Terrible acting, terrible storyline, terrible screenplay, etc. Recycling Bin

THE FIRST WAS GOOD THIS IS CRAP! AND THE ENDING SUCKED!

I so badly wanted to like this movie. I really did. But I'm not too sure what to make out of it. I'm having a hard time deciding if I like it or not. I love the brutality of Micheal Myers, but I thought that5 Rob Zombie showed way too much and the surgery scene at the hospital was overkill. Brad Dourif is awesome. I'm not too sure if there isn't a more underrated actor as of right now. Too many dream sequences, too many flashbacks. Loved the music that was used though. Rob needs to stop

Nothing special.

If only Zombie cared as much about his scripts as he did getting those amazing shots.

It's odd, but as much as I personally enjoyed the film, I wouldn't actually say I'd recommend it to anyone else. The first half of the film is actually surprisingly engaging, as it's examination of Laurie actually fleshes her out quite a bit as a character. The second half is mostly what we expect, but it commits a fatal mistake in this franchise with it's ending, and spends most of it's warped finale in a state of narrative chaos. Good if you want something different, bad for series fans.

Far too many poor scenes, with terrible dialogue and highly unlikable characters. It seemed as though Mr. Zombie wanted to make a gritty film about post-traumatic stress disorder, with low-grade Lynchian touches and far too much non-murder-related screaming (therapy sessions, disputes between characters, etc.). The gulf between Scout Taylor-Compton's Laurie Strode and Jamie Lee Curtis's original incarnation is of oceanic proportions. Have not seen the 2007 remake of which this is the sequel.

actually better than zombie's first outing for two reasons, 1. more of zombie's hot wife in those strange avant garde-ish hallucination scenes. 2. the lighting was good. aside from those two things, what we have here is a medium sized body count, unlikeable characters, twenty seconds of nudity, and NOT A SINGLE MEMORABLE KILL. that combined with lackluster gore that consistently goes downhill and a badly written script, well, just don't see this.

Is it possible to do something worst than the first one? Of course, he just did it

HELL YEAH!

Michael with a beard?Laurie transformed into a rock-wanna be fucked up slut &Loomis into an greedy asshole?I'm a fan of the series and of Robs work,but this is trashy, boring&wtf with the horses and the psycho stuff?Random "carnage" with a blunt and lame story around it..lots of "fuck! fuck! fuck!" and tits don't make it better. I loved his first remake but I just don't get this one..the horse and princess shit fucks me up so bad..5 points to the first ten minutes that didn't acutally happen -.-

What happened to Zombie? His previous work, including Halloween, was always amazing, beyond everything else of the release year. Yet, with this film, it seams that Zombie drove off the cliff and left the film behind.

All was just about right until the last 5-10 minutes. Zombie put his spin on this one even more so than the first and it payed off until one of the flattest climaxes I have seen in horror.

Sloppy, boring, clichéed. Whereas Zombie's first outing had an interesting origin story and a weird, trailer-trash-anti-aesthetic feel going on, this was just unbelievably bland.

I actually quite liked the beginning. Rarely does a movie depict the trauma experienced by the main character (survivor) and the malformed character due to the experience. But the ridiculous spiritual connection and supernatural vision part near the end almost single-handedly ruined this film.

Zombie's crowning masterpiece Halloween II finds the criminally underrated director exercising totally free of the constraints both of the series he's become involved in and the B-movies that have inspired his filmmaking career. In horror filmmaking, this is an entirely different beast to any slasher film that's come before it, invigoratingly following its own path, winding up as rich in sorrow and dramatic weight as it is in the spilling of blood. Palm it off and it most certainly is your loss.

This is an audacious take on the Michael legend. Zombie, true to form, makes this work his own. This isn't the film that his first take on Halloween is, but it is well worth checking out.

So wait, this is Halloween II? Wouldn't that kind of make this Halloween II 2, since there already was a Halloween II? It's a shame Gigli didn't have a sequel, because then when some unoriginal fuck tried to re-imagine it, we could look forward to the even more uninspired bullshit.

