Halloween II

Plot synopsis:
Hannonfield, Illinois, October 31, 1978. The film begins with the last few scenes of the original film, where Laurie (Jamie Lee Curtis) sends the two kids she's babysitting (Brian Andrews, Kyle Richards) to run and get help after the home has been invaded by psychopath Michael Myers (Dick Warlock). After the kids run off screaming, she is attacked by Myers again, and is rescued when Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasance) arrives and shoot Myers off of the upstairs balcony.From here, the film is entirely new. Loomis rushes out to the lawn and finds that Michael has vanished,
leaving behind only a bloody imprint in the grass. He instructs a neighbor to phone the news to the police
and runs off in search of Michael again.After the opening credits, which similar to the opening credits of the previous film, shows a jack-o-lantern which slowly opens to reveal a human skull, Michael Myers, aka The Shape, lurks in the alleys nearby, watching Dr. Loomis from a distance. Loomis meets up with Sherrif Leigh Brackett (Charles Cyphers) and they drive off in
another direction in search of Myers. Myers then sneaks into a nearby house and steals a kitchen knife from a neighbor woman (Lucille Benson).Down the street, Myers sees a young girl by the name of Alice (Anne Bruner) outside and stalks her. Inside, Alice is speaking on the phone with a friend who informs her that someone was murdered in Haddonfield. Alice switches on the radio and is shocked at the news when suddenly, the back door creaks open. Afraid, Alice ventures into the living room where Myers jumps out and thrusts the kitchen knife into her chest, causing blood to spurt up onto her neck.Paramedics arrive at the Doyle house and take Laurie away on a stretcher. She appears to be in shock, and she begs them not to put her to sleep. The two EMTs are Budd (Leo Rossi) and Jimmy (Lance Guest). Jimmy is younger and takes an immediate interest in Laurie, concerned and obviously distressed that someone close to him in age has been attacked in Haddonfield. They take her to Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, where she is tended to by the half-drunk Dr. Mixter (Ford Rainey), head nurse Mrs. Alves (Gloria Gifford), and RN Jill (Tawny Moyer).Meanwhile, Loomis and Brackett circle the neighborhood and happen upon a young man wearing a white mask similar to the one worn by Michael Myers. In a freak accident, they pursue him but an approaching patrol car crashes into him and then into the side of a van. The violent explosion incinerates the body. One of the approaching patrolmen, Deputy Hunt (Hunter von Leer), has come to tell Brackett the bad news that his daughter is among the dead that have been discovered in the wake of Myers's rampage. They drive off to the location so that Brackett can identify her. Brackett, in shock at finding his daughter dead, blames Loomis for allowing Michael to escape and departs for his home, leaving Hunt in charge. Loomis convinces Hunt that Michael Myers could possibly still be alive, since they are uncertain who exactly was struck and killed by the patrol car.Another young nurse, Karen (Pamela Susan Shoop), who works in the nursery, arrives at the hospital after staying too late at a Halloween party. She is sharply reprimanded by Mrs. Alves, even as they are both unaware that Michael Myers is lurking in the hospital, watching them. Earlier, Michael overheard a radio broadcast announcing that Laurie was taken to the hospital, and has followed her here.Jimmy schemes to be alone with Laurie, both to console her and get closer to her. He reveals to her that the crazy man who was pursuing her earlier was Michael Myers, who escaped from the mental hospital the previous night. Laurie is confused and does not understand why she seems to have been targeted by
Myers. Mrs. Alves interrupts and sends Jimmy away, then discovers that the phones are suddenly out of
service. The security guard, Mr. Garrett (Cliff Emmich), explores the basement and rear of the hospital to search for the trouble and after he searches one of the closets, Michael suddenly leaps out and kills him by bashing him over the head with the back of a hammer. Mr. Garrett's death goes unnoticed despite the presence of a nursing assistant named Janet (Ana Alicia).Across town, Loomis and Hunt investigate a break in at the local elementary school and find that Michael Myers has been there; a child's drawing of a family has a butcher knife sticking in the image of the sister, and the word
"Samhain" has been scrawled in blood on the chalk board. Loomis remarks on the Celtic origins of the
