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181-476: In the films, Jamie is the daughter of Laurie Strode, who died off-screen in a car accident in the time between Halloween II and 4 . As such, she is also the niece of the series' main antagonist , Michael Myers , and becomes her uncle's new primary target after he learns about Laurie's death. Michael eventually succeeds in killing Jamie at age 15 in The Curse of Michael Myers , though not before she gives birth to

362-578: A DJ at bar mitzvahs . After graduation, he had a variety of odd jobs, including glazing hams at the Holiday Ham Company in Overland Park . Rudd made his acting debut in 1991 when he starred in a Super Nintendo commercial. In 1992, he starred in the television drama Sisters a s Kirby Quimby Philby. In 1994, he appeared in Wild Oats for six episodes. He left Sisters in 1995 to appear in

543-522: A candy store in Rhinebeck, New York that they saved from closing when the previous owner, a friend of theirs, died unexpectedly. Rudd's seemingly ageless appearance has been subject to numerous jokes and memes; this has even been referenced in Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) where Deadpool and Wolverine stumble upon Giant-Man's corpse, prompting the former to say "Paul Rudd finally aged!" Responding to

724-848: A drug lord in the film Reno 911!: Miami . He guest-starred as a has-been 1990s rock star, Desmond Fellows, on the television series Veronica Mars , in the 2007 episode " Debasement Tapes ". The year 2004 marked the start of Rudd's work with director/producer Judd Apatow , first on the film Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy as Brian Fantana with Steve Carell , David Koechner and Will Ferrell , produced by Apatow; and again in 2005 in The 40-Year-Old Virgin with Carell and Seth Rogen , directed by Apatow. He subsequently appeared in Apatow in 2007's Knocked Up as frustrated husband Pete, married to Leslie Mann 's character, co-starring with Jason Segel , Jonah Hill , Seth Rogen and Jay Baruchel . He narrated

905-554: A dual role in the comedy series Living with Yourself , which earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy . He starred in the miniseries The Shrink Next Door (2021), and had another dual role in the Hulu series Only Murders in the Building (2023–2024) as Ben Glenroy and Glen Stubbins, the former for which he received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in

1086-451: A Cast in a Motion Picture . He played FBI Agent Ian Curtis in Benny Chan 's 2000 Hong Kong action film Gen-Y Cops . In 2002, he was cast on the sitcom Friends as Mike Hannigan , who dates and marries Phoebe Buffay , played by Lisa Kudrow . In 2006, he appeared in several episodes of Reno 911! as Guy Gerricault (pronounced "jericho"), the coach of a lamaze class; then portrayed

1267-704: A Comedy Series , while his narration in the National Geographic documentary series Secrets of the Octopus earned him a nomination for Outstanding Narrator . Rudd has also appeared in Broadway plays, the first being The Last Night of Ballyhoo as Joe Farkas in 1997. The next year he appeared in Twelfth Night with Kyra Sedgwick and Max Wright at the Lincoln Center Theatre . In 2006, he appeared in

1448-778: A Comedy Series . Paul Stephen Rudd was born on April 6, 1969, in Passaic, New Jersey , to English Jewish parents. His father, Michael Rudd (1943–2008), was a historical tour guide and former vice-president of TWA . His mother, Gloria Irene Granville, was a sales manager at television station KSMO-TV in Kansas City, Missouri . They were both from London , his father hailing from Edgware and his mother from Surbiton , and both were descended from Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants who moved to England from Belarus, Poland and Russia. His grandfather changed his paternal family's original surname, Rudnitsky, to Rudd. His maternal family's surname

1629-407: A John Carpenter and Debra Hill ...  film. But in execution, it's my vision." Halloween II opens with a title sequence zooming in on a jack-o'-lantern that splits in half to reveal a human skull, a reference to the original film's title sequence, which featured a similar zoom into the eye of a jack-o'-lantern. The first scene of the film is presented through a first-person camera format in which

1810-608: A baby son, who becomes Michael's next target. Jamie is introduced in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) as Laurie Strode 's daughter and Michael Myers ' niece. Her mother is described to have died in a car crash at some point before 1988; the identity of her father is not revealed. Following Laurie's death, Jamie was adopted by the Carruthers family and develops a close bond with her older foster sister, Rachel ( Ellie Cornell ). Jamie suffers from nightmares about Michael and

