Halloween II: Unrated Director's Cut [US Import] [Blu-ray] [2009]

Blu ray disk: The video quality is awesome. SImple as that. I mean visually the movie is stunning and this blu ray transfer embraces it! Audio wise, the slashing effects are really cool and especially interesting is the absent of music. Tyler Bates score is creepy and works perfectly in 5.1 audio DTS from this disc. Minor problem is the lack of extras. There are some auditons from the cast, make-up designs(but not how the make up effects were created which would have been far more interesting) and a blooper reel. I would like personally a documentary from ROb Zombie. The reasons are explained below.Movie: I am a hardcore horror fan. I've seen pretty much everything. I love the original Halloween but i hate the sequels. When i heard that Rob will touch the original i said " this movie is a perfect piece of filmaking". Although i like Rob's vision in his previous movies i was worried what he could possible bring to the story. TO my surprise i was impressed. IT's his Halloween not a stupid remake. And i loved that. So in halloween II, Zombie is on the loose. He is doing what he wanted to do without any studio pressure. THis is obvious since the film is very brutal and weird but i will get to that later. This is not the typical hack n slash movie. Characters look more down to earth and have motives. I mean take a look at laurie. She is so messed up whereas in other films i guess we see the girls progressing into a normal life after violent murders and becoming isolated and stuff like that. Here, the cute little girl from the first film has evolved into a party animal who doesn't care about her appearance after what she is being through. I found that way more interesting than seeing her somewhere on the woods alone reading books. For me it is more believable. On the other hand her friend the party animal from the first film, turns into vegeterian and refuses to go out of her house which is pretty amazing storywise. It is something that we rarely see in a horror film. I am not saying it is perfectly done but it takes courage to make the film look believable while avoiding any commercial traps.Now for the gore factor, there is not a lot although people were screaming that this movie is violent and gory. Yes it is violent but not bloody! With the exception of the first two murders, there are not buckets of blood or guts and stuff like that. U may see a deformed body(from a car crash or already being dead by michael) but never on screen. Usually it is the sillouette of Myers in the dark committing the murders. The only thing u see is the movement. nothing else. However, the audio is doing a perfect job of trasmitting all the possible slashing effects so we can use our imagination. Myers now is a hermit (kinda of) and that's something cool. He sees himself as a little boy that wants to please his mother(she appears in visions). It is a common belief that michael has lost it completely. Again it is rare to see the phychological portait of a killer with such a background instead of having him there slicing people into pieces with no reason at all.Speaking of the visions, there were the controversial points. I didn't mind them and they are visually stunning. The director of photography is absolutely doing a fabulous job, with street lights, purple visions, spooky forests, creepy hallways and many more. Nevertheless, they betray rob's origins as he is used to direct many of his videoclips as well as those of others (Ozzy Ozborne, powerman 5000). His camera shots are static and he lurks like a predator of his potential victims. I really enjoyed his approach on the hospital scene. Literally it is a nightmare! The angle shots, the movement, everything looks like a nightmare! The cast is good. Laurie looks like a believable character as i mentioned before and Brad Dourif's presence(as well as his daughters) is one of the highlights. Now all the above are good stuff but what about any negative points?True the film is not perfect. There are certain storylines that could have been served better like the relationship between annie and laurie(more phychological factors and a nice conversation or a verbal fight between them would have been counted as a plus). Many characters in addition, offer nothing like laurie's friends or even Dr Loomis himself. There were more satellites persons especially loomis who doesn't serve a purpose on screen and we don't get to understand his motives. This iconic character is well loved in the horror audience and here he behaves like a complete arrogant guy (don't want to use any bad language). Why? Because he survived etc??? See my point?Overall though i love the movie. It has great atmosphere, we don't see a killer who is unstoppable, it has a different approach to a boring these days theme but controversial nevertheless. I give it 10 out of 10(no kidding), just because Rob Zombie did a movie for him and his audience and not something mainstream. Somce choices may not be the best ones as i already mentioned above but certainly u can not deny that he tried to do something different. I enjoyed every minute of it and it was nice to see atmosphere and not blood and guts and stupid girls running around for no reason.P.S there is also a nice cameo from Weird Al.10/10 for the effort7/10 as a film

Well i must admit i have been a fan of halloween for years that said, after 1981's part 2 oh dear it went down hill..silly stories silly acting which insulted the original masterpiece. Then after years of the same old story, i heard someone was re making halloween - at first like most remakes i didnt take interest, until i knew rob zombie was involved! well his remake was brilliant introducing a whole new concept which kept the key elements from the classic 78 version, the mask, the theme and even more amazing the same locations!rob changed the whole thing ( no- one not even carpenter could better the original ) so why try? instead micheal was given a back story and learned of his hectic upbringing..great.now came the sequel...i was so looking forward to robs sequel as he made a new story and more life like. laurie is borderline depressive as to is annie, which gives you a real feeling of what they went through in the first movie. i liked the look of myers in this one as we knew from the first movie he had long hair and so the hobo look would be a real look if anyone on the streets for over a year would look ( some people think that myers would have short hair and be clean shaven and wear just the boiler suit and mask all winter living outside )like. sheriff brackett is brilliantly played by brad dourif the emotion out of him is class, dr loomis is on a power trip with his new book and is exploited to the max as a sideshow attraction, often humerous. this concentraites on michaels mind and how he sees the world, the visions of his mother, the white horse...and the need to reunite himself with laurie, brutal kills some excellent acting and tyler main as myers! rob zombie made a movie that got hate mail...but honestly this isnt 1978 anymore, come on people jamie lee curtis wanted to end the old franchise because the sequels were endless crap, hell even john carpenter wanted nothing to do with halloween even as early as halloween 2!! i say thank you Rob Zombie for making halloween and michael myers new again!!

Un dvd que ya habían descontinuado pero aquí está de nuevo , la calidad de imagen es muy buena y más si la estás viendo en dvd que escale a HD...Uno más de mi colección de Halloween

El Blu-ray es mejor que la película

Reçu dans les temps prévus , article en excellent état , un autre chef-d'oeuvre de Rob Zombie à ne pas manquer !

I love the halloween movies and i own them all and see they are bringing out two more

fdUn film veramente entusiasmante è un film fatto talmente bene che speravo ci fosse un sequel, comunque vale la pena averlo nella mia collezione un film olo per amanti del genere non per tutti.