word, and he is surprised when Marion Chambers (Nancy Stephens) approaches him. NUrse Chambers, who was with Loomis the previous night when Michael made his escape, has been sent with a Marshal (John Zenda) to return Loomis to Haddonfield, on orders from the governor. Loomis is forcibly taken away, while Hunt promises to find Michael.Meanwhile, Michael Myers continues to murder the staff at the hospital. Budd and Karen attempt to make love in a hospital therapy pool, but Myers turns up the temperature until Budd gets out to check it. After strangling Budd to death, he approaches Karen from behind and seizes her, holding her under the scalding hot water until she drowns, the flesh peeled away from her face.Laurie has a reaction to her medication and goes into shock, and when Janet goes to get Dr. Mixter, she finds
him dead in his private office, a needle thrust into one eyeball. Myers appears behind Janet and grabs
her, thrusting another needle into her temple until she, too, falls down dead.Jimmy goes off to find help when nobody returns, and Jill is summoned by another patient. While she is
gone, Michael enters Laurie's room at stabs at her bed, but she is gone (Laurie was only pretending to have a reaction to the medication). When Jill returns, she finds the room empty. Hindered by a cracked ankle and dazed from the drugs, Laurie limps through the now-quiet halls of the hospital, looking for a safe place to
hide.Jimmy reappears and sends Jill off to get help, telling her to drive into town and bring back the police. But after she leaves, he finds the body of Mrs. Alves in a nearby operating room, tied to a table, an IV tube in her arm having drained all of her blood out onto the floor. Suddenly he panics and tries to run, but he slips in the blood and falls on his back, slamming his head down on the floor, rendering him unconscious.Jill attempts to leave the hospital, but finds all of the cars in the parking lot disabled, the tires slashed and the engines tampered with. After she runs back into the hospital, she sees Laurie in a hallway and tries to reach her, but Michael appears after resting for a while in one of the vacant rooms and kills her with a scalpel in her back. Laurie witnesses it and is terrified into action; she runs through the halls with Michael in pursuit. Rushing down a stairwell and into the basement, Laurie corners herself in a boiler room and must climb through a small window near the ceiling to escape, Michael almost slashing her ankles. After nearly cornering her again in an elevator, Laurie escapes and rushes into the parking lot, hiding in a parked car.In the Marshal's car, Marion has a discussion with Dr. Loomis where she reveals information that he did not previously know; Laurie Strode is actually the sister of Michael Myers, born two years before Michael's original crime and adopted after the death of the parents two years after. Loomis immediately understands that Michael is after Laurie for a reason and commandeers the Marshal's car, pulling a gun on him and forcing him to make for the hospital.In the parking lot of the hospital, Laurie sees a dark shape open the car door and get inside--it is Jimmy. He tries to start the car and cannot; Laurie tries to talk to him but he falls over the wheel again, passed out. The horn goes off and Laurie panics again, her hiding place revealed. She tries to leave the car and falls in the parking lot, still dazed. As she lays there, the Marshal's car pulls up and Loomis, Marion, and the Marshal get out and go into the hospital. Laurie cannot cry out until it's too late and they are inside, pulling the doors shut behind them.As she gets to her feet, Michael appears across the parking lot, walking slowly toward her. Laurie runs to the doors and bangs on them, screaming, and attracts the attention of the others. They let her inside and Myers walks right through the closed glass doors. Loomis shoots him with his gun and he falls over, seemingly dead. After sending Marion out to the Marshal's car to use the radio for summoning the police, Loomis turns to comfort Laurie. Michael rises up again and slits the Marshal's throat with a scalpel, chasing Loomis and Laurie deeper into the hospital.They corner themselves in an operating room. As Michael breaks down the door, Loomis gives Laurie his gun, which only has two shots left in it. When Michael gets in, he stabs Loomis in the stomach. Loomis falls over, mortally wounded. Laurie tries to stop Michael by calling his name, which he stops for a minute to look at her, but he soon advances on her again and she shoots him in the eyes. Blinded, he starts swinging his scalpel wildly. Loomis struggles to his feet and begins releasing oxygen into the room from the many tanks on the walls. Laurie follows suit until the doctor tells her to run. She bolts from the room and runs down the hall as Loomis ignites his cigarette lighter, causing a huge explosion. Even from the inferno, Myers emerges and keeps walking toward Laurie, until the flames consume him and he falls.As the sky lightens into morning, Laurie is taken outside the hospital and placed into the back of an ambulance, as reporters, authorities and other onlookers watch. She stares blankly as the ambulance pulls away, seemingly in shock, but alive. The final image in the film is the face of Michael's burning corpse.

