Hellraiser II - Hellbound

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Movie
German title Hellraiser II - Hellbound
Original title Hellbound: Hellraiser II
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 1988
length 99 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Tony Randel
script Clive Barker
Peter Atkins
production Christopher Figg
music Christopher Young
camera Robin Vidgeon
cut Richard Marden
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Hellraiser - The Gate to Hell

Successor  →
Hellraiser III

Hellraiser II - Hellbound is the first sequel to Hellraiser - The Gate to Hell and was released in theaters in 1988. Directed by Tony Randel.

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After the events of the first part, Kirsty Cotton wakes up in a mental hospital run by Dr. Philip Channard is run. He wants to find out the secrets of the cube and the Zenobites, which he has been researching for years. For this reason, he sacrifices one of his patients, who obviously suffers from a dermatozoal madness and who slashes his upper body and his own private area with a razor , to the Zenobites. The deranged Mr. Browning, as the patient is called, lies on the mattress on which Julia Cotton once died. Due to the resulting blood flow on the mattress, the skinned Julia, who rises from hell, begins to form a new body dripping with blood, with Channard helping her to materialize. With their help, the brain surgeon wants to explore hell. In the basement of the mental hospital, in the spacious boiler room, which can be reached by elevator, there are padded cells for severely mentally disturbed patients in straight jackets, who are locked away there by society. For a supernatural skin transplant, Doctor Channard considers skinless Julia to be victims living in the attic of his villa and disfigured corpses that are tied to the ceiling with chains. Kirsty wants to rescue her dead father from hell, from whom she thinks he has received a cry for help. When the psychiatrist finally opens the gates of hell, Kirsty and the gifted but initially mute Tiffany, another patient of Dr. Channard, who is constantly busy with complicated puzzle games, set off to free her father. When the two ladies enter the dark underworld through sliding room walls and leave this worldly reality behind, eerie dungeons and windy labyrinths stretch out in front of them , through which they wander. In a hall of this enigmatic dimension flames blaze, candles burn and naked women squirm under semi-transparent sheets. In the distance you can hear a small child crying. In between, the girl Tiffany finds herself in a mirror cabinet . The two young women get into a nightmare during which they are fooled by the inhabitants of hell and persecuted by their opponents and the Zenobites. Together, the cruel Zenobites, who throw iron chains that are meter-long with pointed hooks hanging at the ends, explore the contrast and unity of sweet pleasure and terrible suffering, of joy and pain, whether physical or mental, like a bizarre ensemble of sadomasochism . When Doctor Channard is transformed into a zenobite in a torture chamber, a blue-faced creature with slippery tentacles and a cut skull, the calamity approaches its finale.