1991-506: A candidate for City Council and a rival of Amy Poehler 's character Leslie Knope, a role for which he won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Guest Performer in a Comedy Series . In 2014, he began providing voiceovers for Hyundai television commercials. He has also voiced the audiobook recordings of John Hodgman 's books The Areas of My Expertise (2005) and More Information Than You Require (2008). On December 19, 2013, Rudd

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2172-507: A cast of characterless individuals like so many dominoes waiting to be toppled." Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times echoed similar sentiments, writing that Halloween II represented "a fall from greatness" that "doesn't even attempt to do justice to the original." He also commented: "Instead, it tries to outdo all the other violent Halloween rip-offs of the last several years." The Arizona Republic ' s Michael Maza assessed

2353-576: A child mentoring program. In 2009, Rudd again appeared with Jason Segel in I Love You, Man where he and Segel play buddies who bond over their shared love for the rock band Rush . Both Rudd and Segel are themselves fans of the band. Also in 2009, Rudd co-created the TV series Party Down with John Embom, Rob Thomas and Dan Etheridge. He lent his voice to the DreamWorks animated movie Monsters Vs. Aliens . In 2010, Rudd reunited with Steve Carell for

2534-474: A child. Although the producers at the time had already sought to make a sixth Halloween film, a series of complicated legal battles ensued which delayed plans for a sequel; eventually Miramax Films (via its Dimension Films division) bought the rights to the Halloween series. Phil Rosenberg was the first writer hired for the film. His script, titled Halloween 666: The Origin , was hated by Akkad, who tossed

2715-502: A class act." She notes that there "is some variety to the crimes, as there is to the characters, and an audience is more likely to do more screaming at suspenseful moments than at scary ones." Maslin applauded the performance of the cast and Rosenthal, and concluded: "That may not be much to ask of a horror film, but it's more than many of them offer." David Pirie 's review in Time Out gave Halloween II positive marks, stating: "Rosenthal

2896-511: A dead end that the franchise would spend decades struggling to find its way out of." On Metacritic , which assigns a normalized rating to reviews, the film has a weighted average score of 40 out of 100, based on 11 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Several critics were unwelcoming to the film's ramped-up violence, including Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times , who lambasted

3077-416: A deputy, the police chief's daughter Kelly, Rachel's boyfriend Brady, and 4 men from a vigilante mob. Escaping from town, Jamie cowers in a pick-up truck as Rachel hits Michael head on, throwing him off the truck and knocking him out. Despite Rachel's orders, Jamie goes over to him and holds his hand. When the police arrive, they tell Jamie to drop to the ground and open fire on Michael, sending him to fall down

3258-403: A difficulty she had to overcome" in her journey to evolving into a hero. He mentioned that Jamie's visions of Michael were the first part of Halloween 5 to be written and how this element of the traumatized Jamie would play into the main plot of the film. Girard explained, "I gave her the ability to sense the activity of Michael, I wished for her to see what Michael sees when he gets furious. That

3439-412: A fan of both films—it further distances Michael from what makes him Michael." Jamie's role in The Curse of Michael Myers has also been criticized, with Tyler opining that the movie "did no justice to the character (and the whole 'artificial insemination' part of it was disgusting and disrespectful)". Harris reprised her role as Jamie in the 2012 horror film Among Friends , Harris's directorial debut. In

3620-431: A fight between Michael and Jamie, the two would be transported to a hospital where Jamie's blood would be taken and accidentally placed in the storage freezer with no name. This would set up seven random people receiving Jamie's blood via a transfusion and thereby becoming targets of Michael. Stolberg saw this plot point as a way to offer more variety to the series: "we leaned into the idea of the bloodline quite literally. It

3801-411: A font that did not match the rest of the opening credits. Akkad's son, Malek, called the stunt "disgusting. It's a disgrace ...  objectively, any horror fan would find this as an insult to the man who has done so much to the series. And to come after his tragic death , he's not even around to defend himself. It's classless. I'm talking to Universal now and they're 'looking into it. ' " However, Akkad

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3982-437: A gory way, there was no blood splurging out of the leg, just the knife entering the flesh. Just a very short hit which was supposed to hurt and scandalize an audience." In the original closing scene of Halloween 5 , after Jamie finds that Michael has escaped from the police station, she is approached by a black-cloaked figure, who is in fact Dr. Terrence Wynn, the head of Smith's Grove Sanitarium, where Michael had been remanded as

