H2: Halloween II Reviews and Ratings



  • November 22, 2009
    I didn't care for Zombie's first one, and this is a much bigger mess than that was. There are certain scenes here that mak no sense, and add nothing to anything, and all the scenes in the movie overstay their welcome by a good 2-5 minutes. It makes for a frustrating and plodding ...( read more)motion picture. As in Zombie's first go round, despite all the really stupid backstory, and in this one visions of his mom, a whitehorse, and a child him, Michael Meyers is never an eerie force, just a slasher. He kills a bunch of people, a lot of the time it's too edited to really be good kills, but he never is a force or a creepy entity like in the original. And there are many other things like this such as: the bookstore/coffee shop she works would never exist in a small town like that, the party they go would never happen in a small town like that, and all the dialogue was Zombie's become-way-too-predictable hilly-billy slang.
  • November 19, 2009
    ALL THE MOVIE ALL GOOD
  • November 18, 2009
    Overall, this is definitely not the worst in the series by far, but it was very disappointing.
  • November 18, 2009
    I love the Halloween series. This actually looked scary from the trailers.The others aren't great, but I still enjoy watching them from time to time.
  • November 18, 2009
    how to download this movies ???
  • November 17, 2009
    It's all gory to a point that it's not even enjoyable anymore. Michael Myer's sister lives in nightmare of his coming since the news of his unfound remains. In the end, she's stabbed him multiple times, but did she left him dead?
  • November 17, 2009
    Rob Zombie has brought back everything I love about the slasher genre with this unrelenting and ruthless trip into madness. Michael knows only two things. One is that he loves his mother and the other is that he must crush and destroy everything in his path. This is one of the mo...( read more)st brutal and surreal mainstream horrors. The things that happen are not pretty. Animal killings, decapitations, and blunt trauma are just a few of the things that occur. If I could only recommend one horror movie right now, it would be this.
  • November 17, 2009
    i so wnt to see this
  • November 16, 2009
    dissapointed...not the same as the originals
  • November 15, 2009
    Too much blood and sick symbolism that does not find a coherent support. Don't watch it unless you have to.
  • November 14, 2009
    wowo!!..Hallowen...emang ce..bentar lagi..
    hm...bleh juga neh..diliyat..
    lumayan..biar ngeri2..py kutan ngeramein halooweN juga gag papa to???
  • November 14, 2009
    AHHHHHHH MICHAEL MYERS DOESN'T BEAT PEOPLE UP OR USE AXES, JAMIE LEE CURTIS WASN'T SOME WANNABE PUNK GIRL WHO CRIES AND SCREAMS THE WHOLE MOVIE, MICHAEL MYERS IS NOT 7 FEET TALL THAT MAKES IT LESS SCARY!!!!!!!! AND HE MOST CERTAINLY DOESN'T GRUNT WHEN KILLING PEOPLE.......shit
  • November 13, 2009
    Loved it very real & horrifying!
  • November 10, 2009
    Amazing. I didn't think he could be any more scary. I was wrong. Brutal!
  • November 9, 2009
    Hands down one of the best horror movies of our generation
  • November 9, 2009
    loved this horror can wayt to see
  • November 6, 2009
    The first one was a lot better. I wouldn't recommend watching this or ever watch it again.
  • November 5, 2009
    omg....more scarier than the other Halloweeen movies!
  • November 4, 2009
    AWESOME comeback for Michael Meyers!! lol
  • November 3, 2009
    reaLy Scare., (><)?!
  • November 2, 2009
    The fact of Halloween II's existence caught me entirely off-guard. I'd heard nothing about it until the first trailer was released, and frankly, I was shocked; Rob Zombie had claimed publicly that he wouldn't do another Halloween film after his first one, and yet here was the seq...( read more)uel, proudly trumpetted as "a Rob Zombie film". I was immediately interested- I'd enjoyed the first film, and the trailer for this one promised to take things in a more interesting (if strangely colorful) direction than the original Halloween sequel had- but at the same time, I was leery. Zombie claimed he came back to the franchise when he realized (or, more accurately, producer Malek Akkad told him) he could take the story anywhere he wanted to now that he wasn't beholden to Carpenter's original; he could make the sequel a REAL Rob Zombie movie. Having seen- and loathed- the Devil's Rejects, this proposition naturally worried me, and rightly so, as it turns out. Like Tim Burton with Batman Returns, Zombie allows his filmmaking style to completely overpower the picture and the characters, making the film more a statement of individual taste than an attempt at mass entertainment; but unlike Burton, his style is cluttered and excessively graphic, his visual taste skewing towards the over-stimulation of music videos (it may