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Halloween II starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasence picks up right where the original left off. This seuqel is a complete letdown, the actors look bored and robotic and the twist ending just about killed it for me. Stick to the original and leave this one to rot!
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I always wanted the whole collection of halloween and ordering it from amazon was a great, recieved all of the movies really quick.
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The spooky atmosphere makes these films. I recommend this Film to anyone. My favourite movies are pts 1-5. Pt 1 - 3 brings me back to my youth and the DVD transfers are fine, if you are after something intelligent, this is not for you, for the films are a fun and entertaining session of good-looking horny teens getting slashed. Not great but what the hell its all popcorn stuff anyway. If anyone is interested in Halloween collectables, email taylor5821@hotmail.com
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Making a sequel is very easy and also very hard; it's easy in the aspect that you already have a basic idea to follow, but hard that when you make a sequel to a classic you are bound to fail. Halloween II though for the most part gets it right. While in my opinion Halloween II is far inferior to the original it's still in its own right a solid flick and better than most 80s slasher films.
The interesting thing is how this movie almost never came to be. Originally Halloween was meant to be a one shot deal sort of. There was never meant to be a sequel with Michael. John Carpenter wanted to take the series in a very different direction. Make a few sequels with a new plot each time. But with a lot of money on the line the powers that be first wanted a direct sequel with Michael. A lawsuit was gonna be filed forcing John Carpenter and Debra Hill to return, than it got to the point to where the movie was gonna be made with or without them. So might as well end the Michael Myers plot and get paid as well.
John Carpenter and Debra Hill return to write the screenplay and both produced the movie as well. The script is fairly good it's nothing brilliant, but overall well done. As much I love the original it's probably my favorite horror movie of all time, the script was a little weak in some areas. It was Carpenter the director that made it so brilliant. The idea here is interesting. Halloween II starts where the last one left off. And also I have to say it does feel like it's the same night. Many times in sequels if it's the same night or even next day it feels like time elapsed, but not here.
But there is a slight problem; the original was so great because the story was simple, and the plot for Halloween II is a direct continuation of the last. So around the 20-min mark things to slow down a little bit. As great as Halloween was and still is actually the plot is simple and can only work for so long. Overall the script is well written though, but also times a rehash.
Donald Pleasence returns as Dr. Loomis and once again does a great job. What I love about the guy is he can play a dramatic role, but also play an over the top role and not be afraid to ham it up. Here Pleasence once again is excellent, but only problem is he does the same thing here as he did in the original, and a lot of his dialogue seems like something from the original script that was cut out. But being the great actor he is Pleasence sells it and is a blast to watch. Jamie Lee Curtis is also back and really doesn't have much to do this time around. For a majority of the movie she's in a hospital bed until the final act. With little to do Jamie Lee still delivers an excellent performance.
Rick Rosenthal makes his directorial debut and it was quite solid. What happened to this guy? Almost everything he's done since hasn't been very good with a couple of exceptions. Following up Halloween isn't an easy thing to do and to his credit Rosenthal makes a fairly creepy and even suspenseful movie. Not everything he does though works quite well. The original had great pacing. Every scene further advanced that movie and quite honestly the scariest scenes were ones with Michael just watching and stalking. From beginning, middle to end Carpenter had the audience on the edge of their seat and that is why it's so scary.
Halloween II also features a lot of shots of Michael walking around trying to avoid capture and than later on the hospital and while these scenes do have a creepy tone to them they don't work nearly as well as they did in the original. The pacing here can lag at times it's mostly in the middle sections when the story starts to dry up, but a kill scene will get you right back into it. What worked so brilliantly in the original doesn't work fully as well here, but still gets the job done overall.
The final act though is excellent and very creepy and suspenseful. While not as strong as the original it very much gets the job done and is bound to have the viewer hanging in suspense. The opening act is excellent and the middle sections do lag just a bit, but it's never boring. But the final act steps it up a notch and turns Halloween II from a good and semi-creepy movie to an excellent and creepy movie.
John Carpenter did do some re-shoots since he felt the movie was lacking a little bit. I don't know all the scenes Carpenter shot, but if anything they did more help than harm. By 1981 the slasher film was in full bloom and when you trace the history of the slasher film 1981 was the golden year. After that there were still some good ones, but it was starting to fall a part. Due to more violent slashers with such a high body count what worked so well in the original wouldn't work as well at this point and again you cannot recreate the original it's one of a kind. H20 tried that and in my opinion very much failed at that. So I think Carpenter did the right thing.
