I agree that the dream sequences and the ghosts were silly. Those scenes were horrible! However, the movie has a whole wasn't horrible. In fact, some scenes (primarily the death sequences) were brilliant. My favorite scenes were the hospital scene at the beginning (reminded of the original Halloween II), the scene in the strip club, and the scene at the Halloween party. 7/10.

When I saw previews for Rob Zombies Halloween 2 movie I must say I had my doubts. The preview looked liked something out of a sideshow of freaks and weirdos hopped up on cocaine, acid, pot, marijuana, alcohol, pepsi products and licorice. I thought for sure that when I actually saw the movie that all my concerns would be put to rest. I can honestly say that was the worst mistake I've ever made. The movie proved that everyone involved in the making of this film was indeed hopped up on cocaine, acid, pot, marijuana, alcohol, pepsi products and licorice. Rob Zombie took what was a great series of horror movies and turned into a freak show for people with three eyes, women with long beards, and toothless men who drink gasoline because they think it will fuel the fire that burns inside them. He has single handedly taken what was a simple idea of a blank without conscious nightmare who stalked the babysitter and destroyed it by adding visions of mommy holding the strap of a white horse as she walked around in the wild forrests of Illinois. This is no doubt what Rob Zombie was doing when he thought of making this film, the only difference is that he wasnt walking with a white horse rather taking a drug called white horse which no doubt induces psychodelic hallucinations and fuels ideas to make moving pictures of himself dressed up in a torn ragged hoodie wandering around aimlessly with a satchel on his back looking for dogs to eat or passer bys to stab a hundred times. The movie has no direction whatsoever. The character of Michael Myers is supposedly haunted by visions of his dead also on drugs mother who coincidentally in real life is Rob Zombies wife. The visions follow him around the vast forrest of Illinois which never seem to end. He does this for about a year or so, we have no idea why he has been wandering around the forrest, which leads me to conclude that he was doing so to try and find the best shrooms to eat so he could hallucinate and not think about what a terrible movie he is in. Every character in this film is worthless. The script sounds as if it was written by a pissed off high schooler whos only vocabulary is fuck and party. My only hope is that the original makers of the initial Halloween series do not need emergency surgery to remove the fucked up ideas and Rob Zombie as implanted in their minds. Do not see this movie, save the $7-10 ticket price for a whopper meal at Burger King or a three pack of socks at a local store because I gaurantee you that they will bring you more pleasure than watching a series of moving pictures that have been morphed into nothing more that another poster for the well known line "This is your brain....This is your brain on drugs..."

I've read some reviews who defend Rob Zombies work in Halloween 2 for making it "his vision". That some of us who didnt like it should step out of the box and give it a chance. The review above me states we "love to hate things we do not understand." So lets start line by line. Rob Zombie and his "vision"
If we all go back to when Rob Zombie remade "Halloween" I'm sure we can all agree that for the most part he paid homage to the orginal movie. Despite learning the origins of the Michael Myers character, Zombie imbedded a strong horror element, the stalker element into the movie. In the first remake, Haddonfield Illinois was not a town full of drunken fat hillbillys driving around antler grilled trucks pillowing a "purdy" young girl in between them. To his credit, Zombie's did well with the first film.
Halloween 2 also had a vision but this time it was a vision which was written down on paper that was later used to roll a joint. The vision was smoked, filtering terrible ideas into the brain which would later be turned into moving pictures of white horses and ghostly mothers, drunken hillbillys, no story and terrible characters, oh and lets not forget to mention that Illinois we now know has more forrest land than any other place on earth. At one point I was convinced that it was in fact Zombie himself who played the Michael Myers character because for the most part Myers walked around trees and stripper clubs without his mask, a mask that enstills the volume of his character. I saw a giant man with an ugly ass beard and I thought "thats Rob Zombie!" and it hit me, he made this movie to idolize himself in some sick way. But I was proven wrong when I saw the credits, Myers was played by Tyler Mane :(
"Hating things we dont understand"
I'm trying to figure out what I could possibly understand about this movie except that drugs have negative side effects clearly. I understand that everytime Myers stabs someone in this movie it sounds like he is trying real hard to push something out in the bathroom. I understand that when Myers was standing outside the strip club staring down one of the employees that he looked like Santa Clauses evil twin brother shitty clause who bathed in coal all his life. I understand that it took zombie around 100 minutes of screen time to realize he should of put the original music score back into the film. I just wanted to see something scary, something stalkerish which encompassed the Halloween series. If Rob Zombie didnt want to do that then that is fine but dont call it Halloween, call it something else like "Tales from the forrest dweller" or "Shrooms and I" or "shitty movie" or "bearded men kill" anything other than "Halloween."

Saw Halloween II in theaters, and I must say I was highly disappointed. You can tell by my profile that I am a bit of a Halloween buff considering I work for a Halloween Costume Website. The first of these retellings was excellent. It added new depth to characters that were lacking in portrayal and took new turns into unexplored territories of the franchise. This newest installment did nothing of the sort.

I felt the original gave the appearance that the film was set in the 70s and then perhaps the 80s, however in this they have cell phones, make references to Fergie, there are new cars, etc. Also, they give no explanation as to how Michael miraculously survives multiple .357 (a gun designed to destroy tissue and organs) gunshot wounds.

Also, it's indicated that Michael was only grazed by the round Laurie fired into his face at point blank range. However, there is quite a lot of arterial spray for a simple graze. Not to mention, even though Michael is supposed to be this behemoth monster, the pain would be so immeasurable that he would not have made it ten feet. Then of course, there was the portrayal of Michael. After his mother died he never speaks in the slightest. He takes several extremely damaging blows and doesn't so much as whimper. I would have no problem with this but for the most part when he kills someone he grunts like a caveman, something he did not do in the first. I understand that I am referencing the first installment of the retelling quite a bit, but I feel that if you're going to make a sequel that follows nearly directly after the first, then you should at least stick to your character designs and plot concepts. Now, for the final nail in this coffin, Sherri Moon Zombie appears quite a bit in the movie as a ghost. I don't really consider this a spoiler, so I didn't mark it as such. The real reason she is in the movie, is because she loves attention and I don't think Rob zombie could deal with the fact of making a movie that didn't involve his wife in some way. Her ghostly appearances would have been freaky and weird, if she wasn't in every other scene, looking ridiculous and rattling off her dialog in the poorest manner.

Also, why is the child version of Michael a ghost with his mother? Last I checked he wasn't dead, he just grew up. I would accept that when Michael put on the mask it represented a fracture in his psyche, but the boy version of Michael is wearing a mask as well. So if Zombie was trying to achieve that point, he simply made it redundant.

I only give this movie a 2/5 because the gore was quite good. But if you're looking for something more than that, or perhaps you hope that this movie will broaden the characters more-so than the first, I suggest you look elsewhere. Reluctantly 2/5. (Also, fun fact, a third is already slated and is going to be in 3D. The best part: Rob Zombie isn't directing it.)

-Halloween Costume Kayla
http://www.halloweencostumesale.com

With the debut of the recent movie The Halloween sequels are getting more interesting