look cool on MTV, but it's not cinematic) and the bloodshed bypassing scary or shocking and going straight for sickening, with lingering shots of crushed heads and mutilated bodies that repeat so often that they become more exasperating than frightening. While it does make a decent attempt at developing the characters from the first film in new and different ways (most of which will probably piss off die-hard horror fans), Halloween II is too uniformally dark, light on plot and heavy on visual gimmicks and gore to be anything more than another pointless Rob Zombie splatterfest. After a brief prologue flashback shoehorned in to explain a recurring motif (the much-maligned white horse), the film picks up where the first Halloween left off, with Laurie whisked away to the hospital and Michael Myers' corpse being carted off on a meat wagon... only to mysteriously and inexplicably re-animate after the vehicle crashes into a cow (darn rural backroads...). A seven-or-eight minute hospital sequence follows- an obvious homage to the original Halloween II, and in my opinion the best sequence in the movie- before we smash cut to one year later: the now twice-orphaned Laurie is living with fellow survivor Annie and her father, Sheriff Brackett, in an isolated house on the edge of town. Laurie's been having pretty intense nightmares for the past few months- dreams about Michael, a liitle boy in a clown costume, and a mysterious woman in white- and with Halloween approaching in a few days, she can't seem to ignore the sneeking suspicion that Myers (whose "corpse" vanished without a trace) might still be out there, waiting to come back and finish what he started in the first film. Of course, she's absolutely right: Michael's been living the hillbilly life, holing up in an abandoned barn and surviving off the land, preparing to bring Laurie back into the family she'd mercifully escaped from years ago. Slowly throughout the film, Laurie becomes more and more aware of her twisted lineage (the big reveal courtesy of Dr. Loomis' new tell-all book), and inevitably Michael shows up at the end, severing her last ties to normalcy in typically gruesome fashion and driving her just as crazy as he is. Trust me, if the synopsis doesn't sound appealling to you, the movie will be even less so. Returning as Laurie Strode is newcomer (I still haven't seen her in anything else) Scout Taylor-Compton, whose character is now (once again) the focus of the Halloween films. This is a much different Laurie than we're used to; she's lost her friends and family, she's dealing with her feelings of loss and regret by acting out rebelliously, and- oh yeah- she's suffering a complete psychotic breakdown, either due to her traumatic experiences or her genetic dispositions- or both. Taking care of her at this point is Brad Dourif's Sheriff Brackett, a character much expanded from the first one who, in my opinion, is the most likable person in the film. Brackett's kind of an old man at this point, trying to handle these two independent teenagers that are staying under his roof- Laurie and Danielle Harris's Annie (the only OTHER likable character, who gets very little screen time this go-round)- and it's wearing him out... especially when he hears that Dr. Samuel Loomis is putting out another tell-all about the Myers family. Loomis, once again played by Malcolm McDowell, has undergone a startling metamorphosis in this film: while previously he was a slightly phony pop psychiatrist, now he's made the transition to full-fledged asshole, a self-obsessed prick who is so immensely unlikable that you kind of root for him to just die- but even when that actually happens, there's no real payoff to it, and you feel kinda cheated (unless you are a Loomis fan, in which case you should feel infuriated). I get the distinct impression that Rob Zombie actually HATES this character, which may be why he's barely involved in the story and has no redeeming qualities, so while it's nice to see McDowell back in the part, the character doesn't even feel like Dr. Loomis anymore. Lastly, Tyler Mane is back as the seemingly unkillable Michael Myers... albeit with a giant beard, long, grimy hair, and a hooded coat in place of the traditional overalls (at least he still has the mask). Frankly, Michael is such a two-dimensional character that anyone can play him as long as they get the mask right, so while Mane is still the tallest Michael I've ever seen, there's nothing good or bad to be said about his performance- but it's bothersome just how berserk Rob Zombie has chosen to make the guy. Does he have to stab EVERYONE at least twenty times? It gets old fast, and the last thing you want your monster to be is boring. Worse still is young Michael, now played by Chase Vanek (Daeg Faerch apparently went through a growth spurt and couldn't reprise the part) who may be the WORST child actor I have ever seen- nothing