Stylistically, Halloween II reproduces certain key elements that made the original Halloween a success, such as first-person camera perspectives and unexceptional settings. The sequel was a box office success, grossing over $25.5 million in the United States.
On October 31, 1978, Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasance) continues to chase Michael Myers (Dick Warlock) through Haddonfield, Illinois. Laurie Strode is sent to Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, where she befriends Jimmy (Lance Guest), a paramedic, who begins to develop romantic feelings for her. Back in town, Dr. Loomis continues his search for Michael with the sheriff. He is about to give up when he spots a person he believes to be Michael. He then chases the person into the street and the person is hit by another patrol car and pressed against a parked van,which ignites and burns the person beyond physical recognition.After dental records are taken it is revealed that the body is actually that of Ben Tramer,Laurie's brief romantic interest from the first movie.Disheartened,Loomis continues his search.
Jimmy tells Laurie the man who attacked her was Michael Myers, an escaped mental patient. While Laurie drifts in and out of consciousness, she has recollections of her adoption by the Strode family and visiting a boy in an institution. Michael cuts the phone lines to the hospital and murders several of the staff, making his way toward Laurie. Laurie, sedated and in a semi-conscious state, attempts to escape Michael and limps through the hospital, making her way to the boiler room, then to a parking lot, hiding in a parked car.While Laurie makes her way out of the hospital Jimmy goes looking for her in the hospital and eventually finds the charge nurse dead from exsanguination.While leaving,he slips in the blood and falls,injuring his head. When he regains consciousness,Jimmy discovers Laurie hiding and attempts to flee with her but passes out on the car's horn due to the effects of a concussion from the earlier fall.After hearing the horn Michael finds Laurie and pursues her again,but she is saved at the last minute by Loomis.
During his search for more clues, Dr. Loomis discovers "Samhain" scrawled on an elementary school chalkboard and a knife through a picture of Judith Myers in the same classroom, but he is ordered to return to Smith's Grove by the governor and escorted there by a state marshal. Dr. Loomis's nurse informs him of a file, kept secret since Michael's institutionalization, which reveals that Laurie is the biological sister of Michael Myers and Judith Myers. The nurse goes on to say that Laurie was two years old in 1963 when Judith died and when Michael was institutionalized but that the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Myers, died in 1965. This lead to Laurie's adoption by the Strodes who requested that the adoption be sealed for the protection of Laurie. Dr. Loomis forces the marshal to drive to the hospital in order to rescue Laurie.
After finding Laurie, a lengthy chase ensues with Michael pursuing both her and Dr. Loomis, in which Michael is shot several times. Hiding in an operating room, Michael discovers Laurie and Dr. Loomis, stabs the doctor and attempts to attack Laurie. However, Laurie blinds Michael by shooting him in the eyes and escapes the operating room when she and Dr. Loomis create a distraction by opening valves on tanks of compressed oxygen and ether. As the room begins to fill with the flammable gas, Laurie escapes and Dr. Loomis ignites a lighter, creating an explosion and engulfing the room in flames. Michael staggers out of the room toward Laurie, but falls to the ground in flames. The next morning, Laurie is transferred to another hospital.
Carpenter and Hill, the writers of the first Halloween, had originally considered setting the sequel a few years after the events of Halloween. They planned to have Myers track Laurie Strode to her new home in a high-rise apartment building. However, the setting was later changed to Haddonfield Hospital in script meetings.
Halloween producers Irwin Yablans and Moustapha Akkad invested heavily in the sequel, boasting a much larger budget than its predecessor: $2.5 million (compared to only $320,000 for the original) even though Carpenter refused to direct. Most of the film was shot at Morningside Hospital in Los Angeles, California, and Pasadena Community Hospital in Pasadena, California. There was discussion of filming Halloween II in 3-D; Hill said, "We investigated a number of 3-D processes ... but they were far too expensive for this particular project. Also, most of the projects we do involve a lot of night shooting—evil lurks at night. It's hard to do that in 3-D." The sequel was intended to conclude the story of Michael Myers and Laurie Strode. The third film, Halloween III: Season of the Witch, released a year later, contained a plot that deviated wholly from that of the first two films. Tommy Lee Wallace, the director of Halloween III, stated "It is our intention to create an anthology out of the series, sort of along the lines of Night Gallery, or The Twilight Zone, only on a much larger scale, of course." When asked, in a 1982 interview, what happened to Myers and Loomis, Carpenter flatly answered, "The Shape is dead. Pleasence's character is dead, too, unfortunately." Neither Carpenter nor Hill were involved in the later sequels that featured Michael Myers again. The screenplay of Halloween II was written by Carpenter and Hill. In a 1981 interview with Fangoria magazine, Hill mentions the finished film differs somewhat from initial drafts of the screenplay. The plot twist of Laurie being Michael's sister required a retcon of the timeline between Judith's murder and the events depicted in the first Halloween; while Michael Myers is said to have committed the crime fifteen years ago and to be twenty-one.
On October 31, 1978, Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasance) continues to chase Michael Myers (Dick Warlock) through Haddonfield, Illinois. Laurie Strode is sent to Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, where she befriends Jimmy (Lance Guest), a paramedic, who begins to develop romantic feelings for her. Back in town, Dr. Loomis continues his search for Michael with the sheriff. He is about to give up when he spots a person he believes to be Michael. He then chases the person into the street and the person is hit by another patrol car and pressed against a parked van,which ignites and burns the person beyond physical recognition.After dental records are taken it is revealed that the body is actually that of Ben Tramer,Laurie's brief romantic interest from the first movie.Disheartened,Loomis continues his search.
Jimmy tells Laurie the man who attacked her was Michael Myers, an escaped mental patient. While Laurie drifts in and out of consciousness, she has recollections of her adoption by the Strode family and visiting a boy in an institution. Michael cuts the phone lines to the hospital and murders several of the staff, making his way toward Laurie. Laurie, sedated and in a semi-conscious state, attempts to escape Michael and limps through the hospital, making her way to the boiler room, then to a parking lot, hiding in a parked car.While Laurie makes her way out of the hospital Jimmy goes looking for her in the hospital and eventually finds the charge nurse dead from exsanguination.While leaving,he slips in the blood and falls,injuring his head. When he regains consciousness,Jimmy discovers Laurie hiding and attempts to flee with her but passes out on the car's horn due to the effects of a concussion from the earlier fall.After hearing the horn Michael finds Laurie and pursues her again,but she is saved at the last minute by Loomis.
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Carpenter and Hill, the writers of the first Halloween, had originally considered setting the sequel a few years after the events of Halloween. They planned to have Myers track Laurie Strode to her new home in a high-rise apartment building. However, the setting was later changed to Haddonfield Hospital in script meetings.
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