Tags: murder, cult, horror, violence, good versus evil, insanity, suspenseful

Review:
The second is when Micael attacks one of the nurses while Laurie watched helplessly from a distance.Not only is this a good horror movie, it is a good film and if the first rates a 10/10, this is certainly of a 9.
This film isn't as good as the first but is still not bad.Taking place in the same night as the first, Michael is on the hunt again, this time targeting a hospital where Laurie Strode is being taken in after a wound.This film has a semi-fast pace and has a greater kill count.
The sequences for Loomis and Myers were at times too long and we needed a break from getting too deep into finding each other.Quick review, decent film, cool tones.Moderate nudity(for a bathtub scene), gore, and brief language.
Please read my review on "Halloween" to understand what this review means.Anyway, "Halloween II" starts off exactly with the end of "Halloween." Even though this movie was filmed three years later than the first, great editing and acting (especially by Jamie Lee Curtis) made it look like it all took place on Halloween Night in 1978.
What you see at the beginning is the actual end of Halloween, then when Dr. Loomis (played by Donald Pleasence) comes out of the house (don't want to ruin it for anyone) is when they started filming for "Halloween II."Michael Myers, a psychopathic killer, has followed his target, Laurie Strode (played by Jamie Lee Curtis)to the hospital immediately after he tried to attack her.
There is Nurse Karen (played by Pamela Susan Shoop) who, I think, has the most gruesome death of all,  Jimmy,(played by Lance Guest) who is a paramedic and likes Laurie, Budd who is a real jerk, along with people from the first "Halloween."  Annie, Laurie's friend (played by Nancy Loomis) reprises her role, but only for a few seconds, Sherrif Brackett (played by Charles Cyphers) still helps Dr. Loomis track down Michael, Marion Chambers (Nancy Stephens)is back and is the nurse that tried to transport Michael to a different ward in the first one and tells a horrifying secret to Dr. Loomis about Laurie and her connection to Michael, which explains why he's after her.This film has more gore than the first, or shall I say "just has gore" (the first one didn't) but it is ok, not too groes, and the score is very good, which is once again performed and written by John Carpenter.
John Carpenter has made up new ones for this film like "He Knows Where She Is" and "In the Operating Room."You haven't seen the entire Halloween experience until you have seen "Halloween II." I, and other "Halloween" fans, consider this and the first "Halloween" all one big movie.
On the same night of October 31st 1978, Michael Myers is still on the loose in Haddonfield and Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) has been hospitalized.
Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasance) is still hot on his trail as he discovers the truth behind Michael Myers and a shocking secret behind him, now the killer is stalking the halls of Haddonfield Hospital as he wants Laurie but can she survive the night yet again?
It's the best of the "Halloween" sequels as it works as a great follow-up that is just as good, scary and exciting as the original.
It's violent and gory with some memorable kills like the hot-tub murder and the syringe in the head sequence, John Carpenter and Debra Hill who did the original movie co-wrote and produced this installment.It's a worthy sequel that fans of the original might enjoy..
