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Movie Overview
Cast
• Jamie Lee Curtis
• Donald Pleasence
• Charles Cyphers
Director
• Rick Rosenthal
MPAA Rating
R
Halloween II (1981)

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OFCS Rating: 40% Rotten
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2/5
"Absolutely awful, with no trace of the original's terror."  Filmcritic.com  Christopher Null

1.5/4
"...worth watching if only for the sequence in which Michael Myers actually walks through a plate-glass door."  Reel Film Reviews  David Nusair

3/4
"A more than solid if admittedly inferior continuation."  DustinPutman.com  Dustin Putman

C+
"It's a little cheap to have a sequel that merely completes the story you SHOULD have told in Part 1, but as sequels go, this one's not bad."  EricDSnider.com  Eric D. Snider

"Halloween...is in a class by itself, and comparing the sequel to it--as critics and audiences often do, dismissively--is unfair. Sure, [it] lacks the freshness of its predecessor. But compared to films its own size...it's a goddamn masterpiece."  The L Magazine  Henry Stewart

2/4
"Halloween is a classic and its first sequel is a sloppy afterthought."  ReelViews  James Berardinelli

2/5
"Had Halloween 2 not been a sequel to one of the greatest genre films of all time, it would be regarded as little more than another bad slasher film from an era full of bad slasher films -- a fate that it richly deserves."  Mike Bracken's Horror Films  Mike Bracken

"A solid movie, despite falling so far from the original."  Cold Fusion Video Reviews  Nathan Shumate

68/100
"While it’s nowhere near the classic that the original is, this sequel deserves credit for trying to stay on track with its predecessor and succeeding most of the way."  Apollo Guide  Scott Weinberg

4/10
"Does the worst thing any sequel can ever do: it retroactively taints the original and makes it less interesting."  Antagony & Ecstasy  Tim Brayton
OFCS Rating: 40% Rotten
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