[Music]
welcome to the killcount where we tally
up the victims in all our favorite
horror movies I'm James agent East and
today we're looking at Halloween 2
released in 1981 this was meant to be
the end of Michael Myers as written by
John Carpenter and Deborah Hill and for
seven years it was since Halloween Ford
didn't come out until 1988 and Halloween
through.you was well you know the masks
want I'd say most horror fans consider
this a solid sequel which is a rarity in
this series it helps that director Rick
Rosenthal and returning DP Dean Conde
maintained the original film's effective
visual style even as the audience got to
see much more of Michael Myers now
played by stunt performer and
coordinator dick warlock different actor
but at least it's the same mass you're
gonna miss that mask later on trust me
Halloween 2 picks up mere seconds after
the originals ending and takes place
mostly in the hospital that Laurie
Strode is taken - my biggest issue with
this movie is that Laurie is mostly bed
bound about his lifeless as the wig
Jamie Lee Curtis is wearing since she
had cut her hair short but at least Sam
Loomis is still around even if he is
already descending into crazy
loose-cannon territory gore hounds will
be pleased though since this movie
replaces the originals quiet atmospheric
murders with much more graphic kills
let's see how many there are and get to
them
[Music]
the movie begins with mr. Sandman
performed by the Chordettes beginning
the franchise's weird fascination with
that song when the song be more
appropriate for like Freddy Krueger we
actually watched the last couple of
minutes of the original play out again
although new footage changes is so luma
shoots Michael seven times and has the
killer falling off the front yard
balcony instead of the back either way
same as before that boy be gone
Loomis loses his shit and we get to hear
the resynthesized theme after he yells
at one of the neighbors the
trick-or-treated to death tonight you
don't know what death is after the
opening credits we get another first
person shot and although it's kind of
copying the original it works because
Rosenthal was trying real hard to make
Halloween to feel like the second part
to one complete movie alongside the
original plus we get dr. Loomis
loosening a few bolts already
I shot him six times I shouldn't say
diamond I shot him in the hog I shot it
perfect time well in that new clip it
was seven but if you insist we can call
its it first person Michael walks
through a clothesline and peeps in on an
old couple who a frickin course are
watching Night of the Living Dead get
that public domain while they're
enthralled by Judith O'Day Michael
steals a kitchen knife then overhears a
breaking news broadcast talking about
his deeds
better skedaddle my dude he's skedaddle
his ass next door we're teen girl Alice
Martin is basically marinated she's such
dead meat but her fire up that grill
fast coz after she sees her front doors
open and dumbly approaches it without
using any peripheral vision Michael
jumps up and kills her with a stab to
the chest
already giving us more explicit blood
than we saw in the original back in the
Doyle house Laurie Strode is wheeled
outside on a stretcher and put in an
ambulance by paramedics Jimmy and Buzz
they take her to head and field Memorial
Hospital where the other patient of the
night is a kid with a razor blade in his
mouth oh that is nasty oh I guess this
came out around the time the US was
getting real concerned about shit like
that even though there's never been an
actual recorded case of it Laurie is
greeted by a skeleton crew at the
hospital led by the drunk dr. Mixter
Janet get me some more coffee
despite Laurie's protests they put her
to sleep with a nice needle full of
drugs dr. Loomis and sheriff fraca drive
around looking for Michael and when
Loomis thinks that he sees him down the
sidewalk they pulled over so the good
doctor can recklessly wave is gone at
this poor trick-or-treater and then this
happens
[Applause]
yeah man what the fuck and you know the
best part is turns out that dude was Ben
tramer the guy Laurie said she liked and
who Annie had set up a date with too bad
you missed out Laurie I bet it would
have been one hot day
oh man that killers crazy Loomis is
totally partially responsible for that
shit deputy Gary Hunt shows up to tell
sheriff Brackett that Annie was found
among the victims so they all head over
to the Wallace house where a bunch of
news reporters are including one who's
instructing a silent Dana Carvey who's
just like he's auditioning for a pardon
strange brew sheriff Brackett verifies
it's his daughter's body in a shot where
at least Nancy Loomis got a day rate and
then Bracken decides to leave the movie
entirely and pass the police roll over
to deputy hunt before he leaves though
he blames dr. Loomis while borrowing
some of Donald Pleasance his acting
style you let him out meanwhile Michael
Meyers is just walking around town
