Halloween 2 is the best sequel and a great movie. I'm tired of people saying it's bad.

This is easily my favorite Halloween sequel, and it’s the perfect companion piece to the first.

Halloween II scared me the most as a kid, it forever made me terrified of hospitals.

In retrospect, this is one of the best of the franchise and one of the better slasher films out there.

This movie often gets mediocre reviews, but I think it’s fantastic. It’s the only sequel that truly feels like the first movie. I enjoy this one just as much as the original.

Loomis is such a bad ass, that his 6 shooter fires 7 bullets.

I actually love the brother-sister connection. It kind of explains his relentless pursuit of her.

The Halloween franchise has become "Choose your own adventure" at this point. I still love Halloween II.

I love how it takes place in the same night of the og movie, making both movies combined the true 'night when he came home'. One of the best sequels ever made along with aliens and T2

Critics hate it , but us horror movie fans love it ! Halloween 2 is a true slasher classic

I died laughing when the cop in the Kills flashback goes “Loomis said he shot him multiple times.” LOL yes he sure did

I don’t mind Michael being related to Laurie, and actually like that twist. It gave a reason to why Michael stalked her in the first movie. Michael kills all his victims immediately when he sees an opportunity to, but Laurie is the only victim that he played hide-and-seek and peek-a-boo with. Without that familial explanation, why was he watching her through the school window and behind picket fences? Was he just a shy boy with a crush on her? Nah, it just doesn’t work without that familial connection because of how Michael acted in the first movie, and how he’s acted in every single movie since.

When he busts through the glass door is top 5 best moments in the franchise

Part 1 and 2 are the best in the series!!!

I love the original Halloween, but Halloween 2 is my personal favourite

Still the best sequel in the franchise

Halloween II is arguably better than the first.

John Carpenter has been age 73 for the past 40 years

I watched this movie recently. I get the negative stuff said about it, but I think there's some really good stuff in the movie. Also, I'm glad the *real* problem of the movie was addressed. The death of Ben Traymer, Laurie Strode's crush.

Halloween II is primarily the reason why I was terrified of “The Shape” as a kid. I don’t remember seeing the original Halloween, but I think once I saw Halloween II, I became familiar with Michael Myers all too well. The revamped Halloween theme in the opening credits of Halloween II also became a terrifyingly nerve wrecking precursor to the frightening death scenes that awaited me later in the film. The death scene that really traumatized me when I saw it as a kid of course was the scalding/drowning of nurse Karen scene. It really did a number on me back then. Lol But, overall because of the slow building suspense and atmospheric cinematography of Halloween II, it is the most memorable and truly terrifying sequel in my opinion out of the entire Halloween series. I’m excited to see Halloween Kills, but I honestly wish that Halloween II was included in the events of Halloween 1978.

This is a great sequel

Halloween II has always been my favorite of the series.

“YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT DEATH IS.”

I love the first 2 as a pair, basically one big film. And the brother aspect works for me, it doesn’t hurt the film at all considering what Michael did to one sister already.

Best Halloween far as I'm concerned. The music , scariness, and continuation from the original movie is a masterpiece

I’m just tired of these let’s hate on Halloween II to make Halloween 2018 sound better. John Carpenter constantly trashes Halloween films and Halloween II is actually a really good film. Luckily I love this film, Halloween 4, H20, and Halloween 2018. If John Carpenter had his way we never would have had a Halloween 3. Just a brand new title altogether. No sequels. I’ll enjoy the films I enjoy regardless of the man who didn’t want to direct this film. Halloween II felt like the only film to capture the first films magic. Regardless of the twist. And even then the twist serves that films plot alone.

I love this movie. Great twist. Great concept. Laughed so hard when Loomis chased the wrong man, getting the man killed, and causing a traffic accident!

Both sides of the franchise have personal value to me. I loved the brother-sister relation, H20 was one of the first 2 Halloween movies I watched when I was younger. And I also love how now they portray Michael as more of a modern serial killer that doesn't have a specific target. Both storylines are terrifying when you think about them in depth. Amazing job from all directors over the years! No matter what direction they take it in the future, I will always love a good Michael Myers movie.

This is one of the greatest movies of all time. R.I.P Ben Tramer. I will never forget you.

I love Halloween 2. I used to watch it all the time when I was a kid.

