"The Nightmare isn't over... and boy truer words haven't been spoken!!!!! "The Night He Came Home" continues. The story picks up right where "Halloween" ended. Michael, after being shot several times by Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence), falls off a balcony to his apparent death. But wait a minute kiddies, if it were that easy, "why did they make a second film"? Because the indestructible one isn't finished what he started.
As the story moves on, we see a badly injured Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) being taken to the hospital as Loomis proclaims, "I shot him six times". This is challenged by Sheriff Brackett's equally memorable reply, "you must have missed". In the background, we see Michael lurking, biding his time, and leaving dead bodies in his wake as he continues to stalk Laurie. Fanatically, Loomis leads a manhunt searching for the masked one as Laurie recovers in an eerily empty Haddonfield Memorial Hospital.
Back at Haddonfield Memorial, Mike wants in, but "visiting hours" are over. So he uses his own brand of persuasions with any handy dandy instrument of destruction (i.e. scalpels, syringes, etc) he can get his hands on. Maybe Michael missed he true calling, but I think he would have had a hard time letting his patients live (HA HA). The killings in this film are much more brutal than the first. This should make us gore hounds, who cried foul with the first film, a little happier. But be warned...it isn't over the top gore, but rather stylish as only Carpenter can deliver. After Dr. Loomis finds out the true motive to Michael's rage, he quickly heads over to the hospital to save Laurie. I think this the best part of the film. In "Halloween," we were lead to believe that the reason Michael is killing was to reap revenge on the town that locked him up for 15 years. But alas, it goes much deeper and I won't tell. The ending is quite spectacular and may be the real reason part III didn't have Michael in it. Rent this film now!!! It is as good, I would say even better than the original "Halloween"."
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