Six
years have passed since Michael tried to
kill his niece and were rumored dead but
Jamie Lloyd (J.C. Brandy) was kidnapped
by a cult after all those years and
remained in hiding.
Jamie
gets impregnated by the main cult member
known as the man in black to continue the
Myers legacy.
The baby is born the night before
Halloween during a cult ceremony but a
kind woman helps Jamie escape with the
baby and Michael is on their trail.
Then Jamie hides her child in a washroom
at a bus station then uses a pay phone to
call a radio station crying for help to
the DJ on the air then speeds off and
Michael chases her and she crashes to a
farm and tries to hide from Michael in
there but Michael finds her and guts her
to death with farm machinery but before
she dies she tells Michael that the child
is not with her.
Tommy Doyle (Paul Rudd)
returns since the terrible incident with
his babysitter Laurie Strode back in 1978
as he is obsessed with Michael Myers
since that 1978 incident and it's been 17
long years since then.
He has his eye on a new family moving
into the Myers' house who are relatives
of Laurie Strode. One of them is Kara
Strode (Marianne Hagen) and her
illegitimate son Danny (Devin Gardner)
who hears the voice that Michael heard
and starts drawing pictures of his family
being killed as he senses Michael's
presence.
Michael slays almost all of Kara's family
except for her and her son to get to
Jamie's child and Tommy reveals Michael's
curse.
Dr. Loomis and Tommy
discovers the cult member in black who
has been experimenting evil for all these
years and follow him to the Smith's Grove
Sanitarium where Michael used to stay in
after killing his sister.
This was indeed my
favourite sequel although lots of viewers
hated this one but it shows alot of good
action sequences plus it's dark and
Michael is more menacing too but who
could blame him after moving into his
house that is sacred to him.
Actually, this one was the very first
Halloween film that I saw when it went to
my theatre's and couldn't wait to watch
the very first one.
This is a great one to watch close to
Hallows Eve if you enjoy sequels that is
and like my taste too.
A door was open for another sequel but
what was really frusterating was when
they made another sequel it was a direct
one to part 2 and I was wondering what
would happen to the newborn child and
what Michaels plans were since he wants
his entire family to be extinct.
The film didn't receive alot of publicity
but it was briefly reviewed on a TV show
on the violent films that are out.
Some of the fans were almost convinced
that Michael was going to die for sure in
this one as they waited so long for the
next sequel but were they ever
disappointed.
I enjoyed the
acting. It wasn't Oscar winning but still
it was well done for a low budget film.
Tommy Doyle returns after all these years
but wait STOOOOOP!!!! Something is very
wrong with this picture. It's not
Brian Andrews playing the role this
time, it's Paul Rudd but he does
an amazing job nonetheless as he seemed
to study his role as Tommy as an adult
quite well with his obsessiveness with
Michael Myers. I always wondered what
became of his friend Lyndsey Wallace.
Well another cast member dropped out of
this known as Danielle Harris as
her character was going to be killed off
and she didn't like this idea so she
turned the role down. Instead, J.C.
Brandy played the role of Jamie
Lloyd.
Donald Pleasance however
reprised his role for the last time as
Michael's shrink Dr. Loomis before he
passed away (May you rest in peace). Pleasance
didn't look too healthy as you can tell
and before the closing credits it was
saying to the memory of him.
We get a downright nasty performance of Bradford
English as the nasty cousin of the
Strode's named John who buys the Myers
house from them. He is great at being a
convincing prick and really deserved to
be killed in the film.
Child actor Devin Gardner is
very well focused on his role as the
child who hears the evil voice named
Danny.
Marianne Hagen who plays his
caring mother Kara also does an over the
top role.
I also loved supporting actress Janice
Knickrehm's part as the crazy
neighbor Mrs. Blankenship.
Mariah O'Brien
exposes her breasts after having sex on
Halloween night in the Myers former
house.
Michael is furious
as ever since the Strode's moved in to
his house so the gore is bigger than ever
in this one.
He impales his niece on sharp objects of
a hay mchaine of some sort in a barn.
There is a splash of blood after he axes
a woman offscreen in the head.
A corpse is dangling from a tree with
wire and lights wrapped around him.
