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H2: Halloween II (2009)

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Average Rating: 3.8/10
Reviews Counted: 70
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 55

Zombie shows flashes of vision in the follow-up to his Halloween reboot, but they're smothered by mountains of gore and hackneyed, brutal violence.

Average Rating: 3.7/10
Critic Reviews: 12
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 10

Zombie shows flashes of vision in the follow-up to his Halloween reboot, but they're smothered by mountains of gore and hackneyed, brutal violence.

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Filmmaker Rob Zombie returns to Haddonfield for this Dimension Films sequel that finds the murderous psychopath Michael Myers (once again played by Tyler Mane) out on the loose again. The film picks up where the last one left off. Laurie Strode (Scout Taylor-Compton) survives an attack by her mental-patient brother, Michael Myers, whom she doesn't know is related to her. On the way to the morgue, the ambulance carrying Michael crashes and, miraculously, the killer survives and heads out into the

R, 1 hr. 46 min.

Horror

Directed By: Rob Zombie

Written By: Rob Zombie

In Theaters: Aug 28, 2009 Wide

On DVD: Jan 12, 2010

Box Office:$33.3M

The Weinstein Company

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Cast

Tyler Mane
Michael Myers
Scout Taylor-Compton
Laurie Strode
Danielle Harris
Annie Brackett
Brad Dourif
Sheriff Lee Brackett
Sheri Moon Zombie
Deborah Myers
Malcolm McDowell
Dr. Samuel Loomis
Brea Grant
Mya Rockwell
Ezra Buzzington
Ned Atkins
Daniel Roebuck
Lou Martini
Chase Wright Vanek
Michael Myers (young)
Jeff Phillips
Howard
Mark Christopher-Lawrence
Fred King
Margot Kidder
Barbara Collier
Howard Hesseman
Uncle Meat
Weird Al Yankovic
Himself
Bill Fagerbakke
Deputy Webb

Critic Reviews for H2: Halloween II

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Halloween II is full of in jokes and references but nearly devoid of wit.

September 1, 2009 Full Review Source: New York Times

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Mike Hale

New York Times

Top Critic

You didn't think Michael Myers was dead, did you?

September 1, 2009 Comment

Frank Scheck

Hollywood Reporter

Top Critic

[Halloween II] offers up a rush of fiercely imagined nightmare images.

September 1, 2009 Full Review Source: New York Post

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Kyle Smith

New York Post

Top Critic

Zombie walks the walk, you can't deny it. And he's found the medium where he can let his freak flag fly highest.

September 1, 2009 Full Review Source: New York Daily News

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Joe Neumaier

New York Daily News

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Most of its 101 minutes are filled with routine slasher scenes and flecks of pop-Freudian hokum about why the infamous Michael Myers (Tyler Mane) is such a murderously unhappy guy.

September 1, 2009 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly

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Adam Markovitz

Entertainment Weekly

Top Critic

This umpteenth feature about the unstoppable masked killer Michael Myers could be the work of any journeyman, give or take a few hundred gratuitous pop-culture references.

September 1, 2009 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader

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Cliff Doerksen

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

Zombie's film achieves a certain air-quote modernity, in that it's gritty, vulgar and showcases an analytical preoccupation with cause not present in slasher films of years gone by. That doesn't make it haunting or unnerving, though.

January 22, 2010 Full Review Source: Shared Darkness

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Brent Simon

Shared Darkness

We see Myers in silhouette dragging a victim out of a truck and then stabbing them again and again and again, singularly summing up what a numbing experience it all is. No flashes of blood, no hints of character, just shadows killing shadows.

December 17, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinematical

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William Goss

Cinematical

A painfully almost sadistically boring sequel...

December 10, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed

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Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

By not reaching for empowerment, Halloween II diminishes the horror genre. Nearly every victim is a terrible person.

November 4, 2009 Full Review | Comment

Mark Palermo

Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) Source: Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

Pushing the Halloween series further from its roots, Rob Zombie's first sequel to his remake of the popular John Carpenter slasher, is a muddied mix of symbolism and excessive violence.

October 31, 2009 Full Review Source: Oscar Guy

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Wesley Lovell

Oscar Guy

This film might be the most artfully rendered slasher sequel ever made. Alas, Zombie's dark poetry only goes so far without more substantive justification.

October 18, 2009 Full Review Source: Projection Booth

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Rob Humanick

Projection Booth

In a word, ugly. It just pips Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (aka Halloween 6) to the title of worst Halloween film ever.

October 16, 2009 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine

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Kim Newman

Empire Magazine

[A] lumbering mess of a movie, which does no favours for the slasher genre, one that's fast losing any sense of innovation or vitality.

October 16, 2009 Full Review Source: Digital Spy

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Simon Reynolds

Digital Spy

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October 13, 2009 Full Review Source: Movies for the Masses

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Joseph Proimakis

Movies for the Masses

When Zombie kills a cow with an ambulance in the opening scene the cow dies quietly and doesn't then have to sit through the rest of the movie. And they say he shows no mercy!

September 9, 2009 Full Review Source: CampBlood.org

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Brian Juergens

CampBlood.org

Rob Zombie makes incoherent films about people killing each other in brutal ways. Here's another one.

September 5, 2009 Full Review | Comments (7)

Linda Cook

Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

OK but not great

September 4, 2009 Full Review Source: ESplatter

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Lucius Gore

ESplatter

Zombie really doesn't escape the genre conventions.

September 4, 2009 Full Review Source: Jam! Movies

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Jim Slotek

Jam! Movies

Brutal and redundant but not without a certain ugly integrity, this gruesome sequel allows Zombie to continue to explore his idea that Michael Myers is a pathetic and tragically irredeemable product of childhood abuse...

September 4, 2009 Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

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John Beifuss

Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

Zombie's rowdy redneck phantasmagorias and weird swoons of empathy can't disguise that there's nowhere left for the story to go.

September 3, 2009 Full Review Source: Philadelphia Weekly

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Sean Burns

Philadelphia Weekly

My open letter to Rob Zombie on his *cough* brilliant execution of Halloween II.

September 3, 2009 Full Review Source: Bangor Daily News (Maine)

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Christopher Smith

Bangor Daily News (Maine)

Wish Michael Myers would have taken his knife to that stupid white horse.

September 3, 2009 Full Review Source: Hollywood.com

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Thomas Leupp

Hollywood.com

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Audience Reviews for H2: Halloween II

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Extremely bizarre, and the strangest Halloween-related film I've ever seen. The film is horribly sloppy, unfocused, and poorly written, but it is to be commended because Zombie came up with a unique and interesting concept, and stuck with it. The problem is that he succeeds in doing something different, but fails to

August 13, 2009

Chris Weber

Super Reviewer

As a die-hard fan of the original Halloween, I felt that the remake was pretty good despite the fact it was different. The sequel to the remake concludes Rob Zombie's take on the Michael Myers saga. The result, I thought were decent at best, but the film lacked something to really make it a good follow-up to the

September 16, 2011

Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski

Super Reviewer

H2: Halloween II Quotes

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1. Laurie Strode: Barbara... I Know Michael Myers Is Dead. I Shot Him In the fucking head.
– Submitted by Austin B (3 months ago)
1. Dr. Samuel Loomis: Michael Myers is fucking dead! Now, do you brain-dead gossip mongers want me to spell it out for you? D-E-A-D!
– Submitted by Juan S (9 months ago)