Halloween II
While Halloween II was released two years after its predecessor in 1981, the movie picks right up where the last one left off back in 1978. This was considered the perfect sequel because not only was it a huge success at the box office, it used a lot of first-person camera perspectives making for a more realistic and frightening film. Although Halloween II was intended as the last chapter of the series, a year later in 1982, the next installment was released.
Plot
Dr. Sam Loomis has just saved Laurie on October 31, 1978 from his patient Michael Myers. Loomis tells Sheriff Brackett that he shot Myers in the chest six times and he fell from a balcony but he has still managed to escape. Laurie is taken to the hospital to be checked as she has been strangled and is incredibly traumatized. An EMS attendant named Jimmy immediately takes an interest to Laurie and he later tells her that it was Michael Myers who attacked her.
Meanwhile in Halloween II, Dr. Loomis is with Sheriff Brackett looking for Myers and see a man wearing a mask so they jump out of the car to chase the suspect. When he runs out into traffic, it causes to cars to collide and cause a huge explosion, ultimately killing him as well. While the sheriff and doctor are watching the fire, an officer tells them that three bodies were found and one of them was his daughter Annie. Dr. Loomis, knowing how evil Myers is, refused to believe that the body that burned was him unless he had sound evidence. The dental records turn out to belong to Ben Tramer, a 17-year old from the neighborhood.
Michael Myers finally makes his debut in Halloween II, arriving at the hospital and murdering the staff one at a time to find Laurie. While Laurie is barely conscious, she is having flashbacks of when she was adopted by the Strodes, recalling a boy in some institution that they visited. Myers finds Laurie and despite that she is limping and sedated, she manages to elude him.
Loomis is with the police, still looking for Michael Myers. They find out that he broke into an elementary school and wrote Samhain on a chalkboard in blood and left his knife in the desk. Loomis explains the Gaelic meaning behind the message while Marion (his assistant) arrives and tells him he is needed back at Smith’s Grove. While they are driving, it is revealed that Michael is Laurie’s real brother and that he is looking for her to kill the same way he killed Judith when he was six years old.
When they arrive at the hospital parking lot in Halloween II, Laurie sees them from a parked car she is hiding in. She tries to follow them but Myers appears and chases her. She manages to get to the door, banging as hard as she can and Loomis lets her in just in time as Michael is arriving. He shoots him five times and sends Marion to go use the radio in the Marshall’s car to call for backup. Despite the fact that Loomis tells the Marshall not to get too close, he kneels next to him anyway, allowing Myers to awake suddenly and slit his throat open with a scalpel.
Michael chases Laurie and Loomis through the hospital where they end up being cornered in an operating room. Loomis hands Laurie a pistol that the Marshall was carrying so they can both be protected when when Myers enters, Loomis discovers he is out of bullets and ends up getting stabbed in the stomach. Laurie shoots Michael when he approaches in both of his eyes, causing him to be blind but oddly, not dead. Loomis helps Laurie unscrew the gas tanks scattered throughout the room so the oxygen is leaked out. Right before the doctor ignites his lighter, he orders Laurie to escape and then he sets fire to the gas, causing them both to be in a huge explosion. Of course, this can’t hold Myers back!
Michael Myers staggers out of the flames in Laurie’s direction and then falls to the floor. Halloween II ends with Laurie being transferred to a different hospital and the image of her brother’s masked face full of flames.