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Numerous night-shift employees are slaughtered in a variety of gruesome ways before Loomis catches up with his quarry, leading to an explosive -- and seemingly conclusive -- confrontation. Buy Halloween II (1981) tickets and view showtimes at a theater near you. Earn double rewards when you purchase a ticket with Fandango today.
Oct 30, 1981 · Halloween II: Directed by Rick Rosenthal. With Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, Charles Cyphers, Jeffrey Kramer. While Dr. Loomis hunts for Michael Myers, a traumatized Laurie is rushed to Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, and The Shape is not far behind her.
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Stalking Alice
1. "You don't know what death is." 2. ―Samuel Loomis Laurie Strode instructs Tommy Doyle and Lindsey Wallace to seek shelter with Joe Mackenzie. After they leave, Michael Myers rises and moves towards Laurie. Doctor Sam Loomis, as he watches Tommy and Lindsay screaming and running out of the house, bursts in and shoots Michael in the chest six times. Myers falls backwards towards the outside and balcony and tumbles to the ground. Loomis goes to inspect the body, but Michael has disappeared. A...
Search party
Back at the Doyle house, police and medics converge on the scene. Two EMTs strap Laurie Strode to a stretcher and bring her out to the ambulance. She keeps mumbling that she does not want to be put to sleep. They bring her to Haddonfield Memorial Hospital. The nurses call in Doctor Frederick Mixter (whom they suspect has been drinking at the country club) and he administers a shot to Laurie. She continues to protest, but goes unheard. Jimmy and his colleague Buddwatch on. Meanwhile, Sheriff L...
Terror at Haddonfield Memorial
After learning Laurie's location from a news report, Michael makes his way to Haddonfield Memorial Hospital. He enters through the back door and resumes his search for Laurie. In her room, Laurie listens to Jimmy who tells her that the man who attacked her was Michael Myers. Nurse Alves enters the room and tells Laurie that she will try to contact her parents. She can't get a call out and it appears as if the lines are down. She sends a nurse named Janet to find Mister Garrett the security gu...
An alternate version of Halloween IIhas been airing on AMC network television beginning in the early 1980s, and was released on DVD packaged with the Scream Factory collector's edition in 2012, after fans of the franchise had long petitioned for an official release of this cut, with most of the graphic violence and gore edited out and several minor...
Main cast
1. Donald Pleasence as Samuel Loomis 2. Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode 3. Charles Cyphers as Leigh Brackett 4. Lance Guest as Jimmy 5. Pamela Susan Shoop as Karen Bailey 6. Hunter von Leer as Gary Hunt 7. Tawny Moyer as Jill Franco 8. Ana Alicia as Janet Marshall 9. Nancy Stephens as Marion Whittington 10. Gloria Gifford as Virginia Alves 11. Leo Rossi as Budd 12. Ford Rainey as Frederick Mixter 13. Anne Bruner as Alice Martin
Other cast
1. Jeffrey Kramer as Graham 2. Dick Warlock as Michael Myers/Patrolman #3 3. Cliff Emmich as Bernard Garrett 4. John Zenda as Terrence Gummell 5. Catherine Bergstrom as Debra Lane 6. Alan Haufrect as Robert Mundy 7. Lucille Benson as Mrs. Elrod 8. Dana Carvey as Barry McNichol 9. Billy Warlock as Craig 10. Jonathan Prince as Randy 11. Leigh French as Gary's Mother 12. Ty Mitchell as Gary 13. Nancy Kyes as Annie Brackett and Sally Winters 14. Pamela McMyler as Pamela Strode 15. Nichole Drucker...
Development
Carpenter and Hill, the writers of the first Halloween, had originally considered setting the sequel a few years after the events of Halloween. They planned to have Myers track Laurie Strode to her new home in a high-rise apartment building. However, the setting was later changed to Haddonfield Hospital in script meetings. Halloween producers Irwin Yablans and Moustapha Akkad invested heavily in the sequel, boasting a much larger budget than its predecessor: $2.5 million (compared to only $32...
Writing
The screenplay of Halloween IIwas written by Carpenter and Hill. In a 1981 interview with Fangoria magazine, Hill mentions the finished film differs somewhat from initial drafts of the screenplay. Film critic Roger Ebert notes that the plot of the sequel was rather simple: "The plot of Halloween IIabsolutely depends, of course, on our old friend the Idiot Plot, which requires that everyone in the movie behave at all times like an idiot. That's necessary because if anyone were to use common se...
Casting
The main cast of Halloween reprised their roles in the sequel, except for Nick Castle, who had played the adult Michael Myers in the original. Veteran English actor Pleasence continued the role of Dr. Sam Loomis, who had been Myers's psychiatrist for the past 15 years while Myers was institutionalized at Smith's Grove Sanitarium. Curtis (then 22), again played the teenage babysitter Laurie Strode, the younger sister of Michael Myers. Curtis required a wig for the role of long-haired Laurie St...
Box office
Halloween II premiered on October 30, 1981, in 1,211 theaters in the United States. To advertise the film, Universal printed a poster that featured a skull superimposed onto a pumpkin. This imagery is described by film historian and sociologist Robert E. Kapsis as "an unmistakable horror motif". Kapsis points out that by 1981 horror had "become a genre non grata" with critics. The effect of this can be seen in the distributor's promotion of the film as horror while at the same time stressing...
Critical reception
Critical reaction to the film was generally unfavorable. While film critics had largely showered praise on Halloween, most reviews of its sequel compared it with the original and found it wanting. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote that Halloween II represented "a fall from greatness" that "doesn't even attempt to do justice to the original." Ebert also commented, "Instead, it tries to outdo all the other violent Halloween rip-offs of the last several years." Critic James Berardinelli...
Detractors of horror films have blamed the genre for the perceived decrease in the morality and increase in crime among America's youth. According to moral critic Peter Peeters, fragile minds are being warped by "unlimited lust and sex, horror, the gruesome world of corpses and ghosts, torture, butchery and cannibalism, violence and destruction, th...
Some fans, including reviewer James Rolfe, believe that the later film Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later not only ignores the fourth, fifth and sixth installments, but also the second film and is actually a direct sequel to the original Halloween. This is because H20 does not include many references to the second film, such as the one in Halloween ...
Halloween II (1981)on WikipediaHalloween II is a 1981 American slasher film directed by Rick Rosenthal, in his directorial debut, written and produced by John Carpenter and Debra Hill, and starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasence, who reprise their respective roles as Laurie Strode and Dr. Sam Loomis.
- Debra Hill, John Carpenter
- John Carpenter, Alan Howarth
- October 30, 1981
After failing to kill stubborn survivor Laurie (Jamie Lee Curtis) and taking a bullet or six from former psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasence), Michael Myers (Jonathan Prince) has ...
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Written by Debra Hill and John Carpenter, HALLOWEEN II is a beautifully made slasher that thrives on tension, midnight mood, and unhinged violence. Picking up immediately where the first film left off, Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasance) return to battle The Shape in a hospital on Halloween night.
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