4163-506: A gurney with an empty IV needle in her arm draining all of her blood out of her body, Jimmy turns to run to go for help but he slips in a pool of her blood and knocks himself unconscious, giving himself a concussion. Meanwhile, Loomis is informed that Michael broke into the local elementary school earlier. He discovers clues connecting Michael to Samhain and the occult, which might explain his apparent indestructibility. His colleague Marion Chambers arrives to escort him back to Smith's Grove on

4344-429: A hallucination sequence, Jamie appears in her clown costume and calls out for Rachel. Halloween II (1981 film) Halloween II is a 1981 American slasher film directed by Rick Rosenthal , in his directorial debut , written and produced by John Carpenter and Debra Hill , and starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasence , who reprise their respective roles as Laurie Strode and Dr. Sam Loomis . It

4525-404: A hotel. It sounds glamorous, it can be really lonely, truly. You’re away from your family, you’re away from the things that are familiar to you, and we just become this giant family in a really cool way." Harris recalled filming Halloween 4 and Halloween 5 as a child with fondness: "I got to run around yelling and screaming in a Halloween costume, even thought it was really April. Basically all

4706-443: A large extent—kind of insincere," he said. Rudd continued the tradition by deceiving Conan with an audio version of the prank on a 2022 episode of the podcast Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend , "Paul Rudd Returns". In 2024, Rudd received two nominations at the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards ; for his role as a murder victim in the mystery series Only Murders in the Building he was one of the nominees for Outstanding Supporting Actor in

4887-420: A little girl as the hero of a Halloween sequel! -- and made it work." Dan Tabor of Cinapse called Jamie "the most tragic character of the franchise" and credited Harris with carrying Halloween 4 "rather effortlessly on her young capable shoulders with a surprisingly powerful take on the troubled young girl." The relationship between Jamie and Rachel also garnered praise. Harris received acclaim when she reprised

5068-412: A lot), [making] the once innocent sounding lyrics seem threatening in a horror film." Another critic saw the inclusion of the song as "inappropriate" and asked, "What was that about?" The film was principally edited by Mark Goldblatt . Skip Schoolnik , an editor who had simultaneously been commissioned to edit the television cut for the original Halloween , was invited by Carpenter and Hill to view

5249-608: A loyalty to Carpenter and Hill. Halloween II was filmed over a six-week period starting on April 6, 1981 and ending on May 18, 1981. Most of the film was shot at Morningside Hospital in Los Angeles, California , and Pasadena Community Hospital in Pasadena . Rosenthal recalled filming at Pasadena Community Hospital as being extraordinarily difficult due to its proximity to an airport, which disrupted shooting frequently due to incoming airplanes. Reluctant to extend his involvement in

5430-583: A mine shaft, which then collapses on top of him. Later, back in her foster home, Jamie is apparently possessed by Michael's spirit and attacks her foster mother (Karen Alston). When screams are heard from upstairs, Dr. Samuel Loomis ( Donald Pleasence ) goes to investigate and finds Jamie wearing a clown costume and holding a pair of bloody scissors, similarly to Michael when he killed his older sister Judith. Sheriff Ben Meeker (Beau Starr) restrains Loomis from shooting her, and both men, Jamie's foster father (Jeff Olson), and Rachel watch in horror, realizing that Jamie

5611-401: A new back shot) immediately after breaking Michael ( George P. Wilbur ) out of jail, and keeping her captive for six years, during which time she is artificially inseminated and impregnated with Michael's son. On the night of October 30, 1995, Jamie gives birth and escapes with the help of a nurse, but is pursued by Michael. She makes it to the local radio station, where she pleads for help (which

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5792-495: A nonprofit organization dedicated to helping young people who stutter . He hosted its 6th Annual All-Star Bowling Benefit on January 22, 2018. He told Vanity Fair that he became an advocate for stuttering awareness after portraying a character who stuttered in a play. Also, he is a founder of The Big Slick, a celebrity charity sports event held in Kansas City each June that supports Kansas City's Children's Mercy Hospital. Rudd

5973-464: A pattern of the female character in each instance being directly responsible for other characters being murdered, citing Jamie as refusing "to help the increasingly unbalanced Dr. Loomis in Halloween V , which directly results in several deaths, including several of Jamie’s friends." Barr explains that Jamie rejects "masculine gendered role as the Final Girl for much of the film" and that once Jamie makes

