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Don’t waste your money…

Posted by Movie_Maven

August 31, 2009 |

…on Rob Zombie’s “Halloween II” - one of the absolute WORST movies I have seen in my life.  Now I am a Zombie fan and did enjoy his remake of “Halloween” as well as the disturbing “Devils Rejects”; however, this film is way too existential for the genre.  The beginning of the film did pay homage to the original “Halloween II” but then it seemed as if Zombie tried to take the story down too many roads.

The acting was atrocious, especially Zombie’s wife, Sheri Moon Zombie (the Myers matriarch who died in the first one), who delivered each of her lines as if she was one of those talking dolls I had as a child.  No voice inflection, no emotion, nothing.  There was even no reason for her presence in the movie (except, of course, that she was his wife.)  The rest of the cast was equally annoying. Laurie Strode (Taylor Scout-Compton) looked completely different and, granted she did likely have PTSD, resorted to a whiny, annoying, nightmare-plagued punk.  Even Malcolm McDowell’s character was reduced to a self-aggrandizing moron with no redeeming value whatsoever.  Michael Myers was, perhaps, the most “interesting” character and this was with a complete lack of dialogue on his part.

Zombie seems to love the F-bomb.  I actually was so bored during the film I started counting them and got to 174 before almost falling asleep.  The murder scenes were typical murder scenes and many of them were too dark to even get a good view.  Therefore, I was forced to rely upon the very loud sound effects and use my own imagination to envision the bloody entrails littering the town of Haddonfield.

I understand the premise of this film was for Michael to find his sister Laurie/Angel and then the family would, once again, be whole, but why were those who didn’t stand in his way of finding her killed?  Random murder and mayhem is nice at times but completely inappropriate for the presumption of this film.  As a result, “Halloween II” is a bloody, brutal, poorly acted, poorly written mess.  Oh, and left wide open at the end for a potential sequel (I think that is mandatory now.)

I do have to say that the cinematography, in parts, was quite good and John Carpenter’s creepy score is the epitome of horror genre music.

I did hear that the original cut was close to four hours…normally I enjoy seeing films’ deleted scenes and it might (I stress might) be interesting to see these because some of the ones he left in were so completely irrelevant.  But then again it might just put me to sleep.  Or make me homicidal.

I was so disappointed that I don’t even want to waste the time uploading the movie poster.


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