But the most gruesome murder happens to
our good old friend John Strode as
Michael slams him against a fuse box down
in a cellar and his head explodes.
There are other gruesome moments too in
this film so we get lots of blood in this
one.
A good one is when Michael's head is
being bashed numerous times by Tommy
Doyle with a steel pipe while he was
drugged by needles and green blood pours
out of him.
Joe Chappelle
is superb with his direction for this
film making it look very dark and evil.
I loved the very beginning when it showed
the cult ceremony while J.C. Brandy's
role as Jamie was going in labour and
there was a brief narration by Paul
Rudd of Michael killing his siter
Judith and what became of Michael and his
niece.
There was also a great car chasing scene
when Brandy was trying to escape
from George P. Wilbur as Michael
and then he slaughters her in a farmhouse
once he gets a hold of her.
A good shot on the town of Haddonfield
looking slightly gloomier.
A good shot on Devin Gardner in
his bed looking scared with the
thunderstrom and an image of a vlack
figure in his closet.
A good dysfunctional moment at the
morning table mainly involving Marianne
Hagen and Bradford English
as daughter and father.
A nice shot on child actor Gardner
holding a knife towards English.
There's a good shot on Kim Darby
looking frightened while answering a
phone along with a background shot on Wilbur
watching her. Another nice shot of her
turning around with sudden fear in her
eyes on what she saw.
There's also good suspenseful blocking
and shots on her trying to get away
outside and being distracted by sheets
that are hung to dry. A good camera
looking up on Wilbur holding an
axe.
English does well acting drunk when
he gets home and it's dark in the house
as he seems to pull it off trying to goof
around. A good shot on him in the
basement with the clothes washer banging
and thumping along with a nice shot on Wilbur
picking him up and throwing him to a
fusebox as English shows a great
wide jawed expression.
A nice setting on an outdoor event that's
hosted by supporting actor Leo Geter
which also involved Keith Bogart and
Mariah O'Brien helping out with
the event which looked believeably
entertaining.
I
enjoyed Janice Knickrehm when
she tells Gardner a story about
what Halloween is all about and then
telling Hagen about when she
babysat Michael when he killed his sister
Judith that night which was bone
chilling.
A great speech on O'Brien inside
the house with Bogart talking
about what Michael did as a child which
showed some nice energy and terrific
blocking on O'Brien's half of it
during a thunderstorm.
He also shows excellent scenes with Wilbur
walking in for the kill as well as
the house looking dark with the jack o
lanterns lit up.
The chase with Wilbur and the
people trying to survive at the asylum is
also a classic direction especially when
Rudd's character bashes Michael in the
head numerous times with a steel pipe as Rudd
shows alot of energy thanks to Joe's
direction.
He shows a perfect blackout scene before
the credits role up with a jack o lantern
burning out.
John Carpenter's theme
song will always be used in any Halloween
film but Alan Howarth upgraded
it a bit along with some other old music
from the first film. This is without a
doubt Alan's best composing ever!!!
I loved the heavy guitar riffs when
Michael is about to come in for the kill.
Alan you rock!!!!
We have an awesome
songtrack by Brother Cane with
their hit "And Fools Shine On"
which was played briefly in the middle of
the film as well as during the closing
credits. Great song too.
[Opening
narration]
Tommy Doyle: When Michael Myers
was six years old, he stabbed hs sister
to death. He was locked up for years in
Smith's Grove Sanitarium, but he escaped.
Soon after, Halloween became another word
for mayhem! One by one, he killed his
entire family, until his nine-year-old
niece, Jamie Lloyd, was the only one left
alive. Six years ago - Halloween night -
Michael and Jamie vanished. Most people
believed them dead but I believe someone
hid them away. Someone who keeps Michael,
protects him... tries to control him. If
there's one thing I know, you can't
control evil. You can lock it up, burn
it, and bury it, and pray that it dies,
but it never will. It just... rests
awhile. You can lock your doors, and say
your prayers, but the evil is out
there... waiting. And maybe, just
maybe... it's closer than you think!
Jamie
Lloyd: [opening line] Michael,
please don't hurt me.
Man in
black: [Producer's Cut]
[before shooting Jamie]
Man in black: Your work is
finished now.