Overall Halloween II is an excellent if not inferior sequel, but it gets the job done. Rick Rosenthal does a good job even if his scenes aren't as creepy as the original. But he does a fine job and the scenes Carpenter shot also work well. While Halloween II may not be as good as the original, it's a solid and creepy flick.
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HALLOWEEN II was like the conclusion to the original Halloween movie directed by John Carpenter in 1978 along with the fact that Halloween 2 was quite a phenomenal sequel and was just as shocking and heart-pumping as the original, except in Halloween 2, you wouldn't see the relentless Michael Myers someplace one second and not there the next like you did in Halloween I even though the ghoulish Michael Myers was still just as creepy and scary as he was in the original along with the fact that Halloween II was still a very successful shocker as well as a successful sequel and was probably the best sequel of all times, especially since they obviously don't make sequels as good as they used to anymore.
Additionally, Halloween II leaves off of from the cliff hangers end of Halloween 1 pointing out that the most brutal mass murderer in Haddonfield, Illinois history(Michael Myers) is still alive and still on the loose and is still stalking his kid sister Laurie Strode(Jamie-Lee Curtis) killing everyone else who gets in his way leaving a higher body death count than the original did making Halloween 2 a little more sophisticated and a tad more upgraded than the original Halloween was with even more blood and even more violence than Halloween I had, since the body count in Halloween II was higher than the body count in the original was.
In addition to that, Halloween 2 shows Dr. Sam Loomis(Donald Pleasance) still hot on the trail of Michael Myers and explains something else important in this sequel that they didn't explain in the original Halloween, like when Dr. Loomis found out in the middle of Halloween II from Marion(Nancy Stephens) that Laurie was Michael Myers younger sister, which nobody else knew in Halloween I, which explained Michael's desperate motive for wanting to kill Laurie in the first place, since Michael had killed his big sister(Judith Myers)at the beginning of Halloween I like they indicated at the beginning of Halloween 2 by showing us scenes from the shocking cliffhangers end of the original Halloween when Michael wanders off unexpectedly after being shot 6 times by Dr. Loomis and then starts off the continuation at the very beginning of Halloween 2 when Dr. Loomis finds blood on the Doyle's lawn and tells the Doyle's next-door neighbor to call the police to alert all local authorities that the grizzly Michael Myers is still on the loose, which simply indicated and proved to us that the nightmare and horrific ordeal of Halloween night in Haddonfield in 1978 simply and obviously wasn't over yet and that it was simply more of the night Michael Myers came home just like the motto or slogan for Halloween II was "More Of The Night He Came Home", just like the motto for the original Halloween was "The Night He Came Home".
I also liked the Halloween theme music and music score that they used in Halloween II also, which was mostly like Halloween I, except Halloween II used a more sophisticated variation of the kind of creepy music scoring that was used in the original Halloween along with the fact that both Halloween I and II scared the witts out of me when I saw both of them for the very first time, except I noticed that Halloween 2 didn't seem to have as much creepy music scoring as the original did although Halloween II seemed just as suspenseful as the first one.
I also like the way they showed the movie trailer of the previews shown of Halloween II like they were shown before it's theatrical release back in 1981.
The truth is most sequels nowadays are cheesy, but you could say that Halloween 2 was one of the few sequels that was extraordinary, since you could say Halloween II was just as successful as John Carpenters original Halloween that was released back in the Fall of 1978, which was actually made 3 years before Halloween 2 was, even though Laurie, Dr. Loomis, and Michael Myers were so-called still dealing with the same gruesome ordeal on Halloween night of 1978 in Halloween 2, since Halloween II was simply just the conclusion to Halloween I.
Unfortunately, they don't make sequels like they used to and the last spectacular sequel to any movie that I can recall at the moment was "Psycho 2" back in 1983 along with the fact that "Friday The 13th: Part 2" made an excellent sequel as well back in 1981 during the same year "Halloween 2" was released along with the fact that Halloween II was probably one of the most phenomenal sequels of all times.
So director(Rick Rosenthal) certainly knew what he was doing when he made this sequel to John Carpenters original Halloween and I give Rick Rosenthal just as much credit for his film making of Halloween 2 as I do for John Carpenter's film making of Halloween I.
In addition to that made this Halloween II DVD so cool, I also liked the movie trailer the Halloween II DVD provided of it's previews that were shown before Halloween 2's theatrical release back in 1981 too, which was mighty cool.
Even though Halloween 2 was an awesome sequel, I have to admit that the original Halloween is still the best of them to this very day, especially since John Carpenter's 1978 film of Halloween is what started the Halloween phenomenon in the first place.
So if you loved John Carpenters original masterpiece "Halloween", you'll like Halloween 2.
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