It is still Halloween night in Haddonfield, and the corpses of Annie, Linda and Bob have just been discovered. Laurie Strode has been rushed to the hospital and Michael Meyers is still on the loose. As he slaughters his way through the formerly peaceful suburb, making his unerring way towards the hospital where Laurie has been taken, both the traumatized Laurie and the determined Dr. Loomis learn the truth at last: Laurie is Michael's little sister, born two years after Judith's murder and adopted by the Strode's. Michael has already killed one sister and is determined to murder the other before the night is over.
This sequel to the 1977 classic Halloween isn't too shabby. It's a little more exploitative than the first. The murders are gorier and the blood is brighter and more generously splashed around. The victims are far more vacuous in this installment and we're given no time at all to see them develop or to care about them before they are stabbed, desanguinated or boiled to death. However, I do like the way in which all of the loose threads are tied up in this one and the tidy explanation is pretty believable. This is a straightforward, unapologetic slasher film which still manages to be a hell of a lot better than many of its modern day contemporaries.
This sequel to the 1977 classic Halloween isn't too shabby. It's a little more exploitative than the first. The murders are gorier and the blood is brighter and more generously splashed around. The victims are far more vacuous in this installment and we're given no time at all to see them develop or to care about them before they are stabbed, desanguinated or boiled to death. However, I do like the way in which all of the loose threads are tied up in this one and the tidy explanation is pretty believable. This is a straightforward, unapologetic slasher film which still manages to be a hell of a lot better than many of its modern day contemporaries.