6154-436: A razor blade lodged in his mouth, a reference to the urban legend of tainted Halloween candy. According to Rogers, "The Halloween films opened in the wake of the billowing stories about Halloween sadism and clearly traded on the uncertainties surrounding trick-or-treating and the general safety of the festival." The main cast of Halloween reprised their roles in the sequel with the exception of Nick Castle , who had played

6335-573: A screenwriter and producer. They live in Rhinebeck, New York , with their two children: a son born in 2006 and a daughter born in 2010. Rudd is a fan of MLB 's Kansas City Royals , Kansas Jayhawks sports, and the NFL 's Kansas City Chiefs , for whom he narrated the 2007 season of HBO 's Hard Knocks . Rudd has also narrated the Chiefs' annual Super Bowl recap episodes of America's Game: The Super Bowl Champions in 2020, 2023, and 2024. Rudd received

6516-423: A secret society "made up of a lot of the people within the town of Haddonfield" who wanted to take Jamie's life as a final sacrifice. The film concludes with Jamie about to be murdered by Michael and a mob when "all of a sudden out of this crowd appears a dark figure. It turns out to be Laurie, and she’s there to save her daughter." Citing her as "a big star", Akkad doubted that Jamie Lee Curtis would ever come back to

6697-483: A speech pathologist who worked with the pair "on the sign language as well as discussing with us the pathology of stuttering, why people stutter, as well as under what circumstances the stutter would become more prominent." Don Shanks replaced Wilbur as Michael in Halloween 5 . Shanks saw Harris as "a trooper" and remembered that "for eleven years old, she was like a little person. She was always there, and she always wanted to do her own stunts.” Harris sought to reprise

6878-731: A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in July 2015, and was included on the Forbes Celebrity 100 list in 2019. In 2021, he was named People magazine's " Sexiest Man Alive ". His films include Clueless (1995), Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995), Romeo + Juliet (1996), Wet Hot American Summer (2001), Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004), The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), Knocked Up (2007), I Love You, Man (2009), This Is 40 (2012), and Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013). Notably, he has played

7059-434: A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on July 1, 2015, unveiling the 2,554th star on the mile-long strip of plaques on Hollywood Boulevard . He said, "I remember being a kid and walking this boulevard and reading the names and thinking about what so many other millions of people thought about, which is, you know, 'Who's that?'" Since 2014, Rudd and fellow actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan have been co-owners of Samuel's Sweet Shop,

7240-434: A thriller film, what a character says is often irrelevant, especially in those sequences where the objective is to build up suspense." Historian Nicholas Rogers suggests that a portion of the film seems to have drawn inspiration from the "contemporary controversies surrounding the holiday itself." He points specifically to the scene in the film when a young boy in a pirate costume arrives at Haddonfield Memorial Hospital with

7421-474: A trilogy of movies. Halloween II was supposed to be the last film in the Halloween franchise to revolve around Michael Myers. After the 1982 release of Halloween III: Season of the Witch , the lowest performing film in the series at the time, executive producer Moustapha Akkad wanted to make a sequel that brought back Michael Myers. On February 25, 1988, writer Alan B. McElroy , a Cleveland , Ohio native,

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7602-418: A voyeuristic Michael Myers enters an elderly couple's home and steals a knife from the kitchen. Rosenthal attempts to reproduce the "jump" scenes present in Halloween , but does not film Myers on the periphery, which is where he appeared in many of the scenes of the original. Under Rosenthal's direction, Myers is the central feature of a majority of the scenes. Rosenthal also stated that he attempted to replicate

7783-471: A year-long coma, she exhibits signs of a telepathic link with her uncle, eventually regains the ability to speak, and has seizures whenever her uncle kills someone. Michael kills Rachel, four of her friends, two cops, and the Carruthers' new dog while in pursuit of Jamie. Towards the end, Loomis lures Michael into a trap at the old Myers house, using Jamie as bait. Michael finds Jamie, who tries to appeal to his humanity. At her request, he takes off his mask, but

7964-462: A young Michael at the sanitarium. Jimmy and nurse Jill Franco grow increasingly concerned when they discover that more and more staff have gone missing throughout the night and search the hospital for Laurie, who is trying to evade Michael. As nurse Jill Franco tries to start the car to drive to the sheriff’s department, it fails to start and she sees that all the car’s tires in the parking lot have been slashed. After finding Mrs. Alves dead, strapped to

