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| Year: | 1981 |
| Rating: | 6.3(17726) |
| Listed in: | Horror, Thriller |
| Directed by: | Rick Rosenthal |
| Actors: | Donald Pleasence Charles Cyphers Jeffrey Kramer Lance Guest Jamie Lee Curtis Pamela Susan Shoop |
| "The Boogieman Is Back" | |
Cast
| Directed by | |
|---|---|
| Rick Rosenthal | |
| Actors | |
| Donald Pleasence | as Dr. Sam Loomis |
| Charles Cyphers | as Sheriff Leigh Brackett |
| Jeffrey Kramer | as Graham |
| Lance Guest | as Jimmy |
| Hunter von Leer | as Deputy Gary Hunt |
| Dick Warlock | as The Shape/Patrolman #3 |
| Leo Rossi | as Budd |
| Ford Rainey | as Dr. Mixter |
| Cliff Emmich | as Mr. Garrett |
| John Zenda | as The Marshal |
| Alan Haufrect | as Announcer |
| Howard Culver | as Man in pajamas |
| Dana Carvey | as Assistant |
| Billy Warlock | as Craig |
| Jonathan Prince | as Randy |
| Ty Mitchell | as Gary |
| Dennis Holahan | as Laurie's father |
| Ken Smolka | as Patrolman #1 |
| Adam Gunn | as Young Michael Myers |
| Roger Hampton | as Patrolman #2 |
| Robin Coleman | as Medic |
| Jack Verbois | as Bennett Tramer |
| Tony Moran | as Michael Myers (age 23) |
| Brian Andrews | as Tommy Doyle |
| Lance Warlock | as Radio-Carrying Teen |
| Actresses | |
| Jamie Lee Curtis | as Laurie Strode |
| Pamela Susan Shoop | as Karen |
| Gloria Gifford | as Mrs. Alves |
| Tawny Moyer | as Jill |
| Ana Alicia | as Janet |
| Nancy Stephens | as Marion |
| Catherine Bergstrom | as Producer |
| Lucille Benson | as Mrs. Elrod |
| Leigh French | as Gary's Mother |
| Nancy Kyes | as Annie Brackett |
| Pamela McMyler | as Laurie's mother |
| Nichole Drucker | as Young Laurie Strode |
| Kyle Richards | as Lindsey Wallace |
| Anne Bruner | as Alice |
| Helen Kelly | as Nurse at the Hospital |
| Anne-Marie Martin | as Darcy Essmont |
Movie info
| Languages: | English |
| Budget: | USD 2,500,000 |
| Gross: |
USA - 7,676,836 USD (1 November 1981) |
| Plot: | It's October 31, 1978 - Halloween - and Haddonfield is awakening to the horror that Michael Myers (who escaped from a mental institution) has returned to the sleepy little town, murdered three teenage students and attempted to murder student, Laurie Strode before being shot by Dr. Loomis only to walk away (events from "Halloween"). Laurie is taken to the Haddonfield Clinic to get her injuries doctored and to rest from the shock but she starts to question about why is Michael after her? She also starts to fall in love with Jimmy, a driver at the clinic. Meanwhile, Dr. Loomis and the Haddonfield police search the town looking for Michael who, upon hearing that Laurie is still alive, makes his way to the clinic and starts to murder the small clinic's staff in an attempt to get to Laurie. Nurse Marion arrives and gives Loomis the key answer to Michael's madness but is also there to order him back to Smith's Grove (to stop the officials looking bad.) Can Loomis find Michael and stop him from succeeding in his plans by killing Laurie? |
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| "MR. SANDMAN" Written by Pat Ballard Performed by The Chordettes Courtesy of Barnaby Records |
Goofs
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Continuity: In the Ben Tramer scene, when the police car hits Ben and smashes into the white van, Ben is slumped over the police car. When the close-up of the crash seen is shown, he is seen leaning against the white van. Revealing mistakes: When Dr.Loomis and Sheriff Brackett are in the car, one of Brackett's police officers call in on the radio. Many times throughout their conversation, the man on the radio talks before Brackett lets go of the button Fact errors: When Michael corners Laurie in the elevator, the door slams on his hand and keeps closing. Elevators have rubber guards that cause the door to open again if someone's hand would get caught in the closing. SYNC: After Michael is shot in the eyes and blinded, he starts swinging the scalpel wildly at Loomis and Laurie when they start releasing the gas. As Laurie flees before Loomis lights the place up, the sound of Michael swinging the scalpel is out of synch by around half a second when he actually does swing it. Continuity: After finding the head nurse dead, Jimmy turns to leave the room and slips in the blood and gets it all over his face and jacket. When we next see him in the car, there is no blood on his face or clothes. Revealing mistakes: When Janet spins the dead Dr. Mixter's chair around, his right hand flinches. CHAR: Dr. Loomis and the policemen find the word "Samhain" written on the blackboard at the elementary school, and Loomis claims he knows the meaning of the word, delivering a speech about the "festival