Halloween: Ranking Every Movie From Worst To Best

Following up a classic like Carpenter's original film was always going to be a hefty task, even for Carpenter. In writing the script for this sequel, Carpenter fully admitted that he was frequently drunk, which resulted in choices he wishes he could take back now, such as the film's structure or the infamous sister reveal.

The film does certainly have its share of problems, from the way it fumblingly attempts to up the ante on the original suspense by adding more blood and gore, to the way it strains to simply make its plotlines intersect at times. Hell, it strips Laurie Strode (THE final girl) of all of her agency and just puts her on ice until the final fifteen minutes of the movie.

Having said all of that, its still an incredibly strong film, thanks to the remarkable cinematography of Dean Cundey. The two key defining features of the Halloween franchise are Carpenter's themes and he and Cundey's now-iconic free-roaming camera that they used to generate such untold suspense. Even with Carpenter out of the director's chair on this film, Cundey is able to put his camera to great use and craft one of the best-looking films in the entire franchise.

As a result, sequences like the hot tub scene still positively ooze suspense and are able to intertwine the suspense of the first film and the gore of this film to surprisingly powerful effect.