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A friend and I went to see H2 last night. She hadn’t seen RZ’s first so we watched it a couple nights ago. We both agreed it was “okay”. It was nothing special but we weren’t bored either. I was honestly expecting to feel the same way about H2... And I kind of did.
The story is this for Zombie’s take on the sequel. Laurie, having obviously survived her brother’s first rampage, has descended into a pit of depression and self-harming tendencies. She has nightmares, drinks heavily, and hallucinates. She’s even tried dreading her hair and is wearing darker clothing. Gasp.
Michael is alive of course, and Halloween is approaching. Time to find his sister.
Pros! Not many, but a few. I liked how the film wasn’t a whole new group of people. It was Laurie, Annie, her Sheriff father, and Loomis; all the survivors of the first movie. So it was nice to have that quick “pick right up” feel about the film instead of having an entire new slew of people to invest in.
I also enjoyed how much the town of Haddonfield and its residents were incorporated into the story. It wasn’t just Michael is going after Laurie, it was a serial killer going after this girl and slashing his way through other families to get to her. Was nice to have more than one view of the events. (The book signing was a nice scene I thought, for those who’ve seen it).
SPOILER PROS - I enjoyed Zombie’s idea that maybe Laurie will end up just like Michael. It wasn’t like, hint hint she might be psycho, it was, hey this bitch is fucked up and might end up seriously crazy after all this. Cliché sure, but I still liked it.
I’m on the fence though about the appearance of Deb Meyers and young Michael. I’m not sure whether it was supposed to be all in their psyches, or if Zombie was giving the movie a slight supernatural edge, but I don’t think it brought the film down too much. However, I feel that if this was an idea for the second film, it should have been incorporated in the first. It seemed like a last minute idea, but one I would have liked in both films.
Cons! Quite a few.
Loomis’s character is just ridiculous in the movie and really serves no purpose besides introducing the revelation that Laurie is actually Michael’s sister. (Spoilerish) He’s not a hero in Zombie’s Halloween mythology, like he was in the original. He’s a suddenly, strangely pompous douche bag. A drastic change of character that def. didn’t feel natural.
The chick who plays Laurie sucks at trying to be a “bad, damaged girl”. It comes off cheesey and cliché and annoying. The new young Michael also sucks too.
SPOILER CONS - I was excited about the beginning of the film staying true to the original H2’s story and taking place in the hospital. Sadly, RZ fucks it up by making it a dream sequence. W T F.
Many changes from Zombie’s first. Michael grunts and growls for some reason now when he kills. It’s stupid. And the flashbacks of young Michael in the hospital changed a lot. The boy who wore masks and wouldn’t talk or smile was suddenly gone. Now he was letting his mother tickle him and talking quite a bit and maskless. Retarded.
Plot holes abound. Why does it take Michael a year to find Laurie again? Did he walk in the opposite direction of Haddonfeild, then realize he needed to turn around? After the first Halloween night’s events, why did no one tell Laurie that the reason all these people died and you almost died is because you’re Mike’s sis? Didn’t seem to fit.
The ending didn’t bother me, for anyone wondering.
So yeah... was alright but something I could have waited for on DVD I guess. Maybe I’ll like it more upon a second viewing, but as for now 6.5/10.
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