Halloween II
It’s not our favorite Halloween sequel, but Rick Rosenthal’s follow-up still has its moments (we’ve said it before, but the casual inclusion of a trick-or-treater on the wrong side of a razor blade-embedded candy bar actually eclipses most of Michael Myers’ deeds in this one, as far as sheer stomach-turning horror goes.) But props to Halloween II must be paid for doing a decent job of picking up exactly where the 1978 original ended (three years after the fact), and for transforming cotton-candy ditty “Mr. Sandman” into nerve-jangling nightmare fodder.