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  • The film grossed over $ 11 million in the United States. Hellraiser II was filmed at Pinewood Studios, west of London , UK .
  • Immediately after the first Hellraiser film appeared in 1987, the film crew was under pressure to immediately shoot a sequel that would meet the quality requirements of the first part and which would finally be released in American cinemas a year later, on Christmas 1988. In Hellraiser II, more special effects are used than in the first film, to represent the dark underworld around the Zenobites.
  • In this part, Pinhead appears briefly in his once human form of Captain Elliot Spencer , a British Army officer and representative of the Lost Generation , who for some unclear reason falls into his hands with the gold decorated dice. While the character of Pinhead, played by actor Doug Bradley , was only introduced towards the end of the film in the first Hellraiser part, the pale nail head with its grotesque entourage, the Zenobites, takes up significantly more leeway in the second film. The viewer learns how Elliot Spencer once transformed himself into the horror creature Pinhead, by a scene showing how Elliot Spencer gets the characteristic nails driven into his skull by evil forces. In Hellraiser III , Pinhead's biographical background is elaborated even deeper.
  • In an artistic way, Hellraiser II, just like the first part, uses a number of self-contained morbid motifs, for example medical surgery with a scalpel and an infant with sewn up lips. Elsewhere, a harlequin with white make-up and bleeding from his empty eye sockets juggles his eyeballs. The plot of the film loosely reports on the mythology of Leviathan , in the form of a pointed diamond-shaped sculpture, which at the end floats oversized in the labyrinthine hell in the leaden cloudy sky, as a form of the puzzle box Lament Configuration (in German roughly: design of the lamentation ).
  • Since Doug Bradley used to be a stage actor, he has an eloquent elegance that Bradley was able to incorporate into the character Pinhead, who often expresses himself in cryptic and semi-philosophical sentences.
  • Because of the stock market crash on Black Monday in October 1987, the production company New World Pictures lost a quarter of the planned budget, which is why the film crew could not shoot two scenes originally planned in the script for cost reasons, for example the visit of officer Elliot Spencer, who later became the horror figure of Pinhead at an Indian street bazaar where Spencer discovered the golden Rubik's Cube in the 1920s. For this scene, the crew should have built expensive sets. The lack of these plot elements makes it difficult for the viewer to understand the already complex story in Hellraiser II better.
  • While filming, actor Nicholas Vince , who was born in West Germany in May 1958 and plays the Zenobite with chattering teeth called Chatterer, suffered an injury when a black column was standing behind him that was rotating on its own axis and was fitted with iron chains and on which later the dead Zenobit Chatterer hangs. When actor Vince opened his mouth wide to scream, as the script dictated for this scene, a 12-inch metal hook of the rotating column caught in the corner of his mouth. There was no camera involved in this accident, otherwise the team would have spontaneously used these recordings for the film, as actor Nicholas Vince assured in a video interview that is included in the bonus material of the bluRay box of the Hellraiser trilogy. In contrast to the mask design of the first film, the character Chatterer in the second Hellraiser film has two pinched eyes.
  • In the first Hellraiser film, Grace Kirby, the cousin of creator Clive Barker, played the female Zenobite. Because of the elaborate masks that each time had to be put on the actors in a procedure lasting several hours, Grace Kirby was not ready to impersonate this role again, which is why in the second Hellraiser film, the actress Barbie Wilde, who was roughly the same stature as, stepped in for her Kirby. Since Barbie Wilde was very scared when she first saw the Zenobite figure Chatterer, the actress did not want to be committed at first. Only after being persuaded by her agent, Wilde agreed to take on the role. In contrast to her hollow-cheeked predecessor Grace Kirby, who had pronounced cheekbones, Wilde had a rather round, chubby face.
  • The film music by the composer Christopher Young was recorded by the Munich Symphony Orchestra under the direction of conductor Kurt Graunke . For the first Hellraiser sequel, Young composed a stormy and pompous orchestral music in double forts , with triumphant choir singing, overwhelming French horns and thumping percussion. The impressive choral singing comes from the Pro Musica Seria chamber choir from Munich. Young had previously written the soundtrack for the second Freddy Krueger horror film Nightmare II from 1985. In 1991 the Munich Symphony Orchestra worked under the name Graunke Symphony Orchestra for the music for the psychological thriller Das Schweigen der Lämmer with the composer Howard Shore .
  • For the scene in which the dead Julia Cotton rises as the queen of evil on the blood-soaked mattress, the team carefully shot numerous different shots, as the crew was aware that the censors would certainly cut out a few minutes of images from the finished film become. Years later, actor Kenneth Cranham , who is a stage mime of plays penned by William Shakespeare , found out about Japanese video copies of Hellraiser II with all the settings of this extremely bloody mattress scene. With regard to these editions, Cranham explains with amusement in the documentary The Doctor is in , which is in the bonus material of the bluRay box of the Hellraiser trilogy: “ I wonder why people want to see this. It's like watching rabbits being skinned. "
  • In the scene in which Doctor Channard kisses Julia Cotton, who is completely wrapped in a white gauze bandage and has a bloody skin underneath, there is not actress Clare Higgins in this mummy-like disguise , but the South African actress Deborah Joel as a double, who appears under the layers as skinless Julia Latex and white bandages continued to have a graceful figure.
  • The only official German VHS version is heavily shortened compared to the original due to the censorship. In total, almost ten minutes are missing, which limits the comprehension of the story told. In 2011 BMV-Medien published Hellraiser I and II in full on bluRay.
  • In both the first and second part of Hellraiser, actor Oliver Smith plays the blood-dripping monster Frank. In Hellbound Smith also portrays Mr. Browning, a patient suffering from insect madness. In the scene in which Mr. Browning cuts his torso on the blood-soaked mattress, actor Smith used a knife with a blunted blade.
