Halloween II

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Halloween II

R

1981

1h 32m

Holiday

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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After failing to kill stubborn survivor Laurie (Jamie Lee Curtis) and taking a bullet or six from former psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasence), Michael Myers (Jonathan Prince) has followed Laurie to the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, where she's been admitted for Myers' attempt on her life. The institution proves to be particularly suited to serial killers, however, as Myers cuts, stabs and slashes his way through hospital staff to reach his favorite victim.

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Critics Consensus

Its visual style preserves the chilling mood of its predecessor, yet Halloween II emerges as a lesser imitation rather than a worthy successor, amping up the body count to numbing effect.

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Alexander Walker

London Evening Standard

Jul 23, 2026

I don't know whether to be more apprehensive of a movie which exists only to carve people up, or the audience for which it was made.

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Jay Scott

Globe and Mail

Jul 23, 2026

When it's good, it's because it's imitating its predecessor and when it's bad, it's because it's imitating its own imitator.

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Kevin Thomas

Los Angeles Times

Jul 23, 2026

"Halloween II" as a reprise, simply piles up a greater number of corpses.

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Terry Lawson

The Journal-Herald (Dayton, OH)

Oct 3, 2026

What's memorable about Halloween II is the eerie sense of watching moviemakers trapped by their own devices.

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Kirk Honeycutt

Escondido Times-Advocate (CA)

Jul 23, 2026

"Halloween II" plays out a bewildering series of carefully crafted gross-out moments which bear no real relationship to each other. The only thing that builds is its dumbness.

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Susie Eisenhuth

The Sun-Herald (Australia)

Jul 23, 2026

2/4

There's no doubt that producer John Carpenter and his team have perfected a pretty devastating No Frills fear formula. It's a class act all right. If you like that sort of thing.

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DONOVAN H

Sep 6, 2026

It’s my favorite Halloween movie.

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Keith

Sep 6, 2026

Still holds up to be one of the best sequels!

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Clark T

@RT11871854 8 hrs ago

Figuring out why Michael suddenly decided to lay waste to random Haddonfield residents when Laurie was his target makes no sense to me in this one. You really feel the transition into “Curse of the Witch” in this film. First one is still better in my opinion. The only thing that was done better were the kills. Pretty entertaining.

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Nathan P

@Parsons8132 16 hrs ago

Halloween II is definitely better Halloween sequel than Halloween III, 6, Resurrection, Kills, and Ends but unfortunately it’s not near perfect as the original Halloween film that we all know and love, I just wish this sequel was on the same level as the first film, I do like the kills in the film, but I wish it was more creative, more original, and less cringey, and they needed to make Michael Myers more scarier like the first film, I am glad that Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasence returned for the second film, which I enjoyed both of them in the first film and the second film, overall Halloween II is a good sequel to the first movie, just not a good as the original classic, I would recommend it for Halloween fans who truly love the original so much and watch it during the Halloween season, I give it 3/5 stars

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R T

@RT44834321 1 day ago

Way better than the first one but still had some issues. The passing wasn’t always the best and for me the kills kinda took me out of it. There is no way a scalpel can kill someone the way they did it more then once in this movie and also in the last fight there is no way in hell that he is missing those swipe but anyway. Other than that it was good.

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Kevin G

@RT09447547 4 days ago

I think this is a great sequel to the first film. great characters, setting, and i love how this takes place immediantly after the first. Though soemthings i don´t like still a pretty good halloween spook ya mama season movie. recommend a watch.

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Jamie Lee Curtis

Laurie Strode

Donald Pleasence

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Charles Cyphers

Sheriff Leigh Brackett

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Synopsis

After failing to kill stubborn survivor Laurie (Jamie Lee Curtis) and taking a bullet or six from former psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasence), Michael Myers (Jonathan Prince) has followed Laurie to the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, where she's been admitted for Myers' attempt on her life. The institution proves to be particularly suited to serial killers, however, as Myers cuts, stabs and slashes his way through hospital staff to reach his favorite victim.

Director: Rick Rosenthal
Producer: Debra Hill, John Carpenter
Screenwriter: John Carpenter, Debra Hill
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Production Co: Universal Pictures, Dino De Laurentiis Productions
Rating: R
Genre: Holiday, Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 30, 1981, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 19, 2015
Runtime: 1h 32m
Sound Mix: Dolby Stereo
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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