of Samhain". However, he pronounces the word literally, which is incorrect. It's actually pronounced "sow-in". SYNC: In the climactic scene in the operating room, Laurie says "Michael, stop!" before shooting him, but her mouth does not move. Revealing mistakes: Laurie fires two shots and supposedly shoots Michael directly in each eye, yet when he looks up and blood streams down from his mask, we can see his eyes are intact. Continuity: Near the film's climax, the Marshall is shown walking down a hallway by a soda machine and reacting to Laurie's screaming. Several minutes (and many screams) later, Michael crashes through the door and the Marshall is still running down the hallway by the soda machine. Continuity: Dr. Loomis says that Michael is 21 years-old, yet when the credits appear at the end his age is given as 23. (This was a mistake in the credits for the original film. As Michael was 6 years old when he killed his sister Judith, in 1963, he would have been 21 15 years later in 1978.) Continuity: Dr. Loomis shoots out the passenger window of the Marshal's car, but it is intact in later scenes. Continuity: Jimmy passes out lying in a pool of blood, but later in the car there is no blood on him anywhere. Fact errors: Doctor Loomis fills the room with flammable gas. He then lights a lighter that makes a flame, hesitates, and then ignites the gas in an explosion. The same sparks that ignited the lighter fuel would have ignited the flammable gas simultaneously. Continuity: When Officer Hunt calls for backup at the Meyers' House he says that the address is "45 Lampkin Lane". The address on the house is 709. Continuity: In Halloween (1978), Michael falls off the back balcony of the Doyle house, however in this film he falls off the front balcony. The balcony in the first movie is a covered balcony, the balcony in this film is not. Continuity: At the beginning of the movie, the front door lights on the Doyle house are on and off depending on the scene. Revealing mistakes: Other than a patient that Jill responds to, no other patients are ever seen or heard throughout the large hospital, despite the fact that the maternity ward has several newborn babies. DATE: Set in 1978, some of the clothing and hairstyles have noticeable characteristics associated with the early 1980s; particularly those of Alice, Karen, and Darcy. Revealing mistakes: As Michael is falling off the balcony of the Doyle House after being shot by Dr. Loomis, you can see the ramp through the railings that's assisting the stunt man. Fact errors: The film takes place in Illinois on Halloween, but you'd never know it looking at the colors of the trees, they are all a healthy green. Continuity: It's supposed to be a continuation of the same night from Halloween (1978), yet the landscaping for the Wallace and Doyle houses has changed considerably. Also, the jack-o'-lantern on the front porch of the Doyle House has changed completely. PLOT: Considering how immense Haddonfield Memorial Hospital is (it has wings), and the fact that it has an emergency room and surgical ward, it should not have just four nurses, one doctor, and two ambulance drivers staffed for the entire hospital, even if it is the night shift. SYNC: If you listen closely, you can hear the faint sound of the buzzer for the nurse's call button before it actually goes off in the film (this happens twice). Revealing mistakes: When Sheriff Brackett looks at the dead body of his daughter, Annie, her eyes twitch just after he closes them with his hand. Continuity: Just before the sheriff closes his dead daughters eyes outside the house, he pulls the blanket covering her down to her chest, just after he closes her eyes the blanket is pulled right up to her chin. Continuity: The flashing lights on the front of Bud and Jimmy's ambulance change places as they pull into the hospital driveway. They go from either side of the hood to the front of the bumper. Continuity: When Nurse Karen is shown for the first time in her uniform, her belt is a dark tan. Subsequent shots of her in the uniform show a white belt. Continuity: When Budd goes to check on how hot the water is, he rubs condensation off the gauges, but there wasn't anything on them to begin with. Crew: On the widescreen DVD, when the hospital room blows up, you can see around the set wall twice for about a second each time. Crew: At the hospital, you can see the camera in the Marshall's mirror. Continuity: At the beginning of the film when the old man is watching Night of the Living Dead (1968), the film skips five minutes in about a minute. Crew: When Sheriff Brackett is trying to stop Dr. Loomis from shooting Ben Tramer, the shadow of the cameraman falls on