Halloween II (also known as Halloween II: The Horror Continues) is a 1981 slasher horror film directed by Rick Rosenthal, and written and produced by John Carpenter and Debra Hill. It is the second installment in the Halloween series and is a direct sequel to Carpenter's Halloween, immediately picking up where it had left off. Set on the same night of October 31, 1978 as the seemingly immortal
Michael Myers continues to follow
Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) to a nearby hospital while
Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasence) is still in pursuit of his patient (source of information: Wikipedia).
This satisfying sequel was not directed by John Carpenter but still featured the same characters as his original iconic
"Halloween" [1978]. We see Michael Myers, the infamous child psychopath grown up as a masked serial killer stalking Americans on Halloween Eve, continue his relentless and obsessive pursuit of Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis).
Myers follows Strode to the hospital where she is taken after the events of the first film, and Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasence) goes there too to make sense of the events and finds Michael Myers lurking there.
"Halloween II" [1981] may not be as fresh or searing as John Carpenter's original masterpiece, but it offers a nice plot in Michael Myers terrorizing a hospital manned by a night-shift staff including a guardsman, ambulance drivers, and nurses. A few policemen (some from the first film) also make appearances, attempting to help Dr. Sam Loomis track down Michael Myers.
The focus on the hospital as the site of the terror and bloodshed accentuates this film's presentation of horror atmospherics, making it a creatively eerie sequel. No one wants to feel uneasy at a hospital.
I think Rick Rosenthal's
"Halloween II" [1981] sequel to the John Carpenter 1978 original is superior to Jack Sholder's
"A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge" [1985] sequel to Wes Craven's 1984 original.
This is a great Blu-ray purchase for Halloween 2015.
Halloween II (1981)
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