This is one of the worst follow ups to one of the best horror movies of all time. Everything that made the original a work of genius is thrown out of the window in the interests of commerce. The movie took less than half the amount of the original movie, making it a box office dissapointment.
Description:Charles Cyphers, Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jeffrey Kramer, Lance Guest - Dir:Rick Rosenthal Escaped psychopath Michael Myers pursues Laurie Strode into a new bloodbath at the hospital while Dr. Sam Loomis frantically tries to understand--and destroy--him.
Picking up right where the last film ended, this sequel begins as Dr.Charles Cyphers, Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jeffrey Kramer, Lance Guest - Dir:Rick Rosenthal Escaped psychopath Michael Myers pursues Laurie Strode into a new bloodbath at the hospital while Dr. Sam Loomis frantically tries to understand--and destroy--him.
Picking up right where the last film ended, this sequel begins as Dr. Loomis pumps evil Mike Myers full of lead, then watches helplessly as the maniac killer stands up again and runs away. Laurie Strode, the teenager last terrorized by Myers, is taken to a nearby hospital to recover from her traumatic ordeal. But Myers isn't through with her yet, and the fright-night monster works his way through the sleepy town, leaving a river of blood in his wake. Determined to get his revenge on Laurie, he eventually descends upon the hospital -- and the dark secret that binds the two of them is finally revealed.
The nightmare of Halloween continues in this chilling sequel. The knife-wielding psychotic left for dead in the original film returns with a thirst for vengeance.
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The Ups: It feels like a natural continuation from the original and both Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasance were still in it - together. Some good slasher deaths too as Michael Myers goes through a lot of nurses and guards in order to get to his planned victim who stays in the hospital.
The Downs: It is not really that bad as people say. It is just inferior to the original, but it has grown on me during the years when I have seen the last twenty years terrible slasher movies done on a low "
"This uninspired version amounts to lukewarm sloppy seconds in comparison to the original film that made director John Carpenter a hot property.
- Variety Staff, Variety
It's a little sad to witness a fall from greatness, and that's what we get in Halloween II.
- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rick Rosenthal, who directed this 1981 sequel, doesn't have Carpenter's expansive, affectionate way with stereotypical characters, and without it they're empty shells -- bodies waiting for the slaughte"
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Honestly, if you're going to watch Halloween you should watch 1 and 2 back-to-back. This one picks up right where the first left off. The train keeps a rollin' and Michael Myers just keeps on killing. Pleasance and Curtis are one hell of an onscreen pair!"
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