kills a horror movie like a creepy child character that isn't remotely creepy. Direction-wise, Rob Zombie makes some... questionable choices here; for some reason, he's enamored with slow-motion shots that weren't shot in slo-mo, which as an aspiring filmmaker, I can tell you authoritatively that this technique ALWAYS looks bad, but especially when shooting in digital (what were you THINKING, Zombie?). Many of the dream sequences look like bad music video set-ups, and it's particularly jarring when the visions take on a hyperactive strobing quality (I honestly think this movie could be dangerous to watch if you have epilepsy). I feel no need to dignify the script with an analysis, as there is barely anything present to analyze- it's pathetic how the film clearly has to contrive things for Michael to be doing before Halloween night, because otherwise there would be nothing interesting (let alone frightening) happening until the final twenty minutes of the movie. The violence in the film was also preposterously overdone, with lingering shots of mutilated corpses that serve no purpose (in the beginning of the film, after the car wreck, we cut back to a gratuitous shot of the driver's mangled head THREE TIMES before the plot starts moving forward again). As iffy as the first Halloween remake was, with this one Zombie has transformed a potentially artistically valid horror franchise into pure, disgusting exploitation. Worse, it's JOYLESS exploitation, not even reveling in the ridiculousness of the situations and taking itself so seriously that the audience can't enjoy any of it (or, to enjoy it, they have to be some seriously disturbed people). Sadly, this is where the zeal to create "realistic" films can take filmmakers in the wrong direction. A Halloween film that's not fun is a Halloween film that's not worth watching.
  • October 30, 2009
    One Scary,Hard, Brutal, Bastard. Mr Zombie done Awesome Justice 2 tha Legendary Micheal Myers...It was filmed to perfection, (the Editing was Awseome) (Its what the first one should have been) There was one or two disappointments for me and mayb to other die hard fans of ze origi...( read more)nal, but its a must see film purely just for the man himself. But wouldn't, couldn't think of a better man for the Job.
  • October 28, 2009
    It started off attractive but then descends into oblivious boredome
  • October 28, 2009
    horror oh ma god
    it amazing
  • October 27, 2009
    H2 HALLOWEEN II LOOK VERY GRREAT LIKE IT. BUT "COOL'.
  • October 25, 2009
    Rob Zombie is usually good, so I really want to see this one
  • October 25, 2009
    never beat the original movies
  • October 25, 2009
    I love the original Halloween movie, no better horror film, I liked its sequel, I even liked Rob Zombie's remake of the original, but this piece of crap has no good points at all... terrible dream sequences, laughable visions seen by the two leads, awful story, Zombie destroys th...( read more)e characters he reinvented in his remake, the camera work is very frantic during alot of the death scenes.
  • October 24, 2009
    Bit confusing & a let down but Gorey as hell!!!
  • October 23, 2009
    Veramente brutto e prevedibile.. mi aspetto qcs di pił da Zombie.. meglio il primo
  • October 23, 2009
    oh my god its halloween 2 i so wanted to see that movie!
  • October 22, 2009
    I was really looking forward to this but, brutality aside, i was a bit disappointed. This carries on straight from where Rob Zombies first installment finished so gets off to a flying start. Laurie is obviously traumatised by what happened to her last halloween but is trying to g...( read more)et over it with a job, friends and a counsellor but things are about to go a bit shit for Laurie as the supposedly dead Michael Myers is alive and still after his teenage sister. Obviously, everyone that comes into contact with Myers gets killed in the most brutal way possible and in some respects it looks great and in others it tends to drag on a bit to the point where we don't care. Also, this has some clever uses of dream sequences and symbolism involving Myers mum and his younger self but these are used far to much throughout the film. I did like some of the violence and the way the film was made and thought Scout Taylor-Compton did a good job as the troubled Laurie but overall i felt this was missing something. Worth a look for hardcore horror fans and i'd watch it again but its nothing special, unfortunately.
  • October 22, 2009
    Ohh God that was a really terrible muve but muve was also brilliant. amazing and awsome....i really liked it
  • October 22, 2009
    Following straight on from the events in part 1. Rob Zombie allows himself to remake the 2nd instalment of John Carpenters franchise. Sadly it's all down hill from part 1. I'm struggling find anything good to say about this film apart from maybe the casting.

