Haddonfield's (and heartland America's?) dark night of the soul. If the original Halloween is carefree late afternoon and early evening trick or treating, then this is an after-midnight, witching hour reckoning.
Halloween is getting ready for the annual dance and working up the courage to ask a boy out; Halloween II is your crush melting away, a fiery husk crumbling into the flaming wreckage of a car accident.
Halloween is candy and jack-o-lanterns; Halloween II is razor blades in apples.…