Halloween 2 is the follow up to Rob Zombies remake of the John Carpenter Classic. Much like the original Halloween 2, the movie picks up right after the original…. Well…. Sort of. Kind of… Maybe. Ya. So well it actually takes up in a dream that that picks up right after the first one. The actual “REAL WORLD” events pick up about 2 years later just days before Halloween and Laurie Strode, is well, a touch fucked in the head. Naturally Laurie is having problems dealing with the events of the  first movie. Shes moved in with Sheriff Brackett and seeing a psychotherApist. Loomis, meanwhile, is capitalizing and profiteering off the Myers murders. All the while we are receiving info about Myers  drive to murder his sister. Theres something about a white horse and his dead mom. Im never really sure about what this is supposed to mean. Something about Myers wanting to be a family again. 

This is one of those movies that reaches and strives to be something better, to rise above the conventions of the genre that it is so trapped in. Unfortunatly the reached too high and went way past the atmosphere and got into the realm of  incomprehensible art house bullshit. HOWEVER…. There is some VERY good points in the film, and that’s when Myers is doing his thing. When Myers is being Myers, the movie shines bright. The horror elements work and the work well. And sadly Zombie didn’t just take what was working and run with it. The first movie was thought provoking enough with the story behind the mask fetish and his first murders. With this one, the bits with his mom haunting him, driving him to kill just makes him seem like Jason Voorhees.
    

My other huge gripe with the film is the direction Zombie took with Loomis’ character. The originals Loomis was obsessive compulsive, hunting Myers with everything he has. He was held as a bot of a crackpot, yet he was the only one who truly understood the evil of Michael Myers. This Loomis however is greedy, manipulative, and blind myers survivability, even though no body was ever found.  Loomis is not likeable in anyway throughout the majority of the film, though Malcolm McDowell’s performance is amazing.

Oh, and the grunting. Myers grunts…. a lot.

All in all a big dissapointment. I loved the first (remake that is). And though I still love the directing  of Rob Zombie, maybe he shouldn’t have written this one.