bumping into boombox blasting cowboy fun
fact that little Kyle dude is played by
Lance warlock dick warlocks on I'm the
radio Michael overhears that Laurie was
taken to Haddonfield Memorial so that's
where he's headed he gets there in no
time and is able to just walk across the
grounds to enter the building because
the lazy security guard mr. Garrett
isn't watching the monitor paramedics
slash baby deer boy Jimmy pops in to
check out Laurie cuz he's nursing a
little crush but he could shoot out of
the room my head nurse mrs. Alves Jimmy
stoner bud bud smokes a bud and tells
him to never get involved with any
patients so Jimmy still sneaks back into
Laurie's room later and mentions that it
was Michael Myers who attacked her the
Myers house look oh yeah or he had no
idea that it was local legend Michael
freaking Myers attacking her in the
first movie you never really think about
that but if you think that's a crazy
revelation Laurie just wait till the end
of this movie it looks like the phone
line is down so mr. Garrett is called
the pond to fix it he leaves the
walkie-talkie with young nurse Janet but
fails to tell her how to use it so you
know what it's about to be his own damn
fault
when he gets killed his inevitable
demise happens after a lengthy
investigation of the storeroom when he
closes the door to find Michael waiting
for him with a hammer claw to the head
very reminiscent of the sheriff's death
and Friday part 2 which came out the
same year 81
big year for hammer claws as the stoner
stud bud seduces another nurse Karen
Laurie lies in bed and has flashback
dreams of a real Frank family
conversation I told him
she also has memories of a little boy
sitting at a window who you know is
obviously Michael Mayer it's all just
setting us up for that reveal at the end
of this movie that won't even be canon
anymore and the new one coming out but
and Karen end up making out in a
physical therapy hot tub when the scene
gets a little hotter thanks to Michael
Myers tampering with the temperature Val
bud gets out to make things more
congenial to a sperm count and unseen by
Karen as she calls herself off is killed
by Michael Myers strangling him in the
background in a silent death
I guess he's getting choked with a
length of some cord or something it
doesn't really matter he did Karen is
obviously the next one to go and it's
probably the film's most memorable death
which we'll get to as soon as Karen
stops caressing Michaels hand and
putting his fingers in her mouth ah
gross
Karen that has to taste like grease and
copper after Michael is like uh hey
could you nah he grabs her and kills her
by repeatedly dunking her head in the
tub water as the temperature continues
to climb it's a real gnarly death
performed expertly by dick warlock and
actress Pamela Shu and the effects are
real gross with her face skin coming off
like dried Elmer's glue when she's
finally drowned and/or scalded to death
Michael unceremoniously drops her body
to the floor also fun is the way Karen
portended her own death in an earlier
scene complaining about lame party
activity Bobbie actually bobbing in
water know that the townspeople have had
in fields are riding at the Myers house
which Loomis explains away using ever
more crazy language and tenor the tribe
one of them number ones budget this is
the white yeah hey deputy maybe take the
gun away from the dude who sounds like
he's on ayahuasca the cops then head to
an elementary school that was broken
into and finds some symbolism stabbed
into a desk as well as a word written on
the chalkboard that they all
mispronounce Samhain the festival of
Samhain for the record it's pronounced
sow and I guess we get another returning
character from the original when nurse
Marion Chamber shows up to talk to dr.
Loomis I didn't recognize you dude she
like opened the first movie with you and
got her car stolen come on how could you
forget this chimney of a woman she tells
Loomis that the governor has ordered him
back to Smiths grow cuz I guess by now
even Springfield knows how crazy he's
become a federal marshal escorts the
doctor and nurse out of hadn't filled
with Loomis muttering about evil and
shit but Oh Marion shuts him off by
saying that they found a secret file on
Michael Myers with some juicy backstory
it
that straw girl that's Michael Myers
sister that's right this is the reveal
that Laurie Strode was Michaels baby
sister and that after her and Mikey's
parents died she was adopted by the
strode Loomis yells at the marshal that
Michael must be on a mission to kill his
little sis no and pulls a gun out on the
officer as he orders him back to
Haddonfield what is he you fellows
usually do fire a warning shot
right oh man Loomis you were getting so
fucking arrested after all this dude
back at the hospital Jimmy pays Laurie
another bedside visit only to find her
totally unresponsive he calls in one
last nurse I've got to introduce nurse
Jill who sends nurse Janet to fetch dr.
