10 Slasher Horror Movies That Had No Right To Be This Good

John Carpenter's 1978 genre-defining classic Halloween is regarded as one of the greatest horror films of all time. Unfortunately, like most horror franchises, the ensuing sequels got exponentially worse with each iteration.

While the recent Halloween films have revitalised Michael Myers as a modern horror icon, horror fans sometimes forget that the original sequel is an excellent slasher flick.

Directed by Rick Rosenthal in his feature debut, with Carpenter returning to write alongside Debra Hill, the sequel picked up right where first film left off. Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) is taken to hospital, Dr Loomis (Donald Pleasence) is still on the hunt for the escaped killer, and Myers is still out for blood.

While this film had a bigger budget to work with and amped up the gore significantly from its predecessor, the empty hospital setting nevertheless gave the sequel the same contained and claustrophobic atmosphere as Carpenter's film.

Though Curtis doesn't have much to do throughout most of the picture, Michael is just as terrifying as before as an unstoppable force of evil and Pleasence once again steals every scene he's in.

Best viewed straight after watching the original film, Halloween II is much better than you imagine.