Halloween II

Halloween II

Halloween is one of the great modern horror films, but as a franchise its track record has been spotty at best, painfully bad at worst. Halloween H2O: Twenty Years Later, directed by horror vet Steve Miner (Friday the 13th parts 2 and 3, House), won't displace John Carpenter's original but it might help you forget the films in between. Miner certainly has: the film begins as if sequels 3 through 6 never happened. Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis, reprising her role for the first time in almost two decades) faked her death and is now a single mom and headmistress of an exclusive California private school. She's also a secret alcoholic who lives in fear of her homicidal brother-bogeyman Michael Myers. Guess who decides to show up for a family reunion? The film begins with classic horror-movie exposition (the deserted college campus, Michael's escape, Laurie's waking nightmares) accomplished with some humor and style, but it's all setup for the second half, a driving roller coaster of stalk-and-slash thrills. There's little of the self-conscious genre referencing of Scream and at times the film is a little far-fetched--it is a slasher movie about a knife-wielding homicidal maniac who won't stay dead, after all--but Curtis transforms Laurie from a shrieking victim into an empowered, determined horror-movie heroine who's learned a thing or two from the previous films. Adam Arkin, Josh Hartnett, and TV cutie Michelle Williams (Dawson's Creek) costar, and the script received uncredited polish from Scream writer Kevin Williamson; Curtis's mom, Janet Leigh, pops up in a cameo. --Sean Axmaker

R (Restricted)
Year:
1981
93
1,869 Views
The Nightmare Isn't Over.
More Of The Night He Came Home
The Boogieman Is Back
Just when you thought it was safe to go trick or treating...
They couldn't stop him... Now he's back!
It's not only a murderer... It's an indestructible terror!
The sensational follow-up to the worldwide phenomenon. More terror, even more terrifying.

Deputy Hunt:
[as he, Sheriff Brackett, and Dr. Loomis get out of the car and approach the Wallace house] Not now.

Sheriff Brackett:
[after positively identifying his deceased daughter Annie and sadly closing her eyes before she is taken away] I uh... have to... uh... go and tell my wife before somebody else does.

Deputy Hunt:
Go on home, Leigh. Go on home. I'll take care of everything.

Sheriff Brackett:
[glares at Dr. Loomis] Damn you!

Dr. Loomis:
I'm sorry.

Sheriff Brackett:
What have you done?!

Dr. Loomis:
I haven't done anything.

Sheriff Brackett:
YOU LET HIM OUT!

Dr. Loomis:
[as Sheriff Brackett angrily leaves] I didn't let him out; I gave orders for him to be restrained.

Deputy Hunt:
Now, is there anything else that we can do for you?

Dr. Loomis:
[still feeling bad for Sheriff Brackett over the loss of his daughter] If that wasn't Michael Myers burning up in that car, then a lot of other kids are going to be slaughtered tonight.

Deputy Hunt:
He's dead. You saw it.

Dr. Loomis:
I saw a man in a mask.

Deputy Hunt:
It was him.

Dr. Loomis:
I want to believe you, but I have to be sure. I cannot stop until I'm certain he's dead.

Deputy Hunt:
You're talking about him like he's some kind of animal.

Dr. Loomis:
He was my patient for fifteen years. He became an obsession with me until I realized that there was nothing within him, neither conscience nor reason nor that was... even remotely human. An hour ago I stood up and fired six shots into him and then he just got up and walked away. I am talking about the real possibility that he is STILL OUT THERE!

Dr. Loomis:
[as he, Marion, and the Marshal drive out of Haddonfield] You didn't believe me, nobody did.

Marion:
I'm sorry.

Dr. Loomis:
Don't feel sorry for me, feel sorry for that little town back there. It'll be years before they forget this.

Marion:
Dr. Loomis, I think there's something else you should know.

Dr. Loomis:
Did you see the blackboard back there in the elementary school?

Marion:
Yeah.

Dr. Loomis:
In order to appease the gods, the Druid priests held fire rituals. Prisoners of war, criminals, the insane, animals... were... burned alive in baskets. By observing the way they died, the Druids believed they could see omens of the future. Two thousand years later, we've come no further. Samhain isn't evil spirits. It isn't goblins, ghosts or witches. It's the unconscious mind. We're all afraid of the dark inside ourselves.

Marion:
Dr. Loomis, please listen to me; this is very important. There's a file on Michael Myers that nobody knew about.

Dr. Loomis:
I've seen everything.

Marion:
No! No. It was hidden, sealed by the court after his parents were killed. Now after the Governor heard what happened tonight, he authorized Dr. Rogers to open it.

Dr. Loomis:
What file?

Marion:
It isn't fair. They should have allowed you to examine everything. That girl, that Strode girl, that's Michael Myers' sister. She was born two years before he was committed. Two years after, his parents died, and she was adopted by the Strodes. They requested that the records be sealed in order to protect the family!

Dr. Loomis:
[realizing why Michael returned home to Haddonfield] Geez! Don't you see what he's doing here in Haddonfield?! He killed one sister fifteen years ago, now he's trying to kill the other! [remembering that he just defended Laurie from Michael a few hours ago] Tonight, after I shot him, where did they take her?

Marion:
The clinic.

Dr. Loomis:
The clinic, where-- [To the marshal] Do you know this area well?

Marshal:
A little bit.

Dr. Loomis:
Where is the hospital located?

Marion:
Dr. Loomis, we're under orders from the governor!

Marshal:
It's back on Route 17, about 3 miles.

Dr. Loomis:
Turn this car around now!

Marshal:
I can't do that. I've got orders.

Dr. Loomis:
[pulls out his pistol and points it at the marshal] Those orders just changed!

Marion:
Dr. Loomis!

Marshal:
[calmly] Doctor, you're getting yourself into a lot of trouble.

Dr. Loomis:
What do you fellows usually do? Fire a warning shot, right? [shoots out window. The marshal stops the car and turns it around]


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