Halloween II (2009) - (Theatrical Review)

[Bojangles]

Description:

Michael Myers is still at large and no less dangerous than ever. After a failed reunion to reach his baby sister at their old home, Laurie Strode is immediately taken to a hospital to be treated by the wounds that had been afflicted by her brother a few hours ago. However, Michael isn't too far off and will continue his murdering 'Halloween' rampage until he gets his sister all to himself.

Review:

This is the sequel that Rob Zombie promised he would have no part of. Unfortunately, he lied to us. He wrote and directed this one as well. Once again, he is promising that he will have no involvement with another sequel to Halloween, but how can we believe him? He's already broken one promise so it would not surprise me if he did it again. All I can say is that we better hope that he stays true to his promise. I will try my best not to spoil anything for any of you. Now, let's get on with my review of Rob Zombie's Halloween II (2009).

I really wanted this movie to be good, but with some of the things I had seen in the multiple trailers and TV spots were very discouraging. Rob Zombie said that he wanted to make Michael Myers more realistic, more of a human. However, in the trailer I clearly saw Michael Myers lifting up a car on one side and pushing it over. That's not very realistic to me. I guess when Rob Zombie said he wanted Michael Myers to be more realistic he just figured he would have Michael grunt from time-to-time when he was killing someone. Despite being discouraged by the trailers and TV spots, I still wanted this movie to be good. I still held out some hope for it. Also, let it be known, I didn't think Rob Zombie's first attempt at a Halloween remake was anything better than decent.

Also, I'm sure all of you know that Sherri Moon Zombie (Deborah Myers, Rob Zombie's Wife) is in this one as well, despite the fact that she had committed suicide in the previous film. When I heard about her being in this one I could not help but roll my eyes. Of course I knew it was coming, I just hated to accept it. No, she's not just in flashback scenes as I had hoped. That's just simply not enough screen time for Rob Zombie's wife. Unfortunately, she's a ghost-like figure that manifests in the mind of her son, Michael Myers. If you think that's bad, she gets more screen time than I ever thought she would have as a fucking ghost. Yes, it's true. Also, her acting seems to be particularly bad in this one. It just shows that Rob Zombie will do anything to include his wife in anything he does.

You know, I was talking about this with one of my friends when Halloween II was in early stages of production and Sherri Moon Zombie was part of the confirmed cast list. He said: "Man, Rob Zombie would put her in his movies even if it completely fucking ruined the whole movie". I hate to say it, but he was right. She didn't ruin the movie herself, but she played a part in its downfall.

The characters were also a big problem with this one. Laurie has changed a decent bit and Loomis has changed quite a bit. He gets a decent bit of screen time, but it doesn't really matter. I couldn't really find a point to him being in the movie at all. Well, besides the fact that he played a major role in the first one. Some things were just silly, and Uncle Coffin (or whatever his name was) didn't have as big of a role as I had thought. With those viral videos that were released I figured he would have a bigger role in the movie, but he didn't. On a good note, I did enjoy Brad Douriff's in this movie. In my opinion, his acting was better than anyone else in the movie.

The first few minutes of the movie started off strong, but after the hospital scenes the movie went downhill instantly. People were actually talking trash in the theaters as soon as the hospital stuff was over. Yes, only a few minutes of the movie actually takes place in the hospital. I thought they would have spent more time in the hospital, as that's what the trailers seemed to insinuate.

I know everyone is waiting to hear about the death scenes in the movie. Well, there were some good ones. Unfortunately, the directing was particularly poor in some of these scenes. The camera shook so much at times that you really couldn't tell what was going on. Yes, in most of the death scenes the camera would shake. I guess Rob Zombie wanted things to look more forceful and brutal. Unfortunately, by doing this, you couldn't see the brutality that was apparently going on, thus the shaking of the camera was in-effective.

There is so much more I could say about this movie, but I do not want to spoil it for anyone that hasn't seen it yet. Maybe one day I'll write a review that does contain spoilers and my opinions on them, but not at this time. I wanted this movie to be good, but, in my opinion, it wasn't. The movie just seemed to drag on and on. I also see that Rob Zombie still lacks writing skills, especially in the dialogue department. The dialogue made the acting awkward at times. Oh, before I forget, the ending was terrible and anti-climactic. I walked out of the theaters horribly disappointed after it was all over. I know I wasn't the only one disappointed in the audience as well. I heard people talking trash while the movie was on and when we were all getting up to leave.

