In Rob Zombie's first bastardization of
the Halloween franchise, we're told that Michael is so intent on
going home that he's willing to do anything to get there and is
perfectly willing to remain unresponsive to psychological help.
We're also told that he's completely emotionless and cold to just
about everyone. And yet here we are with "Halloween II" where we get
to see how cute and affectionate he is with his mother. This is
further proof that Zombie just doesn't know what the hell he's doing
ninety percent of the time. How can we ever expect to see a good
movie from this man again if the story he's telling is inconsistent?
Seeming to have no other option these days, Zombie continues
chucking rotten eggs our way from the contrived "Halloween II" (I
refuse to call it H2) right down to the awful animated mess that was
"El Superbeasto." Right now the score card reads: Hits 1, Misses 4.
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"Halloween
II" (a painfully almost sadistically boring sequel) is just
like Zombie's first attempt: it's a remake of "Halloween II"
where Laurie is now severely traumatized and rushed to a
hospital along with her best friend. This gives Robert time
to also squeeze in his own tale featuring a hobo Michael
Myers who is trying to track down his sister (currently
residing in the hospital) with the help of his mother's
spirit. As if following an agreement, this spirit of
Michael's mother is of course played by Sheri Moon who
serves to explain that Michael is not only a whiny bitch,
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Laurie is reduced to
becoming the very trailer trash she detested in the first film, and
is no longer the innocent paradox to her brother. Instead she's a
bitter poisonous Goth figure who can barely get through a day
without thinking of Michael.
Myers obviously
pulls this from the "Friday the 13th" gimmick guidebook and always
strives to stick to every cliché imaginable including constant dream
sequences that almost never seem to shock or horrify. Seriously
someone should sue Zombie for so recklessly ripping off the
relationship between Jason Voorhes and his mother's apparition.
Aside from taking from a series that's pretty much considered a rip
off of "Halloween," there's also the elegant script where Zombie
attempts to mimic Tarantino by referencing obscure films, and
creating his own hip lingo only a select few can understand. And
there's also the fucking language in which fucking Zombie believes
he's fucking convinced that fucking using the word fuck in almost
every fucking sentence makes him a fucking edgy auteur. Instead it
just ends up sounding like a script written by a ADD riddled fifteen
year old.
Zombie's second effort isn't offensively bad because of the script or
style, it's bad because it's painfully boring and never quite knows what
to do with the characters or story. Zombie has proven once again that
incompetence is soon becoming his modus operandi.
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