Halloween II: The Nightmare Isn't Over (1981)

It is late Halloween night and Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) is sent to the Haddonfield Hospital but Michael is wandering around the neigborhood finding out where she is at.
He kills a resident and then finds out on the radio that she is sent to the Haddonfield Hospital so he pays a visit there. Meanwhile, Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasance) and Sherrif Brackett (Charles Cyphers) is hunting for him and thinks that they find him as a teen is dressed in the same uniform Michael is.
He is burned to death and finds out that he is the wrong person as he happened to be Laurie's possible date for the school dance.
Michael kills the doctors and nurses one by one till he finds Laurie who is drugged.
Dr. Loomis finds out that Laurie is Michael's biological sister so he goes to the Hospital to try and rescue Laurie before Michael gets her.

At first you think the story will be exciting in the beginning but it doesn't go anywhere as it picks up after the first one in the neighborhood of Haddonfield with Michael Myers stalking the neighborhood.
The plot weakens with many of the hospital scene's but still the story is held together. However, it's nowhere near as good as the original.
*Spoiler alert* The most interesting ending is when Michael burns to death (We all think) .

The acting is nowhere near as good as in the first one as it's quite cheesy but some of it is good.
Donald Pleasance still does wonderfully as Dr. Samuel Loomis and still has that energy to his role.
Jamie Lee Curtis seemed to pull her wieght well as her scream queen famedom has reached it's peak and is good being sedated at the hospital.
Lance Guest brings on the charm with his part as a young paramedic and is well remembered for his part.
Leo Rossi really fit the part as a crude and sleazy paramedic in the film making his character truly unlikeable.
Marion Chambers had a bigger role this time as the employee at the sanitarium and really knew her stuff.

Two employees at the hospital are skinny dipping in a hot tub there and the nurse shows her breasts many times.
There is also a butt shot of a sleazy doctor as he sees why the hot tub is so hot.

More blood in this one.
A few bloody throats are slit
There's a corpse of a burned body
The back handle of a hammer is stabbed in a security guards head
A lady's face is scarred from hot water and there's a pool of blood.

Carpenter should've returned to direct this one than just write it as Rick Rosenthal doesn't make the story look as convincing.
He does have some good moments like with Donald Pleasance going to the front yard of the house after Michaels body disappeared which is a great take off after the end of the first one and having a dialogue with bit part actor Howard Culver as the neighbor complaining about the noise.
We have many terrific camera shots on Dick Warlock as Michael Myers stalking the neighborhood doing his nasty deeds.
There's also a police car crashing into the kid in the Michael Myers costume played by stuntman Ben Tramer which looked extremely effective.
There's a good setting with some extras throwing stones and other stuff at the Myers house which involves Donald Pleasance and Hunter von Leer trying to go to the scnery of finding Michael.
A nice shot with Charles Cyphers and a stretcher on bit part actress Nancy Loomis as a corpse of Annie and him shutting her eyes. Cyphers also does well by losing it with Pleasance.
We have a memorable moment with Leo Rossi mocking the amazing grace song by getting sleazy and Lance Guest telling him off.
There is a dialogue between Ana Alicia discussing about a worker at the hospital who encountered Michael Myers and Rossi getting vulgar and sarcastic about it which looked a little stale.
We spot a cheesy flashback between two bit part actors played by Pamela McMyler and Nichole Drucker as mother and daughter having a disturbed conversation.
There is a good conversation between Pleasance and Marion Chambers in a vehicle when Chambers explains to him why Michael is after Laurie Strode. Pleasance does well with his aggressions by forcing her and the driver to go to the hospital by pointing a gun to them.
Jamie Lee Curtis does well by being sedated and trying to escape the hospital and tripping out.
A good shot on Curtis trying to hide in a car from the hospital as well as her weak cries to the people entering the hospital
Guest does well slipping on a pool of blood and hitting his head then later going to the car to try and drive and suddenly acting totally out of it and passing out.
A good shot on Warlock walking through a glass door with the door shattering and chasing the others in the hospital as well as other moments like him being blinded and swinging a dissecting knife back and fourth with a loud whoosh trying to go up to Curtis as she tries to get away from him.
Spoiler folks: A good effect on the hospital explodding with Warlock on fire.

The music was composed by John Carpenter and Alan Howarth who recomposed it so it would sound like other cheesy 80's style and nowhere as good but it's still interesting nonetheless.

There is a songtrack titled "Mr. Sandman" by the Chordettes which was used in the beginning and the end of the film. It was reused in H20.

[after Michael disappears]
Man in pajamas: What's going on out here?
Sam Loomis: Call the police! Tell the sheriff I shot him!
Man in pajamas: Who?
Sam Loomis: Tell him, he's still on the loose!
Man in pajamas: Is this some kind of joke? I've been trick-or-treated to death tonight.
Sam Loomis: [looks at the blood on his hand] You don't know what DEATH is!

