Movies recommended or seen lately... les films a voir #82: Halloween 2

Genre: Horror/Horreur

Annee/Year: 1981

Format: DVD

Halloween 2. This is the second installment in the original series (the pre-Rob Zombie). This is the one written by John Carpenter/Debra hill and directed by Rick Rosenthal. The movie had excellent casting with a very young jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasance playing the psychatrist's role. The movie begins exactly where the original one left off and in this sense is cruely a continuation of the first Halloween. At the time,1978, Halloween, the original was one of the biggest box office hit of the period. Made much sense to come with an encore. This second installment is excellent suspense and builds on tension more than gore; which is a sure win.
Ok there may be a few lenghts in the movie and the attack scenes now look a bit dated but the magic is still mostly there after almost 30 years. Good movie for a pre Halloween party with friends.

Halloween 2 est vraiment une suite parfaite au premier de la série. John Carpenter/Debra hill on écrit le script et la direction a été faite par Rick Rosenthal. Une excellente distribution incluait la jeune Jamie Lee Curtis et Donald Pleasance dans le rôle solide du psychiatre. Un très populaire film a l'époque, le deuxième de la série ne lui fait pas tort. Le film a aujourd'hui presque 30 ans et n'a pas trop mal vieilli, car il mise sur le suspense plus que les effets spéciaux (qui eux on un peu vieillit il faut l'admettre). Ce film saura vous faire sursauter plusieurs fois. Un classique au même titre que le premier.

Great quotes:

[after Michael disappears]
Doyle Neighbor: What's going on out here?
Sam Loomis: Call the police! Tell the sheriff I shot him!
Doyle Neighbor: Who?
Sam Loomis: Tell him, he's still on the loose!
Doyle Neighbor: Is this some kind of joke? I've been trick-or-treated to death tonight.
Sam Loomis: [looks at the blood on his hand] You don't know what death is!
...
Sam Loomis: I shot him 6 times! I shot him in the heart-but... HE'S NOT HUMAN!
...
Jimmy: God, they should have handled him more carefully.
Laurie Strode: Who?
Jimmy: Michael Myers.
Laurie Strode: Michael Myers?
Jimmy: Yeah, he's the guy who was after you tonight.
Laurie Strode: You mean from the Myers House? That little kid who killed his sister? But he's in a hospital somewhere!
Jimmy: He escaped last night.
Laurie Strode: How do you know?
Jimmy: It's all over the radio. Television too, it's on right now.
Laurie Strode: [gasps] Why me? I mean, why *me*?

Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082495/

Rating perso: 7.0/10