This is honestly my favorite fim in the Halloween series, with Halloween ‘78 a slight notch below. Love Nick Castle’s original take as The Shape, but Dick Warlock takes it to a whole different level. Also really love the atmosphere of HII, as it legit feels like it’s taking place on Halloween night. It’s haunting af

1981 Halloween is actually my favorite Halloween movie next to the original, It’s a better sequel than 2018 imo.

It’s an extension of the first one basically one and two are one long movie. Thought it was a pretty good sequel. Not sure why the horror nerds over complicate it

I like how Michael's eye regrew itself in a matter of hours after Laurie stabbed it out with a coat hanger in part 1

I love how it takes place on the same night,the hospital feels so deserted and creepy,I wouldn't want to be getting chased by the Shape in some creepy hospital at like 3am on Halloween night,fuck that ,😂🤣🤣 really love this sequel,great to watch during Halloween season

I saw this movie as a kid and still find it watchable to this day so it can't be as bad as Carpenter thinks it is. I remember the scenes in the hospital had people yelling at the screen in the theater.

I think they should have kept parts of this movie as cannon and somehow explained that the explosion at the end didn’t happen (dream theory) and that they are not siblings. I found it hard to believe Laurie would be that traumatized as we see in 2018 just from the events of 1978. If part 2 happened, she would have had legit reason to fear that this killer would still want to get her for some reason.

I loved this movie. I actually thought Michael was scarier in this movie than the first

Just purchased this film (again) thanks to Scream Factory releasing a 4K collector's edition. I picked up Halloween and Halloween 4 as well. They all look great.

The thing about the brother sister twist that people seem to forget is that HII was intended as the end of the Michael Myers storyline. It’s not this movie’s fault that they decided to keep bringing MM back. If you keep that in mind, it’s not that bad of a twist. Also kind of disheartening seeing Carpenter trash the movie and Rosenthal who apparently was just trying to make something similar in tone to the first movie. I don’t know how long it’s been since he’s publicly talked about it, but it would be nice to respect that most fans of the franchise like the movie

The stalking scene in the storage basement when that damn elevator simply will NOT arrive quick enough...just fantastic tension and one of my favorite scenes in any slasher.

Halloween 1 & 2 taking place on the same evening was brilliant. Regardless of whatever has came afterward, these two are far superior to the rest. N I was terrified of the hospital chase scenes during my first watch.

The best movie in the franchise......my opinion!

"I know what you're thinking, did he fire 6 or 7 shots?"

The fact that the person they absolutely destroyed with the police car, who they thought was Michael, was actually Ben Tramer is hilarious

Dr. Loomis’s madman like action in Halloween 2, Loomis literally saw Michael fall from the second floor ( which might not kill him depending) but a normal man wouldn’t walk away so easily and he took 6(7) shots. So thinking of it like that Loomis kinda is acting reasonable but still crazy.

This is an awesome movie. Personally the first two are the best and the only ones I recognize. Anything after that forget about it.

I love how Loomis evolves over the series into his own madness by Halloween 5 and deteriorated in Halloween 6

I have always considered 78 and 81 to be one long movie. I did see HII first way to young, eight years old, on HBO I think. It gave me nightmares made me uneasy about going into a hospital, something I still don't like doing to this day especially at night. Ironically enough it was also the television cut of HalloweeN, I saw before the theatrical cut, so the whole Laurie sister connection was canon to me before I turned ten in the early '80's.

I actually like Halloween 2 more than the 1st movie , i must be the odd one hahah

I actually loved how the sequels were so inconsistent and many times, bad. I think it makes the universe of this franchise more grand and fun. You have the serious movies and the silly slasher movies

Saw this movie on Vhs at a very young age and still love it. Don't mind the family connection and love Myers stalking people in a almost completely empty hospital with nothing but victims and no other patients except the one kid who got some "bad" candy...

I really like this film. It’s my second favorite of the series. The hospital setting gives it an eerie feeling.

I saw this before the original. When I was a very young child, my aunts would often babysit me. They were watching this and all I remember is being terrified of hospitals for awhile afterwards.

I was too young to understand where carpenter was coming from back then and ya know no social media for everyone to cry on, that being said I totally get it now but personally I always liked the sister twist and was a little bummed that it was changed in 2018 but it's cool. Still the same awesome slasher I grew up with!

as a 10 year old, i loved watching this, by myself, while my mother worked 11-7, no father or babysitter. damn saying this out loud makes me think i might have a few issues. the ending was great with that creepy sandman song.

H2 1981! A masterpiece!! Seen it in the theater when I was kid!! It stuck with me for years!! Still 1 of my favorites!! It's still Going strong after all these years!!

