Halloween 2 2009

For all the people who hate this movie by saying the "Michael character presented here is not like the originals" I say thats a good thing as who wants to see a watered down version of a character once described as "pure evil".
I feel Rob Zombie created a real monster towering over his victims and is very menacing. Exactly like in the original series but we do forget these movies were not about the Michael character they were about Laurie strode and her coming to terms with the horrific events of the original movie.
The first 15 minutes of this film in the cinema gave me a feeling of claustrophobia I had not had since watching the original Dawn of the Dead. This opening scene is a great homage to the original Halloween 2 (1981) from the moment you see Michael escape from the ambulance taking his body to the morgue. Through some miracle as with most slasher movies Michael finds out where Laurie is as approaches the hospital where Laurie is in you feel like screaming at the screen get out of there right now. Slow and very violent in it blood letting you can feel your heart rise to your throat as you see him getting closer to Laurie and she cant get away very fast due to her
The stand out scenes include the dream sequences shot in stark black and white and filmed in varying speeds to make them more dream like. They were very nightmarish and they hinted at the connection between Laurie strode and Michael Myers. There were people saying they were unneeded and did not follow the original sequel this is nonsense as the link was in the original but it seemed a bit tacked on here, I felt was more involved with the plot and the overall reason for telling the story and for driving the narrative to its conclusion.