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Halloween II | 
| Director: Rick Rosenthal
Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, Charles Cyphers, Jeffrey Kramer, Lance Guest
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Rating:  390 reviews
Sales Rank: 7985
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 92 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: MCAD21427D
ISBN: 0783261160
UPC: 025192142727
EAN: 9780783261164
ASIN: B00005LC4Q
Theatrical Release Date: October 30, 1981
Release Date: September 18, 2001
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A killer follows his injured target to the hospital on oct. 31 in haddonfield iii. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 12/28/2004 Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis Jeffrey Kramer Run time: 93 minutes Rating: R Director: Rick Rosenthal
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"You can't kill the boogeyman," explains John Carpenter in Halloween, and to prove it he brings Michael Myers back in this handsome but grisly sequel. Jamie Lee Curtis returns as Laurie Strode but spends most of her time cowering in a hospital gown, and Donald Pleasence runs around like a maniac as the panicky doctor desperate to hunt down Myers before he kills again. Carpenter writes and produces with partner Debra Hill, and together they replace the mystery and uncertainty of the original with an exponentially bigger body count and some strange tales about the Druids and pagan ceremonies, and the now-familiar family ties between Michael and Laurie. First-time director Rick Rosenthal (Bad Boys) paces the film at a brisk jog and directs it with a clean, crisp style, taking the murders out of the dark to display them in all their nasty detail. --Sean Axmaker
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 Horribly average May 26, 2009
R. Rubio (Tracy, CA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Here's another "classic" I decided to watch recently, even though I knew it would more than likely be garbage. I'll stress that 3 stars is very generous of me, I feel it deserves it only because it's not so much horror as it is horribly mediocre. It was a completely average watch, but at least it didn't make me wish I could turn it off like Friday the 13th did.
The film picks up right where the original left off, Meyers being shot 6 times in the chest and falling from the house's second story. When the baldy doctor goes and investigates, Michael is gone. A neighbor comes out asking WTF is going on, people have been trick or treating to death. "You don't know what death is" says the doctor, cue in the Halloween music. Awesome, this is arguably the best part of the movie besides the hot tub face-peel scene with the 80s titties.
The problem with this movie is that hardly anything happens. The plot is weak, the acting is wack, and Michael Meyers is not as 'scary' as he is in the first film. Because they decided to give him more camera time this time around, we now get to see a mindless slow walking zombie with a knife.
What I mean about the plot being weak is that it's basically non existent. Hardly anything the characters say is important, you can watch this on mute and get a very good gist of what's going on. I fast forwarded through the first 45 minutes because I had already seen it, and was amazed at how easily you can jump right into it. Meyers escaped. Guy got ran over, not Meyers.... Oh, Meyers got a knife. Killed someone. Another one.... guy thinks he's getting laid... he got laid out.
Whatever was special about the original movie is now missing from the sequel, namely because Michael Meyers is no longer mysterious and there's a lot more blood this time around. Instead of keeping things suspenseful they chose to make a slasher film.
As a final note, Jamie Lee Curtis sure banked on this and rose to fame for mostly laying in bed the whole movie and crawling into a car towards the end.
 Better than the origional!. March 21, 2009
marky77 (England)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I really enjoyed this sequel and was very impressed by it as it managed to top the origional - a rareity for sequels! Although not made until 1981 (three years after the first Halloween) the movie carries on directly from the ending of the first one, the opening scene of this movie being the last 4 or 5 minutes of the first.
Micheal Myers is still after Lorrie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), this time going on a killing spree in the hospital where she has been sent because of her injuries from her encounters with Michael earlier that night.
I liked this movie even more than the first, it is scarier and gorier and has a higher body count as Michael slices and dices his way through the hospital staff (strangely there were no other patients in the hospital) to get to Lorrie.
Unlike the deaths in the first movie, some of the kills in Halloween 2 are quite gory. I liked that some of the deaths are quite creative, as opposed to every character being stabbed. Also, a clever idea was that Lorrie has a bad reaction to the medication she is given which causes her to muscles to episodically being weak/paralysed which adds a lot to the suspence during chase scenes as we root for her to escape.
I would deffinatly recomend this movie to fans of the first in the series or of the horror/slasher genre in general.
Awesome. March 2, 2009
CDS
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Picking up exactly where part 1 left off we follow Michael on his slashing rampage. I pretty much only like part 1 and 2.