The only thing I really had an issue with in H2018 was how PTSD'ed Laurie was. It was a one night with a killer and the way she was acting was like it had happened for several weeks and that she was primarily being stalked. Michael was never truly after Laurie, he was just there to kill whoever he pleased. If H2 was considered Canon in this new alternate universe then perhaps I would have accepted her mentality a bit more.

Just watched this for the first time yesterday. I was surprised it has a bad wrap, it might be one of my favorite sequels.

I disagree that Myers seemed off in this movie. I thought Warlock nailed the role.

Great sequel, after this one the series rapidly declined

Love this sequel, I love the theory of this being her aftermath nightmare the ending with fog and smoke is very dreamlike

I loved the twist that Laurie is Michael’s sister. It gave the first story meaning as to why he stalks her & her friends while letting others pass by because they don’t interest him. Whether or not we liked it the cult of thorn(which I thought was garbage) add in gave more depth to why he hunts his family down. I feel like the movies just fail to give us one storyline everyone can be happy with. Since there’s like 5 different universes if you wanna call it that

Halloween > Halloween 2 > H20

*HALLOWEEN 2 IS THE BEST HALLOWEEN!* Then the original. Both movies combine to make a single *MASTERPIECE*

Atmospheric with some really creative shots and lighting. A few schlocky tropes make their way in which I always ding this movie for, but for the most part this is a damn good slasher movie and is always super rewatchable. I also enjoy the world building that’s going on here-the entire town really becomes a character in this movie with the locals discussing street names and locations with that kind of folksy familiarity you only get when you’re around people from small towns. Also, it gets all the meat and potatoes stuff right: great kills, a creepy version of Michael, a good mask. It’s actually my favorite Halloween movie and I watch it more often than the original.

I love Halloween 2..it's great! It was meant to be the final film in the series so how can it be blamed for being a problem for the future sequels? Those sequels shouldn't have happened.

I got all kinds of fever dreams. There’s so many remix and rehasches that aren’t even worthy but some but actually do it justice the franchise that is. Love your show man

I'm sorry, but this still the second best one. This one is actually pretty dang good and it is infinitely better than any of the other sequels. The brother thing gives Michael a motive for coming all the way back to Haddonfield, rather than just starting his rampage immediately after escaping the hospital. That plot twist didn't have to ruin any future sequels and saying so is giving a pass to the failures of those later writers and directors. The new continuity also makes no sense. How could one deputy have caught this leviathan, that from the first movie has been shown to be superhuman? He couldn't. Why would this embodiment of evil peacefully sit in a psychiatric hospital for forty years without hurting anyone? He wouldn't. It doesn't make any sense. Furthermore, I'm still pissed about the filmmakers making the claim that there was nothing supernatural about Michael leading up to the 2018 movie, when in that move he does multiple physically impossible things that would require superhuman strength to do. Then in the new movie he kills a significant portion of the Haddonfield population in ways that no human being could possibly accomplish, all after being beaten, stabbed and shot. Shitting on this movie, while fanboying on the new continuity is pretty weak.

I actually thought of the dream theory as well. In the 2018 film it would have been nice to see a real quick flashback of all the horrible masks after Halloween. Just to chalk it up as everything after Halloween just being a dream.

Laurie being his sister isn't a problem at all, the problem was having Michael go after other family members he never knew about.

Love Halloween part 2. Made sense why a psycho killer is after Laurie and only Laurie (trying to kill his family) and then later the daughter and the grand daughter. In part one he goes only after Laurie and kills those that stand between him and her. It made it scary that you might get murdered being friends with the wrong people ( Laurie and her future fam ).

Halloween 2 is my fave, him walking down the steps was bad ass, as Laurie she was in the basement and she was trying to get away had me screaming at the TV RUN Laurie!!!

Ben Tramer, man. Talk about the wrong place at the wrong time 🤣...and what always got me is how he just happened to be dressed exactly like Michael Myers the very night Mike does his killing spree. I mean, it's not like Mike's choice of "costume" was a popular TV or movie character, like, why that outfit dude? lol

The "off" part of H2 was a scarier. The "og" Halloween 2 is my favorite Halloween 🎃

I always felt robbed with Halloween II. It not only underutilized Laurie's character, replacing her for more scenes with the uninspiring hospital staff, it absolutely blew the creepiness setting of the hospital. The hospital might be the most ingenious setting for this series and it does not do the awesome setting justice. In fact, much of the hospital's scenes are boring as hell. Despite having such a fantastic backdrop for Michael's mayhem, I actually felt the most engaging parts of the movie happened on the streets of Haddonfield: either Michael's early movie roaming or Dr. Loomis' interaction with Brackett/Hunt.

