{"id":5325,"date":"2011-10-14T18:05:25","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T23:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/?p=5325"},"modified":"2011-12-14T19:23:18","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T01:23:18","slug":"1raz%e2%80%99s-midnight-macabre-horror-review-%e2%80%9challoween-ll%e2%80%9d-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/1raz%e2%80%99s-midnight-macabre-horror-review-%e2%80%9challoween-ll%e2%80%9d-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Raz\u2019s Midnight Macabre Horror Review: \u201cHalloween ll\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well here we are, “Halloween ll”. Filmed 3 years after the original but based on the night after the first film, Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) is in hospital but Michael is still on the loose and is still intent on killing her and anyone that gets in his way.<\/p>\n

On a personal note I find the Michael in this film (Played by Dick Warlock) more terrifying, he seems more “no holds barred” and I’ll never forget how scared I got in the scene where Michael just walks through that glass door. It still raises goosebumps on my arms after all these years.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The set of the hospital was very well done, watching Michael haunt the corridors, waiting for him to jump out at any moment, built a great tense atmosphere and you rooted for Laurie & Loomis through the whole film, Talking of Loomis, in this sequel you feel like he won’t stop until Michael is stopped, putting himself in danger just to save everyone from his madness. If you didn’t feel towards Loomis in the first film then you certainly will in this one and your aduration for Laurie just grows stronger.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Once again Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasance are FANTASTIC and this film really just does solidify your love for the characters. Sequels are always a hit & miss but I truly feel that this was more than a hit, more of a bang as you’re just thrust back into the tensity from the first film and it never dies down.<\/p>\n

It is truly a great sequel that lives up-to it predecessor, which you don’t get very often.<\/p>\n

\"\"The film was dragged into controversy\u00a0On December 7, 1982 when Richard Delmer Boyer\u00a0\u00a0murdered Francis and Eileen Harbitz, an elderly couple. This lead to the trial\u00a0People v. Boyer<\/em>\u00a0(1989). The couple were stabbed 43 times by Boyer. According to the trial transcript, Boyer’s defense was that he suffered from hallucinations\u00a0in the Harbitz residence brought on by “the movie\u00a0Halloween II<\/em>, which defendant had seen under the influence of PCP, marijuana, and alcohol.” The film was played for the jury, and a psychopharmacologist “pointed out various similarities between its scenes and the visions defendant described.”<\/p>\n

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Boyer was found guilty and sentenced to death. The incident became known as the “Halloween II<\/em>\u00a0Murders” and was featured in a short segment on TNT’s\u00a0Monstervision<\/em>, hosted by film critic Joe Bob Briggs.\u00a0Following the trial, moral critics came to the defense of horror films and rejected calls to ban them. Thomas M. Sipos, for instance, stated,<\/p>\n

“It would be silly, after all, to ban horror films just because Boyer claims to have thought that he was reenacting Halloween II, or to ban cars because Texas housewife Clara Harris intentionally ran down and killed her husband. Nor does it make sense to ban otherwise useful items such as drugs or guns just because some individuals misuse them.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Miscellaneous facts about the film:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Dana Carvey made his movie debut in this movie playing an assistant. He can be seen receiving instructions from a blond reporter in front of the Wallace house.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Halloween II was originally written to take place in a high rise apartment building. Later in script meetings, however, the setting was changed to Haddonfield Hospital.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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This is the only Halloween film to show the morning after the 31st, every other movie ends on Halloween night.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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John Carpenter turned down an offer to direct, but remained involved with the production by writing the screenplay.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Believing Rick Rosenthal’s version of the film to be too tame, John Carpenter\u00a0shot a few gory scenes that were added into the film despite Rosenthal’s objections.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The voice of Alice’s friend (heard over a telephone) is the voice of Nancy Kyes, who played Annie in Halloween, and appears in Halloween ll\u00a0as the corpse of Annie.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The 17-year-old who was hit by the police car and burnt alive, at first believed to be Michael Myers, was supposed to be Ben Tramer, the boy Laurie confesses to have a crush in in the original Halloween.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It was filmed at Morningside Hospital, 8711 South Harvard, Los Angeles which had recently closed and has since been torn down.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The mask Michael wears is the exact same mask (a repainted and modified Captain Kirk mask) worn in the original film. It looks different in the sequel because the latex had decayed in the years between films, and Dick Warlock is shorter and stockier than Nick Castle, so the mask fit his head differently. All the subsequent sequels used different masks that looked rather different.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In addition to his role as The Shape (Michael Myers), Dick Warlock\u00a0also appears as the policeman who accidentally hits Ben Tramer with his patrol car and crashes it into a van. Warlock not only drove the car himself during the crash scene, but also did all his own stunts as Michael Myers.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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