Synopsis
Family Is Forever
Laurie Strode struggles to come to terms with her brother Michael's deadly return to Haddonfield, Illinois. Meanwhile, Michael prepares for another reunion with his sister.
Halloween II
Cast
Scout Taylor-Compton Malcolm McDowell Brad Dourif Tyler Mane Sheri Moon Zombie Angela Trimbur Danielle Harris Chase Wright Vanek Caroline Williams Howard Hesseman Duane Whitaker Betsy Rue Greg Travis 'Weird Al' Yankovic Chris Hardwick Sean Whalen Margot Kidder Octavia Spencer Brea Grant Sylvia Jefferies Diane Ayala Goldner Nicky Whelan Catherine Dyer Dayton Callie Richard Brake Richard Riehle Adam Boyer Mary Birdsong Mark Boone Junior Show All…
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Rawn Hutchinson Brandon Sebek Michelle Sebek Jay Spadaro Tim Sylvia Caroline Vexler Chris Nielsen Gregg Brazzel Samantha MacIvor Nicole Randall Russell Towery Vince Cupone Oliver Keller Kevin Beard Scott Dale Haley Nott Ross Morgan Ruben Dina L. Margolin Cal Johnson Chris Barnes Benjamin Rowe T.J. White Alex Brown
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Perry Robertson Barney Cabral Paul Timothy Carden Trevor Metz Thomas O'Neil Younkman Peter Staubli Mandell Winter Patrick Cyccone Jr. Chris Carpenter Buck Robinson Kyle Billingsley John Guentner James Bailey Cynthia Merrill Shelley Roden
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Halloween 10, Halloween II (Unrated), Halloween 2, Halloween II: (H2), 万圣节10, 新月光光心慌慌2, 新捉鬼节2, Rob Zombie's Halloween II, ליל המסיכות 2, האלווין 2 (2009), 新万圣节 2, Halloween II (H2), Хэллоуин 2, ליל המסכות 2, 血染萬聖節, HII: Katliam, 新万圣节2, Хелоуин 2, H2: 어느 살인마의 가족 이야기, Halloween II: Η Νύχτα με τις Μάσκες, ハロウィン II, Хеллоуїн 2, Noć vještica 2, ฮัลโลวีน 2 โหดกว่าผี อำมหิตกว่าปีศาจ
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Theatrical
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USAR
09 Oct 2009
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UK18
22 Oct 2009
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Netherlands16
23 Oct 2009
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Taiwan限制級
26 Mar 2010
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Brazil18
31 Mar 2010
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PortugalM/18
08 Oct 2010
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Germany18
Physical
24 Feb 2010
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Netherlands16
04 Mar 2010
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AustraliaR 18+
31 Mar 2010
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France12
16 Oct 2012
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Netherlands16
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Australia
04 Mar 2010
- PhysicalR 18+ DVD premiere
Brazil
26 Mar 2010
- Theatrical18
France
31 Mar 2010
- Physical12
Germany
08 Oct 2010
- Theatrical18
Netherlands
22 Oct 2009
- Theatrical16
24 Feb 2010
- Physical16 DVD
16 Oct 2012
- Physical16 Blu ray
Portugal
31 Mar 2010
- TheatricalM/18
Taiwan
23 Oct 2009
- Theatrical限制級
UK
09 Oct 2009
- Theatrical18
USA
28 Aug 2009
- TheatricalR
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This was initially only going to be a comment, but I spent enough time on it that I thought I should utilize it as a review, for it sheds much more light, than my previous review, on why I hold this film in such high regard. Halloween II is really the only one of Rob Zombie's films that I'd go as far as saying I love, and I love it deeply, because it -- for me, next to Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me -- handles the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder, whether directly or peripherally, better than almost every other English language film that I've seen. As a diagnosed sufferer of PTSD myself, a film on the subject…
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Trauma lingers. The greatest fallacy of all slasher sequels is the insistence that a final girl can pick things up where she left off without any visible wounds to show after she's survived a potential murderer. Halloween II rectifies that by only being about the trauma of Laurie Strode and the struggles she has in keeping her head above water in day to day life as the anniversary of the event that forever shook her life approaches. Scout Taylor Compton is an exposed nerve ready to break at any second. She isn't the good-natured girl you saw in the previous movie. She's been hardened by the unfortunate luck of being attached to a broken abusive family that she never knew…
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Fuck this movie.
Fuck that pointless first 20 minutes.
Fuck that white horse.
Fuck the cringe worthy dialogue.
Fuck Rob Zombie for thinking women/teens/human beings really talk like this.
Fuck Rob Zombie for turning Michael Myers' story into some weird LSD pipe dream that only he understands.
Fuck the studio for forcing Rob Zombie into making this movie because they couldn't leave well enough alone.
Fuck every character who was remotely likable/bearable in the last movie who decided to turn into huge assholes in this one.
Fuck "new Loomis". He's such a cunt.
Fuck new Loomis' cunty mustache while we're at it.
Fuck new Laurie, who is way too unlikable to sympathize with.
Fuck new Michael and his LSD pipe…
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An astonishing work. Zombie refines his grindhouse shlock into a thing of beauty, and his humanization of Myers pays rich dividends. This is a horror film less about the return of a monster than the wounds the monster left the first time. A family dismantled is reunited under a sky grey from the fallout of violence suffered and perpetuated. Humanity extracted from horror at its most inhuman.
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Spoilers
In the documentary, 30 Days of Hell, which chronicled the making of Rob Zombie’s The Devil’s Rejects (2005), Rob states right before shooting the motel sequence that the real horror is in making audiences feel for victims and by extension they’d experience vulnerability themselves. He wants audiences to feel awful; to feel scared. I’ve always liked this thesis on horror, and as I’ve grown older myself and began to truly understand my own fragility and vulnerability that comes with having a body like mine I’ve gravitated towards horror films that truly reckon with that central idea. The fallout of horror, or horror in post, is more interesting to me than “of the moment” scares. It is in the aftermath…
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Grindhouse presents...
Halloween II: The Passion of Laurie Strode
This surreal and brutal Fire Walk with Me and exploitation inspired love letter to the entire Halloween franchise is one of my favorite horror films of all time. One of the absolute best on-screen explorations of trauma and grief; the quintessential slasher of aftermath and empathy.
"I'm not me"
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that transient image of little Annie and the dog is, circumstantially, still the most moving visual in any horror film this century for me.
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This is actually a really hard film to rate because there are some things I just don’t like about it at all. But in the end, love will always trump hate in every aspect of everything for me, so I do love this on the whole.
It’s so relentlessly violent and unashamedly dark and mean that I’m willing to overlook the incredibly unnecessary and stupid parts like that whole strip bar scene. I’m also,gonna go ahead and say that I prefer the theatrical cut because the director’s cut is just too long and indulgent. Danielle Harris holds a special place in most horror fan hearts so seeing her endure the things she does in these films is really tough, but…
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