Zombie shows flashes of vision in the follow-up to his Halloween reboot, but they're smothered by mountains of gore and hackneyed, brutal violence.

Forgettable, like the first but this is worse.

It was just kinda weird, especially the ending. I don't mind weird, but this wasn't a "good" weird.

I can understand why Halloween fans don't like Rob Zombie's remakes, but I kinda like the direction he went with it. Personally, I I think I see enough human on human violence on the nightly news to really be scared by it, as opposed to the more supernatural type movies, which still get to me. That said, I enjoyed this movie and the characters are fantastic.

If you think this is good you're either fifteen or retarded.

There are some things Zombie does very well: I like his visual style and the violence he depicts on screen is effectively horrific and disturbing (not like the playful, corny deaths so frequently in slashers). But man oh man his take on psychology is absurd - the many dream sequences are silly and distracting, Laurie's mental degradation is implausibly depicted, and the finale is pretty much non-sensical.

Chwilami ciekawy, czesciej zwyczajnie meczacy.

I like that new Halloween sequel by Rob Zombie. To be honest I like every movie he did, but I agree with Jeb, if the end might be a start for a new series, that would be gruesome. Overall really hard, brutal and gory.

This one is apt to divide folks, but I personally thought it was great. It was far superior to Zombie's medicore remake and, while retaining many of the pitfalls of that film (Some terrible dialogue, unlikeable characters), it had some beautiful and haunting scenes. Brad Dourif, as Sheriff Brackett, plays both the best and most sympathetic of the movie's characters. Zombie's shout-out to the original Halloween 2 is also great. Just be warned, going in, that you'll either love it or hate it.

"Halloween II" doesn't have a fun inch in it's body, which is another aspect that puts it far outside the boundaries of the slasher flick norm. The film tests audiences expectations to be entertained, and instead confronts them head-on with the harsh realities of the story. The film, quite surprisingly, managed to pull through and become practically the first slasher sequel to make me feel rejuvenated and full of hope in a genre that finds itself in a repetitive cycle of dumb cash-in slashers. [Full Review]

With just a few trims it could've been truly great. Much of the Brad Dourif stuff is among the best in the genre.

The first remake I could forgive because it actually went into some effort to cover Michael's years in the mental facility. This remake's plot was just outright dumb, the "original Halloween 2" had a far better story.

it's a total mess and occasionally straight up dumb but it has its moments and i'll still give it props for being very uniquely "Rob Zombie's Halloween"

Barely passable. I could do without the twist and do without the spiritual family and do without Rob Zombie shoehorning his damn wife into all his movies. Zombie takes the story in a completely different direction than he did with the previous film and it suffers all the more because of it. On the flip side the acting from the veterans was wonderful and that first scene was fantastic -- one thing I can say about Rob Zombie is he knows how to shoot a horror movie.

Ainda não foi dessa vez Rob Zombie... Não que o filme seja ruim, mas assim como a primeira parte, possui mais erros que acertos. Enfim, ainda acredito no potêncial do diretor e irei conferir a terceira parte com certeza.

Sadly Mr Zombie has really blown this one.

So fucking terrible. One could go on and on. Between Scout Taylor Compton shouting "fuck!" every five minutes (because now she's a rebellious teen with lots of angst), a glowing vision of Michael's mother riding a white horse telling him to kill people in the most inanely soothing voice, and some hot girl incidentally being strangled when she goes off to some random dude's van to have sex at a party, because that always goes well in horror movies....I don't know. Somewhere I had just had enough.

I hated Rob's remake and I hate this almost as much. It is slightly better, but not by much. Zombie is a bad filmmaker, with an interesting vision. However, I am sick of all the white trash characters that inhabit all of his films. I also hate how characters are introduced only to be killed off a few minutes later, just to amp up the body count. The strip club scene????? Not scary.

That's what the first should have been the whole time, trying something completely new. Unfortunately it also has some of the same flaws than the first one: unnecessary swearing, excessive violence, mostly unsympathetic characters and some really bad scenes. But then again some scenes are really well filmed and Brad Dourif is great.