A repellent and incompetent monstrosity that should put to rest for good the weirdly persistent rumor that Rob Zombie has even a shred of talent as a filmmaker.
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08/28/09
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Halloween II (2009)
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Reviews Counted:66
Fresh:14
Rotten:52
Average Rating:3.8/10
Consensus: 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.
Theatrical Release:Aug 28, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $33,335,670
Synopsis: Rob Zombie returns to the world of HALLOWEEN with this sequel to his film.
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Tyler Mane, Sheri Moon Zombie, Brad Dourif
Director: Rob Zombie
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Reviews for Halloween II
While the film is not as good as Zombie's first, the violence is relentlessly brutal and you will definitely be jumping out of your seat.
08/28/09
Zombie is a terrific stylist -- there's a red-tinted party sequence that's nightmarishly creepy -- but he seems bored with this material.
08/28/09
Putrid...fails to be remotely frightening and just settles for being utterly repulsive instead.
08/28/09
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!
09/09/09
It's as if the studio (Dimension) let some testosterone-boiling 15-year-old boy with a case of Red Bull in his belly make a slapdash gore fest where a woman in white with a white horse is meant to represent the psychological underpinning of a mute killer
08/29/09
OK but not great
09/04/09
My open letter to Rob Zombie on his *cough* brilliant execution of Halloween II.
09/03/09
Zombie has talent to burn, but he’s slumming here, and one suspects that he knows it.
09/01/09
Halloween II is trying to be something more than 'just' a slasher movie, and while I don't think it's ever in any danger of succeeding I respect the fact that the guy tried.
08/29/09
[Halloween II] offers up a rush of fiercely imagined nightmare images.
09/01/09
Top CriticRepellent not only in content but in visual style, writer-director Rob Zombie's hatchet job on the series he revived so artfully two years ago plays like a violent act of euthanasia.
08/28/09
Top CriticAn artless, bloody mess.
09/03/09
Ultra-gory sequel/remake is brutally violent, badly made.
08/29/09
Zombie really doesn't escape the genre conventions.
09/04/09
Rob Zombie makes incoherent films about people killing each other in brutal ways. Here's another one.
09/05/09
This movie isn't horrible, but it seems like a waste for Zombie to keep revisiting someone else's world.
08/28/09
While Halloween II starts out as a character study in post-traumatic stress, it's safe to assume that's not what most horror fans will be looking for. And though Zombie maintains the motif of nightmarish visions throughout, the movie eventually cha
08/28/09
There's an overall bitterness and jadedness to the filmmaking that's alienating. Go ahead and make a nauseating film, but please: have a point.
08/28/09
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.
09/01/09
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