IT’S NOT ONLY A MURDERER… IT’S AN INDESTRUCTIBLE TERROR!

As Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) is taken to a hospital after Michael Myers’s attack, dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasance) and the police try to find the runaway killer.

This sequel was done in the same spirit as the original and partly by the same people. Improves in the final half hour as Myers makes his way to the hospital, but most of his attacks are weakly staged; there are no thrills in spite of greater violence and a few explosions.

One thing sets it apart – we learn that Michael is Laurie’s brother.

1981-U.S. 92 min. Color. Widescreen. Directed by Rick Rosenthal. Screenplay: John Carpenter, Debra Hill. Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis (Laurie Strode), Donald Pleasence (Sam Loomis), Charles Cyphers (Leigh Brackett), Jeffrey Kramer, Lance Guest, Pamela Susan Shoop… Dana Carvey. 

Trivia: Co-produced by Carpenter. Followed by Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982).