Halloween II (2009)

To me, this movie is perfection.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

I've been tortured with these awful horror movie sequels lately. I was at least hoping that with Halloween/Slasher Month over a long time ago, I could avoid these stupid movies. The version I saw happened to be the longest slasher movie ever made and boy, did it feel like it! There's twenty minutes that are a dream meaning they're completely pointless in this already long movie. This movie is mostly just Michael Myers with a beard killing random people before confronting Laurie. Sometimes he wears his mask and sometimes he doesn't and I have no clue why.This is the only time where he says something as an adult ("Die!"). Laurie is so obnoxious in this movie and just yells over and over. There's tons of gratuitous swearing and nudity (at least in the unrated edition I saw). It's just an excuse to show more gore galore. Weird Al Yankovic appears briefly in the film giving it the only good moments. I guess it's not as bad as "Leprechaun In The Hood" or "The Final Destination" but it's still terrible. *1/2

Halloween might have pissed off a few Halloween fans but considering the great success at the box office, a sequel was then put into development for 2009 and then we got Halloween II..wow. Halloween II I never actually really watched until last week along with the remake..two pretty different films. I honestly really enjoyed the first Halloween film and then we got this. Halloween 2 when I think about it was really different to the first film, the film had things I liked..and things I did'nt like, lets just get the bads out of the way now. The dream sequences in this film were fucking awful and I hated them so much, I know in ways Halloween 2 actually tried to remake the original 1981 film which also featured one or two dream sequences but this film had way too many and I felt like I was watching some sort of fucked up Marilyn Manson music video, I also felt like after Laurie shot Myers in the face, literally, I don't really think this was necessary, it just felt like a money milking scheme to punish you. Goods; the acting, the acting in this film is really good from Scout Taylor Compton as Laurie and of course Danielle Harris as Annie from the Halloween remake and the original two Halloween's, 4 and 5. Overall, Halloween 2 is ok, but suffers from a bit too much stuff we did not need, at all.

I really enjoyed this film I think Rob Zombies film techniques are great especially with the horror dream montage which is not done too often that for me was my favourite. This is why films are good when they get modernised its never normally the story its about the directors take on the setting/environment and state of mind of main characters and portray with techniques and aspects that other directors would not include. People that bad mouth this film mainly just don't like Rob Zombie.

(Originally seen many years ago) Zombie's first film was awful and rather vile, but this sequel is somehow uglier and more repulsive, showcasing unnecessary killings,nasty moments and pure ugliness. Halloween 2 isn't even a slasher film, it's torture porn for sick individuals. I actively hate Zombie's remakes, there putrid, and ugly and showcase mean spirited, pointless violence to make money. This film is a piece of s**t. 0/10