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| FILM DETAILS | Certificate
18 | | Cast
Scout Taylor-Compton
Malcolm McDowell
Tyler Mane. | | Directors
Rob Zombie. | | | Screenwriters | | Running Time
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Halloween II (18) Plot
A year after his Halloween rampage in Haddonfield, Illinois, masked serial killer Michael Myers (Tyler Mane) returns – ordered by an apparition of his dead mother (Sheri Moon Zombie) to murder his sister Laurie (Scout Taylor-Compton). Michael kills various people, prompting his former psychologist Sam Loomis (Malcolm McDowell) to come to town in the hope of ending the carnage.Review
Rob Zombie loves John Carpenter’s Halloween so much he had to kill it with a grunge remake. Now he trashes his own vision with a sequel so shoddy it makes the disappointing 1981 Halloween II (homaged in a lengthy hospital stalk which turns out – gasp! – to be only a dream) seem classic.
Laurie is now a tattooed, traumatised party slut and Dr Loomis is a crass talk-show exploiter out to cash in on his association with serial killer Michael Myers, who has been sitting in a shed, growing his hair and eating dogs for a year and decides to go after Laurie (outed as his sister in Loomis’s latest book) this Halloween – gruesomely killing a random bunch of folks to get to her. In a word, ugly. Verdict
In a word, ugly. It just pips Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (aka Halloween 6) to the title of worst Halloween film ever.
Reviewer: Kim Newman
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| | | I had high expectations for this film, I can't say I was dissapointed with the film because I think it's really good. The only 'put off' for me was the Ghost of young Michael and his Mother... What was that all about? I think the kills are more gory now as well, old school Michael used just his kitchen knife, but now his kicks faces in!
I like the modern Halloween, but the old school films were more based on suspense, something Halloween II lacks.
Overall 4/5. ... Read More
| | | ryanboulton About me | | 09:51, 12 November 2009 | Report This Post | |
| | | | Strong Contender For Worst Film Of The Year | | | Spot on with the review Kim, this is absolutely atrocious. Unengaging, unexciting and completely pointless. Surely movie-making doesn't get any worse than this? ... Read More
| | | CIRVIRUS64 About me | | 01:57, 29 October 2009 | Report This Post | |
| | | | Halloween Poo | | | i loved rob zombies halloween reimagining,me and all 6 fans of it around the world probably agree,this tastless vulgar crude dark humorless affair is an atrocious film with no redemption.its a highlander2 style sequel in that its so bad,if you like the first,this will shatter your rose tinted specs.and malcolm mcdowell,how could you sign up for this.did u read the script?they destroyed what little humanity you had,therefore taking away the only trace of heart the film had! ... Read More
| | | Deckystrikesback About me | | 14:59, 24 October 2009 | Report This Post | |
| | | | RE: RE: | | L: UTB
Anyone else find Newman's reviews to be a bit pointless these days? It's almost as if he is bored of reviewing films.
What poor review. I'm not disagreeing or agreeing, but his reviews could easliy be one line long these days. Put some effort in, for once.
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It was a bit of a sloppy review. Obviously he thinks it was shit and a complete waste of time (of which I fully agree) but he seems to think the best way to counteract that is to take the same stance with his review.p... Read More
| | | Goodfella About me | | 15:50, 19 October 2009 | Report This Post | |
| | | | RE: RE: | | Anyone else find Newman's reviews to be a bit pointless these days? It's almost as if he is bored of reviewing films.
What poor review. I'm not disagreeing or agreeing, but his reviews could easliy be one line long these days. Put some effort in, for once. ... Read More
| | | UTB About me | | 16:50, 18 October 2009 | Report This Post | |
| | | | RE: | | er, is "it was all a dream" quite right about the hospital scene? yes she's dreaming it, but i took it to be a flashback memory of what actually happened. ... Read More
| | | Osric About me | | 09:45, 18 October 2009 | Report This Post | |
| | | | | | Sequels. They are inevitable, there will never be an escape from them. The same goes for remakes. Here we have a remake of a sequel to the remake.
Rob Zombie is back in the director's chair to bring us a psychological study of madness with his follow-up to his disappointing opus that was the "re-imigining" of John Carpenter's Halloween.
It turns out, Michael, once again played by Tyler "X-Men" Mane, didn't get shot in the head, and has spent the past year living in h... Read More
| | | paul.mccluskey About me | | 14:23, 17 October 2009 | Report This Post | |
| | | | Horrible and nasty movie | | | This movie has no redeeming features at all. It wastes the cast, the kills belong in a Friday The 13th movie, not a Halloween movie, and the ending? Words fail me. It completely trashes the legacy of Carpenter's original movie. It took until Halloween : H20 to redeem the original series of movies. It's going to take something special to redeem this mess. Rob Zombie, please stay away from any classic horror movie. Please. ... Read More
| | | Kev2012 About me | | 02:49, 17 October 2009 | Report This Post | |
| | | | Halloween 2 | | | Rob Zombie claimed he had no intention of making a sequal to his 2007 remake that ended with Michael getting a bullet in the brain. H2 takes place a year later with Laurie now traumatised and suffrening from nightmares and hallucinations and sleeps with a portrait of Charles Manson above her bed. Zombie clearly loves the orginal but his vision is violent, ugly and makes more of a mess of the franchise than Michael ever has his victims. This is just fresh evidence showing that Michael really need... Read More
| | | Soprano168 About me | | 22:17, 16 October 2009 | Report This Post | |
| | | | RE: Garbage | | I thought it was pretty poor to be honest. I thought Zombies first Halloween was ok, the first half especially showing Mike as a kid and how he turned into the monster he became. McDowell as Loomis was great casting too. It was definetly more sophisticated than this follow up and I remember watching a 'making of' on the DVD where Zombie says he wanted to match Carpenters suspense in the original and avoid a gorefest like modern horrors today which is completely what he goes against in this sequ... Read More
| | | StevieE About me | | 14:00, 16 October 2009 | Report This Post | |
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