Halloween 2... The Review

H2 (2009) not to be confused with Halloween II (1981) in anyway. It all starts directly after the first one ends. Laurie Strode is shown strolling down the road covered in blood and carrying the 33 revolver in her hand. She is walking perfectly fine mind you which confuses me later in the movie. Also, I am a bit stumped on how she can just wander through the streets of a town after shooting a man directly in his head! But I digress, I don't want to ruin the plot for anyone who has yet to see the movie, but let me tell you that if you were a fan of the first one. Don't go in expecting the same expectations. Go see the movie by all means, just don't go expecting what we got in the last installment.


The movie, to me, didn't have direction. Which is funny because one of my favorite horror directors, Rob Zombie, directed it. I felt as if Zombie wanted to pile in a bunch of different plots into his movie and fell flat. The death scenes were what we've come to know, but A LOT more brutal. Who knew Michael Myers was such an angry fella? The best part about the whole movie was the makeup. The makeup artists did an amazing job making everyone look really dead or injured. The scene where Laurie was strapped to the gurney was chilling on how real she looked. In another scene a man actually get's his head stomped in and the aftermath was brutal. Not so much the makeup artists job to an extent, but Michael aged a bit in this movie and was sportin a nice 'grizzly adams' look with the long rugged beard which added something new to his character. I am a big fan of gore in my horror movies and this one had it's fair share.

After the amazement of gore and the nostalgia of yet another Halloween movie wears off I began to find myself a little confused at what was taking place. For instance, nobody found it weird that Michael was shot dead on directly in the face and he walked out of an ambulance as if nothing happened. In another scene he walks goes to a party knowing nothing of who was there and proceeds to butcher an innocent girl only to walk back to Laurie's house in search of her yet again. Come on Rob, there's no point in that. Not to lead to much into it, but Michael's mother is in this movie after it being revealed that she had died when he was still a boy in the hospital. Why wasn't she in the first movie after she died?

All in all I did enjoy the move, but not as much as I hoped that I would. It had some grueling, yet redundant, death scenes. It had the most amazing makeup I have scene in a movie in recent years. The main point of the movie I didn't like was the continuity and direction. It seemed as if I was asking myself "How does he know she's there?" or "Why would he do that?" a little too often throughout the movie. I do recommend anyone going to see it as it's a good addition to the horror genre, just don't go with the same expectations as I did.

Out of 10 stars I would give it a 6.5

And now Ladies and Gentleman. For your viewing pleasure I give to you...

Halloween 2 (1981)