Thursday, October 29, 2009

Original Sequel Versus Remake Sequel, Part II

If you don't count Michael Myers, there are an even ten victims in the original Halloween II (1981; two and a half stars total):

1. Alice (the girl next door) - knife to the chest
2. Mr. Garrett (the security guard) - hammer to the head
3. Budd (the pervert) - strangled
4. Karen (the bad nurse) - drowned in scalding water
5. Dr. Mixter - syringe to the eye
6. Jill (the good nurse) - lifted off ground by knife in back
7. Mrs. Alvez (the head nurse) - blood drained
8. Jimmy (the pretty boy) - slips on above blood and cracks skull
9. Marshal - slit throat
10. Dr. Loomis - scalpel in stomach

If you count Michael Myers, there is exactly double the body count in Rob Zombie's Halloween II (2009; two stars total):

1. Coroner Hooks - head-on ambulance collisi! on with a cow
2. The other coroner - beheaded
3. The white nurse - thrown down stairs
4. Nurse Daniels (the black one) - multiple stabbings
5. Buddy (the security guard) - axe in back
6. Floyd (a hick) - impaled
7. Sherman (the other hick) - stabbed through eye
8. Jazlean (the other hick's daughter) - multiple stabbings
9. Ivan (the hick's dog) - gutted and heart eaten
10. Chett (the strip club bouncer) - head stomped on
11. Big Lou (the strip club owner) - impaled
12. Misty (the stripper) - battered against a mirror
13. Partygoer (in werewolf costume) - stabbed while relieving himself
14. Harley (the brunette friend) - strangled
15. Deputy - stabbed through eye
16. Annie (the best friend) - multiple stabbings
17. Mya (the blonde friend) - dragged off camera (à la Dee Snider's Strangeland porch scene)
18. The Good Samaritan - car rolled down a hillside
19. Dr. Loomis - knife in stomach
20. Michael Myers - impaled

I had high hopes for this remake sequel because I figured if the original sequel was better than the first movie, and the remake of the first movie was better than either of those, then the remake of the second movie could be better than all previous Halloween movies. But it wasn't. As you can tell from the list above, it was dragged out and repetitive.

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