Escape to the Movies: Halloween 2

[Cama Zots]

Slasher flicks are never really any good. Don't think I'll see this one.

 

[ZeroMachine]

First, amazing intro! Funniest thing you've done, I think XD

Second, damn you. Now I want to see the movie just to see who the cameo is. I didn't even want to see this!

Your reviews keep getting better, keep it up!

EDIT: WEIRD AL!??!?!?!?!?!

 

[RebelRising]

Damn...I was unimpressed with the first one (even though I love The Devil's Rejects), but from the sound of it, this one sounds good. Thanks, MovieBob.

 

[George Palmer]

I would guess Judy Tenuta.

 

[bickster]

I was actually waiting to see this with my friend who I have to rent the first one and now I think I will go see it for sure this week. You really are a good Movie Critic when it seems to be something that isn't close to your heart or mind or anything like that.

I have to agree with loving the 1st half of the 1st Halloween remake and what it could have been and was interested to see what he would do with no chains. Zombie is always a jumble of mess, but it's Zombie, it's what he does and it works so I say go for it.

PS: People who did spoil the cameo, that was really kind of a jerk move guys. Just use spoilers lol

 

[PurpleRain]

Nice Fraggle Rock reference. Otherwise, I will not be seeing this movie. Rob Zombie as a director? No way in hell.

 

[Grabbin Keelz]

Its Wierd Al Yankovich, I know it is!!

 

[wrecker77]

I haven't seen it, but I may be able to guess who it is:

Spoiler

Weird Al?

Nothing can compare to the first two Halloween movies by John Carpenter. I honestly thought that Rob Zombie's remake of the first one sucked a big one.

Just about to say that. I want this so bad. Lol the credits would be I lost on jepordey or something.

 

[Lord Thodin]

i wasn't going to see this thing. But now i am.....

 

[Littaly]

I haven't seen it, but I may be able to guess who it is:

Spoiler

Weird Al?

That's what I'm guessing too. Holy sh*t. If that's it I'll have to see it (and I'm scared to death by horror movies)

 

[Tolerant Fanboy]

If I didn't hate horror movies (nothing against them, I just don't like being scared by my entertainment,) I'd have to see this just to find out how they got the King of Musical Parody in there.

Also, mad props for using the All-Knowing Trash Heap from Fraggle Rock.

 

[theultimateend]

My question would be, since I avoided seeing any of the others: did they ever return to the story hinted at in the first movie, that Michael was actually the earthly avatar of Samhain?

It actually got A LOT stranger than that...

After bringing Michael back under the pretense of "look, he's REALLY hard to kill, okay?" in #4, the series went off on a weird tangent in order to keep bringing him back and involving all the various strands of the Strode and Myers families in the continuity: Basically, over the course of 5 and 6 we learn that Michael was "created" by "The Cult of Thorn" (There's unsubstantiated rumors that at first "Thorn" was supposed to be "Silver Shamrock" again, which would've tied #3 to the rest of the series, but I doubt it) a bunch of Druid mad scientists and that all of his killing up to this point was supposed to be part of some big sacrificial ritual. No, really.

"Thorn" and everything else is basically ignored in the 7th one, which retcons Jamie Lee Curtis back to life (we were previously told she'd died in an accident between #2 and #4) and has Michael turning up at a school where she's working. #8 is about a bunch of kids doing a stunt webcast inside the old Myers house, guess who shows up.

Yeah I was under the (well) understanding that the curse of thorn required that he kill his whole blood line. Sort of like a mafia curse, until he did so he would succumb to maddening agony and could not die.

I earnestly can't tell you anymore why I think that is the case it is one of those "read it way back when" things. But it certainly made the series make sense.

Then again...honestly if someone told me I'd have to choose between Killing Jamie Lee Curtis or doing/feeling essentially anything else...I just might go and kill her. I think I'm one of the few people that was rooting for Michael the entire time.

Sort of like every time I prayed at night that the next Alien movie would involve the death (permanently) of Sigourney Weaver.

But NO! You know who goes off and dies? Goddamn Heath Ledger. It's never the people I want to die. I think I'm doing things backwards.

 

[DoE_Chi]

Another great review! The part about the earlier work was the single best description of Rob Zombie as a moviemaker that I've ever seen. Great job.

 

[GaudyMarrko]

i just read the cast list...to confirm it

 

[milomalo]

very nice review i can wait to see this movie as a big fan of the rob zombie's movies and artistic work like the comics and all hyped up for "el zombo" and the "dr satan" mythos ... im just waiting and praying for the devils reject precuel ... maybe some day it will ... and as a horror movie fan in general i think that the first one was much more... "cut" to the taste of the studio behind it because as i have read the vision that zombie had ... was... "too much" so he had to re-shoot a like a third of the whole movie... im just happy with this review thank you

 

[RTR]

I heard Michael Bay will be producing the ELm Street reboot.
God help us all

 

[Cortheya]

accordian as a hint? you've got me...

I'm thinking weird al... I hope im right