By not reaching for empowerment, Halloween II diminishes the horror genre. Nearly every victim is a terrible person.
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11/04/09
Halloween II (2009)
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Reviews Counted:66
Fresh:14
Rotten:52
Average Rating:3.8/10
Consensus: 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.
Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
US Box Office: $33,335,670
Synopsis: Rob Zombie returns to the world of HALLOWEEN with this sequel to his film.
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Tyler Mane, Sheri Moon Zombie, Brad Dourif
Director: Rob Zombie
Reviews for Halloween II
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.
10/31/09
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.
10/18/09
In a word, ugly. It just pips Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (aka Halloween 6) to the title of worst Halloween film ever.
10/16/09
Top Critic[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.
10/16/09
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10/13/09
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!
09/09/09
Rob Zombie makes incoherent films about people killing each other in brutal ways. Here's another one.
09/05/09
OK but not great
09/04/09
Zombie really doesn't escape the genre conventions.
09/04/09
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...
09/04/09
Zombie's rowdy redneck phantasmagorias and weird swoons of empathy can't disguise that there's nowhere left for the story to go.
09/03/09
My open letter to Rob Zombie on his *cough* brilliant execution of Halloween II.
09/03/09
Wish Michael Myers would have taken his knife to that stupid white horse.
09/03/09
An artless, bloody mess.
09/03/09
...to steal animated critic Jay Sherman's best line, "it stinks!"
09/02/09
Moments here and there are extremely well-made, but on the whole the movie seems to consist of nothing but a whole lot of disjointed, underlit scenes of a big dude stabbing people.
09/02/09
A demented, uninhibited sequel that tears off in a vividly lunatic direction. Zombie's making this one for himself, folks, and either you succumb to the experience or every single scene is going to feel like multiplex imprisonment.
09/02/09
I'm still convinced that Rob Zombie has a very good -- maybe even great -- film in him, but this isn't it.
09/02/09
Moments that add up to a bit more than incoherence ... and an overall sense that Zombie has a clear idea of what he's trying to say but is without the skill to say it.
09/01/09
Latest News for Halloween II
September 30, 2009:
Weinsteins Hold Off on Halloween 3D 
Nothing can kill Michael Myers -- nothing, that is, except for the Weinstein Company, which has shut down production on "Halloween 3D" for the immediate future. More...
August 31, 2009:
Weinsteins Plan 3-D Halloween for 2010
"Halloween II" may not have topped the box office over the weekend, but Bob Weinstein says the studio is moving forward with a 3-D sequel for next summer -- and it'll happen... More...
August 28, 2009:
Nine Ways to Survive a Michael Myers Attack
With "Halloween" back in theaters, now seems like the perfect time for Film School Rejects to compile a helpful list of ways to avoid being offed by prolific murderer Michael... More...
August 27, 2009:
Critics Consensus: Guess Halloween 2's Tomatometer!
This week at the movies, we've got the return of Michael Myers (Halloween 2, starring Malcolm McDowell and Scout Taylor-Compton), three dimensional fatalities (The Final... More...
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