H2: Halloween II (2009)
Average Rating: 3.8/10
Reviews Counted: 72
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 57
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: 4/10
Critic Reviews: 14
Fresh: 4 | 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
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Cast
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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
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All Critics (73) | Top Critics (14) | Fresh (15) | Rotten (58) | DVD (3)
Halloween II is full of in jokes and references but nearly devoid of wit.
Top CriticYou didn't think Michael Myers was dead, did you?
[Halloween II] offers up a rush of fiercely imagined nightmare images.
Zombie walks the walk, you can't deny it. And he's found the medium where he can let his freak flag fly highest.
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.
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.
Relentlessly disturbing though it is, the movie is not particularly frightening.
The irony, of course, is that in attempting to breathe new life into Michael Myers, Rob Zombie may be the man who's finally killed him. Let us hope that in this case, the bastard stays dead: Halloween II might just be the bullet in his brain.
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.
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.
A painfully almost sadistically boring sequel...
By not reaching for empowerment, Halloween II diminishes the horror genre. Nearly every victim is a terrible person.
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.
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.
In a word, ugly. It just pips Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (aka Halloween 6) to the title of worst Halloween film ever.
[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.
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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!
Rob Zombie makes incoherent films about people killing each other in brutal ways. Here's another one.
OK but not great
Zombie really doesn't escape the genre conventions.
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...
Zombie's rowdy redneck phantasmagorias and weird swoons of empathy can't disguise that there's nowhere left for the story to go.
Audience Reviews for H2: Halloween II
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- Annie Brackett: Oh, boo-frickin-hoo for you, Laurie!
- Laurie Strode: See? You DON'T f***ing care!
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- Laurie Strode: You better BACK THE F*CK OFF!
- Annie Brackett: Or WHAT, Laurie?! You act as if you're only one whose life got F***ing trashed! I'm so not loving the new Laurie!
- Laurie Strode: I'm not putting up with your Mommy sh*t. Get the f*ck out of my room! GET THE F*CK OUT OF MY ROOM!!!
- Annie Brackett: I'm NOT impressed.
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- Laurie Strode: Barbara... I Know Michael Myers Is Dead. I Shot Him In the fucking head.
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- 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!
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The kicker here is that he had planned to make a really psychological film where it was to be revelaed that everything was in Laurie's head and that it was her doing it, and only thinking it was Michael. That would have been cool. Unfortunately, the studio intervened and forced him to keep Michael at the forefront. Also, good god the film is too excessive with the violence. I'm okay with strong violence, but this goes way over the top and becomes more pointless when we don't really care about the victims.