A more than solid if admittedly inferior continuation.
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10/28/08
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 film is best if watched back-to-back with the first.
10/08/08
Does the worst thing any sequel can ever do: it retroactively taints the original and makes it less interesting.
07/21/08
No review available.
10/24/07
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
A bad sequel to a good movie.
08/27/07
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
This uninspired version amounts to lukewarm sloppy seconds in comparison to the original film that made director John Carpenter a hot property.
08/27/07
Top CriticThe result won't make any converts, but Jamie Lee Curtis is as good as ever.
02/09/06
This kill-happy sequel is a lot bloodier than needed, but it's still pretty frightening nevertheless.
10/21/05
No review available.
07/06/05
Substandard sequel.
05/01/05
No review available.
04/28/05
It's a little sad to witness a fall from greatness, and that's what we get in Halloween II.
10/23/04
Top CriticHalloween II is good enough to deserve a sequel of its own.
08/30/04
Top CriticNo review available.
03/27/04
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
Absolutely awful, with no trace of the original's terror.
09/28/03
No review available.
05/08/03
...worth watching if only for the sequence in which Michael Myers actually walks through a plate-glass door.
04/19/03
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