Curtis and Donald Pleasence reuniting at the end always fills me with joy, as does the explosive final scene that feels so beautifully definitive.

| May 3, 2023

The tagline, “More of the Night He Came Home”, never felt truer than when watching Halloween II.

| Original Score: 3.5 | Jan 31, 2023

While not quite the timeless classic that the original has proven to be, Halloween II is still one of the most effective sequels in the franchise. The hospital setting paired with some memorably brutal kills shines above the fairly generic script.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 19, 2022

Hollow and pointless.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 20, 2022

Despite Carpenter's claim that they sought to give audiences what they expected after the first one, they instead supplied a cheap and gristly horror show far removed from the original's restraint.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 8, 2022

If Halloween II has a slightly better reputation than most subsequent franchise entries, that says more about their lousiness than II's intrinsic worth.

| Nov 28, 2021

...makes a dull job of keeping iconic characters apart...

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 3, 2021

Most importantly, as the only movie other than the original with all three of Laurie, Loomis and Myers, it has most of the elements that made the classic film so great.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 16, 2020

The suspense generated by the Carpenter/Hill screenplay, which begins with the end of Halloween, builds nerve wrackingly to a satisfying conclusion.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 27, 2020

Feels pedestrian and uninspired where Halloween felt fresh and terrifying

| Jun 3, 2019

Far bloodier and sillier than its predecessor, Halloween II is a warmed-over retread of Carpenter's classic original.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 21, 2018

As films go, however, Halloween 2 isn't very good.

| Oct 19, 2018

Really misses the point of the first film by dropping pretty much all the pretense of build-up and fate...

| Oct 28, 2013

The script is fairly routine and Jamie Lee Curtis has too little to do this time around, but the hospital setting proves to be a sound choice for a locale.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 13, 2012

Halloween II isn't a knockout sequel, but it's a solid, if slightly slow, follow-up to the original horror classic.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 26, 2012

It's a rather solid sequel that carries on the legacy of its predecessor well and always delivered the scares for me as a kid.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 9, 2011

Any childhood favorite that is still a good deal of fun today is a movie worthy of some note.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 15, 2011

A more than solid if admittedly inferior continuation.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 28, 2008

The film is best if watched back-to-back with the first.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 8, 2008

Does the worst thing any sequel can ever do: it retroactively taints the original and makes it less interesting.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jul 21, 2008