Halloween (1978) is my favorite horror movie of all time and it's great to see how they come up with this sequel.
Pick This Movie Up If You Think You Can Handle: Bizare Violence, Jamie Lee's Famous Screaming, Absolute Terror, Horror At It's Finest, and Donald Pleasence's Great Performance..
To me, what John Carpenter started, DeLaurentiis finished.For maximum effect, see the first two "Halloween" films on Halloween, October 31, and time it so that the end of "Halloween II" falls at midnight, the morning of November 1."Halloween II" is a sequel masterpiece..
Picking up exactly where the original left off, "Halloween II" has Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) getting transferred to the hospital, while Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasance) continues looking for Michael Myers.
Continuing on from where the original left off - literally; it picks right up, and continues through the same night (cue some continuity goofs as though still set on the same night, it is filmed almost two years later).Jamie Lee Curtis returns as Laurie Strode, and Rick Rosenthal does a good job with the directing (he's the man behind the most recent Halloween movie "Halloween: Resurrection" - a sequel to the original, this one, and "H20") - though of course he is by far inferior to John Carpenter.Interestingly this features probably the emptiest hospital ever committed to celluiod.
Halloween II, taking place on the same night, attempts to essentially recreate the magic of the original, but without the focus or sharp execution.Picking up directly after Michael Myers falls out of the window and to "his death", the divisive sequel is in large part the same plot as the 1978 original.
To me, Halloween II is a worthy horror film, but not nearly satisfying enough as a sequel to feature the main two characters from the original.
Again Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasance) and sheriff Bracket (Charles Cypher )going after Micheal Myers who makes a real massacre in a hospital where work various nurses and doctors (Leo Rossi, Jeffrey Kramer , Lance Guest, among others).The film displays thrills , chills , cardboard horror ,tension and lots of blood and gore for nauseating execution .
If Halloween II were confined to the hospital, quiet with suspense slowly rising, with the murders and Jamie Lee Curtis immobilized in her room and such, it would be a greatly surpassing sequel.
I don't know what they were thinking when they made this monstrosity, or maybe they weren't thinking at all is more likely.Whereas in the original Halloween, John Carpenter built suspense with things we couldn't see, and things that go bump in the night, here we get scenes thrown in just to see how shocked we will be.*********Possible Plot Giveaways Ahead If You Really Care*********** We pick up this movie exactly where the first one left off.Donald Pleasance returns in his role as Michael Myers own personal psychiatrist, but plays the role as if he could have used a couple of valium himself.
Halloween II simply tells us without any establishing shots that Laurie is Michael's other sister, who was adopted shortly before or after the original murder shown in the first film's prologue.
One has to wonder if Donald Pleasance was under contractual obligation to appear in this sequel, because it is hard to imagine a respectable actor appearing in a film like this out of a desire to work with the new cast and crew, or to revist the story.I gave Halloween II a one out of ten.
It picks up where the 1978 version left off and Michael Myers tracks Laurie down to the Hospital and he goes on a rampage killing in some creative ideas other than the Kitchen Knife.
Overall i recommend this 1 too people who like Horror Movies and Slashers i own the entire Halloween series expect for the 2nd rob zombie 1 and i watch all of them still..
Halloween II is more than a mere sequel to John Carpenter's and Debra Hill's famous movie it's an original shocker.
After Michael Myers was guned down he follows Laurie (Curtis) to the hospital there he kills the nurses and doctors intil finally getting Laurie.
Loomis shot the shape 6 times and he disapeared, Jamie Lee is taken to a near by hospital where the shape shows up after her once again, and we find out why the shape is after Jamie Lee the first half of the movie is great but in the second half it slows up, then the final 20 minutes pick up again.
but it's better then most horror movie sequels, put it this way watch Halloween then pop in part 2 right away if you wait a few days you will be a little upset with the outcome, i give this movie *** out of **** cause it's a very scary movie with a creepy feeling through out.
Halloween 2 follows Laurie Strode to the hospital and were she goes Michael is not far behind.
