Nobody likes you, everybody hates you 'Halloween 2'
"Whether you look upon it as a remake of a sequel or a sequel to a remake, Rob Zombie's "Halloween II," the continuation of his ugly, unnecessary and presumably profitable reimagining of John Carpenter's horror classic, is a repellent and incompetent monstrosity."
Those harsh words are from eFilmCritic Peter Sobczynski, who also believes that Sherri Moon Zombie is "stunningly untalended. Sheesh, no love for that family at all. If they Zombies ever need hard money loans, they had better look elsewhere.
But don't take Sobczynski's word for it. Here are some choice words from a few other critics.
Halloween 2 review by Andrew Kasch, Dread Central
From the overuse of profanity, trailer trash stereotypes, gratuitous use of cameos and angelic images of Sheri Moon, it’s as though Rob Zombie listened to every complaint about his remake and amped it up for this badly self-indulgent sequel. Is it out of spite for his critics, or is it because the man just can't do anything else? Regardless, Halloween II is every bit as pointless a sequel to the first as that film was a pointless remake of the John Carpenter classic.
Rob Vaux, Mania.com
What constitutes a hateful film? Unpleasant subject matter, of course, but plenty of great films have been unpleasant, especially in the horror genre. For Halloween II to produce the kind of ugly, visceral reaction that it does, it needs something more. A distain for humanity, a withered spirit which revels in the sadistic and the awful, a sense of hopelessness which drains the soul of anything worth sharing. Blood and guts are fine, and nihilism can be quite powerful in the right hands. But Halloween II uses them to cover up an utterly blighted experience.
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