Product Details

• Actors: Scout Taylor-Compton, Tyler Mane, Malcolm McDowell, Sheri Moon Zombie, Chase Wright Vanek
• Directors: Rob Zombie
• Writers: Rob Zombie
• Producers: Andrew G. La Marca, Andy Gould, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Joseph Zolfo
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
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• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Sony Pictures
• DVD Release Date: January 12, 2010
• Run Time: 105 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (56 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002V3HT2Q
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #7,264 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Rocker turned writer-director Rob Zombie returns to the horror field with this visually ambitious and aggressively brutal follow-up to his 2007 reinvention of John Carpenter’s seminal slasher Halloween. The 1981 sequel to the Carpenter film is completely ignored here (and for good reason) in favor of an extension of the central focus of Zombie’s Halloween, and all of his films, for that matter: the corruption at the heart of the nuclear family. Here, Laurie Strode (Scout Taylor Compton) is attempting to heal the psychic wounds from her previous encounter with brother Michael Myers (Tyler Mane) by bonding with Sheriff Brackett (Brad Dourif, a pleasure to watch as always) and his daughter Anne (Danielle Harris, herself a vet from the original run of Halloween sequels). Her previous surrogate father, Dr. Loomis (Malcolm McDowell) has forsaken his connection to Laurie by exploiting his connection to Michael with a tell-all book; meanwhile, Michael himself roams the lonely outskirts of Haddonfield, driven by visions of his mother (Sheri Moon Zombie) and a single-minded urge to bond with his sister at any cost.

Aesthetically, H2 is striking, thanks largely to the ashen color scheme by cinematographer Brandon Trost (Crank 2: High Voltage), which underscores the doom-laded spiral track each of the main characters seem to travel in the film. And Zombie is to be commended for venturing outside of his comfort zone--the grimy, pop-culture ironic, white trash environment his characters frequently inhabit--with the scenes between Michael and his mother. But again, his ambitions don’t meet with his abilities--Moon looks impressive, but her apocalyptic mutterings ring more silly than spectral, especially when she’s forced to play opposite an enormous pale horse (insert heavy-handed Biblical imagery here). Most fans will find these moments more tedious than inspired, and a distraction from the murders, which retain Zombie’s preference for mayhem. He succeeds in this department, but if the end result is a menu of ugly killings, the point of revamping the Halloween franchise is somewhat moot, since the threadbare follow-ups to the Carpenter original already achieved that goal. Zombie’s knack for offbeat casting remains his most inspired talent: Haddonfield is filled with cult icons like Caroline Williams (Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2), Margot Kidder, and Daniel Roebuck, who jostle for space with rough-hewn character players like Duane Whitaker, Mark Boone Junior, and Dayton Callie (Deadwood) and left-field cameos by Howard Hesseman and “Weird Al” Yankovic. --Paul Gaita

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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The Hottest Mess of the Year. Thanks for ruining Halloween., August 30, 2009

By	P. Street "P. Street" (Buffalo, NY) - See all my reviews

This movie was the hottest mess I've ever seen. I have FAITHFULLY followed the Halloween saga and John Carpenter's excellent making of a cult classic, which has now been RUINED by the ABSOLUTE WORST JUNK REMAKE I have ever witnessed. I am sure John Carpenter spent the weekend weeping into a whiskey bottle that this is what his classic has become. Disgusting garbage that TOTALLY changed the very essence of every damn Carpenter character. It's one thing to put a new twist on an old tale. It's another thing to bury Laurie and Dr. Loomis in JUNK CHARACTERS. This movie needs to HIT THE ROAD and FAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JUNK. JUNK. JUNK. JUNK. JUNK.

8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Zombie wizzes all over the franchise with this rubbish, September 5, 2009

By	Brian S. Hillhouse "Nairby" (Canada) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Everything most people, including myself, feared Rob Zombie would do to screw up his remake of the original he saved for the sequel.

He turned Michael Myers from a psychotic killer to a psychotic killer with a wussy little desire to be a happy family. The stupid-ass visions Michael AND Laurie have of Michael's mother, Michael as a child and a white horse throughout the movie don't belong in the series!!!

Zombie would have been better off making a new franchise with a new killer to compete with the likes of Michael, Jason, Freddy and so on but instead he craps all over an established franchise by adding his own pointless, "From the mind of Rob Zombie" supernatural bullcrap! TERRIBLE!

10 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars One of, if not, the worst movies ever made!, September 16, 2009

By	Christopher Zephro (Santa Cruz, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This film was so bad that it hurt. Unless you like watching 90 minutes of Rob's wife walking around in her living dead girl costume with a white horse for Michael to ride on, your going to hate it.

Where do I start?

- Myers looked like Frankenstein in a hoody.
- He didn't even wear the mask for more than half of the film.
- Where was Haddenfield in this movie? These films were suppose to take place in a middle class town.
- Everyone was dirty and down right disgusting. What was the deal with the Sheriff's house and the graffiti all over the inside?
- What happen to Laurie and her friends? They went from high school girls to suicide girls.
- Dr Loomis, a complete arrogant jerk who all of the sudden has a change of heart at the end. Wow that was original.
- The Halloween theme was no where to be found.
- Non-stop slow motion.
- Jumping from place to place to kill to kill for no apparent reason.
- Non stop dream sequences, including the first 25 minutes of the movie! The longest dream sequence in film history.
- Ghosts holding down Laurie? Yes I said it right, ghosts in a Halloween movie!
- Laurie saying "I love you brother" after Michael ruined her life and killed everyone she knew?
- Sweeping shots of Michael walking in fields.

What a disaster. Let's just hope the series ends here. And I thought Resurrection was bad, this made it look like the Godfather!