The final entry in Rob Zombie's remakes takes place just moments after the first ended. Laurie is rushed to the hospital where she is tended to. After a nightmare, which I took for reality the first time, we find that it has been nearly two years since that night when Michael came home.
Over the course of the movie Laurie has vastly changed from how she was in the first movie. In this, she is much more short tempered, lashing out at both her therapist and her best friend Annie who also barely survived the first movie. This is where a problem pops up for me, this new Laurie is just really hard to fully care about. While her situation does suck, and she's been through a lot, seeing her lash out and go down a darker path makes me lean more towards rooting for Sheriff Bracket and Annie.
Dr. Loomis in this film has also changed for the worst, putting out a new book and becoming both and rich and famous off the events of the first film. Though he does slightly redeem himself in the end. Does it make up for everything he pulled in this film? Not really, but the attempt is nice to see.
Michael in this film is just as brutally violent as the previous, though in this one we actually see his face as an adult. This sort of ruins things for me, it is nowhere near as intimidating as seeing the expressionless mask that he is known best for.
Lauries new friends, much like the rest of the victims in this film are mostly just filler as Michael hacks his way to Laurie. The characters get little time to develop and it's pretty obvious what's going to be happening with them.
Like the previous film, this one is middling for me. It still retains all the extremes of the first, though the larger downside is making it harder to care about our main character with the change in their personality. All in all, a watchable film though if you aren't too willing to sit through an Unrated Directors Cut, be sure to look for the normal version of the film.
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