After narrowly escaping death in the first film, Laurie Strode is taken to hospital while Michael Myers' "corpse" is transported towards the morgue. But Michael isn't a corpse at all and is soon on the loose again. He soon tracks down Laurie and continues his murderous frenzy.
Meanwhile Dr. Loomis shamelessly peddles his book about Michael in an effort to profiteer off of his own role in the horrible events of the past. Laurie, on the other hand, suffers sever mental and emotional instability which is worsened when she learns that she is Michael's sister.
Halloween 2 is far from a remake of the sequel to the original great Halloween film. It starts out with many similarities, but ends up taking a completely different path in a completely different way. Whereas the original sequel merely continued and completed the actual night of the events of the first movie, this Rob Zombie sequel takes place over a much longer period of time. In fact, at times it feels like it lacks a bit of continuity as a result.
The original Halloween 2 helped to set a new bar for gore in horror films. The bar may not even exist anymore since the inception of the video nasty and, more recently, the advent of torture porn. But Zombie's sequel certainly brings the gore - in a way that no other Halloween film, except maybe his own first film, could compete with.
Unfortunately, like its predecessor where it does lack is in suspense and scariness. What we get with this film is basically a series of interludes between scenes of intense, realistic, violence, scenes of Laurie being utterly obnoxious and bonkers, and some nudity thrown in for good measure. The reconfigured versions of classic characters like Laurie, Dr. Loomis, and even Michael Myers himself, leave much to be desired. If you likes Rob Zombie's first Halloween film, you will love this one. If you didn't, you won't.
2 cows out of 5
Rated R for strong brutal bloody violence throughout, terror, disturbing graphic images, language, and some crude sexual content and nudity.
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