That's two Halloween movies you've ruined so far, Rob Zombie. Yes, maybe the first one was decent but a remake of the classic Halloween could have been so much better. You had a great opportunity handed to you. You had the chance to remake a classic and you completely fucked it up. I hope you stay true to your promise and you don't make a third one. I know one will be coming, because of the money these movies pull in, but you have absolutely no business writing another one.

I rate Halloween II (2009) a 4 out of 10.

[Wolf-J-Flywheel]

Damnit it must have sucked jes

[Friday The 13th]

Your review don't really surprise me much...
I mean the trailers told it all!
I could tell this film would be a total FLOP!

*shaky camera* Now we see Sherri Moon riding in on a White Horse!,
Then we see Michael Myers flip his hair over his shoulder and skip in a gay fashion over to his mommy.

[demented_are_go]

I actually liked the gritty, shaky way scenes were filmed. In my opinion it deserves a bit more than a 4 out of 10. It's not the greatest movie ever, but I still feel like there's more pros than cons. Just the sound itself to me made the movie worth seeing. That was one thing that was done right. I think it really depends on whether or not you like Rob Zombie's work, personally I do, so I did like the movie, I can't say I loved it, but I did like it.

[Friday The 13th]

The only film I have have EVER liked from Rob Z. was The Devil's Rejects.
Other then that, all of his shitty films were FLOPS!
He has TOTALLY ruined a classic! & I'm all for Remakes!
But when some total fool who doesn't know shit can come in and just ruin a classic!
All in Horror is LOST! He is a fucking Faggoty ASS! Failure!
He can go flip his hair elsewhere! & Now he is going to ruin another classic! "The Blob"!

[Bojangles]

I actually liked the gritty, shaky way scenes were filmed. In my opinion it deserves a bit more than a 4 out of 10. It's not the greatest movie ever, but I still feel like there's more pros than cons. Just the sound itself to me made the movie worth seeing. That was one thing that was done right. I think it really depends on whether or not you like Rob Zombie's work, personally I do, so I did like the movie, I can't say I loved it, but I did like it.

The grittyness is fine with me. The shaking just went way too overboard, though. The first one didn't have that problem, but the second one did. Remember when Michael was fighting Joe Grizzly and the camera was shaking as Michael was ramming his arm into the side of the stall? That was fine and I actually thought it made things look more intense. In this one, the camera would shake so bad that you couldn't see exactly what was going on at points in the movie. Plus, it was entirely too dark in some scenes, in my opinion.

I hated to give it a 4 out of 10 because I wanted the movie to be good. I hoped it would have been good. I didn't go to the theaters hating it like MOST people do when it comes to remakes. I'll watch it again once it's on DVD and maybe then my opinion will change a little, but I highly doubt it.

What do you mean by the sound? How the volume would turn up or seemingly get loud to make people jump? I'll be honest, I did notice a person or two jump when that would happen. However, I see a lot of movies in theaters and I'm used to that by now.

Oh, another thing I hated early in the movie, but I didn't want to spoil anything in my review so I'll use the spoiler button.

Spoiler

I hated at the beginning when they were hauling Michael Myers back to the morgue or whatever and they wrecked. The guy saying "fuck" about 25 times really became annoying.

Although, I do think the first few minutes of the movie were the best, up until the hospital stuff ended.

[Friday The 13th]

LOL its Rob Zombie... All of his films have to say fuck atleast 50x!

[demented_are_go]

The grittyness is fine with me. The shaking just went way too overboard, though. The first one didn't have that problem, but the second one did. Remember when Michael was fighting Joe Grizzly and the camera was shaking as Michael was ramming his arm into the side of the stall? That was fine and I actually thought it made things look more intense. In this one, the camera would shake so bad that you couldn't see exactly what was going on at points in the movie. Plus, it was entirely too dark in some scenes, in my opinion.

