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Halloween II' s main problem is that it offers very little in the way of scared, unless you really have an aversion to that William Shatner mask, and instead relies on the visual horrors of gory and stomach-turning injuries.
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According Tommy Lee Wallace, who was on the Halloween II crew and would go on to direct the next movie in the series as well as the Stephen King 1990 mini-series IT, the feeling towards the movie was bleak from the start, with very few of those involved excited by the sequel, least of all Carpenter, who many years later would recount that writing the movie screenplay "mainly dealt with a lot of beer, sitting in front of a typewriter saying 'What the f-k am I doing? I don't know.'" Many would say this is not the best basis for any movie script, and considering the director also has said that the introduction of the brother/sister connection between Michael and Laurie was "purely as a function of having decided to become involved in the sequel to the movie where I didn't think there was really much of a story left." While there is no single point of failure for the movie, there are a myriad of reasons why it couldn't manage to live up to the expectations set out for it by its predecessor.įoremost in that list, is the loss of John Carpenter as director and his reluctance to have much involvement in the film at all. Halloween pulled in over $47 million at the domestic box office, with an additional $23 million internationally, on the back of its $300,000 budget, but Halloween II struggled to a domestic gross of $25.5 million a mere ten times its $2.5 million budget.
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Loomis takes drastic action to end Michael's reign of terror and supposedly that was to be the last of both Michael and his nemesis, with Laurie alive and able to live her life without the fear of being pursued by her brother. While this creates a new angle for the movie to explore, the film doesn't really delve too much into that side of things as soon we are in the final reel where Dr. During the movie, it transpires that Laurie is actually Michael's sister, with her having been adopted after the death of their parents not long after Michael's original arrest as a child. Over the course of the movie, Michael continues his murderous rampage, this time killing anyone who gets between him and Laurie. Sam Loomis' attempts to stop the killing spree of Michael Myers, while Jamie Lee Curtis' Laurie Stode recovers in hospital from her ordeal. Halloween II features the on-going story of Dr. While the ending of the movie was left open for a sequel, it was three years before Michael Myers returned, and when he did the movie picked up in the immediate aftermath of the original, even featuring the ending of Halloween as its opening sequence. In 1978, John Carpenter brought Michael Myers to the screen in a film that would famously create a tense and terrifying horror movie that, despite later being seen as a godfather of the slasher movie, had very little graphic violence, almost no blood and didn't see any main character deaths until pretty much the last reel. As the movie celebrates its 40th anniversary this Halloween, we look at how the film managed to follow its processor as a trend setter, only this time as the precursor to many horror films that would fall into the category of "diminishing returns sequels." However, despite having the involvement of John Carpenter, as writer and producer only this time, Halloween II was a critical failure and a financial disappointment. So, when it came to talk of a sequel, obviously Halloween II would be another runaway success, with its returning cast, story continuation and, compared to the 1978 original, a mega budget. Yet Halloween went on a journey from almost certain failure to movie masterpiece, and the influential starting point for four generations of horror movies to come. It had a ridiculously low budget, a cast of mostly unknown actors, director and producers who'd yet had a big hit, and it was done on the belief that this group of people could come together and make something special. John Carpenter's Halloween was one of those movies that, in retrospect, fell into a surprisingly common category in the late 1970s and early 1980s.