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(Spoilers!) Rob Zombie's Halloween II is on par with his 2007 Halloween, extremely violent and twisted with a modern flair and another bitchin' soundtrack. While his first iteration was more of an origin story with many callbacks to the original 1978 film, this movie stood mostly on its own, for good and bad. The beginning is set right after the last film, then we see Michael escape. Flash forward to next year's Halloween and Michael can't stop himself from finding Laurie Strode (aka Angel Myers) to "bring her home", whatever that means. A young Michael and his now deceased mother Deborah Myers are constantly being shown as older Michael's inner voice and they drive his motivations, which quickly becomes tiresome. Especially when Deborah says things like "now go have some fun" before he splatters Annie Brackett all over the bathroom. Laurie also can see and hear these 'spirits', which is even more annoying, but not nearly as annoying as Samuel Loomis feeling sorry for himself when people accuse him of profiting off the murders.
After deftly killing off pretty much everyone else, Michael takes Laurie into a barn and is quickly surrounded by the cops. Loomis tries to intervene and ends up dead. Then Laurie kills Michael and puts his mask on, ending up in a hospital with a grin on her face, implying that she's going to be the evil killer now. Not necessary. These extra plot points kick a little sand over what was a decent and engaging sequel on its own. I'm not certain they thought of making another Halloween with Laurie Strode as the antagonist but we should be glad they didn't. 9 years later another group did the 2018 Halloween reboot which has nothing to do with these or anything else that happened after the John Carpenter original. You need a damn road map to get around all these diverging storylines. Anyway, I dug this despite the dumb extra stuff and weak ending. 7.5 grisly murders in a strip club out of 10.
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