Ranking Every Halloween Film From Worst To Best
2. Halloween II (1981)
Picking up exactly where the first film left off, Halloween II delivers all the same nail-biting thrills, but with added bloodshed and the creepiest hospital setting ever seen in a horror film.
Perhaps it due to the increased brutality or the film's dark, moody atmosphere, but there's a case to be made for this being the scariest film of the bunch, with Michael himself being a real force to be reckoned with this time around.
Whilst he's always been a little otherworldly, this film is where he truly became the Boogeyman, capable of walking through glass doors and showing a real sense of creativity when it comes to murdering people with hospital equipment.
The pacing is a little off and Laurie gets sidelined in favour of horny doctors, but everything else is so completely on-point that those minor quibbles can be forgiven.
Woefully underappreciated by many, Halloween II is a stellar film that somehow managed to inhabit the original film's spirit whilst outdoing the slew of imitators that film spawned. The sheer magnitude of that achievement cannot be understated and Halloween II is easily one of the best slasher films ever made, only just being beaten out by...