In 2007, we got the Rob Zombie remake of “Halloween” and now we have the sequel to that. It’s not a remake of the original “Halloween II”, this is its own thing but it does have a little homage to it near the beginning. This is a real mess that feels like several different movies stitched together.

After the events of the last movie, Laurie Strode (Scout Taylor-Compton “The Runaways”) is struggling to come to terms with what happened. Meanwhile, Dr. Loomis (Malcolm McDowell “A Clockwork Orange”) is facing criticism for his exploitative new book. Also, Michael Myers (Tyler Mane “Troy”) somehow survived and is out to find Laurie while being guided by visions of a white horse.

The performance from Scout Taylor-Compton as Laurie is actually quite good but the movie just suffocates it because it is so scattershot. Many of the scenes with Malcolm McDowell are fairly funny (especially the one that features a cameo from Weird Al Yankovic) and he does a great job but they feel so detached from the rest of the movie. We see Michael Myers without the mask quite a lot in this movie and I do not really like that and I do not care for the whole white horse subplot.

As I said, this feels like several movies. We have an opening segment that tries to be a homage to the original “Halloween II”, we have many scenes where Laurie is trying to cope with her traumatic experiences, we have Loomis trying to be a celebrity and sell his book, with have the routine Michael Myers slasher stuff and we have the weird psychedelic white horse stuff. These conflicting pieces have been violently rammed together and it results in catastrophe. The first Rob Zombie “Halloween” was tolerable but this second outing is awful.