Halloween II

"I love cheesy scary movie "

"Pretty solid sequel. "

"From one of the best ever to one of the worst ever so quickly. Set on the same night as the first movie, the only redeeming value here is maybe a higher kill count. The first movie has a clear reason why Michael Myers can move around so easily undetected, due to the cover of Halloween celebrations and the overall stealth with which Michael moves about. Halloween II starts with officers who know who they need to look out for, with a plot contrivance of someone who just happened to have a nearly identical mask and jumpsuit despite that clearly not being an existing Halloween costume in the original. On top of that, that same character has to just happen to get hit by a vehicle that then catches on fire and burns him beyond recognition so they need to get dental records in order to figure out if they killed Michael Myers. On top of that, Michael Myers ditches his kitchen knife for a scalpel. While there is a little suspension of disbelief with the kitchen knife (because most stab wounds are not instantly fatal) the scalpel barely has any length in it to penetrate deep enough to do harm. Maybe there's something to be said for being set mostly in a hospital (another supposed place of safety as compared to the safety of the home being violated in the first movie) but not really. There are two major definitve deaths at the end however, and that would have been a merciful end if not for the failure of Halloween III which led to both deaths being barely explained away to justify another sequel. In a perfect world, Halloween III was a major success. "

"Shocktober 2024: I'll be honest. I may be being overly harsh on a movie with a lot actually going for it. It has some cool kills, some fun shots, a good soundtrack, Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasence, all the elements of a good slasher are there. However, I simply didn't care about anything that was happening. I thought the Laurie sibling thing was a dumb decision. If I was more interested in what was happening, or if I liked Halloween less this would probably be a perfectly fine movie but as it stands, I'm feeling pretty negative on it."

"Pretty Good"

"Honestly, I liked it better than the first installment. Halloween II have more kills and new characters. Micheal kills his victims one after another without getting caught or being defeated. It is honestly a great franchise."

"Although the creators didn't want to make this movie, and it shows, it is still an interesting and faithful sequel to the orignal. Introducing new ideas and giving more of what was so great about the original"

"This movie was made too quick trying to piggyback off the major success of the first film. It's nothing like the original one, still Myers haunting Laurie but it doesn't have that feeling.. still a great slasher (I'm a huge slasher buff love all of them especially 80s) but compared to the original Halloween it doesn't come close imo but is still a great watch around Halloween season "

"One of the best horror sequels of all time 10/10 film"

"Yes!"