Caller:
Barry, whatever happened to that
psychiatrist of his, Loomis? I heard the
old quack was dead!
Doctor Sam Loomis: Not dead, just
very much retired.
Barry
Simms: OK, next caller. We have
Duanne on the line. What's on your feeble
excuse for a brain?
caller: Well Barry, I'm a big fan,
I listen to your show all the time. I
can't believe you're really going to be
paying a little visit to our little town
tommorrow.
Barry Simms: Do you have a point
to make Duanne or should I continue
spanking the monkey?
caller: Oh Barry, you're too much.
I know things are different now in the
ninties: gays in the military, cut off
your husband's dooginger and become a
national hero, so I don't see the point
in bringing back Halloween to
Haddonfield...
Barry Simms: Wank, wank. Thank you
Duanne.
[cuts him off]
Tommy
Doyle: I was only 8 years old when I
saw him... but I was one of the lucky
ones. I survived.
Barry
Simms: There is help for people like
you. It's called electroshock therapy.
C'mon, you don't really believe Michael
Myers is actually alive?
Tommy Doyle: Micahel's work isn't
done in Haddonfield, and soon, very soon,
he'll come home to kill again. But this
time I'll be ready.
Doctor
Sam Loomis: Good God! Terrence, come
in.
Dr. Wynn: Good grace, what a
night! Not so much as a sign for five
miles on that road.
Doctor Sam Loomis: That's the
beauty of the countryside... I thrive on
it.
Dr. Wynn: God, you look good Sam.
Doctor Sam Loomis: Ah, I feel
great! I had surgery, plastic surgery.
Skin grafts. It cost a fortune, but at
least I don't frighten people anymore.
Dr. Wynn: Well don't tell me that
the revered rasputin of Smithsgrove has
grown complacent in his old age! I won't
believe that for a second.
Dr.
Wynn: Well, guess who after 32 years
is finally relequishing his duties as
chief administrator of Smithsgrove?
Doctor Sam Loomis: Dear God. You
don't mean you're...
Dr. Wynn: Retiring? I came by to
give you the news myself.
Doctor Sam Loomis: Well, I wish
you will Terrence.
Dr. Wynn: To old friends, to
retirement, to new beginnings.
Dr.
Wynn: I'd like you to come back to
Smith's Grove.
Doctor Sam Loomis: Dr. Wynn, you
know it is not wise to play Halloween
pranks.
Dr.
Wynn: It's no prank; you're the one
I've chosen Sam. I want you to come back.
Doctor Sam Loomis: After my stroke
six years ago they practically had to
hold a pistol to my head to get me to
retire. But things are different now- I'm
different. I've buried the ghosts, I've
buried them in this manuscript. I don't
want to practise medicine anymore.
Doctor
Sam Loomis: It was Jamie Lloyd.
Dr. Wynn: That was six years ago
Sam. She died with him in that explosion,
you know that.
Doctor Sam Loomis: I've wanted to
believe it. But I've felt Michael's
presence, behind these walls, just like
all those years ago. Plotting, staring,
Staring. Waiting for some signal. I can't
go through this again, not alone. Please,
as my colleague, as my friend. Help me.
Doctor
Sam Loomis: Dear God! Jamie!
Paramedic: Only God can help her
now sir.
John
Strode: Enough of this Michael Myers
bullshit!
Kara:
Beth, who's that guy that lives across
the hall from you?
Beth: Why? You interested?
Kara: No. He's always staring out
of his window. Last night I caught him
watching me.
Beth: Oh, that must be Tommy. On a
weirdness scale from one to ten, he rates
about a thirteen. Supposedly some scary
shit happened to him when he was a kid.
Messed up his head really bad. He's
harmless though. Probably just lonely...
Tim Strode: ...or horny. Something
you haven't felt in a while.
Sheriff:
You have no business in my town.
Doctor Sam Loomis: Michael Myers
is my business.
Sheriff:
Go back to your loony bin. I've got
enough problems around here without you
stirring up ghost stories.
Doctor Sam Loomis: I suppose it
was a ghost who did all of this, and a
ghost on the radio last night, and a
ghost being carried out of here
now."
Doctor
Sam Loomis: I knew what he was, but I
never knew why.
