{"id":36911,"date":"2024-10-03T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36911"},"modified":"2024-10-02T21:34:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T01:34:13","slug":"36911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36911","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Halloween II&#8221; starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasence \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z100324zview_halloween2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"780\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><i><b>Halloween II<\/b><\/i><\/em> (1981)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Rick Rosenthal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>John Carpenter, Debra Hill<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence<\/strong><strong>, Charles Cyphers, Jeffrey Kramer, Lance Guest, Pamela Susan Shoop, Hunter von Leer, Dick Warlock, Leo Rossi, Gloria Gifford, Tawny Moyer, Ana Alicia, Ford Rainey, Cliff Emmich, Nancy Stephens, John Zenda, Catherine Bergstrom <\/strong>and <strong>Alan Haufrect.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>The Nightmare Isn&#8217;t Over<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the end of <em>Halloween<\/em>, Michael Myers escaped after being shot by Dr. Loomis (Pleasence).\u00a0 <em>Halloween II<\/em> picks up immediately after this.\u00a0 Loomis and the police begin searching for Myers.\u00a0 Laurie Strode (Curtis) is taken to the hospital to treat her injuries.\u00a0 Michael Myers is also headed to the hospital.\u00a0 He kills anyone who crosses his path.\u00a0 Soon he and Laurie Strode&#8217;s path&#8217;s will cross.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Halloween II<\/em> is more of a slasher movie than <em>Halloween<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">John Carpenter chose not to direct <em>Halloween II<\/em>.\u00a0 He was against a sequel, but became involved in order to be paid since the movie was going ahead with or without him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although Jamie Lee Curtis receives top billing she has less screen time than Donald Pleasence.\u00a0 Also since this is more of a slasher film, several other young people get screen time before their deaths.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong><i><b>Halloween II<\/b><\/i> (1981)<\/strong> <\/em>rates 2 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z100324zview_halloween2b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"206\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halloween II (1981) Director: Rick Rosenthal Screenplay: John Carpenter, Debra Hill Stars: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, Charles Cyphers, Jeffrey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horror","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36911"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37140,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36911\/revisions\/37140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}