thing in the Labyrinth. Something older rules there.
Picking up immediately after the first film, Hellbound: Hellraiser II follows Kirsty Cotton as she is committed to a psychiatric hospital — where the doctor who receives her has his own obsession with the puzzle boxes, and the blood-soaked mattress from the Cotton house. Tony Randel's sequel descends deeper into the mythology, opening the Labyrinth itself and revealing the vast, impossible architecture of Hell and the god at its center.
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Kirsty Cotton is brought to the Channard Institute after surviving the events in the Cotton house. Dr. Channard has collected the Lament Configuration for years, and he has the blood-soaked mattress on which Julia died. He provides a self-harming patient as a blood offering, and Julia is resurrected — skinless and ravenous, feeding on the victims Channard supplies.
At the Institute, Kirsty writes warnings in blood on her hospital room walls, trying to convince anyone who will listen about the Cenobites. She meets Tiffany, a mute girl savant with puzzles, placed in the hospital by Channard to open the Configuration without risk to himself. Kirsty receives fragmented messages from within Hell — apparently from her father Larry — pleading for rescue.
Julia, fully restored in stolen flesh, helps Channard navigate the Labyrinth. Channard is intoxicated by what it offers. When the gateway opens, Kirsty and Tiffany follow them inside.
The Labyrinth is vast, surreal, and impossible — meat and machinery, corridors that reconstitute themselves, suffering that has taken architectural form. At its center, a massive rotating diamond shape pulses in the dark: Leviathan, the god of Hell. The Cenobites serve it. Everything in the Labyrinth serves it.
Kirsty confronts Pinhead and the Cenobites. She has learned something: they were human once. She finds the photographs, the identities. She uses this to reach whatever remains of the human within them, and they are briefly restored — confused, mortal. Channard, transformed by Leviathan into a new and more powerful Cenobite, kills them.
Julia, having drained enough from Channard, is undone — stripped of the accumulated flesh. Tiffany solves the Configuration to close the gateway. Kirsty and Tiffany escape the Labyrinth as it collapses. Channard's form pursues them but is pulled back as the gateway seals.
In the aftermath at an antique shop — where the puzzle box first originated — a wrapped figure sits in the back room. It tears open from the inside. Julia's face emerges from the skinless thing within, grinning.
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