10 Things You Learn Rewatching Halloween II (2009)

10. The Prologue

After Zombie's first Halloween film suffered from a case of compromised vision, Zombie comes out of the gate swinging in this sequel.

Picking up immediately after the events of the remake, Sheriff Brackett finds Laurie wandering the streets of Haddonfield, still clinging to the gun she shot Michael with. He takes her to the hospital, as the coroners grab Michael's body from the Myers house. Of course, nothing goes according to plan. Michael wakes up, kills the coroners, and makes his way to the hospital to tack down Laurie.

What follows is a genuinely riveting sequence which showcases the film's love of gore, the brutality of Tyler Mane's Michael, and the fact that this thing is 100% Rob Zombie. It's got gonzo visuals like Laurie falling into a trash compactor full of bodies, Michael using an ax to kill a guard ala Jack Torrence killing Dick Hallorann in The Shining, and a relentlessly in-your-face pace that hardly ever holds long enough for the audience to even catch its breath.

Hell, it even sees Zombie successfully utilizing suspense more so than the entirety of the previous film did. It is everything one could possibly expect from a Halloween movie by Rob Zombie... and then the movie throws it all away.

In reality, it was all just a nightmare that Laurie was having. This is a cheap excuse for a killer intro because it means that literally none of it mattered, it was all just for show. The movie then proceeds to become infinitely less interesting from here.