Defending Rob Zombie's Halloween II - Analysis & Review

[@StarKushExoticGalaxy]

This is my fifth favorite Halloween movie. Aesthetically this version of Michael is my favorite, the jacket, torn mask and he’s just brutal af. Just him wondering around haddonfield doing what he wants, he’s so cool.

[@NVTURE]

I absolutely agree, and it's really refreshing to see a video of someone else appreciating it. I love how gritty Rob's version is, and the pacing. I have no issue with people having their own opinion and not liking them, but why do they always have to shit on them?

[@jeremy-caesar]

It’s wild. I used to be on a Halloween forum back when H2 came out, and whenever you would say something nice about H2 you would just get shit on. 😂

[@Guyvermectin]

@@jeremy-caesarOHMB?

[@Guyvermectin]

Because they don’t like it? It’s seriously not that deep

[@williamblasko1031]

This might be the best breakdown of this movie ever. Great job!!🎃🎃🎃

[@mogens3556]

I 100% agree. I watched your first video on this movie and loved that one too. This is honestly my favorite movie of all time

[@danielsatter1805]

Any time I hear someone crap on either of zombie's entries I always feel that they are a little biased. It was an original fresh take on an old tired hat. It doesn't take anything away from the original films either because it's a remake and unlike the travesty that ended with Halloween Ends. I will admit that the first RZ Halloween is a slog to get through on repeat watches but at least it had the sack to do something new.

[@jeremy-caesar]

@@danielsatter1805 I actually feel the same way about Ends too. I love how they tried to do something new other than just recreating Halloween 2018.

[@Guyvermectin]

People are allowed to not like a movie without you signing some delusion bullshit to it lol what is original about a serial killer having a bad childhood?

[@travzimmerman1340]

Ends was fine. RZ1 was ok at best. RZ2 was a cinematic abortion.

[@imakethings9903]

But Ends is exactly the same fresh take as you describe this movie as being?

[@NotIfICU1st_]

It took me until my rewatch this summer for this movie to click with me. Some of the setting establishment shots and set decoration look more like a macabre horror movie than almost anything in the series. Scout and Brad give career peak performances and Rob was a bold enough director to take big risks. Speaking of Twin Peaks! Would love to hear your thoughts in a video sometime

[@jeremy-caesar]

That’d be a 8 hour video but I’d be interested in trying lol. I haven’t seen The Return yet although I keep meaning to get around to it. I’ve heard it compared to The Beast which is one of my favorite movies of the year.

[@NotIfICU1st_]

@jeremy-caesar my opinion has never changed so much on rewatches as it did with The Return. I was mildly disappointed on first viewing but its become my favorite series. It really is a culmination of David Lynch's career with many of his regular collaborators returning. It leaves enough mystery that I will contemplate them forever. It's such a rare gift to continue a story after 25 years have changed the characters and the world they inhabit

[@imakethings9903]

I really like this movie too. I love how people’s main criticism of these sequels or remakes is that they aren’t ‘as good or as similar as the original’ I feel like that is such a bad criticism because it’s almost like you’re holding back on letting yourself enjoy different interpretations of a franchise. I really dig the mask and look here, a massive homeless looking Michael with a damaged mask is badass. Makes him so much more scarier. This and Halloween Ends are easily the best looking Halloween movies.

[@jeremy-caesar]

@@imakethings9903 78, 3, Zombie’s H2, and Ends are all great looking. It’s hard to compare them but I think Zombie’s H2 beats them in that department.

[@imakethings9903]

@@jeremy-caesar Yeah, H2 is such a beautifully shot film. The moon coming through the trees and the neon colours are just great. Ends is up there for me too because it feels like such an 80s movie. The night time scenes look amazing especially the radio tower scene, the ending where the golden sun is shining is just perfect.

[@Jojo1996-_-]

Right before micheal yelled DIE at loomis, He should have pulled out a copy of a book that loomis published and then proceded to murder him.

[@tevinmaggart3457]

It’s better than the garbage that was released before. It’s a slasher film and I don’t expect much but at least it has an actual story that doesn’t have to continuously be retconned every decade

[@Guyvermectin]

Wrong

[@imakethings9903]

@@Guyvermectinno, it’s his opinion

[@Dr_Nuclear-sloth]

I have always loved h2 it took me almost 10 years to rewatch the first entry and i fucking loved it too. I was a bias kid that loved the first and the sequels but H2 was so original for halloween. It was like rob does lynch with a cynical look.

[@SGTHorvath265]

So funny to come across this video. I HATED this movie the first go around. I recently gave it a rewatch and tremendously enjoyed it. Real fun ideas, and super solid Michael Myers kills. I totally agree about the portrayal of Laurie. I love that people complain about everything being the same till they get something new.

[@jeremy-caesar]

The rewatch I did in 09 did wonders for me too.

[@popculturecorner142]

I love this movie as well!!!

[@jeremy-caesar]

One of the best ever 🎃

[@TarikDonalo]

@@jeremy-caesaragreed

[@travzimmerman1340]

RZH2 took a major nose-dive when Laurie woke up and it never recovered. The White Horse hallucinations were mindboggingly stupid. The hobo look was laughably dumb. RZ's biggest problem is RZ. The visual is always good but the storytelling and dialogue is always bad.

[@jeremy-caesar]

@@travzimmerman1340 I respect your opinion 🫡

[@Absoluti9n]

thought i was alone haha

[@ghostface3652]

4th fav all time is crazy😂 The Thing? NOES? Alien? Terminator? Scream? H2018? But glad you love this movie bro, not my cup of tea but Respect!

[@jeremy-caesar]

@@ghostface3652 alien is in my top 10

[@mrwick5828]

Look, I honestly enjoyed robs first Halloween, but this one was just painful. After a while it felt like I was just watching naked women get stabbed in between robs outtakes for a music video he never released. I’m glad you enjoyed it, but definitely not for me. Specifically, I don’t find the realism interesting at all because none of it goes anywhere, it’s all for shock. Laurie being realistically broken doesn’t go anywhere, she stays that way the whole film and then dies. I don’t find this interesting, just annoying. The movie very quickly goes from shocking and brutal, to bland and repetitive. Laurie yells and cries, Michael kills someone we’ve never met, loomis is a dick, Michael kills someone we’ve never met repeat. I know this commit probably comes off as rude because I do staunchly disagree, however I do find some of what you had to say interesting and I think the video was well put together. And once again, I am legitimately glad you enjoy the film. To each their own.

[@andrewebb3283]

Zombies movies were better than the David Gordon Green trilogy

[@Guyvermectin]

The movie is trash And people whining about those that criticize it are pathetic

[@ghosttown590]

If you need 37 minutes to explain why something doesn’t suck. It sucks more than you think it does.

[@jeremy-caesar]

@@ghosttown590 there are a lot of reviews on KZbin that extend past 37 minutes. 😄I’d love to hear your thoughts on the movie though.

[@angxlafeld_8567]

That’s like saying a 40 minute review on why jaws is great means it sucks. Please be quiet

[@glibglob8755]

Defending my bad taste.

[@jeremy-caesar]

It might be bad but at least it’s mine

[@glibglob8755]

@@jeremy-caesar whatever floats your boat pal.

[@tikkidaddy]

I love how people crap on these movies, but what "we really need" is the psychobabble enema BS of the last 3?😂 LOOK.its a Halloween movie. Ill go even further and say this , Mike doesnt need the overdone tired magic trappings. Its easy to understand. The ENTIRE family is phucked up as a rubber grape flavored chimp on a four door motorcycle.😂 They are literally insane. Great review