Mikey Visits Haddonfield General

And the practically mandatory revisit to Halloween II (1981) had arrived. During Myers week, I purposely did want to give this the last day's primary viewing (I will be delaying Carpenter's film until next week). It serves as a body count movie. I mean the head boiled in hot water, hypodermic needles in eyes, a literal bleeding which causes a paramedic to slip on a blood puddle on the floor after checking on the dead nurse, a scalpel stab to the back that lifts a nurse off her feet causing her shoes to fall to the floor under her, and a knife stab to a teenage girl's throat right in her own open-doored home before Michael even walks to the hospital...Myers keeps busy during the heightened era of the slasher 80s. Fortunately, this film has Dean Cundy as cinematographer and pretty much all the talent behind the first Halloween film. Visually it didn't bother me, although it is just too dark at times. I just decided to watch the Goodtimes Video dvd I have had for about 15 years. I have the blu version which I imagine is ten times better and perhaps more "cleaned up", but the hospital setting is what it is. The excuse for why the hospital is so dark could be chalked up to Myers' activity in making the building not so well lit so he could walk among the staff seemingly unnoticed (although the hospital does seem curiously devoid of personnel). That explosion at the end with Michael walking still while engulfed in flames is badass even if he walks so slow that a limping Laurie Strode drugged up gets away from him multiple times...both implausible as all hell. That the franchise could bring Loomis back after a gut stab by a scalpel and such a massive firebomb blowout is just ridiculous. Too much money on the table, but still...