
Hellbound: Hellraiser II
1988 · MovieKirsty Cotton is in a psychiatric hospital and the horror from the first film has followed her there. A new doctor is very interested in the puzzle box.
Gothic horror descends from 18th- and 19th-century novels such as Frankenstein and Dracula, mixing brooding architecture, tormented romance and the supernatural. Decaying estates. Inherited curses. Secrets buried so long they've become architecture. Curated gothic horror draws from a tradition that predates cinema entirely, and these films know it. The past isn't backdrop here. It's the antagonist.

Kirsty Cotton is in a psychiatric hospital and the horror from the first film has followed her there. A new doctor is very interested in the puzzle box.

Frank Cotton solves an ancient puzzle box and gets more than he bargained for. When his brother's family moves into his old house, a single drop of blood gives Frank a way back.

Riley McKendrick comes across the Lament Configuration and activates a sequence of trades that the Cenobites require working through.

Hap drives Mina home to her remote gothic estate after meeting at a bar. She's charming, the house is beautiful, and his luck is about to run out.

A vampire sits down with a journalist in San Francisco and tells the story of two centuries spent with a companion he never chose and could never escape.

Eloise can access the past through her dreams and finds herself experiencing the life of Sandie, a young woman trying to break into the London music industry in 1965.

Lee Cronin's The Mummy brings the Evil Dead Rise sensibility to Universal Monster territory: practical effects, real dread, and a formal confidence that distinguishes it from previous attempts at the property.

Eli moves into the apartment next door to twelve-year-old Oskar. She only comes out at night, and she can't come in unless he invites her.

Angela and her brother Jackson make a living faking ghost cleansings in 1986 Scotland. Then a job at an old house where foster girls were murdered puts Angela face to face with spirits she can't fake.

In 1968, a mother flees England with her four children for her childhood home in rural Maine. When she dies, the children start experiencing things they can't explain.

Harper retreats to the English countryside after a personal tragedy. The village she's staying near and its surrounding land harbor something specific about masculine hostility.

A young priest arrives on a dying island community with what looks like a miracle. What he's actually brought with him is something the island isn't prepared for.

Thomas Hutter travels to Transylvania to complete a real estate transaction with Count Orlok. The consequences follow him home to Wisborg and his wife Ellen.

A runaway nun checks into the Bates Motel looking for somewhere quiet. Norman is genuinely trying to keep things normal.

Lestat wakes from a long sleep, becomes a rock star, and draws the attention of an ancient vampire queen who's been dormant for centuries.

Ben Mears returns to Jerusalem's Lot after decades away and finds that a recent arrival in an old house has been systematically working through the town.

Smoke and Stack Ruffin return to their 1932 Mississippi hometown and open a juke joint that draws the local community together. Visitors arrive that night with a very specific interest in what's happening inside.

A New York constable arrives in Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of beheadings and finds a community that believes in the Headless Horseman for very good reason.

Susie Bannion arrives at the Markos Dance Company in 1977 Berlin during a period of political upheaval and rises through the ranks.

Heather Miller learns she was adopted when a grandmother she never knew leaves her a house in Texas. She brings her friends along to see it, and the house comes with one more relative living in the basement.
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