I hated this sequel when I first saw it. At the time, it felt nothing like the first two “Halloween” movies (the third is irrelevant), and there seemed to be nothing in it to make it stand out from all the other slasher movies of the 80’s. To see Donald Pleasance return as Dr. Loomis seemed depressing because it felt like an insult to see this great actor slumming in a movie that seemed so by the numbers. I also thought that the movie reeked of cheapness because of its low budget. Then again, these movies never really had big budgets to begin with. Indeed, John Carpenter’s original masterpiece is a hard one to top even by today’s standards, so maybe I was expecting too much from it. My impulse to see it came about because I wanted to know how the writers would explain how Dr. Loomis survived “Halloween II.”

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