    The now deceased ...( read more)Deborah Myers (played by Sheri Moon) , Michael Myer's mother returns as a ghost and figment of MM's imagination spuring him on to find Laurie and 'Unite' them all in death. This is incredibly cliche and I cant help but think Zombie was unable to not give his wife a part in this film.

    It completly frustrates me to see Zombie remaking films like these, when will he see he is limiting himself with slasher flicks, its just borring now and old. Just when I thought the genre was perking up with House of 1K Corpses and Devil's Rejects, he goes and brings us this rubbish.
  • October 21, 2009
    Brilliant. Amazing. Awsome.. Hope they re-make the original fourth.. Which is the carry on from the secind. The original third has nothing to do with Myers. Love Halloween.
  • October 20, 2009
    rob zombie again brings his style to the franchaise like his 1st remake, taking events further,as one year later michael myers returns to finish what he started, some exellent and brutal gore on show,as people buy it, although i cant see this going any further, 2 is enough
  • October 19, 2009
    Michael Myers is back in a sequel that few thought would actually happen least of all Rob Zombie who swore he wouldn't return as the first one was just too grueling to make. But the first movie made a decent amount of cash and with the promise that Zombie would have full creative...( read more) control he soon found himself under a tight deadline but eager to do the part of the movie that he felt he neglected in the first Halloween outing namely putting the spotlight on his sister Laurie Strode (Angel Myers) played by Scout Taylor-Compton.

    The bulk of this film concentrates on the character of Laurie Strode who a full year after the attack of Michael Myers is completely unaware that she is really Angel Myers the sister of Michael. Laurie is having great difficulty recovering from the attack and loss of her family and is constantly plagued by nightmares in which she is stalked by Michael whilst everyone around her dies horribly at his hands. And when I mean horribly I mean repeatedly injured well beyond the point of death. All of Michael's killing involves him stabbing, slamming, crushing and/or breaking people repeatedly over and over and over almost as if he feels the need to overly punish his victims even well beyond their point of demise. It's supposed to convey a more realistic and vicious approach to violence by and overpowering madman but these scenes are filmed in a rather distant or confusing manner so the impact of shock is reduced to the point that I felt very detached and unaffected by the whole murdering process.

    Laurie's constant suffering is supposed to be the main source of sympathy for the viewer but unfortunately her character's attitude and actions vacillate wildly during the course of the movie and so she ends up becoming not much of an anchor for the film to revolve around. As a result, the only sympathetic character that the movie is attempting to build up throughout the film ends up being just an irritating little girl that appears ripe for slaughter in a typical horror film.As Michael looms closer and closer to Laurie her dreams intensify and eventually she develops dreams in which she is the killer wearing her brother's old clown mask while she slits the throats of her loved ones. Although she has become a vegetarian, the effects of eating her veggie pizza sickens her when at the same time Michael is shown busily eating the heart of a freshly killed dog. It's obvious the connection between her and Michael is becoming stronger but just how strong will it become? I bet you can guess.

