Thursday, January 30, 2020

Halloween II (2009)

This is a sequel to the Rob Zombie-directed first film

HINT: This movie is really bloody and gory. Unless you like that sort of thing, you may not like this. It's a good movie, but really gory and bloody
Summary
-With Michael Myers still at large, Laurie Strode is taken to the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital to be treated for wounds sustained from an encounter with Michael Myers, who is trying to get to his sister.





Cast
-Sheri Moon Zombie: Deborah Myers
-Chase Wright Vanek: Young Michael Myers
-Scout Taylor-Compton: Laurie Strode
-Brad Dourif: Sheriff Lee Brackett
-Malcolm McDowell: Dr. Sam Loomis
-Tyler Mane: Michael Myers
-Dayton Callie: Coroner Hooks
-Danielle Harris: Annie Brackett

Did You Know?
-This was the first Halloween film to feature Michael Myers walking around without his mask on
-Tyler Mane is only the second actor to play Michael Myers twice in a row. The other actor to do this is George P. Wilbur, who plays Michael Myers in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers and Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
-Malcolm McDowell quotes his character Alex DeLarge from A Clockwork Orange during the press conference by saying "Let's get things nice and sparkling clear".
-In the outside shots showing the emergency room entrance to the hospital, in real life that part of the hospital was the entrance to the Spinal Cord Injury Clinic at the now-closed Sepulveda Veterans Administration Hospital in San Fernando Valley, California
-This is the second Halloween film to reference serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. The first one was Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers during the Barry Simms radio talk show
-Mark Boone Junior, who plays in this movie Floyd and Dayton Callie, who plays in this movie Coroner Hooks, both appeared in the motorcycle-based TV show Sons of Anarchy. Mark Boone Junior plays Bobby Elvis and Dayton Callie plays police chief Wayne Unser
Dayton Callie as Sheriff Wayne Unser on Sons of Anarchy
Mark Boone Jr as Floyd in Halloween 2
Mark Boone Jr. as "Bobby Elvis" on Sons of Anarchy























-During the Halloween party, Laurie is dressed as Magenta, the maid from The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The actress who played Magenta, Patricia Quinn, starred in another Rob Zombie-directed film, The Lords of Salem in 2012

Rob Zombie and Scout Taylor-Compton

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