(2009)
written &
directed by Rob Zombie
reviewed by Adam Armstrong
6.5.10
And you thought your
family fought.
One year after the
events of the first film, the survivors are trying to get on with their lives.
Unbeknownst to all, Michael (Tyler Mane) is still alive and is once again hunting down
Laurie Strode (Scout Taylor-Compton). Meanwhile Dr. Loomis
(Malcolm McDowell) is attempting to capitalize on his earlier run in
with Michael by promoting a book about Michael's life and family. Laurie learns
that she is Michael's younger sister, Angel, through the book. While she is
dealing with this fact Michael begins to kill everyone around her until he
catches up with her. But he has a different plan for Laurie.
This is a movie where
you have to let it sink in to appreciate it, which kind of defeats the purpose
of being a movie. There are quite a few dream/hallucination scenes that are
along the same lines of early White Zombie videos. These scenes kept jerking me
out of a truly dark movie. I liked the fact that Michael Myers was made more
human both by not wearing his mask all the time and by not being supernaturally
invincible like he was in the original series. I think we all like looking at
Zombie's wife, and she does have quite a talent for acting, but she was
misplaced being in this movie. There was some really
cool sequences where large open scenes were filmed back to back with closed in
scenes jumping us from agoraphobia to claustrophobia.
Please, please let the
story end with this movie:
3.5 out
of 5