An average movie

I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but I thought I might as well check it out. Well, even if the opinions are mixed towards this sequel, to be honest, I thought it was not bad at all. One of the main complaint when it was released is that it was much more gory than its predecessor following the wave of slasher films released at the time but, since I have seen countless of such movies before, it didn’t bother me. First of all, I didn’t know that John Carpenter was involved with this sequel as a writer and producer and I’m pretty sure it was thanks to him that the damned thing didn’t become another lame horror sequel like so many others out there (However, to be honest, Carpenter apparently didn’t care much for this movie after all). Anyway, as far as I was concerned, I really liked the idea that this sequel started exactly when the first movie stopped. Even if it was maybe not super original, I thought it was really cool. It was also neat that Michael Myers would chase Laurie Strode in the hospital she was brought to following the events of the previous movie. However, even though the fact that most of the action was taking place at the hospital was at first interesting, it did seriously limit the scope of the action though. Indeed, basically, the whole thing was reduced to Michael Myers chasing one by one all the employees and kill them in a rather gruesome way which became rather repetitive at some point. It seemed also unlikely that such a hospital would have only 3 nurses, 2 paramedics, 1 doctor and 1 night guard working there at night. The last thing that bothered me was the fact that Michael Myers suddenly became this ridiculously indestructible antagonist which was a major mistake as he became completely unrelatable. Anyway, to conclude, in spite of its flaws, it turned out to be a decent sequel after all and I think it is worth a look, at least, if you really like the genre.