Halloween II (1981)

The Halloween season is upon us yet again, and we simply couldn't
let it pass without checking in on the long-running horror
franchise that John Carpenter launched over 40 years ago. This
week, it's back to good old Haddonfield as Chris and Nick revisit
1981's Halloween II, the first sequel to
Carpenter's genre-defining classic. While directorial duties were
handed over to first-timer Rick Rosenthal, Carpenter and Debra
Hill returned (somewhat reluctantly) as screenwriters and
producers; the film also features returning cast members Jamie
Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, and Charles Cyphers, another
classic Carpenter score (this time, with the assistance of
frequent collaborator Alan Howarth), and the incredible
cinematography of future Oscar-winner Dean Cundey. The movie
picks up right where Carpenter's original leaves off, but as much
as we love Michael Myers, we have to ask: did we really need to
see MORE of the night he came home? We've got a lot of thoughts
about this slasher sequel, as well as some other favorite horror
franchises, in a special episode that we hope brings a little bit
of normalcy to what will definitely go down as one of the
scariest Halloween seasons in memory.