  • The character Dr. Philip Channard dedicated director Tony Randel to the physician Christiaan Barnard , who in December 1967 achieved the world's first heart transplant . In the fictional surname Channard , the name of the famous surgeon is hidden as a short form. Director Randel designed the character Dr. Channard as a power-conscious, arrogant and god-like person. His screenwriter Peter Atkins, on the other hand, wanted the doctor figure to be named Dr. Give Malahide , which means "bad skin" in cipher, based on the character Francis Dolarhyde , which in turn means "sad skin", in the novel Red Dragon by the writer Thomas Harris from 1981. Atkins was unable to assert his name suggestion.
  • When director Tony Randel and screenwriter Peter Atkins first met for a collaboration on Hellraiser II, a friendship developed, which is why director Randel had his son baptized his middle name Peter, after screenwriter Peter Atkins.
  • While filming the scene in which Doctor Channard, the enchanted Zenobite, floats through a window into the psychiatric ward with his head hanging from a meter-long structure that looks like a gigantic penis, actor Kenneth Cranham sustained a painful neck injury , when the special effects team that controlled the flight corset made a mistake, whereupon further shooting for the flight sequence had to be postponed. “ So you almost pulled my head out of my torso and I couldn't work for a while, ” Cranham recalls in the documentary The Doctor is in . In the documentary film, Cranham attests to the film Hellraiser II a thoroughly evil spirit (in English: " a whiff of evil ") and that many people among the horror film fans who "have been pushed aside by society " probably therefore feel themselves with the strange one Identify band of Zenobites.
  • An unfinished scene that did not make it into the final version of the horror film shows Pinhead and the female Zenobite, played by actress Barbie Wilde , disguised as surgeons in blue surgical gowns and white medical face masks in the basement of the psychiatry where Kirsty Cotton and the mute girl Tiffany was disturbed by the Zenobites. This "remote scene" is archived in the bonus material of the bluRay box from Hellraiser I-III.
  • After the British film critic Barry Norman, who hosted a film magazine for BBC television from 1972 to 1998 , thoroughly panned the first Hellraiser film in 1987 because Norman generally rejected the horror film genre, which annoyed the film crew, the team invited invited the TV journalists to a personal interview while filming the Hellraiser sequel. The film crew allowed themselves a joke in that actor Doug Bradley, completely dressed as Pinhead, received the television presenter, which deeply irritated the film critic Barry Norman. Subsequently, author Clive Barker and producer Christopher Figg asked him in a controversial debate why Barry Norman cannot objectively review horror films. After this encounter, TV presenter Norman reported more benevolently about the Hellraiser franchise.
  • In November 2014, the film in Germany was removed from the index by the Federal Testing Office for Media Harmful to Young People.
  • A restored version was released on July 26, 2018.
  • In real life, actress Imogen Boorman, who stars in the role of the dumb blonde Tiffany, struggled with drinking problems for years, and as a result came into conflict with the law several times between 2006 and 2009.
  • Michael McDowell was originally supposed to direct Hellraiser II, but he canceled it and Tony Randel was chosen as director.
  • In the USA, Hellraiser II was released in cinemas on Christmas 1988, which caused great displeasure among director Tony Randel. Since most people don't watch horror films at Christmas, the Hellraiser sequel got off to a bad start in terms of visitor numbers in movie theaters. According to Randel, the film should have been released in early January 1989.
  • A big fan of the Hellraiser stories is writer Stephen King , who once said, “ I've seen the future of horror, his name is Clive Barker . "(In English:" I have seen the future of horror, his name is Clive Barker. ") King used a modified formulation that goes back as a famous quote to the music journalist Jon Landau , who in May 1974 after attending a concert by Bruce Springsteen wrote of the American rock musician: “ I saw rock and roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen. "
  • To describe the expressive play of his colleague Clare Higgins, actor Kenneth Cranham characterized her as a mixture of Charlotte Rampling and Peter Sutcliffe .
  • In the sequel, actor Andrew Robinson was to play the character Larry Cotton again, as in the first Hellraiser film. However, actor Robinson was not satisfied with the plot, in his opinion, his role had not been given enough playing time in Hellbound. In addition, the production company wanted to pay him a financially lower fee than for the first Hellraiser film, which Robinson, who was not a member of an actors' union at the time, disagreed with. Therefore, the role of Larry Cotton was removed from the script shortly before filming began.
  • In the scene in which the Queen of Evil Julia Cotton rises from the bloody mattress, Dr. Channard got some blood on his face. At this point, director Tony Randel was sitting under the camera, spraying actor Kenneth Cranham in the face with a pistol filled with fake blood.
  • A first draft of the script called for the center of the labyrinthine hell to be represented in the form of a slimy beast, as the embodiment of Leviathan in the tradition of the classic creatures in the stories of writer HP Lovecraft . Instead, director Tony Randel and screenwriter Peter Atkins decided to depict the center of hell as a geometric diamond-shaped sculpture floating in the dark sky.
  • When Kirsty Cotton and Tiffany escape the stormy catacombs of Hell and end up in a yellow hospital room, the picture Day and Night by Dutch artist MC Escher from 1938, which deals with optical illusion and metamorphosis , hangs on a wall in this room . In the picture you can see a black and white flying flock of geese. This Escher picture is often faded in in the film as a jigsaw puzzle, for example when Tiffany is busy with difficult puzzle blocks.
  • Hellbound: Hellraiser II was one of the last feature films to use handcrafted costumes, masks and puppets with stop-motion knitting techniques and little computer animation.
  • At the end of the film we see a rotating black "Pillar of Souls" (in English: Pillar of Souls ) with the faces of Pinhead and a bearded vagrant with locusts in the face. This scene shows the faces of make-up artist John Cormican as a vagabond and as a skinned Julia and make-up artist Geoffrey "Geoff" Portass as Pinhead, who look through this pillar wearing makeup and mask. The film team hired a locust breeder for the insects.

