Tag Line : More of the night HE came home.
John Carpenter followed up the
success of Halloween with this most excellent sequel, which picks
up directly after the original and features all the characters
from the first film.
The film starts off with a flashback to the end of part 1, with Dr Loomis shooting Micheal Myers and him falling out of the upstairs window of Laurie's house. We then see Loomis rush down stairs, but when he get's outside Myer's body has gone.
And so the scene is set for another round of murder and mayhem. Laurie is taken to the local hospital whilst Doctor Loomis resumes his search with the local poice to try and find Myer's before he can kill again (Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasance reprising their original roles).
But Micheal isn't too willing to give up his prey so easily and follows Laurie to the hospital, randomly bumping off a few townsfolk to satisy his bloodlust en route. On arrival he proceeds to do away with the defenceless staff that are standing in the way of his final victim, using some quite innovavative but gruesome methods. This includes drowning nurses in scalding water, stringing up the guard with a lamp cord, sticking syringes into peoples eye's and bleeding patients to death by unplugging their hypodermic drips.
Whilst all this is going on, Dr Loomis discovers the REAL reason why Micheal has returned to his home town of Haddonfield and gone on the rampage. It turns out that Laurie Strode is in reality Micheal Myers sister and as Myers had killed his older sister when he was a boy, Doc Loomis figures that he has returned to finish off the other one.
He rushes to the hospital, only to find that Micheal has already been busy and has wiped out virtually the entire staff. Doctor Loomis helps Laurie escape, as Myers chases her round the hospital by blowing him up in the operating theatre and thus bringing his reign of terror to a somewhat fiery end. Putting a whole new shine on the phrase "going out with a bang"!
The film is a touch darker and a bit gorier than the first, but equally chilling and overall is a bloody good film!
Overall Marks 8/10
Other information. Alternate tag line, "A Night of Terrifying Butchery". The part of Myers for this film was played by stuntman Dick Warlock, although he got the part quite by accident. Whilst visiting John Carpenters office about another film, he put on a Micheal Myers mask (that he had in his office) and wandered down the hall to give the office girls a scare. John Carpenter liked it so much he offered him the part. Dick Warlock, who is considerably shorter than his predecessor Nick Castle, apparently had to have supports put into his boots to make him look taller. He also featured in the film breifly, as one of the police officers. In the scene where Ben Tramer, who is wearing a mask like Micheal Myers, is run down by a police car, the officer that falls out of the car just before it explodes is Dick Warlock. Jamie Lee Curtis's was actually wearing a wig in this film, so that her hair looked the same as it did in part 1. Dana Carvey (Wayne, from Wayne's World) had a small Cameo in this film, if you look behind the TV reporter who's stood outside the Strode house you can see him in the background. |
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