Hellbound: Hellraiser II is a 1988 supernatural horror film directed by Tony Randel and starring Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, Kenneth Cranham and Doug Bradley.

Interviewed by Doctor Channard and his assistant Kyle MacRae, she tells her account of the events and pleads with them to destroy the bloody mattress on which her murderous stepmother, Julia Cotton, died.

After hearing Kirsty's story, Dr. Channard, who is secretly obsessed with the Lament Configuration, has the mattress brought to his home and convinces a mentally ill patient to lie on it and cut himself with a straight razor.

Later that night, Kirsty is awakened in her room by a vision of a grisly, skinless figure whom she believes to be her father, and who writes a message in blood, begging her to rescue him from Hell.

The Cenobites momentarily spare Tiffany, aware that while she was physically responsible for unlocking the Lament Configuration, the actual intention and desire behind it were Channard's.

In Hell, the entity Leviathan — in the shape of a gigantic, elongated diamond — rotates in space above the labyrinth, shooting out black beams that make Channard remember some of the atrocities he committed.

Because of the limited budget of the first film, Clive Barker and producer Christopher Figg felt there were many unanswered questions left behind that the sequel was conceived with this in mind.

[6] Due to a stressful experience making the first film, Barker opted not to return as director, although he remained as an executive producer and story writer.

American filmmaker Tony Randel, a longtime New World Pictures employee and an uncredited editor on the first film, was hired as director due to his experience working with Barker.

Nicholas Vince, who plays the Chatterer, received a hook to the jaw while filming a scene involving his character being impaled on a swinging torture rack surrounded by the many hanging chains.

British Shakespearean actor Kenneth Cranham, who plays Channard, claimed his involvement was due to his grandson pestering him to take up the offer, being a fan of the original.

Oliver Smith, who played Skinless Frank in the original due to his skinny frame (allowing the body makeup to be realistic), reprised his role along with two extra roles as Browning (the mental patient with delusional parasitosis) and as the skinless figure Kirsty sees in the hospital who writes "I Am In Hell Help Me" in blood on the wall.

One was because the filmmakers thought that having actor Doug Bradley as a normal doctor would confuse the viewers, and another was because the special effects for the scene turned out poorly, so it was decided to discard it altogether.

However, a photographer who was on set took some photos of Pinhead and the Female Cenobite dressed as surgeons which were used for promotion of the film, and were also used on some VHS/DVD covers, confusing fans and starting rumors about an "infamous deleted surgery scene".

The lost scene was eventually rediscovered on a VHS workprint and announced as an extra for Arrow Video's Blu-ray reissue of the first three films in the series.

The website's consensus reads: "Hellbound: Hellraiser II retains the twisted visual thrill of its predecessor, although seams in the plot are already starting to show.

[18] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times described it as "some kind of avant-garde film strip in which there is no beginning, no middle, no end, but simply a series of gruesome images that can be watched in any order".

[19] Caryn James of The New York Times wished for more plot and fewer "silly" effects: "Ogling strange creatures is the film's true reason for being".