Reviews

Despite its success with genre fans, the reviews of the film were rather poor:

Roger Ebert , who was already extremely negative about Part 1 in the Chicago Sun-Times , criticized the fact that Hellraiser II et al. a. "Violate the basic rules of story construction".

“All in all, Hellraiser II contains the same kind of surrealism as the first part, takes it even further, but at the expense of the plot. If you don't mind this, you will be thrilled by this B-movie. "

- Thomas Vesely, allesfilm.com

“A horror film overloaded with effects, which slips into an illogical blood orgy with numerous tasteless things. Even for die-hard genre fans on the verge of bearable. "

- Lexicon of international film

"'Hellbound - Hellraiser II' is an opulent Gothic adventure that courageously carries on the ideas of the literature and film."

- Björn Helbig, filmstarts.de

“Despite all the ostensible excesses of blood, the Hellraiser films also represent one of the really imaginative and innovative entrances to the genre. The extremely bloody and realistic special effects, which are considerably reduced in the German version, are next to the hell world made by many production designers optical highlights of the very exciting second part. "

- Trebbin, Frank: Fear sits next to you, 1998, ISBN 3-929234-03-3

Awards

  • Composer Christopher Young won a Saturn Award in 1990 for his film music. Hellbound - Hellraiser II was also nominated for the award in the categories of Best Horror Film and Best Supporting Actress (Clare Higgins), but could not win the race there.
  • The film received a nomination for Best Film for the International Fantasy Film Award .

