Halloween II
2009 Directed by Rob Zombie
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Family Is Forever
Laurie Strode struggles to come to terms with her brother Micheal's deadly return to Haddonfield, Illinois; meanwhile, Michael prepares for another reunion with his sister.
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Note: I watched the director's cut. I haven't seen the theatrical so I don't know what's different.
I seem to be defending this film quite a lot lately so I decided to give this a rewatch to see if I was right in thinking this was the amazing freak out of a film I defend it to be. I most definitely am correct. Maybe I'm crazy(I probably am) but I easily think this is a slasher masterpiece. This film is brutal but also very emotional, especially sequences with Brad Dourif. It's very lynchian and absolutley beautiful to look at. This easily is a favorite horror film of mine. Extemely brutal and raw. Rob Zombie is unapolgetically a favorite director of mine.
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An astonishing work. Zombie refines his grindhouse shlock into a thing of beauty, and his humanization of Myers pays rich dividends. This is a horror film less about the return of a monster than the wounds the monster left the first time. A family dismantled is reunited under a sky grey from the fallout of violence suffered and perpetuated. Humanity extracted from horror at its most inhuman.
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I gotta start off by saying that i think that most of Rob Zombie's films are great.
This was complete shit!! I don't know why this was even made, it was a complete turnaround from the first Halloween Zombie did, which was pretty awesome.
It's almost like the producers said they will kill him unless he makes something resembling a film for them. The story was shit, the acting was shit, and what the fuck was with the white ghost horse and Michael Myers ghost mom???? they made no fucking sense. Fuck this shit. -
Just as obnoxious, loud, grimy and greasy as Rob Zombie's other films but with Sheri Moon Zombie not in a starring role. Automatically his best film.
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Rob Zombie's first Halloween film was terrible.
This is just fucking bizarre.
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Part of **Halloween Season 2012**.
No.
Just no.
There's the tiniest germ of a maybe idea here about how Laurie and Michael are connected by more than just blood. But it's built into one of the messiest, sloppiest, unscariest, silliest, and -- worst of all -- most boring slasher movies I have ever seen.
That's right. It's biggest sin is that it's boring.
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So, here's something I wasn't expecting. It's not awful. I actually liked it. It's a lot better than its predecessor
Had this been a bit shorter, cutting out a bunch of stupid and unnecessary stuff, I think I would have liked it a lot more. There are some really great dream-like sequences and it overall doesn't feel as shallow and stupid as Halloween (2007).
I'm shocked.
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"Are you a giant?
... Can we be friends"?Seems like I should be careful what I wish for.
My biggest concern with Rob Zombie's remake was that it stuck too close to the original with very little of the directors trademark stylistic mental'ness.
Here we have all manner of weird and wonderful shit that just doesn't gel with what's come before. Its all very nonsensical and throw-away.
Add to that the fact that this wholly original sequel to the remake includes:
Hospital scenes similar to Halloween II and...
Psychic family connection themes from Halloween 4 and Halloween 5.I like the idea that the survivors from the first flick are all a bit fucked up but what I wasn't…
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I wasn't a huge fan of Rob Zombie's first Halloween (way too long and who cares that Michael Myers has feelings anyway?) so I wasn't sure I was going to enjoy this. I did. Immensely. It is quite possibly the best horror film I've seen in recent months. It's a horror film with a theme and an arthouse sensibility that allows it to explore that theme without having to be distracted by the required characteristics of the genre. It's a film about how you never really get over the truly bad stuff that happens, and is as a result incredibly nihilistic and depressing, but in a very stylish and enjoyable way. And Brad Dourif is onscreen a lot, which is always good.
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EDIT: I have ONLY ever seen the "Unrated Director's Cut" version of this film(on DVD and Blu-ray). I have never seen the theatrical version which, I have just learned, is much different from the version I've seen several times.
This is just as great as I remember. Fully Rob Zombie's vision this time around(save for the hospital sequence, which manages to outdo the original scene). Brutal and uncompromising in its themes, Zombie brings the story of Michael Myers and Laurie strode to a head.Here, Scout Taylor-Compton is even better than before, playing an unraveling Laurie that can no longer handle the mess Michael has made of her life and her psyche. She truly inhabits the role and comes across…
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A slasher with rare respect for human life. I didn't care for Zombie's first Halloween, for the same reason most people didn't: humanizing Michael Myers made him less scary. Part 2 still isn't scary, or very suspenseful, but at least it goes in more interesting directions with its human monster.
Rather than attempt to follow in the footsteps of the original series, Rob Zombie uses a cultural icon to convey his own vision, even criticising the original's black and white view of morality. He's more Tarantino than Rodriguez here.
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No me ha gustado nada esta segunda versión. Rob Zombie cae (y en él es tendencia) en el desfase entre paranoia, sueños y absurdez.
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the things we do for love
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An astonishing work. Zombie refines his grindhouse shlock into a thing of beauty, and his humanization of Myers pays rich dividends. This is a horror film less about the return of a monster than the wounds the monster left the first time. A family dismantled is reunited under a sky grey from the fallout of violence suffered and perpetuated. Humanity extracted from horror at its most inhuman.
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Still good fun, althought I preferred the previous child!Michael's actor