Panders to the base seekers of cheap thrills.
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09/01/09
Halloween II (2009)
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Reviews Counted:66
Fresh:14
Rotten:52
Average Rating:3.8/10
Consensus: Zombie shows flashes of vision in the follow-up to his Halloween reboot, but they're smothered by mountains of gore and hackneyed, brutal violence.
Theatrical Release:09-10-2009
Synopsis: Rob Zombie returns to the world of HALLOWEEN with this sequel to his film.
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Tyler Mane, Sheri Moon Zombie, Brad Dourif
Director: Rob Zombie
Reviews for Halloween II
Halloween II is full of in jokes and references but nearly devoid of wit.
09/01/09
Top CriticYou didn't think Michael Myers was dead, did you?
09/01/09
Top Critic[Halloween II] offers up a rush of fiercely imagined nightmare images.
09/01/09
Zombie walks the walk, you can't deny it. And he's found the medium where he can let his freak flag fly highest.
09/01/09
Most of its 101 minutes are filled with routine slasher scenes and flecks of pop-Freudian hokum about why the infamous Michael Myers (Tyler Mane) is such a murderously unhappy guy.
09/01/09
Zombie has talent to burn, but he’s slumming here, and one suspects that he knows it.
09/01/09
This umpteenth feature about the unstoppable masked killer Michael Myers could be the work of any journeyman, give or take a few hundred gratuitous pop-culture references.
09/01/09
This one represents Rob Zombie's "vision." That being the case, he's blind.
09/01/09
Zombie remains committed to showing how violence lingers with, and perverts, all who are touched by it, yet his carnivalesque approach often undercuts his very real empathy.
09/01/09
With his new sequel, Zombie spends less time paying tribute and more time getting inventive, with mixed results.
09/01/09
Let’s float a notion: Rob Zombie is the greatest horror-movie director never to make a great movie.
09/01/09
The only thing "new" about this movie is that the gore has gotten more explicit.
08/31/09
Zombie isn’t a storyteller, he’s a wallower. And because his movies take place in a culture of violence and sadism, there’s nothing for Michael Myers to do except echo what’s already there and slaughter weaker sadists.
08/31/09
There are bits and images in this film that would ensure praise from the horror-fan crowd if they weren't in a Halloween movie directed by Rob Zombie.
08/30/09
It's not one of those so-bad-it's-good, or B-movie fun (MY BLOODY VALENTINE 3D), this is a serious and genuine shocker. If you like Zombie's sadistic offbeat humor and his filmmaking style, you'll eat this up.
08/29/09
Ultra-gory sequel/remake is brutally violent, badly made.
08/29/09
... the only point to Rob Zombie's unfocused and oft-times boring sequel appears to be in making (his previous) remake look like genius in comparison.
08/29/09
Zombie redeems himself with Halloween II but let's hope this is the last we see of Michael Myers for a while.
08/29/09
It's as if the studio (Dimension) let some testosterone-boiling 15-year-old boy with a case of Red Bull in his belly make a slapdash gore fest where a woman in white with a white horse is meant to represent the psychological underpinning of a mute killer
08/29/09
Latest News for Halloween II
September 30, 2009:
Weinsteins Hold Off on Halloween 3D 
Nothing can kill Michael Myers -- nothing, that is, except for the Weinstein Company, which has shut down production on "Halloween 3D" for the immediate future. More...
August 31, 2009:
Weinsteins Plan 3-D Halloween for 2010
"Halloween II" may not have topped the box office over the weekend, but Bob Weinstein says the studio is moving forward with a 3-D sequel for next summer -- and it'll happen... More...
August 28, 2009:
Nine Ways to Survive a Michael Myers Attack
With "Halloween" back in theaters, now seems like the perfect time for Film School Rejects to compile a helpful list of ways to avoid being offed by prolific murderer Michael... More...
August 27, 2009:
Critics Consensus: Guess Halloween 2's Tomatometer!
This week at the movies, we've got the return of Michael Myers (Halloween 2, starring Malcolm McDowell and Scout Taylor-Compton), three dimensional fatalities (The Final... More...
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