Starring: Scout Taylor-Compton, Tyler Mane, Danielle Harris, Malcolm McDowell
Director: Rob Zombie (Halloween, The Devil’s Rejects)
Running Time: 1 hr 41 min
Release Date: August 28, 2009
Budget: $15 million
Average Critics’ Score: 35%
“Zombie walks the walk, you can’t deny it.” Joe Neumaier, The New York Daily News
“A complete and utter abomination.” James Berardinelli, ReelViews
“Family may be forever” according to its tagline, but this 31-year-old horror film saga centering on the psychopathic killer, Michael Myers, needs to be done forever. Picking up where Halloween left off, this vapid slasher sequel lacks story and character development as Myers (Mane) continues his excessively violent, sadistic rampage on his sister (Taylor-Compton) and other one-note hillbilly characters. While Zombie’s cinematography is chilling and his score is spooky, the film is more gory than actually scary. Meanwhile the wannabe Freudian scenes with his dead mother (Zombie’s wife, Sheri Moon Zombie) and a white horse are laughably ridiculous and come off as forced rather than meaningful.
