Terrifying Horror

Tyler Mane as Michael Myers
Scout Taylor Compton as Laurie Strode
Malcolm McDowell as DR. Samuel Loomis
Brad Dourif as Sherriff Lee Brackett
Danielle Harris as Annie Brackett
Chase Wright Vanek as Young Michael
Sherri Moon Zombie as Deborah Myers

Hey world, guess what? I'm Michael Myers' sister! I'm fucked!

After Laurie Strode is nearly killed by Michael Myers, her life is turned upside down, her parents are dead, her dreams are now being haunted, it can’t get any worse for Laurie can it? Wrong, it turns out Michael Myers is not actually dead and he returns to Haddonfield to cause havoc for Laurie who still is not aware of her true identity. Dr. Loomis is promoting his tell all novel about Michael Myers, and Laurie happens to pick it up, this is where she finds the truth about who she really is. She is angry at the world for keeping it a secret for so long, but they were only doing it for her own good. Everything comes to a climax when Michael Myers is holding his baby sister Angel Myers hostage in a barn, this is where Laurie/Angel fully understands who she is, and even comes to terms with it somewhat. The final scenes were really dramatic and well done, go and see it.

Horror films are difficult to review, because the thrills are usually cheap and the acting is usually terrible. That all went out of the window when Rob Zombie gave us his extreme look at Michael Myers, a man torn apart by a traumatic childhood. Zombies look at the life of a well known fictitious serial killer was brutal. He hired 6’9 Tyler Mane to portray the character, and Tyler doesn’t speak one word as Michael Myers, but his performance is still menacing to me atleast. However the Scout Taylor Compton delivered great performances in both the Halloween flicks that Rob Zombie made. Her character of Laurie Strode changed in this film, she was broken and didn’t know who she was anymore, only to find out that she in fact never was Laurie Strode, but all along she was Angel Myers. Good performances from Mane and Compton as well as McDowell as the arrogant, self righteous Dr. Loomis. It was great to see that Rob changed Loomis from the hero to the arrogant know it all doctor who nobody seemed to take seriously.

For me this film should stand as the conclusion to Rob Zombies homage to the great John Carpenter classic, because if they continue to make new Halloween flicks, they will ruin the brutal force that Michael Myers had and the authenticity of the new Myers character that was created. And to me after the thrilling final scene this film included it would be a disaster to go and ruin that with another film.

Spoilers from this point.
There were a few scenes that really stuck out.


4. Dr. Loomis Book Signing- To me when the father of a young girl brutally killed by Myers approached Loomis it was emotional. He felt like Loomis was the reason that Michael escaped from the institution in the first place and he baled Loomis for the reason that his daughter was killed.

3. Young Michaels Unemotional response to his Mother’s death- To me this scene really gave an insight to the insanity of Michael Myers. He didn’t even flinch or get emotional when Loomis told him that the only person who cared for him was dead. All he said was “She will be back” He couldn’t seem to grasp what Loomis was telling and he almost wouldn’t let it sink it that he was getting older and things were changing.

2. Annies death scene- This scene was brutal to be fair. Michael broke a helpless young girl, by savagely killing her. This was the breaking point so to speak for Laurie. Annie was the only one would could completely understand what had happened, because he had been torn apart but the insanity of Michael Myers. She and Laurie were the best of friends and understood each other’s pain and suffering.

1.The Final Scene- When Laurie/ Angel was being held in the barn and she could see the twisted vision that Michael saw of his younger self it was wrenching to see this family back together in such unusual circumstances. Then when Michael is raising his knife to kill Laurie but drops it and she says “I love you brother” and stabs him allowing him to go and be with their mother. Then Laurie walks out of the barn with the mask on her head, and she takes it off falling to her knees. To me this was Laurie finally coming to terms with who she is. As messed up as it was, she was the sister of Michael Myers and they were a family as weird as that sounds.


Rob Zombie crafted a solid film, a good horror flick. Let’s hope his thrilling conclusion is the last of a two part series that has shocked and amazed


7/10