    The other character which we spend a lot of time with is Dr. Samuel Loomis played once again by Malcolm McDowell. His character has changed quite a bit as he has become a best selling author by writing about his "star" patient Michael Myers. Although much in demand due to the infamous nature of Michael, many -- especially family members of his victims -- are greatly sickened that Loomis appears to be cashing in on the tragedy and attempting to make as much money as possible on it. Although Loomis enjoys the fame and money, he demonstrates a great hatred for his audience and seems confused and angered by their inability to ask him anything interesting.

    Loomis is obviously the symbol for modern man both need for and repulsion of violence in the media and in their daily lives. As much as people hurl hatred and anger upon killers and scoundrels, three times as many people can't get enough to feed their fascination for these same people. Loomis also appears representative of Zombie's own trafficking in the entertainment of killing as well as his great disdain for the viewing audience and the fans that gather around him at appearances. Several times Loomis is forced to put up with embarrassing and uncomfortable situations in order for him to peddle his wares to the public and I have to imagine that a lot of Zombie's own nihilistic hatred of these masses is shining through. Unfortunately these scenes only serve to strengthen the viewer's hatred of his character and the, at times, comical nature of his scenes greatly destroy the flow of the movie.

    Then there's Michael. In the first movie Zombie decided to step away from Carpenter's mysticism surrounding the character and decided instead to concentrate on Michael as a damaged person. Not an unstoppable evil creature bent on killing all who come in his way, but a damaged individual who is lashing out due to his childhood trauma and the trauma he received in the mental hospital. How then did he survive a shot to the face? The scene in which Michael is shown waking up and escaping from the ambulance is shown to be a bad dream of Laurie's. So when did he escape? Where is he exactly and why did it take him a year to start wandering to town? I'm going to have write between the lines and put in my own excuse that he escaped much like what happened in Laurie's dream (she "saw" it because they're connected see?) and then he wandered around the area in which he escaped somewhat aimlessly until anniversary of that fateful Halloween night once again arose and the ghost of his mother beckoned him to "unite the family". One of the hillbilly groups that he kills talked in such a manner that they appeared to know him and thus I would have to guess he was wandering somewhat dormant until he started seeing his mother and the symbolic white horse. Did I mention the white horse?

    So Sheri Moon Zombie returns as Michael's ghostly mother (with his internal child in tow of course) and pops in now and again beckoning Michael to find his sister and unite the family once more so they can all be together as one big happy family. This generally keeps Michael motivated to keep moving on down the road killing the horrible people that he encounters along the way. This is all well and good common movie symbolism but towards the last act of the movie she begins to pop in so often that after a while you just start to get annoyed when you see her and then when she still won't stop showing up you just start to giggle after a while at her clumsy attempts to be the movie's big symbolic device that moves the film forward.

    She generally doesn't do much other than long for family unity, but in one instance she implores Michael to "have a little fun" with his victims much to his approval. Yesiree! You certainly won't miss or regret anybody's death in this film as pretty much everyone who is killed is just the most awful person you could ever meet. This oppressive nihilism of Zombie's really hampers the film as the over the top disgustingness of the majority of his victims just detaches one even further from the proceedings and pretty much destroys any tension that could possibly exist.

    Eschewing the shiny 35mm look of the first film H2 is shot in grimy dirty 16mm and is quite obviously every bit a Zombie film quite a bit more than the first. The '70sgrind-house aesthetic is in full force here with blurry close-ups and off-centered shots being quite common. This is actually the best attraction to the film as I feel that Zombie does have a good eye for this style of filming and I somehow keep hoping that he will find a good vehicle to showcase it. Unfortunately this film is not it as it is remarkably uneven and the flow of the film is hampered by quite a number of elements.

    Stay away.