Quotes from the movie

  • “Now is the game. But if you trick us again, child, the amount of your torment will become legend even in hell. "

(Zenobite leader Pinhead to his victim Kirsty Cotton)

  • “No, it's not hands that are calling us. It is desire. "

(Pinhead, when Tiffany puts the Rubik's Cube right together, conjuring up the Zenobites)

  • “The brain pathways are clearly recognizable and the brain waves are deceptively perceptible. But we don't know why all of this is so. The secrets are still not unraveled [...] But we, as explorers of the human spirit, have to use our strength to move on. "

(Surgeon Dr. Channard during a brain operation on a patient)

  • “Do you believe me or am I crazy?” - “Well, we don't use that word here, Kirsty. But I think we should talk about a few things. "

(Dialogue between patient Kirsty Cotton and doctor Dr. Channard)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Hellraiser II - Hellbound . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Box office results on imdb.com
  3. ↑ Video interview with actor Doug Bradley in the documentary Under the Skin , directed by Jake West , 11 minutes, 2004, produced by Nucleus Films and Arrow Video, included in the bonus material of the five-disc bluRay box Clive Barker's Hellraiser Trilogy , (Disc 2), 2018, Turbine Medien GmbH, Münster + Lakeshore International, Beverly Hills (USA)
  4. ↑ Documentary Hellbound - A look back , directors: Christian Levatino and Victor Mendoza, 18 minutes, 2000, included in the bonus material of the five-disc bluRay box Clive Barker's Hellraiser Trilogy , (Disc 2), 2018, Turbine Medien GmbH, Münster + Lakeshore International, Beverly Hills (USA)
  5. ↑ Video interview with actor Doug Bradley in the documentary Under the Skin , directed by Jake West , 11 minutes, 2004, produced by Nucleus Films and Arrow Video, included in the bonus material of the five-disc bluRay box Clive Barker's Hellraiser Trilogy , (Disc 2), 2018, Turbine Medien GmbH, Münster + Lakeshore International, Beverly Hills (USA)
  6. ↑ Video interview with actor Nicholas Vince, documentary Hellbound - A look back , directors: Christian Levatino and Victor Mendoza, 18 minutes, 2000, included in the bonus material of the five-disc bluRay box Clive Barker's Hellraiser Trilogy , (Disc 2), 2018, Turbine Medien GmbH, Münster + Lakeshore International, Beverly Hills (USA)
  7. ↑ Documentary The Soul Patrol , directed by Michael Felsher, 23 minutes, 2008, produced by Anchor Bay Entertainment + Red Shirt Pictures, included in the bonus material of the five-disc bluRay box Clive Barker's Hellraiser Trilogy , (Disc 2), 2018, Turbine Medien GmbH, Münster + Lakeshore International, Beverly Hills (USA)
  8. ↑ Documentary The Soul Patrol , directed by Michael Felsher, 23 minutes, 2008, produced by Anchor Bay Entertainment + Red Shirt Pictures, included in the bonus material of the five-disc bluRay box Clive Barker's Hellraiser Trilogy , (Disc 2), 2018, Turbine Medien GmbH, Münster + Lakeshore International, Beverly Hills (USA)
  9. ↑ Video interview with composer Christopher Young in the documentary Der Höllenkomponist - Hellcomposer , directors: Michael Felsher and David Gregory, 19 minutes, 2007, produced by Anchor Bay Entertainment + Red Shirt Pictures + Starz Home Entertainment, included in the bonus material of the five-disc bluRay box Clive Barker's Hellraiser Trilogy , (Disc 1), 2018, Turbine Medien GmbH, Münster + Lakeshore International, Beverly Hills (USA)
  10. ↑ Documentary The Doctor is in… with Kenneth Cranham , director: Michael Felsher, 14 minutes, 2008, produced by Anchor Bay Entertainment + Red Shirt Pictures + The Monster Company, included in the bonus material of the five-disc bluRay box Clive Barker's Hellraiser Trilogy , (Disc 2), 2018, Turbine Medien GmbH, Münster + Lakeshore International, Beverly Hills (USA)