Mixter you know if he's not too deep in
his mixers turns out is actually worse
than mere inebriation has nursed Janet
finds mixter dead in his chair with a
syringe in his eyeball it's a fun
discovery death although I'm not sure
what the kills specific saw was there a
drug in that thing or just air or what
Janice stumbles back straight into the
shade who materializes behind her that
sticks the needle that's definitely just
full of air straight into her temple and
then presses down on the plunger killing
nurse Janet with what I guess would be
an instant embolism right like you don't
want air in your body where it shouldn't
be man oh yeah then Michael does another
head tale classic with no mixter in
sight
Jimmy runs to get nurse Alves and nurse
Jill gets distracted by Abed buzzer from
another room allowing Michael to walk
into Lori's room and start stabbing away
at her bad but turns out it's not Lori
at all under those covers
it's pillows yeah Lori's finally up and
kind of walking around sadly not for
long though soon she finds a room to
hunker down in and just passes out again
damn it Jimmy comes across head nurse
Alves lying dead in an operating room
and things get kind of giallo as we see
that her blood has been drained out all
over the floor after Jimmy realizes
what's going on he turns around to leave
only to slip and land on his back in the
middle of this blood puddle why don't
you be on for a while well he takes a
nap Laurie decides to give that whole
consciousness thing to know again and
that's when nurse Jill runs into her in
the hallway
too bad Michaels there too he uses a
scalpel the stabbed nurse Jill in the
back and murders her by lifting her body
high up off the ground in a nicely done
kill that echoes Bob's from the original
but with a little more panache since the
shot of her feet shows her shoes falling
off solid kill Michael way to be it's
time for Michael V Laurie part duh in
another classic slasher chase scene
where the killer stalks the victim at a
snail's pace and the final girl runs
the corpses of previous victims even if
their character she's never met before
Hori ends up on an elevator that just
barely blocks my cloud and after she
reaches the ground floor she bolts
outside the parking lot and takes
shelter in the front seat of a car after
a while Jimmy reenters the movie when he
climbs into the car and tries to start
Laurie watches as he becomes worse than
useless by passing out on the car horn
and basically sending up a goddamn
Michael Myers signal in the sky this is
the last we see of Jimmy but I don't
think he died just past that so he
doesn't go on the cops deal with it
Laurie gets out of the car right as
lumison Co arrived but for some reason
she's just crawling all over the ground
and unable to make any noise while
they're outside only finding her voice
after it's too damn late as she makes
her way to the door Michael Myers
reappears and starts walking towards her
slowly taking his time since she's
locked outside and also cuz that's just
how he be mamma's finally lets her into
the hospital and Michael keeps talking
towards them just walking straight
through the plate-glass door without
nearly the speed necessary to do that in
any case Loomis then shoots him in fact
he shoots him five times and that of
course gets the shape to the ground so
he can pretend to be dead for a little
while Marion Chambers heads outside to
use the marshals car radio and while
she's doing that the marshal is real
horror movie stupid and gets perfectly
vulnerable around Michael allowing the
killer to rise up and kill the cop by
slitting his throat with a scalpel man
people are dumb in this movie Michael
walks at Loomis and Laurie who run off
holding hands and hide in the surgery
room where Loomis gets Laurie the
marshals gone cuz you know not like he's
using that Michael appears and just
smashes straight through the door cuz I
guess this hospital was built that cheap
and after Loomis's gun doesn't fire
because he forgot to hit arm
Michael stabs him right in the gut with
the scalpel the wounded crazy doctor
falls to the floor leaving Laurie
vulnerable to Michael's advances but
luckily she has that other gun and uses
it to shoot Michael in the head actually
twice for good measure great shots
Laurie and great shot Rick Rosenthal of
all that blood running out through the
eyeholes and Michael's masked man I love
those blood tears blinded Michael starts
swiping wildly at where he knows Laurie
to be but Loomis gets back up and opens
the valves on a tank of gas Michael
follows the noise over to him and Laurie
takes the cue to start opening other
tanks in the room there's a lot of great
sound design as Michael continues
swiping away and the hissing of gas
grows louder as Loomis gets crazy with
it when the room is good and filled
Loomis orders Laurie to run out and
tells Michael the saiyans prayers
right with that we get a giant Hospital
explosion that fills the hallway with
fire from the flames exits Michael Myers
trying one last time to keep on keep an
eye in a fire stunt that was so hot dick
warlock got burns on his arms from the
zippers on his Flame suit thankfully
they don't put metal zippers on flame
suits anymore the heat proves to be too
much for Michael and he collapses to the
ground and although this was originally
the death of both Michael and Loomis
that was retconned in Halloween 4 so
nope they don't go on the kyoka the
movie ends the next morning with just a
bit more of sheriff Brackett and Dana
Carvey as Laurie is wheeled out to an
ambulance Michael Myers continues to
burn as mr. Sandman plays once more you
know statistically you are most likely
to die in a hospital how many people was
that true for in Halloween - let's find
out and get to the numbers ten people
died in Halloween to a solid doubling of
Michael's first outing the victims
consisted of five guys and five girls
giving us an even 50-50 split between
genders and with the runtime of 92
minutes we had to kill on average every
nine point two minutes I'll give the
golden chainsaw for coolest kill - nurse
Karen I feel like I have to although
there were plenty of other commendable
deaths in this movie nothing is as
memorable as Karen's face peeling off as
Michael dunks her over and over again
if only that hot tub were a time machine
to go back to when she was still alive
doll Bocchetti for lamest kill we'll go
to the marshal because it was super dumb
of him to get that close to Michael and
he makes a goofy face as his throat is
slit and that's it Halloween two came
out in 1981 and was a success at the box
office which makes the season of the
witch thing even more baffling I'll
explain next week but until then I'm
James a Jenice this has been the kill
count thanks a lot for watching this
week's kill count I want to thank a
couple of patrons like Carla alexis
Michael Connelly Andrew Redmayne and
Logan O'Neill while trying to come up
with something to wear for this kill cow
I remembered that I re-own nurse scrubs
when I was trying to do the actor thing
in LA I was in the shitty theater
production and it caused my friends like
35 bucks to come see me so thanks mark
for coming to do that oh man I don't
miss that shit thanks I'll be good
people