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Bookmark this pageHalloween II (1981)
Director: Rick Rosenthal
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From Time Out Film Guide
The first Halloween had such an ancient maniac-on-the-loose theme that it was easy to miss just how original the film was in its use of the new gliding Steadicam to prolong audience identification with the villain. Rosenthal is no Carpenter, but he makes a fair job of emulating the latter's visual style in this sequel (co-scripted by Carpenter) which takes up where the earlier film left off. The action is now largely set in a terrorised local hospital, while the villain has so palpably become an agent of Absolute Evil that any associations with contemporary sexual violence are fortunately diminished. The result won't make any converts, but Jamie Lee Curtis is as good as ever.Author: DP
Cast & crew
Director: Rick Rosenthal
Producer: Debra Hill, John Carpenter
Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, Charles Cyphers, Jeffrey Kramer, Lance Guest, Pamela Susan Shoop, Hunter Von Leer full cast
Genre(s): Horror
Duration: 92 mins
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