Halloween II
Family is forever.
Country
Genre
Budget
$15 000 000
Box office
$39 421 467
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Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Rob Zombie, Andy Gould, Malek Akkad, Mike Elliott, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Andrew G. La Marca, Matthew Stein
Camera operator
Composer
Artist
Garreth Stover
Audition
Monika Mikkelsen
Editing
Glenn Garland, Joel T. Pashby, Ed Tapia
Whole Team (273)
Whole Team (273)
Short description
Laurie Strode struggles to come to terms with her brother Michael's deadly return to Haddonfield, Illinois. Meanwhile, Michael prepares for another reunion with his sister.
What's left behind the scenes
- Deg Ferch played young Michael Myers again, but he had to be replaced and the scenes with him reshot, as the actor had noticeably aged and no longer looked like a child.
- Director Rob Zombie offered a cameo role in the film to John Carpenter, but he declined.
- Above Lori's bed hangs a photograph of the notorious murderer Charles Manson.
- "Weird Al" Yankovic agreed to appear on screen only on the condition that he choose his own costume.
- The film was originally scheduled to be released on Halloween 2009, but the release was suddenly and without warning moved up two months – to August. The post-production schedule fell apart, which in turn reduced the editing schedule by several weeks.
- Filming was difficult because director Rob Zombie constantly argued with executive producers Bob and Harvey Weinstein. One particularly egregious incident occurred on the very first day of filming, when the shooting schedule was reduced by two weeks, causing Zombie to furiously rip several pages of text out of the script that he would now be unable to film.
- At the very beginning of filming, Rob Zombie shot some footage and sent the reels for development, but at the airport, security mistakenly x-rayed them, of course exposing them, so everything had to be reshot from scratch.
- At the end of the film, director Rob Zombie "killed" almost all the characters, including Michael Myers and Laurie (although Laurie dies only in the director's cut of the film), to ensure that no one would make any further sequels. Nevertheless, the film company "Dimension Films" began to insist on a third film in the franchise, which Zombie categorically refused, and left the project altogether. The film did not live up to its financial expectations and was poorly received by critics and fans, which raised doubts about the feasibility of filming a sequel. Several years later, "Dimension Films" and "The Weinstein Company" finally relinquished the rights to "Universal Pictures" and "Blumhouse", resulting in the 2018 slasher film "Halloween" by David Gordon Green.
- The first film in the franchise was shot in California, but it was decided to shoot this film in Georgia, where the weather turned out to be gloomy and damp, making filming extremely uncomfortable. The shooting schedule and locations had to be constantly changed due to sudden rains. For example, the scene where Laurie emerges from the hospital into the parking lot in the rain was not in the script – nor was the rain itself.
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