He is back and follows Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis)to a Hospital where he gets rid of doctors with great elaborate deaths.
Halloween II is one of the best horror sequels out there, but it comes nowhere close to accomplishing what the original did with scaring people.
The ending of this movie is impressive and you kinda find it hard to believe that Michael is going to come back, as well as Dr. Loomis for 'Halloween IV' after been that severly burnt in the explosion!.Not as good as the original but that is usually to be expected with sequels.
Michael Myers continues his pursuit of Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis).
There are many effective scares throughout the film, none more so than the heart-pounding chase of Laurie by Michael Myers through the hospital towards the end of the film.
The deaths involve a hammer to the head, a girl being drowned in a very very hot hydrotherapy pool, a nurse having her blood drained and an assistant getting an anaesthetic injected directly into her brain.Aside from a few slight problems with continuity, I found 'Halloween II' an interesting and worthy successor to the original 'Halloween' and definitely better than any of the other sequels or 'Halloween' imitators, with the possible exception of 'Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later'.***1/2 out of *****.
It may not be as great as the original, but in general, Halloween II is actually one of the better horror sequels.
And of course, he makes another attempt to do away with Laurie Strode (the Jamie Lee Curtis character).This sequel is a little more gruesome than the first Halloween movie.
While I like the original Halloween theme better, I think the overall score of this movie outdoes the first.
The scene where one character slips on blood is one thing in particular.It's too bad this movie is always in the original's shadow because it is a great lesson in what horror sequels SHOULD be like.
Laurie Strode (Curtis) ends up in the hospital due to trauma and injury from the earlier film's attacks by Michael Myers.
Apparently done as a favor to the producers, Curtis is cast yet again as babysitter Laurie Strode, this time taking on boogeyman Michael Myers in a mostly-deserted hospital on the same night as 1978's "Halloween".
I'm not a big fan of John Carpenter's original film--with its sloppy editing, weak acting and monotonous music--but at least it had a solid sense of time and place, moments of style and a creepy-funny ending.
"Halloween II" really is an awesome sequel to a great horror movie,Jamie Lee Curtis,Donald Pleasence,Charles Cyphers and Nancy Stephens reprise their rolls.Lance Guest stars as Jimmy,Leo Rossi as Bud,Pamela Susan Shoop as Karen,and Ford Rainey as Dr. Mixture make up the great supporting cast in the film."Halloween II" picks up where the first movie left off,Michael Myers was shot 6 times by Dr. Sam Loomis and is still alive and at large.Michael Myers continues his killing spree to get to his sister and kills anyone who gets in his way.Laurie Strode goes to the hospital after Michael Myers tried to kill her.Michael ends up going to to hospital and kills a lot of people there.Dr. Loomis finds out later on why Michael Myers returned to Haddonfield,to kill he sister,Laurie Strode.The ultimate showdown at the hospital really is an awesome scene.I give this movie 2 thumbs up and 10 stars.Rick Rosenthal did a great job directing this movie like he did with the 1983 Sean Penn drama movie "Bad Boys" and he directed "Halloween: Resurrection".I love the music to the movie and the song "Mr. Sandman" by "The Clordettes" which was played in the beginning and the end of the movie..
But there is a dark secret between Laurie and Micheal that we will know on Halloween night.Directed by Rick Rosenthal (American Dreamer, Bad Boys, Distant Thunder) made a terrific sequel, which is entertaining but this sequel doesn't quite have the same suspense as the first film.
It continues from the ending of the original Halloween movies(which gives it extra points).
Most of the movie takes place in a hospital as Michael Myers resumes his killing spree there.
Donald Pleasance joins the team to reprise his role of Dr. Sam Loomis, Jamie Lee Curtis reprises her role as Laurie Strode, Charles Cyphers (a Carpenter movie regular) reprises his role as Sheriff Lee Brackett, Nancy Loomis makes a short cameo as Lee Brackett's daughter Annie (whom Michael got in the first film).
