It's October, so this month I'll be trying to watch a good amount of horror movies. Halloween is one of my favorite horror movies so I think it's about time I watch some of the sequels. Horror movie sequels are mostly always way worse than the originals. but Halloween 2 is a great continuation of the original classic.

The film takes place immediately after the events of the first movie. The police and Dr. Loomis are on the hunt for Micheal Myers, while he's on the hunt for Laurie Strode. Most of the film takes place in the hospital that Laurie is being held at. I really liked that they changed up the location and that the film actually continued the plot instead of just rehashing the first movie. Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasence return in their iconic roles and are just as good as they were in the first movie. Just like the first movie, Halloween 2 is violent, but not excessively so. It actually has a good amount of suspenseful scenes.

I did have a few complaints, but they really are minor. My biggest annoyance is the change they made to the Halloween theme song. I didn't like the version they used in this movie, the original track is perfect and they should've just used it again. The rest of the soundtrack is thankfully left untouched from the first movie. I also felt that there were a few moments that they tried to emulate from the original that really fell flat. They death scene of the two characters about to have sex is such an eye rolling cliche and they shouldn't have done it again. In the first movie Micheal Myers tilts his head a bit and stares at the corpse of a boy he just pinned to the wall with a knife. It's a really iconic moment from the original, but in this movie he does that after most of his killings. It just bothered me a little bit for some reason.

Halloween 2 succeeds where most horror movies fail because it captured the essence of the original. The fact that the story picks up right after the events of the first movie makes it ideal for a horror movie double feature. Bringing back John Carpenter and Debra Hill to produce and write the movie really saved it from being a run of the mill horror sequel.