Dr. Loomis' overcoat. Continuity: Brackett closes his door as he runs after Loomis in the street. When he's trying to stop him from shooting Ben Tramer, the door is now open in the background. Continuity: Laurie gets into the elevator from the basement level. As soon as it closes, the other side opens. She walks out and she's back on the ground level. Continuity: The word "Sheriff" on the front of Sheriff Brackett's police car. Continuity: When Laurie is wheeled into the ambulance, the blanket on the stretcher isn't covering her feet, but when the paramedics lift her out of the ambulance, the blanket covers the whole of her feet up. Continuity: At the beginning of the film Michael's hair is all puffy, but when we see him walking towards the hospital, it is all flat and combed back. Continuity: The blood on the chopping board at the beginning of the film. Fact errors: Marion calls for help on the police car's 2-way radio, then listens to the reply without letting go of the "talk" button on the radio's microphone. You can't listen and receive anything on the radio while the button on the mic is pressed. Continuity: The security guard is sent to find the reason the phones do not work in the hospital. A couple of scenes later, you see a nurse chatting on a hospital phone. Continuity: After the explosion and Michael is walking on fire, he is right next to the burning stretcher. The next time we see him, he is about eight feet behind the stretcher walking towards her again. Continuity: When Gary and his mother arrive at the hospital, the ambulance containing Laurie can be seen driving up in the background. In the next shot, the ambulance enters the parking lot and drives up behind them again. Revealing mistakes: Pieces of foam from the fake door Michael smashes through can be seen raining down in the gas room. Continuity: Jimmy's position as he slips in the pool of blood. Continuity: Laurie is on the ground beside Jimmy's car outside the hospital when she sees the Marshal's car pull up. When Loomis tells the Marshal he ought to handcuff him to the wheel, Jimmy's car is visible in the distance but Laurie is gone. DATE: The film takes place in 1978, but the ambulance has rectangular headlights, which were not introduced on full-size Ford vans until the 1980 model year. Continuity: Dr. Mixter's coat changes position on his left shoulder when Laurie is in the emergency room Continuity: Near the beginning of the film, when Michael walks into the Elrod house, Mrs. Elrod is seen standing in front of the door from the kitchen to the living room, and when Michael picks up the knife, she's seen standing to the side inside the living room. Continuity: When Michael stabs Nurse Jill in the back with the scalpel and lifts her off the ground, her shoes fall to the floor and rearrange themselves seconds later. Continuity: When Michael is drowning Nurse Karen in the scalding water, her towel goes from being wrapped right below her shoulders to tied around her waist between shots. Fact errors: Water at 125 degrees Fahrenheit is not hot enough to scald a body. Minimal effects usually start at about 140 degrees. Continuity: In the ambulance, Jimmy tells Laurie they're taking her to "the clinic". The radio announcer also reveals that Laurie was taken "across town to Haddonfield Memorial Clinic". However, the jackets that the medics wear, as well as all the signs at the hospital, indicate that it's actually Haddonfield Memorial Hospital. Continuity: Jill turns around to find Michael Myers behind her just before her death but when he stabs her she is facing forward. Continuity: Jimmy walks across a puddle of blood before finding Mrs Alves. When he slips, you can't see any footprints. Continuity: When the first close-up of the ambulance is seen driving up to the hospital, you can see on its front bumper that it does not have red flashing lights. However, in the next shot, it has 2 red flashing lights mounted on the front bumper. Revealing mistakes: When Michael is hiding in the nursery, it is obvious that the "baby" closest to the camera is a doll. Revealing mistakes: At the end, as Michael emerges from the explosion, his body embraced in flames, one can easily tell that the clothing the actor is wearing is much thicker all over and now includes gloves that the character Michael was not wearing before. Fact errors: Diethyl Ether was supplied for anesthesia in liquid form in 1/2 liter metal bottles. It is never put in gas cylinders as shown the the final OR scene. CHAR: Dr. Loomis pronounces the word 'Samhain' as 'Sam-Hain'. This is an incorrect pronunciation. 