Maybe thats your idea of a good time."
“Halloween IIfailed to do its predecessor justice by doing away with originality and a productive premise.
Halloween II is a direct sequel to John Carpenter’s original 1978 Halloween starring Jamie Lee Curtis.
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She enlists the help of a group of local hunters and gunmen to kill Crowley, avenging their deaths.
“Man, Adam Green must have run up a bill at the local butcher.
“The franchise is all gore, missing the mark fora so-bad-it’s-good certification.
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Much ofEbert’s one-and-a-half-star reviewwas spent criticizing the skill and decision-making of writer-directorGary Sherman.
Anyone can make a movie like this.
Its directing by the numbers.”
Ten years have passed, and Sidney Prescott, who has put herself back together thanks in part to her writing, is visited by the Ghostface Killer.
He thinks it all has to do with violence, and killers jumping out of shadows.
That means both scripts are by Kevin Williamson.
What worked withScreamis the characters' understanding of how a horror movie works in relationship to their slasher scenario.
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Are they aware of the national epidemic of teenage suicides?
Do they even think about such things, or was this movie simply a mindless exercise in technology?
I ask such questions because I watched the movie with a tide of unease rising within me.
Halloween II is a direct sequel to John Carpenter’s original 1978 Halloween starring Jamie Lee Curtis. In the sequel, Laurie Strode is transported to Haddonfield Memorial Hospital to recover from her injuries, but Michael Myers continues to hunt her down. Halloween II is also the film that established Michael and Laurie were siblings, which would become one of the most controversial twists in the Halloween franchise.
There is hardly a shred of hope anywhere in this film.”
Some have a little more plot, some have a little less.
It doesnt matter.”
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“What proved more disturbing was the target audience’s vocal enjoyment of graphic killings.
The headline ofEbert’s reviewcalled it"a slough of despair.”
“There is a line and this movie crosses it.
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I dont know where the line is, but its way north of ‘Wolf Creek.’
Kids all over America want Silver Shamrock masks for Halloween.
Doctor Daniel Challis seeks to uncover a plot by Silver Shamrock owner Conal Cochran.
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Kids all over America want Silver Shamrock masks for Halloween. Doctor Daniel Challis seeks to uncover a plot by Silver Shamrock owner Conal Cochran.
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After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a deformed chainsaw-wielding loon and his family of equally psychopathic killers.
