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.
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08/27/07
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
A senseless remake; a series that should have stopped after the first movie.
08/20/02
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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
Substandard sequel.
05/01/05
No review available.
10/23/02
No review available.
05/08/03
Had Halloween 2 not been a sequel to one of the greatest genre films of all time, it would be regarded as little more than another bad slasher film from an era full of bad slasher films -- a fate that it richly deserves.
02/13/01
A bad sequel to a good movie.
08/27/07
No review available.
04/28/05
No review available.
08/14/02
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