Halloween II (2009)

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

I've been tortured with these awful horror movie sequels lately. I was at least hoping that with Halloween/Slasher Month over a long time ago, I could avoid these stupid movies. The version I saw happened to be the longest slasher movie ever made and boy, did it feel like it! There's twenty minutes that are a dream meaning they're completely pointless in this already long movie. This movie is mostly just Michael Myers with a beard killing random people before confronting Laurie. Sometimes he wears his mask and sometimes he doesn't and I have no clue why.This is the only time where he says something as an adult ("Die!"). Laurie is so obnoxious in this movie and just yells over and over. There's tons of gratuitous swearing and nudity (at least in the unrated edition I saw). It's just an excuse to show more gore galore. Weird Al Yankovic appears briefly in the film giving it the only good moments. I guess it's not as bad as "Leprechaun In The Hood" or "The Final Destination" but it's still terrible. *1/2

I think the idea behind the film is that everything is a delusion/dream of Laurie's, and that she's spent the entire time in an insane asylum. Whether it's the medication she is taking or her psychosis, she's hallucinated everything, and none of it is exactly real.The other option is that Michael is dead and that she is suffering from a split personality; seeing the horse and her dead mother, thinking she is Michael, etc. What makes me think this is a part in one of the endings. She comes out wearing Michael's mask, and in the alternate ending, they begin to shoot her. Either way, I think it's open to interpretation, but I don't think most audience members got it.

Once again, Rob Zombie has created a film that I love far more than I should. While his first remake delved into origins of Michael Myers to the frustration of many Halloween fans, I couldn't help but find it an engaging alternative to the original, and allowed for that film to stand on its own without begging comparison to John Carpenter's version.With this entry, Zombie takes even more risks and refuses to abide by any rules, not just ones of the Halloween franchise, but the slasher genre itself. It has a cerebral, ethereal tone, giving way to the infamous dream sequences, and has uncompromisingly brutal levels of gore. It completely reinvents the characters, and barely resembles a Halloween film at times. These are probably the main criticisms of the film, and they're exactly why I love it.Despite the obvious reasons why this film shouldn't work, it fits together these various elements thematically and creates a totally unique experience that I've almost never had with a horror film. It takes the events of Zombie's first Halloween and uses them to take our characters to unexpected places, in order to explore themes of loss, trauma, and familial bonds by exploring the cyclical effects of violence. All the major characters have been seriously altered, mostly for the worst, due to their near-death experiences, and struggle to retain their humanity. Rob Zombie takes us into the minds of both Laurie Strode and Michael Myers, bringing the audience to understand both what drives these characters, and ultimately the demons that plague them both. The film doesn't shy away from the violence because it wants to submerge its audience within the carnage, entrapping us within the grotesque and the macabre just as it does the same to the principal players.This isn't mention to fact that Halloween 2 might be the most visually stunning horror film in recent years, with its 16mm print serving to emphasize the dark, gritty atmosphere that every frame of this film is soaked.At the end of the day, Halloween 2 isn't without its problems, but its a totally engrossing and unique cinematic experience that leaves far more of an emotional impact than your typical slasher fare. Despite the polarizing reaction, to say the least, Halloween 2 comes recommended.

This is has to be the worst Halloween movie of all time. The theatrical edition sucks and I bet the rest might be bad. Please don't buy this; this is a money grab. The slow motion scene sucks like their not scary in this film at all. The original Halloween II with Jamie Lee Curtis was better like they try hard in that film but in this Rob Zombie made the Halloween franchise a joke. I hope that new reboot is better than this garbage. 1.1/10