Halloween 2 (Spoilers)

So last night I decided to go out and watch what could have either been an awesome horror remake or a piece of absolute garbage.  Unfortunately Rob Zombie's Halloween 2 didn't exactly come out smelling like roses. Don't get me wrong, while Rob Zombie's over the top gore and brutal violence are usually a little bit too much for me I respect him alot, The Devil's Rejects was a great film however disturbing it might be, and his first Halloween remake made a really good impression with me.  This film however was not executed correctly.  The beginning of the movie showed alot of promise, taking place in the familiar hospital setting that helped to make the original Halloween 2 so cool.  Michael Meyers obviously shows up and starts brutalizing everyone in sight, unfortunately this turns out to be just a dream that his younger sister and would-be victim from the first flick is having.  From then on out the film gets a little bit boring, so there are some stabbings, but they are all just about exactly the same, Meyers' sister Laurie has a few more nightmares that would be disturbing if the acting was better.

Speaking of the acting in the film, there were ups and downs, mostly downs. For one In all honestly the actress playing Laurie Strode pissed me off so much I hoped Mike would just come put a knife in her and get it over with. My next issue: Rob, stop putting your wife into films, she may be attractive but she can't act to save her own life.  The writing was cheesy at points too, there were so many F-bombs that I began to wonder if Mr. Zombie knows any other words, he wrote F*** into that film so many times that any emotional emphasis made by the characters was lost completely when they would shout out some expletive.   The psychological aspect of this film with the dreams and hallucinations of both Meyers and his sister come off as cheesy and forced and detract from the film instead of helping drive the plot.  Of course there is a lot of violence, but it is not even very creative, Michael Meyers is a great character because he is both creative in his violence and brutal at the same time,  this film only showcases the brutality with Michael killing the majority of his victims by stabbing them in exactly the same way after a minimal amount of stalking. There are problems with the music as well, the movie really could have benefited from using the original score which gives a creepy and suspenseful feel to the original, the only time that the score really helped the movie was when "Knights in White Satin" was playing during the hospital scene, giving it a really dreamy and unpleaseant feeling.


Of course this movie isn't all bad.  I thought that Malcolm Mcdowell brought his A game in playing doctor Loomis, despite the real problems with the  writing for the character and his transformation from a main character and an okay dude to a more tertiary role as a huge asshole. I was also impressed by Brad Dourif as the sherriff, who managed to make his character actually seem 3 dimensional despite the shit writing.  In all I would say that while this may scare some folks, If you really want to be frightened look to something else, if you are a fan of the Halloween franchise I would rent this but don't bother seeing it in theatres.