  11. ↑ Documentary Leviathan: The Story of Hellbound: Hellraiser II . Director: K. John McDonagh, narrator: Oliver Smith, 120 minutes, 2015, produced by Cult Screenings UK Ltd. and Dead Mouse Productions, included in the bonus material of the five-disc bluRay box Clive Barker's Hellraiser Trilogy , (Disc 4), 2018, Turbine Medien GmbH, Münster + Lakeshore International, Beverly Hills (USA)
  12. ↑ Video interview with actor Oliver Smith, documentary Hellbound - A look back , directors: Christian Levatino and Victor Mendoza, 18 minutes, 2000, included in the bonus material of the five-disc bluRay box Clive Barker's Hellraiser Trilogy , (Disc 2), 2018, Turbine Medien GmbH, Münster + Lakeshore International, Beverly Hills (USA)
  13. ↑ Documentary Leviathan: The Story of Hellbound: Hellraiser II . Director: K. John McDonagh, narrator: Oliver Smith, 120 minutes, 2015, produced by Cult Screenings UK Ltd. and Dead Mouse Productions, included in the bonus material of the five-disc bluRay box Clive Barker's Hellraiser Trilogy , (Disc 4), 2018, Turbine Medien GmbH, Münster + Lakeshore International, Beverly Hills (USA)
  14. ↑ Video interview with director Tony Randel and screenwriter Peter Atkins in the documentary Leviathan - Die Geschichte von Hellbound: Hellraiser II (The Story of Hellbound: Hellraiser II) . Director: K. John McDonagh, narrator: Oliver Smith, 120 minutes, 2015, produced by Cult Screenings UK Ltd. and Dead Mouse Productions, included in the bonus material of the five-disc bluRay box Clive Barker's Hellraiser Trilogy , (Disc 4), 2018, Turbine Medien GmbH, Münster + Lakeshore International, Beverly Hills (USA)
  15. ↑ Documentary Leviathan: The Story of Hellbound: Hellraiser II . Director: K. John McDonagh, narrator: Oliver Smith, 120 minutes, 2015, produced by Cult Screenings UK Ltd. and Dead Mouse Productions, included in the bonus material of the five-disc bluRay box Clive Barker's Hellraiser Trilogy , (Disc 4), 2018, Turbine Medien GmbH, Münster + Lakeshore International, Beverly Hills (USA)
  16. ↑ Documentary Leviathan: The Story of Hellbound: Hellraiser II . Director: K. John McDonagh, narrator: Oliver Smith, 120 minutes, 2015, produced by Cult Screenings UK Ltd. and Dead Mouse Productions, included in the bonus material of the five-disc bluRay box Clive Barker's Hellraiser Trilogy , (Disc 4), 2018, Turbine Medien GmbH, Münster + Lakeshore International, Beverly Hills (USA)
  17. ↑ schnittberichte.com, accessed on November 28, 2014
  18. ↑ filmstarts.de, accessed on March 17, 2018
  19. ↑ Documentary Tony Randels Höllenritt (Outside the Box - Tony Randel's Road to Hell ), director: Michael R. Felsher, 16 minutes, 2008, produced by Anchor Bay Entertainment + Red Shirt Pictures, included in the bonus material of the five-disc bluRay box Clive Barker's Hellraiser Trilogy , (Disc 2), 2018, Turbine Medien GmbH, Münster + Lakeshore International, Beverly Hills (USA)
  20. ↑ Documentary Tony Randels Höllenritt (Outside the Box - Tony Randel's Road to Hell ), director: Michael R. Felsher, 16 minutes, 2008, produced by Anchor Bay Entertainment + Red Shirt Pictures, included in the bonus material of the five-disc bluRay box Clive Barker's Hellraiser Trilogy , (Disc 2), 2018, Turbine Medien GmbH, Münster + Lakeshore International, Beverly Hills (USA)
  21. ↑ Documentary Under the Skin , director: Jake West , 11 minutes, 2004, produced by Nucleus Films and Arrow Video, included in the bonus material of the five-disc bluRay box Clive Barker's Hellraiser Trilogy , (Disc 2), 2018, Turbine Medien GmbH, Münster + Lakeshore International, Beverly Hills (USA)
  22. ↑ US trailer (version 1 + 2), each around 2 minutes, contained in the bonus material (promotion archive) of the five-disc bluRay box Clive Barker's Hellraiser Trilogy , (Disc 1), 2018, Turbine Medien GmbH, Münster + Lakeshore International, Beverly Hills (USA)
