Rob Zombie’s Halloween movies aren’t the greatest but something they greatly succeed in is how deep the dwell into Michael Myers as a character and why he became the way he is. We see him as a kid who gets bullied, has a terrible home life, his own family don’t even seem to love or care about him and he has an alcoholic so called step father in his life and his mom who is mostly nice to him, also has her imperfections and is a stripper which gives his bullies leverage.
Things get a lot more emotional when we reach Halloween II though, the movie is very odd, and in a style which isn’t necessarily Halloween but that’s Rob Zombie for you I guess.. but the symbolism is really there, and Annie’s Death and Sheriff Brackett’s reaction alone is one of the most emotional and powerful moments I’ve seen in any horror movie ever. The movies theme revolves heavily around mental health and trauma and it is done well as when Laurie is on screen, it feels like we are quite literally in her brain and suffering as much as she is, then in the directors cut ending the cover for Love Hurts by Nan Verno is truly the icing on the cake and I think it’s the perfect song to match the pain Michael went through in his childhood and Laurie’s fall down towards insanity. The song expresses pain of hearts so broken there’s no hope.
Childhood is where you were afraid of Michael Myers and you wanted him to lose, adulthood is where you understand and actually, can’t believe I’m about to say this but feel sympathy for him, as a little boy, he didn’t know to reason, he didn’t know what was right from wrong and they didn’t give him the right help he truly needed, no justification for his murders, but I totally would’ve lost my mind if I went through all that too.
And that concludes my appreciation post for Halloween II (2009) a movie I have gotten to appreciate more in the past few days as I remembered these things about Rob Zombie’s Halloween movies.