Anyway, I just wanna make this particular one short and
sweet because it’s been a while. Here a
goes:
Overall Impressions:
Part 2 isn’t that bad but it isn’t
very good either. The coolest aspect is we
pick up right where we left off on Halloween night 1978 with Michael Myers
still on the loose even after being shot by Dr. Loomis. It’s a novel approach and something you don’t
see very much in horror sequels. Another
neat thing is the filmmakers did a good job capturing the look and overall mood
of the original. John Carpenter wrote
and produced so that would make sense.
But he declined to direct because he didn’t want to do a sequel and he was
also working on Escape from New York. It turns out he hated his own script and I
can see why.
The biggest problem with this one is that it feels in every
way derivative of its landmark predecessor.
The slasher genre was in full swing by 1981 with more Halloween knockoffs than you could
count. The over the top death sequences,
the carnage and gore amped way up (the first one had very little blood in it), the
terrible plot twists involving the killer’s identity and the overly complicated
climax had already become clichés by then.
Having Michael Myers as your villain helps because he’s so iconic but
it’s not enough.
The movie is…fine.
It’s pretty average and that’s disappointing considering most of the
original players were involved. The sad
thing is no one really wanted to make it.
But you take what you can get and this first sequel is by far the most
straight forward one we would ever see.
That could be good or bad depending on what the filmmakers decided to do
and we’ll check that out over the next bunch of Talkin’s (Spoiler: they chose bad, oh so bad).
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