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Halloween II

(No longer in theaters)
  • Rating: R — for strong brutal bloody violence throughout, terror, disturbing graphic images, language, and some crude sexual content and nudity
  • Director: Rob Zombie   Cast: Tyler Mane, Malcolm McDowell, Brad Dourif, Scout Taylor-Compton, Sheri Moon Zombie
  • Running Time: 101 minutes
  • Reader Rating: Write a Review

Genre

Action/Adventure, Horror

Producer

Malek Akkad

Distributor

The Weinstein Company

Release Date

Aug 28, 2009

Release Notes

Nationwide

Official Website

Review

This is a preview; David Edelstein has not yet seen
Halloween II.

Don’t laugh (or cry): Rob Zombie is an amazing filmmaker. He’s also an amazingly sadistic one, piling cruelty upon cruelty in House of 1,000 Corpses and The Devil’s Rejects with the intensity of the industrial-metal �hellbilly� he was. His remake of John Carpenter’s Halloween was a flawed compromise between his own fractured style and themes and Carpenter’s fluid sense of menace. But it was still in a different league from most slasher films. Now, in Halloween II, Zombie is allegedly departing from the Carpenter template with a less tethered tale of the psychological degeneration of Laurie Strode, née Myers (Scout Taylor-Compton). Look for the usual Zombie genre stock company and brace for a wild ride. — David Edelstein