“You’re huntin’ it, ain’t ya? Yeah, you’re huntin’ it, all right. Just like me. Apocalypse! End of the World! Armageddon! It’s always got a face and a name. I’ve been huntin’ the bastard for 30 years, give or take. Come close a time or two. Too damn close! You can’t kill damnation, Mister. It don’t die like a man dies.” -Jack Sayer
Little Jamie Lloyd is an orphan. A sweet family has taken her in, but she feels like she’s a burden on them. Ever since her mommy, Laurie Strode, died in a car crash, body never uncovered, Jamie has been having bad dreams. In these dreams, she’s pursued by a big man, a Nightmare Man, with a knife and a blank, pale, emotionless face with the blackest eyes; the Devil’s eyes.
Miles away, a comatosed burn victim being transfered to a his home sanitarium awakens. Putting his thumb through a paramedic’s skull and god knows what else to the other two. Leaving the flipped ambulance in a creek, Michael Myers makes his way back to Haddenfield to pay his niece a visit. Just in time for Halloween…
The scarred and mad Dr. Sam Loomis is on the hunt for Michael once more, encountering him very early in a design I really favor for MM: navy blue coveralls with his face still wrapped in bandages and gauze. Michael quickly escapes with Loomis’ car, destroying a gas station and nearby telephone poles. Without trasport or means to call, Loomis catches a ride with an apocalypse chasing priest, who really should’ve had his own movie about his hunt!
Mean while, Jamie’s adoptive sister has to take her trick-or-treating that night, which is going to cost both of them in more ways than one by the end of the evening…
Directed by Dwight H. Little, with Donald Pleasence returning as Dr. Sam Loomis, Ellie Cornell as Rachel the sister, Danielle Harris as Jamie (who became a horror icon in her own right and even costarred in Rob Zombies’ remake series) with Sasha Jenson and Kathleen Kinmont (Bride of the Reanimator herself! Oo la la!!!). Many feel this is a flawed, uninspired, unoriginal sequel; expecting more from ‘The Return of Michael Myers’. Personally, I LOVE this movie. As of this date, it is my favorite sequel. Michael isn’t going after babysitters anymore, he’s going after the babies! Michael is stronger, smarter, and more cunning. He’s learned from his mistakes and uses every opportunity to stay ahead of the game he’s playing with his hometown: destroying telephone lines, taking out the town’s power, killing it’s police force when it was divided, and hiding amongst a group of look-a-likes pranking the sheriff are a few examples of Michael’s bad-assery. I could go into more of his kills, but they’re best seen.
Can Jamie escape this encounter? How many adults and teens must fall for one child to live? If six bullets can’t stop Michael, can sixty? Is destiny genetic?
“Michael? Why now? You waited ten years. I knew this day would come. Don’t go to Haddonfield. If you want another victim, take me. But leave those people in peace. Please, Michael? … Goddamn you.“
Texan, y’all! Cinema glutton, horror enthusiast, sci-fi nerd, comic lover, and I like Japanese stuff too (the culture, kaiju, martial arts, samurai, some anime). Love me some Mario, Sonic, and Pokemon.