Mrs. Alves: Men! Can't live with them, can't live without them.

Karen: [hesitating to give Darcy a ride home] Can't you ask Eddie Lee?
Darcy: He's in Russellville!
Karen: It's five minutes to your house, another five minutes to the hospital. Mrs. Alves is going to kill me!
Darcy: You promised.
Karen: [giving in] I know I did.

Mrs. Alves: I'm trying to reach Mr. or Mrs. Morgan Strode. They've left? Could you give me another number? All right. Thank you. You should've called them right away. Now I can't find them.
Janet Marshall: I didn't know.
Mrs. Alves: Right away.
Janet Marshall: I'm sorry, Mrs. Alves.
Jimmy: I'll be with Laurie. Cover for me.
Mrs. Alves: I heard that. Two minutes. That's it.

Mrs. Alves: Time's up, Jimmy. Let's go.
Jimmy: OK. OK.
Mrs. Alves: No you won't. Visiting hours are definitely over.

Dr. Sam Loomis: Did you see the blackboard back there in the elementary school?
Marion Chambers: Yeah.
Dr. Sam Loomis: In order to appease the gods, the Druid priests held fire rituals. Prisoners of war, criminals, the insane, animals ... were ... burned alive in baskets. By observing the way they died, the Druids believed they could see omens of the future. Two thousand years later, we've come no further. Samhain isn't evil spirits. It isn't goblins, ghosts or witches. It's the unconscious mind. We're all afraid of the dark inside ourselves.

Janet: Julie saw him, you know.
Bud: Who?
Janet: Michael Myers.
Bud: Come on...!
Janet: I swear, yesterday when she was coming to work.
Bud: Where'd she see him?
Janet: You know the Shop And Bag out by the mall? She stopped at the light and saw him walking in that field behind the Lost River Drive In. Julie said he was so creepy.
Bud: Julie's full of shit. He didn't escape until last night.
Janet: You don't have to swear about it.
Bud: She's a goddamn moron anyway.
Janet: Every other word you say is either hell or shit or damn.
Bud: Sorry. I guess I just fuck up all the time.

Sam Loomis: I shot him 6 times! I shot him in the heart-but... HE'S NOT HUMAN!

Dr. Sam Loomis: If that wasn't Michael Myers burning up in that car, a lot more people are going to be slaughtered tonight.
Deputy Gary Hunt: He's dead. You saw it.
Dr. Sam Loomis: I saw a man in a mask. I have to be sure.
Deputy Gary Hunt: You talk about him as if he's some kind of animal.
Dr. Sam Loomis: He was my patient for fifteen years. He became an obsession with me until I realized there neither reason nor understanding or anything about him that was... even remotely human. An hour ago I stood up and fired six shots into him and he just got up and walked away. I am talking about the real possibility that he is STILL OUT THERE!

Bud: Rule number 1, never get involved with a patient. Nurses, that's a different story, but not patients, it never works out.

Jimmy: Jill, where's Dr. Mixter?
Jill: Ah, he's been at the country club. I think he's drunk.
Budd: Oh, great!

Dr. Mixter: Janet, get me some more coffee!

Budd: [singing] Amazing Grace, come sit on my face / Don't make cry / I need your pie...
Jimmy: Look why don't you just shut up, all right?

Budd: Happy Halloween.
Karen: Budd, you are the biggest jerk I have ever met.
Budd: But you love me...
Karen: Yeah, and I'm an idiot.

[Dr. Loomis orders the Marshal around at gun-point]
Dr. Sam Loomis: Go and check all the rooms down there! Go on!
Marion Chambers: Dr. Loomis!
Dr. Sam Loomis: You stay with me and shut up!

Dr. Sam Loomis: I have a feeling I'm gonna need you in there. Can I trust you?
Marshal: What have I got to lose, except my job?

[after discovering Laurie is Michael's sister]
Sam Loomis: [to the Marshall] Turn this car around, now!
Marshal: I can't do that. I have orders.
[draws gun and points it at him]
Sam Loomis: Well those orders have changed!
Marshal: Doctor, you're getting yourself into a lot of trouble.
Sam Loomis: What is it you guys usually do? Fire a warning shot, right?
[Loomis shoots out the window, and the car screeches and turns about]

Dr. Sam Loomis: There's a two-way radio in the Marshal's car. I want you to go outside, get on that radio and get Hunt!
Marshal: Now wait a minute! I'm the only one authorized to use that!
Dr. Sam Loomis: MOVE!

Voice on Radio: Unit calling, identify.
Marion Chambers: Marion Chambers with Dr. Loomis at the clinic - he's here!
Voice on Radio: Ah, ten-four. Unit calling, identify suspect.
Marion Chambers: Michael Myers! Just get your ass over here!

Dr. Loomis: It's Time, Michael.