Movies like Hellbound: Hellraiser II
If Hellbound: Hellraiser II hooked you with its horror and thriller, these are the films to watch next. Every pick says why it matches.
Hellraiser: Bloodline (1996)
Three generations of the same family deal with the consequences of unleashing the forces of hell.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisHellraiser (1987)
A hedonistic man finds a mysterious puzzle box that summons a group of gruesome beings known as the Cenobites. These otherworldly entities open the doors to a dominion where pain and pleasure are indivisible.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThey Found Hell (2015)
When a group of gifted college students run a secret teleportation experiment, they accidentally open a portal to another dimension, trapping them in Hell. One by one they are hunted, tortured and killed by the denizens of Hell who are bent on stealing their souls.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisHellraiser (2022)
A young woman struggling with addiction comes into possession of an ancient puzzle box, unaware that its purpose is to summon the Cenobites, a group of sadistic supernatural beings from another dimension.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHellraiser: Inferno (2000)
A detective solves the puzzle box that releases the diabolical demon, Pinhead. As those around him begin to meet tragic fates, he sets out to conquer the horrifying villain.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisHellraiser: Hellseeker (2002)
After a car crash, a shady stockbroker suffers from amnesia. This leaves him in a hazy limbo of sex and murder. But, as in a predestined journey, he takes the bait and follows the marked-out clues all the way to Pinhead.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisHellraiser III: Hell on Earth (1992)
Pinhead is set loose on the sinful streets of New York City to create chaos with a fresh cadre of Cenobitic kin.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisGrave Robbers (1989)
A group of teenage, treasure seeking, grave robbers accidentally uncover the tomb of a satanic sect leader from the early Spanish colonial age, reawakening the diabolical killer, who promptly sets out to complete his unholy mission of spawning the son of Satan.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Prince of Darkness (1987)
A priest discovers an ancient canister containing a strange liquid in an abandoned church. When a group of graduate students and scientists are tasked with studying it, they unknowingly unleash an evil force waiting to destroy all of humanity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTales from the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995)
Ex-soldier Frank Brayker is the guardian of an ancient key that can unlock tremendous evil; the sinister Collector is a demon who wants the key so he can initiate the apocalypse. On the run from wicked mercenaries for almost 90 years, Brayker finally stops in at a boarding house in New Mexico where — with the help of its residents — he plans to face off against the Collector and his band of ghouls, preventing them from ever seizing the key.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child (1989)
The pregnant Alice finds Freddy Krueger striking through the sleeping mind of her unborn child, hoping to be reborn into the real world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisSaw (2003)
David, an orderly at a hospital, tells his horrific story of being kidnapped and forced to play a vile game of survival.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)
A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scientist enters the rarely seen netherworld of walking zombies, blood rites and ancient curses. Based on the true life experiences of Wade Davis and filmed on location in Haiti, it's a frightening excursion into black magic and the supernatural.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDemons 2 (1986)
A group of tenants and visitors are trapped in a 10-story high-rise apartment building infested with demons who proceed to hunt the dwindling humans down.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Church (1989)
In a Gothic cathedral built on the mass grave of a Teutonic purge, an ancient discovery by the new librarian will release an unholy maelstrom of madness, violence, and demonic vengeance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter (1992)
A creature of demonic nature, too hideous to have a name, once again terrorizes the college kids that summoned it.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisPumpkinhead II: Blood Wings (1995)
When five teenagers unwittingly resurrect Pumpkinhead, nobody is safe! But this monster is different – inside its demonic form dwells the soul of a boy murdered years ago. Can the evil creature be killed without destroying the child trapped within?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisDemons (1985)
A group of people are trapped in a West Berlin movie theater infested with ravenous demons who proceed to kill and possess the humans one-by-one, thereby multiplying their numbers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSaw III (2006)
Jigsaw has disappeared. Along with his new apprentice Amanda, the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture and vanished. While city detectives scramble to locate him, Doctor Lynn Denlon and Jeff Reinhart are unaware that they are about to become the latest pawns on his vicious chessboard.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Ninth Gate (1999)
A rare book dealer finds himself at the heart of a string of paranormal events when he is hired to find the last two copies of a text, The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows, capable of summoning the Devil.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThir13en Ghosts (2001)
Arthur and his two children inherit his uncle's estate: a glass house that serves as a prison to twelve ghosts. When the family, accompanied by a nanny and an attorney, enter the house they find themselves trapped inside an evil machine 'designed by the Devil and powered by the dead' to open the Eye of Hell. Aided by a ghost hunter and his rival, a ghost rights activist out to set the ghosts free, the group must do what they can to get out of the house alive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFrom Beyond (1986)
The Resonator, a powerful machine that can control the sixth sense, has killed its creator and sent his associate into an insane asylum. When a psychiatrist becomes determined to continue the experiment, she unwittingly opens the door to a hostile parallel universe.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCandyman (1992)
The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMartyrs (2008)
A young woman’s quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tortured her as a child leads her and her best friend, also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDust Devil (1992)
A woman on the run from her abusive husband encounters a mysterious hitch-hiker.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Hand (1981)
Jon Lansdale is a comic book artist who loses his right hand in a car accident. The hand was not found at the scene of the accident, but it soon returns by itself to follow Jon around, and murder those who anger him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Keep (1983)
Set during World War II, a German army garrison is sent to guard a mountain pass in a village in Romania's Carpathian mountains and sets up barracks in an ancient stone fortress. Two of the soldiers unwittingly release a mysterious entity that kills or corrupts those within its influence, drawing the attention of a Gestapo commander, a Jewish scholar, and a mysterious traveller.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisLink (1986)
Young graduate student Jane Chase becomes the new assistant to an eccentric zoology professor at the remote home he shares with two brilliant chimpanzees and an elderly orangutan butler named Link. But when one of the chimps is found dead and the professor mysteriously disappears, Link becomes dangerously aggressive towards Jane. Now, the time for “monkey business” is over and the true terror is about to begin.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCastle Freak (1996)
John Reilly discovers that his family's newly inherited castle in Italy is haunted by a relentless, bloodthirsty creature.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Haunting of Morella (1990)
An executed witch inhabits her teenaged daughter's body to continue in the pursuit of bloodshed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Hellbound: Hellraiser II?
The closest matches to Hellbound: Hellraiser II are Hellraiser: Bloodline, Hellraiser, They Found Hell.
How are movies similar to Hellbound: Hellraiser II chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Hellbound: Hellraiser II, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.
Are there English movies like Hellbound: Hellraiser II?
Yes: Hellraiser: Bloodline, Hellraiser, They Found Hell.