    Stay far away.
  • October 18, 2009
    I think this movie on of the most "interesting movies" So IlOvEt .
  • October 18, 2009
    Brilliant! Well worth a watch and worth picking up on DVD too! Go and see, the voices are telling you to do so! :D
  • October 18, 2009
    cant wait to see this one
  • October 18, 2009
    maaaaaddddddd!!!!!!!!!!
  • October 17, 2009
    Wasnt bad..didnt really have a story
  • October 16, 2009
    wasted 2 hours of my life watching this pile of tripe , why oh why do they have to make remakes of classic movies and make a complete botch job of it, in a nutshell not scary not interesting and definetly not a patch on the original.
  • October 16, 2009
    Well what can i say. What the F#*! comes to mind! Not really sure what the ending meant and was very confused. Anyone that can shed any light I would truly appreciate it as I think I know how it ended but there seemed to be alot of inconsitences. Oh well, there was a lot of go...( read more)re so if you just like that in a film then go.
  • October 15, 2009
    horrors rock michael myers and jason voorhees and freddy krueger are the shit yo
  • October 15, 2009
    This movie is a massive gore fest and nothing more the story to this movie is rubbish from start to finish if you decide to ever watch this film you will jump at a few parts but will be very bored.
  • October 15, 2009
    "H2" was the kind of movie you either love or hate,I loved it..
    Seeing as The original Halloween is my favorite horror film I was sceptical when I heard Rob Zombie was going to remake it.
    I was right to be sceptical because I disliked the first remake imensely.
    But now to t...( read more)he movie at hand Halloween II.
    I loved it and thought it was pure genius.It didn't feel like a remake but a totally seperate film.Zombie takes this one and makes it his own,Zombie's style is one that you instantly
    recognize as his own,gritty grainy with a look of forthcoming doom.His music selection is always awesome opting for great nosalgic rock classics that always fit perfectly into the scene.
    It starts off full blast and never lets up.I wasn't bored for a second.I wanted more more more.
    A lot of people complained about the dream sequences where as I thought they were perfectly placed and a welcome addition to this sequel,and I'm not usually a fan of the is it
    real or a dream syndrome..
    Michael is more brutal and violent than in any Halloween to date,the effects were good old school make up effects no CGI drama here.It had an old feel to it but at the same time was very fresh.Danielle Harris and Scout Taylor Compton are exellent in there reprised roles as Annie and Laurie.There is plenty of symbolism but not so much that you lose your grasp on whats happening.I give it 4 1/2 out of 5 stars
  • October 15, 2009
    Halloween 2 picks up after the events of the first one and again we go on a killing ride with Michael Myers. But Rob Zombie pits us with a sheer killing machine and a re-inverted Michael Myers too, more beef up and extremely dangerous and someone you never want to meet in a dark ...( read more)ally.
    Mr. Zombie again shows he?s a talent as a director given us some of the most terrifying killings I?ve seen, the raw energy that he put into those scenes and nastiness too is truly nerve shattering.
    The biggest problem is the story, its ok and beings the story together but the middle acted of the movie is slow and dull given that the first 25 mins was so good and extreme. And the conclusion is good but yet again the film is left open which isn?t a surprise. Over all not a bad sequel and some of the terrifying killings put out on screen .But I am hoping the Rob Zombie can move on to something different next time as this guy got talent in horror.
  • October 15, 2009
    Brutal. That's about it.
  • October 14, 2009
    wow umn just seen this movie 4 the 1st time n think that this is a good movie 2 watch....its got a good cast of actors/actressess thorughout this movie....i think that tyler mane, sherri moon zombie, scout taylor compton, mark christopher lawrence, malcolm mcdowell, brad dourif, ...( read more)chris hardwick, daniel roebuck. jeffrey daniel phillips play good roles/parts throughout this movie,.,,,,i think that the director of this action/adventure/drama/horror/thriller movie had done a good job of directing this movie because you never know what 2 expect thorughout this movie.....its a freaky movie 2 watch but its a really good movie....i think that the ending of this movie could mean that there may be a part 3 of this movie but imn not sure yet.....i think that the 1st remake was propbly the better version but this is still a good sequel-follow up movie n its enjoyable throughout this movie

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