I hated to give it a 4 out of 10 because I wanted the movie to be good. I hoped it would have been good. I didn't go to the theaters hating it like MOST people do when it comes to remakes. I'll watch it again once it's on DVD and maybe then my opinion will change a little, but I highly doubt it.

What do you mean by the sound? How the volume would turn up or seemingly get loud to make people jump? I'll be honest, I did notice a person or two jump when that would happen. However, I see a lot of movies in theaters and I'm used to that by now.

Oh, another thing I hated early in the movie, but I didn't want to spoil anything in my review so I'll use the spoiler button.

Spoiler

I hated at the beginning when they were hauling Michael Myers back to the morgue or whatever and they wrecked. The guy saying "fuck" about 25 times really became annoying.

Although, I do think the first few minutes of the movie were the best, up until the hospital stuff ended.

I mean the sound effects, when the knife goes in, when he stomps that guy's head etc, that was well done. It was one thing both me and gore enjoyed.

[gore]

I'm an expert on this series. It's a good movie. The only issue really was the Doctor in these new ones seems nothing like the real one who cared and tried to save everyone even though they thought he was like just nuts. He risked his ass in all those movies to save people who talked badly about him. In this movie and the last one, he's a money grubber.

But, at least Michael Audry Myers was in them, unlike that shit hole Halloween 3. (That is in fact his middle name, you find it out in the extended versions of Halloween 2, the original).

[Dr. Briggs]

But, at least Michael Audry Myers was in them, unlike that shit hole Halloween 3. (That is in fact his middle name, you find it out in the extended versions of Halloween 2, the original).

Halloween 3 was not a shit hole.... Just a shitty Halloween film if you take it in series context

I think you hear his middle name in the extended original as well, when they're talking about his trial

[gore]

Halloween 3 was not a shit hole.... Just a shitty Halloween film if you take it in series context

I think you hear his middle name in the extended original as well, when they're talking about his trial

Yea, that is more or less the exact words that Akkad said about Halloween 3. No Michael Myers = NOT Halloween! Or, for the Computer geeks; No Michael Myers != Halloween

And yes, in the extended release DVD of Halloween 1, they added in a portion where they said "Michael Audry Myers will be tried for blah blah blah" and they show him in the Hospital.

[Friday The 13th]

:khead:

[AmericanPsycho]

Not much I can say, but this flick was okay.

[mrblue]

i saw H2 at a screening a month before it came out and rob zombie showed and once the movie ended he rushed out of the theater and refused to sign autographs. he probably did that cuz everybody laughed during the movie alot

[Bojangles]

i saw H2 at a screening a month before it came out and rob zombie showed and once the movie ended he rushed out of the theater and refused to sign autographs. he probably did that cuz everybody laughed during the movie alot

Good. That "movie" deserves to be laughed at.

[Chainsaw Brutality]

Just finished watching it.

First thing I want to say is: I had zero interest in this. I only DVRed it because it was free (aired on TCM extreme or whatever). I wanted it to be horrible, because there never should have been one remake to begin with.

I laughed my ass off through this entire trashy mess. This is easily the worst comedy I've ever seen.

Grittiness? There is absolutely nothing gritty about this movie - it's murky, muddy, garbage. Zombie's camera work is just as awful as his directing and story writing are.


Zombie completely ass raped the Halloween brand. Everything about this movie (story, characters, editing, cinematography, acting) is disgusting, and not in a good way.

I'm glad RZ has pretty much went into hibernation - I'll never watch another film he does.

[Oldman]

Ron Zombie

[The Shape]

[SIZE="2"]This movie didn't deserve to be released on the big screen.[/SIZE]

[FreddysFingers]

To be fair, his first remake attempt at Halloween wasn't bad, it just wasn't warranted.

[The Shape]

To be fair, his first remake attempt at Halloween wasn't bad,

[SIZE="2"]I can't say I agree with this part of your statement. I just don't believe he had any clue about the original movie. He butchered the storyline and made Michael a momma's boy. Leave that to Jason, he's the momma's boy of the slashers.[/SIZE]

it just wasn't warranted.

[SIZE="2"]I agree![/SIZE]