  23. ^ Fritz Rau : 50 Years Backstage - Memories of a Concert Organizer . Autobiography of concert promoter Fritz Rau, who worked with Bruce Springsteen and his manager Jon Landau. Palmyra Verlag , Heidelberg , 1st edition, 2005. p. 107
  24. ↑ Documentary The Doctor is in… with Kenneth Cranham , director: Michael Felsher, 14 minutes, 2008, produced by Anchor Bay Entertainment + Red Shirt Pictures + The Monster Company, included in the bonus material of the five-disc bluRay box Clive Barker's Hellraiser Trilogy , (Disc 2), 2018, Turbine Medien GmbH, Münster + Lakeshore International, Beverly Hills (USA)
  25. ↑ Video interview with actor Kenneth Cranham in the documentary Leviathan - Die Geschichte von Hellraiser (The Story of Hellraiser) . Director: K. John McDonagh, narrator: Oliver Smith, 90 minutes, 2015, produced by Cult Screenings UK Ltd. and Dead Mouse Productions, included in the bonus material of the five-disc bluRay box Clive Barker's Hellraiser Trilogy , (Disc 4), 2018, Turbine Medien GmbH, Münster + Lakeshore International, Beverly Hills (USA)
  26. ↑ Video interview with director Tony Randel and actor Andrew Robinson in the documentary Leviathan - The Story of Hellbound: Hellraiser II (The Story of Hellbound: Hellraiser II) . Director: K. John McDonagh, narrator: Oliver Smith, 120 minutes, 2015, produced by Cult Screenings UK Ltd. and Dead Mouse Productions, included in the bonus material of the five-disc bluRay box Clive Barker's Hellraiser Trilogy , (Disc 4), 2018, Turbine Medien GmbH, Münster + Lakeshore International, Beverly Hills (USA)
  27. ↑ Video interview with actor Andrew Robinson in the documentary Mr. Cotton? (Mr. Cotton, I presume?) , Directed by Michael Felsher, 17 minutes, 2007, produced by Anchor Bay Entertainment + Red Shirt Pictures + Starz Home Entertainment, included in the bonus material of the five-disc bluRay box Clive Barker's Hellraiser Trilogy , ( Disc 1), 2018, Turbine Medien GmbH, Münster + Lakeshore International, Beverly Hills (USA)
  28. ↑ Video interview with director Tony Randel in the documentary Leviathan - The Story of Hellbound: Hellraiser II (The Story of Hellbound: Hellraiser II) . Director: K. John McDonagh, narrator: Oliver Smith, 120 minutes, 2015, produced by Cult Screenings UK Ltd. and Dead Mouse Productions, included in the bonus material of the five-disc bluRay box Clive Barker's Hellraiser Trilogy , (Disc 4), 2018, Turbine Medien GmbH, Münster + Lakeshore International, Beverly Hills (USA)
  29. ↑ Video interview with director Tony Randel and screenwriter Peter Atkins in the documentary Leviathan - Die Geschichte von Hellbound: Hellraiser II (The Story of Hellbound: Hellraiser II) . Director: K. John McDonagh, narrator: Oliver Smith, 120 minutes, 2015, produced by Cult Screenings UK Ltd. and Dead Mouse Productions, included in the bonus material of the five-disc bluRay box Clive Barker's Hellraiser Trilogy , (Disc 4), 2018, Turbine Medien GmbH, Münster + Lakeshore International, Beverly Hills (USA)
  30. ↑ Documentary Leviathan: The Story of Hellbound: Hellraiser II . Director: K. John McDonagh, narrator: Oliver Smith, 120 minutes, 2015, produced by Cult Screenings UK Ltd. and Dead Mouse Productions, included in the bonus material of the five-disc bluRay box Clive Barker's Hellraiser Trilogy , (Disc 4), 2018, Turbine Medien GmbH, Münster + Lakeshore International, Beverly Hills (USA)
  31. ↑ Review by Roger Ebert of Hellraiser - The Gate to Hell
  32. ↑ Roger Ebert's review of Hellbound - Hellraiser II
  33. ↑ Film review on allesfilm.com ( Memento from July 22, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
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