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H2: Halloween 2
H2: Halloween 2

A movie released August 28, 2009

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Rob Zombie's H2 is a hardcore horror film that bests the first film on all levels.

  • Aug 28, 2009
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H2 is the follow up to the first film of the rebooted Halloween series.  This time around Rob Zombie doesn't try to emulate the sequel of the original series, instead he creates a surrealistic dreamscape of a film that's totally unique in it's own way.  The murder set pieces are very brutal, violent and hardcore.  You wont see any PG-13 nonsense here.  Just a straight forward horror film that goes right for the jugular.

The film picks up right where the first one ended.  Laurie Strode has just survived the night HE came home and his hospitalized along with her best friend Annie.  After a long hospital stay and a horrific nightmare Laurie tries to put the past behind her and move on with her life.  But the past year and the horrific slaying of one of her best friends and family has her living with terrible nightmares and seeing a therapist to try and deal with all of her drama.  Just as she thinks about moving ahead with her life she notices that it's only a few days before Halloween.

I don;t want to spoil the fun but the film is a very worthy sequel that easily tops the first film.  I was impressed by how Rob Zombie managed to create an original story line out of this paint-by-the-numbers series.  He could have easily just put himself and auto-pilot and created a boring cookie cutter horror film.
Instead he thought out of the box and created a nightmarish world that Michael Myers lives in and we get to see what goes through this killing machine's mind and what motivates him in his non-stop slaying mode that has no qualm, rhyme or reason.  But a peak into the method by his madness is a hellish one.  I have to recommend this movie for fans of the new Halloween series and those of us who love to watch a straight forward hardcore old school horror film.  The ending will satisfy those who love a realistic ending in scary flicks.

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November 12, 2009
I've been going back & forth on this one. I just couldn't decide whether or not to go see it at the theatres or to just wait for redbox. From what I've read, there is virtually little middle ground here. You either like it or you hate it. Mostly, I tend to believe I will like it as Zombie has made some great stuff & I tend to believe this will be worth it's weight in gold. Fantastic review!
 
August 28, 2009
I was wondering about this because it was getting a little old how they keep dragging out this series. I can't even remember how many Halloween movies there are! But, your review has me thinking that maybe I'll have to catch it! Thanks!
 
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review by . January 15, 2010
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   I was admittedly quite satisfied with Rob Zombie’s “Halloween” (I saw the director’s cut) remake a few years ago. It wasn’t as good as the original but Zombie managed to put together a solid re-imagining of Carpenter’s horror classic while adding some nice (if flawed) additions to its mythos. I am a bit put off with the idea of a sequel of a remake, but I decided to give it a chance. Well, I haven’t seen the theatrical cut but I have been informed …
review by . June 15, 2011
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I would rather lick a dirty toilet bowl than watch this movie again.
I don’t even know where to start……       First and foremost I am going to put this out there; I do not care for Rob Zombie. I never really cared for his music, not to say it is bad it just doesn’t do anything for me.  So when I first heard he was going into the realm of cinema I wasn’t too excited about it.  I totally detested “House of a 1000 Corpses”, awful.  My friend suggested to me to watch his version of “Halloween&rdquo …
review by . November 17, 2009
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Day Of The Devil
Surely purists of the original Halloween will undoubtedly keep the flame burning by trashing Zombie's latest horror flick. Either that or they will just sit this one out to wait for the Redbox rental & Netflix. In my honest opinion, I'd much rather be stabbed to death by Michael Myers himself than to sit through another one of those inane sequels to the original Carpenter flick. In fact, I'm kinda disappointed that no one acknowledges let alone admit that …
Quick Tip by . July 12, 2010
posted in Movie Hype
I liked this all but the whit looking witch and horse i think Rob Zombie should of kept his hot wife out of this movie
Quick Tip by . January 26, 2010
Nope, Rob didn't sell out. People need to reserve that comment un til they've actually seen the film. It didn't suck like Paranormal
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Rob Zombie's follow up to his rebooting of the Halloween franchise.
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Director: Rob Zombie
Genre: Horror
Release Date: August 28, 2009
MPAA Rating: R
Screen Writer: Rob Zombie
Runtime: 101 minutes
Studio: Dimension Films
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