Halloween II (2009)
Storyline
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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Cast
Richard Riehle, Mary Birdsong, Daniel Roebuck, Duane Whitaker, Howard Hesseman, Malcolm McDowell, Matt Bush, Brad Dourif, Octavia Spencer, Bill Fagerbakke, Catherine Dyer, Adam Boyer, Matthew Lintz, Mark Boone Junior, Sylvia Jefferies, Sheri Moon Zombie, Tyler Mane, Chris Hardwick, Danielle Harris, Nicky Whelan, Scout Taylor-Compton, Chase Wright Vanek, Angela Trimbur, Caroline Williams, Betsy Rue, Greg Travis, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Sean Whalen, Margot Kidder, Brea Grant, Diane Ayala Goldner, Dayton Callie, Richard Brake, Jeff Daniel Phillips, Silas Weir Mitchell, Robert Curtis Brown, Renae Geerlings, Mark Christopher Lawrence, Jesse Dayton, Eileen Dietz
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Reviews
63
At times Halloween II dances on the line between alarming and disgusting, and it doesn’t all hold together — I couldn’t figure out what the goblin banquet was doing in this movie. But if it was meant to freak me out, it worked.
60
Despite the limitations inherent in the genre, it actually delivers.
58
Halloween II provides ample spotlights for Zombie’s visual gifts, but—apart from some striking Oedipal fantasy sequences featuring Sheri Moon Zombie as the spirit of Myers’ mother—we saw most of this last time around, and a lot of promising material leads to dead ends.
58
What Halloween II does have, though, is Zombie’s claustrophobic visual style; he half-drowns his actors in shadow, then tracks them through windows and around corners like a focused predator. If only we cared about the prey.
50
The copious violence, as always, is an assault - even aurally, as every thudding knife strike is made to sound like a boulder dropping on the theater.