Beth:
We are not going to allow the powers that
be tell us what to do anymore. For years
Halloween represented everything wrong
with Haddonfield, but Michael Myers is
gone. There is no Boogeyman.
Barry Simms: Dang Tim! Does she
get this riled up in the sack? I bet she
wears crotchless panties and barks like a
dog!
Mrs.
Blankenship: A long, long time ago,
it was a night of great power. When the
days grew short, the spirits of the dead,
returned to their homes to warm
themselves by the fire's side. All across
the land, huge bonfires were lit. Ohhh,
there was a marvelous celebration. People
danced, and they played games, and they
dressed up in costumes, hoping to ward
off the evil spirits. Especially the
boogey man.
Kara:
[on the phone] Beth look out
there's someone in the room, he's right
behind you!
Tommy
Doyle: Where are they? Where's Kara?
I feel like I've been drugged.
Doctor Sam Loomis: We have been
drugged.
Tommy Doyle: I don't understand,
why didn't they kill us when they had the
chance?
Doctor Sam Loomis: It's his game,
and I know where he wants to play it.
Doctor
Sam Loomis: I thought Michael was a
monster, but you...
[Loomis gets knocked out, Wynn rises]
Dr. Wynn: Leave him. It's his
office now.
Dr.
Wynn: I was getting worried Sam, I
was afraid you wouldn't make it.
Doctor Sam Loomis: Why now?
Dr. Wynn: Beacuase you were the
first one to see it. You recognised its
power.
Dr. Wynn: Evil. Pure, uncorrupted,
ancient...
Doctor Sam Loomis: You are a mad
man.
Dr. Wynn: I have my plans for this
baby. Jamie's baby, will be the dawn of a
new age. And I'm asking you to join me.
Dr.
Wynn: About time Doctor Loomis.
Welcome to your fate. The time has come
for you to know the truth. The time has
come for you to join us.
Doctor Sam Loomis: Why now?
Dr. Wynn: After Jamie escape last
night, I knew she would come to you. And
I knew you would lead us to her baby, her
very special baby. I needed her, just as
I need you now. It's your destiny Sam, it
lives inside you. It always has, you know
that don't you?
Doctor Sam Loomis: You are... a
mad man.
Dr.
Wynn: Look around you Sam, madness
everywhere. Famine, war, a great plague.
These are signs we must restore balance
to the natural order of things. We merely
provide the means.
Doctor Sam Loomis: Michael?
Dr. Wynn: We've given him the
power, the gift of thorn. I am its
deliverer. I follow it, act as its
guardian! I protect Michael, watch over
him. And... now it's time for another.
Now it's time for you, Doctor Loomis.
Dr.
Wynn: Spirits and powers of the
flame, attend and witness this ritual.
Bear our gifts to Thorn. Open us to the
path of Darkness. By these runes
transform us. Let the hammer descend upon
the Chosen One to whom we offer this
sacrifice of Innocent Blood. And then
Danny, your journey begins. Kill for him!
[repeated
line]
Man in black: Danny, kill for him.
[Tommy
has a knife to Wynn's throat]
Tommy Doyle: Untie her!
Dr. Wynn: Do as he says! Do it.
[aside]
Dr. Wynn: You should join us, you
have talented.
Tommy Doyle: Shut up.
Tommy
Doyle: [seeing a gun] Doctor
Loomis, you know that can't stop Michael.
Doctor Sam Loomis: Nothing can
stop Michael, but it can stop Wynn.
Dr.
Wynn: Michael, your final sacrifice.
Kara: Michael, you can make him
stop it. Don't kill the baby. You know
whose baby it is, don't you?
Dr. Wynn: [shouts] Michael!
Kara: The baby is yours. Isn't it,
Michael?
[Producer's Cut only]
Kara:
Where do we go?
Doctor Sam Loomis: As far away
from Haddonfield as possible.
Tommy Doyle: Come with us.
Doctor Sam Loomis: No, I have some
business to attend to.
Doctor
Sam Loomis: [Producer's Cut only]
Michael? It's over! It's finally over.
It's all over.
[he pulls off the mask, and sees it is
Wynn]
Dr. Wynn: [startled]
Michael. Michael's gone!
[he grabs Loomis's arm]
Dr. Wynn: It's your game now
Doctor Loomis!
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