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Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 56
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.
Average Rating: 3.7/10
Critic Reviews: 12
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 10
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.
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Filmmaker Rob Zombie returns to Haddonfield for this Dimension Films sequel that finds the murderous psychopath Michael Myers (once again played by Tyler Mane) out on the loose again. The film picks up where the last one left off. Laurie Strode (Scout Taylor-Compton) survives an attack by her mental-patient brother, Michael Myers, whom she doesn't know is related to her. On the way to the morgue, the ambulance carrying Michael crashes and, miraculously, the killer survives and heads out into the
Aug 28, 2009 Wide
Jan 12, 2010
$33.3M
The Weinstein Company
All Critics (72) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (15) | Rotten (57) | DVD (3)
Halloween II is full of in jokes and references but nearly devoid of wit.
You didn't think Michael Myers was dead, did you?
[Halloween II] offers up a rush of fiercely imagined nightmare images.
Zombie walks the walk, you can't deny it. And he's found the medium where he can let his freak flag fly highest.
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.
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.
The irony, of course, is that in attempting to breathe new life into Michael Myers, Rob Zombie may be the man who's finally killed him. Let us hope that in this case, the bastard stays dead: Halloween II might just be the bullet in his brain.
Zombie's film achieves a certain air-quote modernity, in that it's gritty, vulgar and showcases an analytical preoccupation with cause not present in slasher films of years gone by. That doesn't make it haunting or unnerving, though.
We see Myers in silhouette dragging a victim out of a truck and then stabbing them again and again and again, singularly summing up what a numbing experience it all is. No flashes of blood, no hints of character, just shadows killing shadows.
A painfully almost sadistically boring sequel...
By not reaching for empowerment, Halloween II diminishes the horror genre. Nearly every victim is a terrible person.
Pushing the Halloween series further from its roots, Rob Zombie's first sequel to his remake of the popular John Carpenter slasher, is a muddied mix of symbolism and excessive violence.
This film might be the most artfully rendered slasher sequel ever made. Alas, Zombie's dark poetry only goes so far without more substantive justification.
In a word, ugly. It just pips Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (aka Halloween 6) to the title of worst Halloween film ever.
[A] lumbering mess of a movie, which does no favours for the slasher genre, one that's fast losing any sense of innovation or vitality.
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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!
Rob Zombie makes incoherent films about people killing each other in brutal ways. Here's another one.
OK but not great
Zombie really doesn't escape the genre conventions.
Brutal and redundant but not without a certain ugly integrity, this gruesome sequel allows Zombie to continue to explore his idea that Michael Myers is a pathetic and tragically irredeemable product of childhood abuse...
Zombie's rowdy redneck phantasmagorias and weird swoons of empathy can't disguise that there's nowhere left for the story to go.
My open letter to Rob Zombie on his *cough* brilliant execution of Halloween II.
Extremely bizarre, and the strangest Halloween-related film I've ever seen. The film is horribly sloppy, unfocused, and poorly written, but it is to be commended because Zombie came up with a unique and interesting concept, and stuck with it. The problem is that he succeeds in doing something different, but fails to
August 13, 2009
Super Reviewer
As a die-hard fan of the original Halloween, I felt that the remake was pretty good despite the fact it was different. The sequel to the remake concludes Rob Zombie's take on the Michael Myers saga. The result, I thought were decent at best, but the film lacked something to really make it a good follow-up to the
September 16, 2011
Super Reviewer
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