The best part of the film aside from the incredible score, is the opening 20-30 minutes. It almost seamlessly builds off the tension of the previous film’s ending. (aside from Loomis gaining like 40 lbs on his way down the stairs and his jacket becoming white with an obnoxiously huge collar) In my opinion however, once Ben Traemer dies, the movie declines severely. Bracket who’s conflict with Michael is set up in the previous film with his daughter’s death, is abruptly abandoned, and he’s replaced with another random cop which removes all potential investment with the characters. While Donald Pleasance consistently gave Loomis so much personality and depth, the truth is we no absolutely nothing about him, aside from he was Michael’s psychiatrist. He’s cool to watch, but there’s little to grasp on it as an audience. Laurie Losing all of her friends in one night, Bracket finding out his daughter was killed are emotional tethers for the audience to latch on to. But once Bracket leaves and Laurie is put into a hospital bed, there are no characters left who experienced the horrors of the last film, to cope with those events in this film, so it feels kind of hollow. Loomis once again is aimless, literally being driven out of the movie to be told exposition, and then driven back into the movie at the end. Laurie is sidelined for two thirds of the movie, leaving us with a hospital of disposable horror cliche characters. The hospital setting is a fantastic idea, but falls apart from fundamental flaw: We never get a sense of how many people are in the hospital, characters instead introduced and killed as we go. Where is the mother, and The kid who ate the razor blade? We see them go into the hospital, but we don’t see them leave. There’s no cutaways to other patients in a hospital that would likely have many There’s no sense of geography, or awareness between characters, where any normal group of people would try to group up after the first couple deaths. Here, everyone is just in different rooms doing their own unrelated thing. There’s even an entire room of babies that is completely forgotten about. I think of Prince of Darkness, which is similar in that there’s a confined building full of characters, with evil trapped inside with them. We know where everyone is, where everything is, and what they’re doing. Halloween 2 uses its location just a set up a series of death scenes which is disappointing. The same going for Loomis and Michael who all just seem to teleport to places. Michael disappearing for a good 10 minutes of the movie at one point. Overall, an entertaining movie, with some great scenes and a phenomenal score that improves in the first in my opinion, but as a whole, the film has so many missed opportunities.

HOT TAKE: This is still the best Halloween movie of the entire series, including the original and all the reboots.🔥

...the first words heard in this movie: "Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream."

Yeah it’s probably my favourite of the series after the first it’s interesting how this film was adapted and made with the sister thing , it’s my guilty pleasure and scared me as a kid in the 80s

Most memorable scene for me: Michael walks through the glass door (almost) without flinching.

You are way to hard on this movie blaming it for mistakes other filmmakers made with future entries! Halloween 2 is a great follow up and is still the best sequel in the series!

This was actually one of my favorites of the franchise for a looong time

Regardless of its history, I love this movie as it was my introduction to Halloween and was readily available, en loop, on HBO. I was too young for the original and no one in my family would grow to love horror as much as I.

RIP Ben Tramer

The cinematography in this movie was on point, it reminded me of an Italian horror film.

Also- the MUSIC in halloween 2 is more eerie and creepy with alan howarth’s organ and synth.

There's so much to love about Halloween 2.

The hospital is a creepy and claustrophobic setting. Long, seemingly endless hallways make great chase scenes.

I go back and forth on the whole Laurie and Michael are siblings thing, sometimes I like it, sometimes I like Michael just being a boogeyman, idk lol 😆

Glad to see people respects this movie all time classic

Him following her to hospital is so scary

5's Loomis is so goofy but Donald is a legend.

Little side note.... I bought the VHS for this flick in the mid 90's at a K-Mart in New York City..... My mind was blown away how a K-Mart was laid out on multiple floors in a building.....

Loomis is the best in this. I love how he goes from calm and collected in the first to constantly waiving his piece around “I shot him 6 times!!!” He even gets poor Ben tramer killled.

Great content. Ever considered the movie "Needful Things" as subject for your video's?

I was literally a Child when I watched these but I never noticed I was an 86’er and watched somewhere in the early 90’s

I never disliked this movie at all. I first saw them so close together that I always thought Laurie being Michael's sister had been at least implicitly established in the original. The only odd part is why a hospital would be dimly lit and nearly abandoned. If anything ER's tend to be more crowded at night.

Way better than the new timeline of Halloween 2018 to Halloween Ends

The Sister/Brother part is great for parts 1 2& H20 and THATS IT!!! I have purged HR from my head with acid