'Samhain' is an Irish word and is pronounced 'Sow-in', the m+h make a 'w' sound. CHAR: Laurie bangs on the hospital door for about 30 seconds before Loomis lets her inside even though Koomis was standing near the door the whole time. Revealing mistakes: When Michael sticks the syringe in to the nurse Janet's eye and pushes the plunger, her eyes never even flinch. Continuity: At the beginning of the movie, it is mentioned several times (on TV on the radio and in telephone conversation) that 3 teenagers were killed, but then police discovers the bodies only after that - which we learn in the conversation between Sheriff Brackett and his deputy who tells him they have just discovered 3 bodies "in the house across the Doyle's house", and that his daughter was one of them. Continuity: Stuntman Dick Warlock's eyes are very noticeably blue throughout the movie, yet Michael's character is supposed to have "the blackest eyes, the devils eyes." Tony Moran's eyes in the original's unmasked shot appeared brown. Continuity: After Dr. Loomis discovers Michael Myers' blood on the grass where he had fallen from the balcony and the next-door neighbor asks what was happening, Dr. Loomis tells him to call the police and states that he shot him six times. In actuality, Dr. Loomis fired off seven rounds of his weapon at Michael, hitting him each time. (In the first Halloween movie, however, Michael Myers was indeed shot only six times.) Continuity: After Dr. Loomis tries to shoot Michael Myers unknowingly with the empty pistol and is stabbed with the surgical knife there is thick, dripping blood all over the instrument. Dr. Loomis then covers his wound with his hands and falls beside one of the hospital beds. Once Laurie has shot Michael's eyes out Dr. Loomis pulls the gas tank tubes out of the wall with one hand and holds a lighter in the other hand to ignite the fumes, but his hands are completely clean. PLOT: SPOILER: The morning after Halloween, when Laurie is being transferred to a different hospital, the officers briefly discuss the body count. One of them declares, "10... so far". Including Laurie's friends Annie, Lynda, and Bob, the others who lost their lives to Michael Myers were Mr. Garrett (the security officer at Haddonfield Hospital), Bud, Karen, Dr. Mixter, Mrs. Alves, Nurse Jill, Nurse Janet, and the sheriff who accompanied Marion Chambers to retrieve Dr. Loomis - which makes 11. (The tally does not count Alice, the young girl who was stabbed after Michael fled from the Wallaces' front yard, or the Phelps' Garage mechanic killed in the original Halloween movie. This is unrealistic, however, as the mechanic was killed Halloween morning and it would be unusual for him to be unnoticed all day long in the position Dr. Loomis found his vehicle at the side of the road. Also, Alice's parents and aunt went to another county and should have found her body long before.) |
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[after Michael disappears] Doyle Neighbor: What's going on out here? Sam Loomis: Call the police! Tell the sheriff I shot him! Doyle Neighbor: Who? Sam Loomis: Tell him, he's still on the loose! Doyle Neighbor: Is this some kind of joke? I've been trick-or-treated to death tonight. Sam Loomis: [looks at the blood on his hand] You don't know what death is! Janet: Julie saw him, you know. Bud: Who? Janet: Michael Myers. Bud: Come on...! Janet: I swear, yesterday when she was coming to work. Bud: Where'd she see him? Janet: You know the Shop And Bag out by the mall? She stopped at the light and saw him walking in that field behind the Lost River Drive In. Julie said he was so creepy. Bud: Julie's full of shit. He didn't escape until last night. Janet: You don't have to swear about it. Bud: She's a goddamn moron anyway. Janet: Every other word you say is either hell or shit or damn. Bud: Sorry. I guess I just fuck up all the time. [after discovering Laurie is Michael's sister] Sam Loomis: [to the Marshall] Turn this car around, now! Marshal: I can't do that. I have orders. [draws gun and points it at him] Sam Loomis: Well those orders have changed! Marshal: Doctor, you're getting yourself into a lot of trouble. Sam Loomis: What is it you guys usually do? Fire a warning shot, right? [Loomis shoots out the window, and the car screeches and turns about] Bud: Look, Jimmy, rule number one, never get involved with a patient. Nurses, that's another story. But patient is no good, it never works out. Sam Loomis: I shot him 6 times! I shot him in the heart-but... HE'S NOT HUMAN! Dr. Sam Loomis: If that wasn't Michael Myers burning up in that car, a lot of other kids are going to be slaughtered tonight. Deputy Gary Hunt: He's dead. You saw it. Dr. Sam Loomis: I saw a man in a mask. I want to believe but I have to be sure. I cannot stop until I'm certain he's