This kill-happy sequel is a lot bloodier than needed, but it's still pretty frightening nevertheless.
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10/21/05
Halloween II (1981)
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Reviews Counted:31
Fresh:8
Rotten:23
Average Rating:4.3/10
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: Picking up right where the last film ended, this sequel begins as Dr. Loomis pumps evil Mike Myers full of lead, then watches helplessly as the maniac killer stands up again and runs away. Laurie... [More]
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, Charles Cyphers, Jeffrey Kramer
Director: Rick Rosenthal
Reviews for Halloween II
The result won't make any converts, but Jamie Lee Curtis is as good as ever.
02/09/06
A more than solid if admittedly inferior continuation.
10/28/08
No review available.
10/24/07
Halloween II is good enough to deserve a sequel of its own.
08/30/04
Top CriticMight have been better than the first one if it hadn't been tampered with after Rosenthal shot it
07/30/02
The film is best if watched back-to-back with the first.
10/08/08
While it’s nowhere near the classic that the original is, this sequel deserves credit for trying to stay on track with its predecessor and succeeding most of the way.
11/01/01
Debra Hill and John Carpenter produced and wrote the screenplay, but this film is still a totally unnecessary and extremely poor sequel to the original.
08/27/07
A senseless remake; a series that should have stopped after the first movie.
08/20/02
No review available.
08/01/02
No review available.
11/08/02
Absolutely awful, with no trace of the original's terror.
09/28/03
Rick Rosenthal, who directed this 1981 sequel, doesn't have Carpenter's expansive, affectionate way with stereotypical characters, and without it they're empty shells -- bodies waiting for the slaughter.
08/27/07
...worth watching if only for the sequence in which Michael Myers actually walks through a plate-glass door.
04/19/03
No review available.
07/06/05
It's a little cheap to have a sequel that merely completes the story you SHOULD have told in Part 1, but as sequels go, this one's not bad.
11/29/03
No review available.
03/27/04
Halloween is a classic and its first sequel is a sloppy afterthought.
01/01/00
No review available.
08/09/02
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