Having escaped the wrath of Michael and taken to a hospital to recover, the lone survivor of his previous rampage finds herself unaware of the fact that he has followed here there and begins a blood-soaked rampage to get her.This here is one of the biggest and best of the sequels to the original and manages to come across as one of the better films in the genre for this reason.
I think the movie is a good sequel to the original classic.
Halloween II is a great sequel to John Carpenter's original horror classic Halloween.
Dr Loomis (Donald Pleasence) has shot Michael Myres 6 times & Laurie Strode (Scream Queen Jamie Lee Curtis) is going to hospital.
There are really suspenseful chase scenes unlike the original Halloween (1978) which was a really good horror film but just isn't scary or suspenseful.
It is scary, great and fantastic, it is set on the same night as the original and starts straight where the first finished, a great movie but take time getting into, but the climax at the end wont let you go untill it is over.This time Michaels first vitim is put into a hospital after her injuries and ordeal of michael, she was lucky to escape once, but can she escape again?Laurie is now recovering in a hospital, so Michael just walks in and starts butchering an killing nurses to get to his sister, a great movie that shouldnt be missed!When watching this movie you can feel what it would be like to be there, just in a hospital and people are being killed by an unstoppable killing machine, so this is a movie you wont forget when you have seen it!Also this movie has the best halloween theme of them all!9/10 comes very close to a 10!
This is standard slasher cinema, with Michael Myers on the prowl, in Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, taking out nurses, left out right, while he searches for his second sister, Laurie  (who later changed her name to Karie Tate in Halloween H2O, so Mikey would never find her again.) Dr. Loomis sets Mikey up in flames.
Halloween 2 stands alone as a worthy contribution to the slasher genre, but clearly serves as the perfect companion piece to the original movie: watch them both back-to-back and relive the the complete terror of the night he came home.This film stars: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence & Lance GuestThis film was a very good sequel and it is not easy to live up to the 1978 classic Halloween.
it picks up right were the first one ends.Plot- After being shot six times Michael Myers gets up and continues his search for Laurie Strode.
Halloween II (directed by Rick Rosenthal, who later screwed up the franchise by making the dreadful Halloween Resurrection) basically starts where we left off.The movie starts with the end of the original (obvioulsy re-done considering the added sound and lighting effects) and continues to tell the story of Laurie Strode and Michael Myers.Laurie is rushed to the hospital after her encounter with Michael.
The original "Halloween" was a masterpiece of scares, shocks and horror."Halloween II" is a masterpiece of gore, surgical appliances and huge improbabilities.There may have been huger improbabilities in the original but they were less noticeable since they fell into service of a better film.This time, Laurie Strode (Curtis) is rushed to the hospital after the attack by Michael Myers (Warlock).
The first, and one of the better, sequels to Carpenter's great Halloween (1978).Set on the same evening that the original film ended, murderous Michael Myers follows victim Laurie to the hospital.Halloween II is a big come down from Carpenter's original thriller, this sequel basically just falls into the slasher film mold big time.
Ok, the original 'Halloween' is very difficult to follow on from, but most of the sequels could at least looked like effort was made into them.
The music has a spine-chilling atmosphere, if not as much as the first 'Halloween' and not as big a character of its own that the music in the original was.Didn't care much for the acting generally, but both Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasance make successfully game efforts and Michael Myers does evoke some creepiness.
It picks up right where "Halloween" left off, just as Dr. Loomis (again a brilliantly believable performance by Donald Pleasance) fires six bullets into Michael Myers after his attack on Laurie (again played by Jamie Lee Curtis).
I realize that for the sequel that was the case, but it seemed to me to be inconsistent with the first and I couldn't see any reason in particular that Laurie would have seen herself as anything more than another of Michael Myers' victims.Still, this was good and suspenseful and a whole lot better than most of the sequels that followed (not only the subsequent "Halloween" sequels, but sequels and even originals of the other slasher series that followed it.).