dead. Deputy Gary Hunt: You talk about him as if he's some kind of animal. Dr. Sam Loomis: He was my patient for fifteen years. He became an obsession with me until I realized there neither reason nor conscious or anything about him that was... even remotely human. An hour ago I stood up and fired six shots into him and he just got up and walked away. I am talking about the real possibility that he is STILL OUT THERE! Jimmy: Jill, where's Dr. Mixter? Jill: Ah, he's been at the country club. I think he's drunk. Budd: Oh, great! Dr. Mixter: Janet, get me some more coffee! Budd: Happy Halloween. Karen: Budd, you are the biggest jerk I have ever met. Budd: But you love me... Karen: Yeah, and I'm an idiot. [Dr. Loomis orders the Marshal around at gun-point] Dr. Sam Loomis: Go and check all the rooms down there! Go on! Marion Chambers: Dr. Loomis! Dr. Sam Loomis: You stay with me and shut up! Dr. Sam Loomis: I ought to handcuff you to the wheel, but I have a feeling I'm gonna need you in there. Can I trust you? Marshal: What have I got to lose, except my job? Dr. Sam Loomis: [to Marion] There's a two-way radio in the Marshal's car. I want you to go outside, get on that radio and get Hunt! Marshal: Now wait a minute! I'm the only one authorized to use that! Dr. Sam Loomis: [to Marion] Move! Voice on Radio: Unit calling, identify. Marion Chambers: Marion Chambers with Dr. Loomis at the clinic - he's here! Voice on Radio: Ah, ten-four. Unit calling, identify suspect. Marion Chambers: Michael Myers! Just get your ass over here! Mrs. Alves: Men! Can't live with them, can't live without them. Karen: [hesitating to give Darcy a ride home] Can't you ask Eddie Lee? Darcy: He's in Russellville! Karen: It's five minutes to your house, another five minutes to the hospital. Mrs. Alves is going to kill me! Darcy: You promised. Karen: [giving in] I know I did. Mrs. Alves: I'm trying to reach Mr. or Mrs. Morgan Strode. They've left? Could you give me another number? All right. Thank you. You should've called them right away. Now I can't find them. Janet Marshall: I didn't know. Mrs. Alves: Right away. Janet Marshall: I'm sorry, Mrs. Alves. Jimmy: I'll be with Laurie. Cover for me. Mrs. Alves: I heard that. Two minutes. That's it. Mrs. Alves: Time's up, Jimmy. Let's go. Jimmy: OK. OK. Mrs. Alves: No you won't. Visiting hours are definitely over. Dr. Sam Loomis: Did you see the blackboard back there in the elementary school? Marion Chambers: Yeah. Dr. Sam Loomis: In order to appease the gods, the Druid priests held fire rituals. Prisoners of war, criminals, the insane, animals... were... burned alive in baskets. By observing the way they died, the Druids believed they could see omens of the future. Two thousand years later, we've come no further. Samhain isn't evil spirits. It isn't goblins, ghosts or witches. It's the unconscious mind. We're all afraid of the dark inside ourselves. Dr. Sam Loomis: It's Time, Michael. Budd: [singing] Amazing Grace, come sit on my face / Don't make cry / I need your pie... Jimmy: Look why don't you just shut up, all right? Jimmy: God, they should have handled him more carefully. Laurie Strode: Who? Jimmy: Michael Myers. Laurie Strode: Michael Myers? Jimmy: Yeah, he's the guy who was after you tonight. Laurie Strode: You mean from the Myers House? That little kid who killed his sister? But he's in a hospital somewhere! Jimmy: He escaped last night. Laurie Strode: How do you know? Jimmy: It's all over the radio. Television too, it's on right now. Laurie Strode: [gasps] Why me? I mean, why *me*? Sam Loomis: I'm sorry I left you. Are you all right? Laurie Strode: Why won't he die? Sheriff Leigh Brackett: You know, doctor, I'm just about there. Sam Loomis: What? Sheriff Leigh Brackett: The point where I stop taking orders from you. [Graham examines the burned corpse that was erroneously thought to be Michael Myers] Graham: No fillings. He's young. Maybe seventeen, maybe eighteen. Sam Loomis: Michael Myers is 21. Mr. Garrett: I think somebody broke into the store room. [the walkie talkie that Janet is holding has static, making Mr. Garrett's voice sound inaudible] Janet: Mr. Garrett? I can't hear you. Mr. Garrett: One of you had better drive down to the sheriff's station right away. [Hunt notices that Dr. Loomis is holding a Revolver] Sam Loomis: [to Hunt] Heightens my sense of security. [after discovering that Annie is dead] Sheriff Leigh Brackett: Damn you... Sam Loomis: I'm sorry... Sheriff Leigh Brackett: What have you done... Sam Loomis: I haven't done anything. Sheriff Leigh Brackett: YOU LET HIM OUT! Sam Loomis: I didn't let him out. I gave orders for him to be restrained. |
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