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.
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09/01/09
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Halloween II (2009)
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Reviews Counted:67
Fresh:14
Rotten:53
Average Rating:3.7/10
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
For a filmmaker who began his career with relatively clever and visionary splatter films like House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects, Zombie seems to be pursuing the path of least resistance.
08/28/09
Zombie's viewpoint is clear: he's taking Michael's inexorable killing spree to its brutal extreme, and he wants us to feel every blow.
08/28/09
either a work of jaw-dropping, unhinged genius, or the most moronic horror film since Ernest Scared Stupid
08/28/09
An artless, bloody mess.
09/03/09
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
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
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
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.
09/01/09
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
Zombie isn’t a storyteller, he’s a wallower. And because his movies take place in a culture of violence and sadism, there’s nothing for Michael Myers to do except echo what’s already there and slaughter weaker sadists.
08/31/09
Top CriticPanders to the base seekers of cheap thrills.
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
Zombie's follow-up to his 2007 series reboot is a quickie exploitation, a repelling hardcore slasher that's vastly disappointing even by standards of this sub-genre and especially by standards of his previous and better work.
08/28/09
A painfully almost sadistically boring sequel...
12/10/09
You didn't think Michael Myers was dead, did you?
09/01/09
Putrid...fails to be remotely frightening and just settles for being utterly repulsive instead.
08/28/09
Zombie was interested in more than just a quick cash-in sequel. But Halloween II can't quite convince that a follow-up was necessary.
08/28/09
The only thing "new" about this movie is that the gore has gotten more explicit.
08/31/09
Latest News for Halloween II
September 30, 2009:
Weinsteins Hold Off on Halloween 3D 
Nothing can kill Michael Myers -- nothing, that is, except for the Weinstein Company, which has shut down production on "Halloween 3D" for the immediate future. More...
August 31, 2009:
Weinsteins Plan 3-D Halloween for 2010
"Halloween II" may not have topped the box office over the weekend, but Bob Weinstein says the studio is moving forward with a 3-D sequel for next summer -- and it'll happen... More...
August 28, 2009:
Nine Ways to Survive a Michael Myers Attack
With "Halloween" back in theaters, now seems like the perfect time for Film School Rejects to compile a helpful list of ways to avoid being offed by prolific murderer Michael... More...
August 27, 2009:
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This week at the movies, we've got the return of Michael Myers (Halloween 2, starring Malcolm McDowell and Scout Taylor-Compton), three dimensional fatalities (The Final... More...
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