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Halloween II

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5.9 User Score:

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Based on 15 critic reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Horror  |  Suspense/Thriller

Written by: Rob Zombie

Directed by: Rob Zombie

Release Date:
Theatrical: August 28, 2009

Running Time: 101 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: R for strong brutal bloody violence throughout, terror, disturbing graphic images, language, and some crude sexual content and nudity

Starring Scout Taylor-Compton, Tyler Mane, Danielle Harris, Daniel Roebuck, Ezra Buzzington, Mark Christopher Lawrence, Jeffrey Daniel Phillips, and Dayton Callie

It is that time of year again, and Michael Myers has returned home to sleepy Haddonfield, Illinois to take care of some unfinished family business. Unleashing a trail of terror that only horror master Rob Zombie can, Myers will stop at nothing to bring closure to the secrets of his twisted past. But the town's got an unlikely new hero, if they can only stay alive long enough to stop the unstoppable. (The Weinstein Company)

What The Critics Said

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63

New York Post Kyle Smith

Halloween II, writer-director Rob Zombie's completely unsettling but incompletely satisfying continuation of his 2007 reboot, offers up a rush of fiercely imagined nightmare images. Be warned: It's one of the most gruesome films of the year.

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60

The New York Times Mike Hale

If only he (Zombie) had more on his mind than his love of 1970s Italian horror films, his meticulous color schemes and his body count. Halloween II is full of in jokes and references but nearly devoid of wit.

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60

New York Daily News Joe Neumaier

Zombie walks the walk, you can't deny it. And he's found the medium where he can let his freak flag fly highest. Now, he can proudly put that battered old William Shatner Halloween mask on a stick, too, and let it rip.

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60

Time Out New York Keith Uhlich

Laurie’s story holds interest thanks to Taylor-Compton’s intense, nontrivializing dedication to the role, especially when the character’s feral brother comes calling.

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58

Entertainment Weekly Adam Markovitz

What Halloween II does have, though, is Zombie's claustrophobic visual style; he half-drowns his actors in shadow, then tracks them through windows and around corners like a focused predator. If only we cared about the prey.

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58

The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps

Zombie does a lot extremely well. Maybe someday he’ll find a movie into which it all fits.

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50

LA Weekly Chuck Wilson

This time, Zombie doesn’t appear to have many deep thoughts, so Michael doesn’t just stab his victims, he slices and chomps them into gooey pulp -- an overkill motif that actually feels false to the character and quickly becomes a depressing bore.

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50

San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub

The movie lacks the strong vision and memorable carnage of Zombie's masterpiece, "The Devil's Rejects."

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50

Los Angeles Times Robert Abele

What you won't feel is genuine horror, because unlike John Carpenter -- whose original 1978 film is a sly game of nerve-racking peekaboo -- Zombie isn't out to engage fans of the genre with a slaughterhouse bonbon like "Halloween II."

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50

The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck

Perhaps reflecting the filmmaker's other career as a recording artist, many of the film's scares come as much from the ultra-vivid horrifying sound effects as the gore itself.

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50

Boston Globe Tom Russo

With his new sequel, Zombie spends less time paying tribute and more time getting inventive, with mixed results.

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50

Chicago Reader Cliff Doerksen

Could be the work of any journeyman, give or take a few hundred gratuitous pop-culture references. Let no one accuse Zombie of stinting on the gore, however.

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30

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

It's visceral bloodbathery at its most repellent, but worse than that, it's horrific like the aftermath of a suicide bombing instead of terrifying like the bomb beneath the table or the knife behind the back.

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30

Variety Rob Nelson

Repellent 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 upon the huge, brain-dead body of work inspired by the 30-year-old "Halloween."

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ReelViews James Berardinelli

A complete and utter abomination.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 5.9 (out of 10) based on 89 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

ricky m gave it a9:
Halloween 2 is great! a instant classic better than the remake.

Trey W. gave it an8:
Not as good as the original Halloween movie but it is still great in its own right. I like both of these Halloween movies and the way Zombie did them. For people who are going to see it for the story. Your review should not even be counted because you do not rate a Slasher based on its story.. there really is none or its usually very simple. You have to rate it completely different from other movies. Anyways like I said it was a good movie.

Alvaro O. gave it an8:
If you do not like this movie it is because you can not understand rob zombie's mind. He really knows what is doing. This movie isfor a real horror movie fan.

deontae s. gave it a4:
Yo this movie meant way more to me then to jus see michael kill people so hard... the original i was in it for the story and everything i been watchin these movies for over and over for 8 or 9 years and waiting for a remake so i can have that feelin of seein this movie to another dimension but u jus destroyed that for me an the feelin sucked thanks alot rob zombie.. if u wanted 2 make a movie in your own vision make your own character and call it something else u messed up the michael myers series which would hard be 4 anybody who really wanted 2 bring back a better deeper an real story of michael myers.. it sucked 4 the people who really enjoys these movies.

Mr. Choo Choo gave it a5:
I loved RZ's 1st 2 flicks. This one is his weakest. The girls are dumb and annoying, expecially the lead, who spends most of the movie crying (when she's not partying). This is a chick flick for the goth-depraved-and-proud crowd. The action is all a blur due to hand held jittery close-up's. The suspense and fright of Carpenter's original is totally missing here, despite (and maybe because of) the constant intensity. There's a good funny moment with Weird Al and a good inside joke with McDowell.

Anthony G. gave it a2:
I am a big fan of Rob Zombie, but I really don't know what he was thinking when he created this disaster. Other than the fact that Michael Myers is running around this doesn't feel like a Halloween movie at all. There isn't much more to say. It was very, very disappointing for me.

Bob H gave it a0:
This movie was horrible. And although there are a few cool visuals throughout the movie, (which felt like 3 hours more than it really was), it was almost unbearable to watch. it trys to be brutal and just comes off digusting and tasteless. Absolute garbage. Watch the original "Halloween II" from 1981. At least that one is watchable.

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