Part 3 did not have Michael Myers at all - Which was John Caprpenter's point. In his mind the Micheal storyline had runs it's course.
4,5,6 and 7 were pretty much lame. John Carpenter was smart to end the "Michael" aspect of the series after part 2.
How do you control Michael Myers? December 10, 2008
Sid the Elf (North Pole)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
It's been a little while since our last entry but that doesn't mean we haven't been hard at work watching b. We hit a rough patch for about a month or so but now we are back in full force. For our comeback why not go with a heavy dose of Dr. Loomis? Which brings us to our title feature of the evening Halloween 2. Released in 1981, 3 years after the original masterpiece, Halloween 2 picks up where the first one left off as Myers is being pursued by the mighty Loomis and Haddonfield Police department.
After Myers killing spree that Halloween evening he is on the run after being laced up by Loomis about 9 times. Naturally the bullets do nothing but inspire him to continue in his quest to murder Laurie. As he takes to the streets Loomis and the police chief cruise around looking for him where the first moment of hilarity occurs. These two see someone dressed up like Myers and assume it's him forcing them to chase him down with guns. As the suspected Myers takes off he gets wedged in between to moving cars forcing an explosion, which then leads to him being burned alive. When you get a brief shot of the victim on fire it is so obvious it's a dummy which just adds to the delight of the film. Talk about entertaining! Later at the lab they discover the burn victim wasn't myers but a regular kid doing some trick or treating. Now they realize they wasted all this time thinking they got him when really he's on his way to the Haddonfield hospital to finish Laurie off. Instinctively Loomis knows where Myers will be headed off to and makes his way to the hospital.
Once in the hospital we are introduced to the human version of Quagmire which leads to many many laughs throughout the film. This guy is a nurse and seems his sole purpose is to get laid. Being the smooth operator he is he hides under a sheet pretending to be a dead body. Once his woman walks in the door he jumps up nearly giving her a heart attack. Yeah this guy has it coming. He finally talks he into a nude hot tube romp only to get choked out by Myers and his lady drowned. After this there is a lot of cat and mouse between Myers and Laurie. There were a few tense scenes and the hospital did provide a creepy atmosphere, but it wasn't quite a scary as we remembered it to be long ago. The best part came in the end when Laurie is cornered by Myers until Loomis comes to the rescue. He does enough to distract Myers while Laurie turns on some gas valves and shoots Myers in the face. Somehow he only acts like he has some dirt stuck in his eye and aimlessley swings his blade in the air trying to strike Laurie as she runs right past him. Loomis then gets his attention and ignites the gas fumes with his lighter blasting a wing of the hospital to shreds. Naturally Myers comes walking ot on fire but does eventually fall to the ground while Mr. Sandman plays.
All in all it was pretty decent for a sequal but nowhere near the original. On it's own it would stand as a good flick so don't bother comparing the two. The scares really weren't there but the laughs sure were. This was some vintage Loomis that any Halloween fan can appreciate. Definately worth the watch but could use a little assistance (oh yeah) to gain a 5 star effort.
Michael Myers Is The Lord of the Dead October 31, 2008
J. B. Hoyos (Chesapeake, VA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
HAPPY THIRTIETH ANNIVERSARY, MICHAEL MYERS!!!
"Halloween II" is one of the best sequels ever made in horror history. It begins exactly where the first one ended - Michael Myers is shot and falls from the balcony. Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasance reprise their roles as Laurie Strode and Dr. Sam Loomis. John Carpenter and Debra Hill wrote the suspenseful script and Rick Rosenthal provided great direction. The eerie trademark soundtrack from the original is also used in this superb sequel.
If you enjoy a high body count, you will enjoy "Halloween II." Michael Myers pursues Laurie Strode to the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital; he begins dispatching the entire staff within its sanitized, claustrophobic corridors. In this sequel, we learn why Michael Myers is intent on destroying Laurie. We also learn that Michael Myers is well versed in the ancient occult religion of Druidism.
Michael Myers is Samhain, the Lord of the Dead. He can't be killed because he is already dead. Satanic evilness has possessed his body and given it the illusion of life. Bullets and fire can not stop him.
This film is a must see for fans of high body count slasher flicks and horror films set at hospitals. "Visiting Hours" is also highly recommended.
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