Double Your Terror

While shivering over Clive Barker: “Hellbound: Hellraiser II,” based on a Barker story and due out Dec. 23, gave up some frames to get its R-rating from the MPAA.

Twice rated X, the pic was deemed “basically too relentless and intense from beginning to end,” said New World marketing prez Bob Cheren, who insists gore fiends won’t be disappointed by the new cut.

Trimmed: the decapitation of a monster, a bloody resurrection sequence (fewer razor cuts now shown), and a scene in which the resurrected (and skinless) female character feeds on human flesh--in order to restore her own!