“He was my patient for fifteen years. He became an obsession with me until I realized that there was…nothing within him. Neither conscious nor reason that was even…remotely human. An hour ago I stood up and fired six shots into him and then he just got up and walked away. I am talking about the real possibility that he is still out there!” -Dr. Samuel Loomis
And he was. After escaping his mental institution and getting to his home town of Haddenfield, Michael Myers started his killing spree. Targeting a group of girls, he slashed through their numbers til Laurie Strode fought tooth and nail to save herself and the children she was babysitting. Dr. Loomis was able to delay him for a moment; but Halloween night is still young and Laurie lives, so Michael still has work to do.
Michael follows Laurie to the hospital and as the night goes on, the body count rises exponentially. Random civilians, the skeleton crew of the hospital, and even the patients there are among The Boogieman’s victims. He’s far less methodical, I guess getting stabbed in the neck and the eye then being shot six times out a second story window kind of ticked him off.
With a returning cast, John Carpenter and Debra Hill’s still writing, and duties handed to first time director Rick Rosenthal (Bad Boys (’83), Smallville), you’d think the movie would be a simple continuation of the previous events. But no, two things revealed in Halloween II changed the narrative that wouldn’t have been a big deal, except the series went back to it’s roots after part 3. 1) Michael has some tie to the occult, as he scribed “Samhain” on a blackboard; and 2) Laurie Strode is actually his baby sister, adopted after their older sister’s murder. These additions were negligible at the time, as I said. This was to be the final movie of Myer’s, with each subsequent movie to be it’s own stand alone film that happened to take place on and around Halloween. This is even proven with the blinding of Michael and his explosive end.
“You don’t know what death is!“
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.