8145-548: Is a darker final note" than any of the Halloween films that came before or since have ended on. Summers views Jamie's attack on her stepmother as a reenactment of her uncle's "original sin" and that it provokes "questions about familial cycles of cruelty and whether or not - even if his niece didn't perish - Michael achieved his goal by pushing Jamie over the edge." Devin Meenan of Comic Book Resources notes that Jamie's attack on her adoptive mother mirrors Michael's attack of Judith in

8326-502: Is a direct sequel to the original film and disregards Jamie Lloyd, Michael as Laurie's brother, and the Thorn storyline. In 2021, Halloween Kills producer Ryan Freimann expressed his fondness for the character and desire to implement her in the current film trilogy: "I would love to find some way to bring back that character, the Jamie Lloyd character, in some way. It just didn't fit within

8507-409: Is also extra dialogue between Laurie and Jimmy, Laurie and Mrs. Alves, Janet and Karen, Karen and Mr. Garrett, Bud and Karen, Jill and Jimmy, etc. Another notable difference is the killing of the marshal. In the theatrical version his throat is slit, while in the TV version it is softened, with Michael grabbing him and stabbing him from behind (with no detail shown). While the theatrical version ends with

8688-412: Is bullied at school for being related to "The Boogeyman". On October 30, 1988, Michael ( George P. Wilbur ) recovers from his ten-year coma while being transported in an ambulance, and escapes to hunt down his relatives. In Haddonfield, while on the trail for Jamie, Michael kills the Carruthers' dog, a worker at the power plant (which causes a blackout of the entire town), most of the police force, including

8869-564: Is considered memorable, ranking fifth in Screen Rant' s Michael Myers’ 15 Most Creative Kills list and third in Collider's Michael Myers' Most Brutal Kills . The decision to not have Jamie as the antagonist in subsequent installments has been received negatively, as Michael Tatlock opined that carrying on from the ending of Halloween 4 "would’ve brought the series into a new and more interesting path." Josh Heath observed that not having Jamie as

9050-553: Is following in Michael's footsteps. In Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989), set a year later, a severely traumatized Jamie is housed in the Haddonfield Children's Clinic. She has now been rendered mute and suffers from nightmares and seizures, while being treated for attacking her foster mother (who is described to have survived) under Michael's influence. When a still-living Michael ( Donald L. Shanks ) awakens from

9231-465: Is heard by Loomis and an adult Tommy Doyle (now played by Paul Rudd ) and hides her baby, before being forced to run again when Michael finds her. She eventually crashes the truck she is driving at a barn, where Michael confronts and murders her. The Man in Black is later revealed to be Loomis' former medical colleague Dr. Terence Wynn (now played by Mitchell Ryan ), who is the leader of a Druid -like cult. It

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9412-550: Is hospitalized. Loomis and Wynn visit her in the hospital, but she is later killed with a silenced pistol by an unseen person (later revealed to be Wynn). Jamie Lloyd's first literary appearance was in October 1988, in Nicholas Grabowsky's novelization of Halloween 4 . The official Halloween: 30 Years of Terror comic book, taking place in the new continuity, has an adult Tommy Doyle illustrating comic books. Various elements from

9593-500: Is implied that the cult is responsible for Michael's actions, placing an ancient curse on him to kill his family to ward off sickness and death. It is also implied that Wynn has been trying and failing to breed the ultimate evil using Michael's DNA and female patients in in-vitro fertilization experiments; finally reaching a success with Jamie's baby. In another deleted scene included in the Producer's Cut, Jamie survives Michael's attack and

9774-485: Is no Carpenter, but he makes a fair job of emulating the latter's visual style in this sequel." He wrote that the Myers character had evolved since the first film to become "an agent of Absolute Evil." Film historian Jim Harper suggests: "Time has been a little fairer to the film" than original critics. In retrospect, "many critics have come to recognise that it's considerably better than the slew of imitation slashers that swamped

9955-480: Is our intention to create an anthology out of the series, sort of along the lines of Night Gallery , or The Twilight Zone , only on a much larger scale, of course." When asked, in a 1982 interview, what happened to Myers and Loomis, Carpenter flatly answered, "The Shape is dead. Pleasence's character is dead, too, unfortunately." This would later be retconned and both Michael and Loomis would return for multiple later installments. The screenplay of Halloween II

10136-449: Is portrayed in Halloween 4 and Halloween 5 , as an “especially rare type of final girl” due to being a child and complimented Harris as doing “pretty well for a child actress in this role, particularly in her second entry where her pantomime expressions (the terror of the fourth movie left her mute) allow her instant sympathy—a trait long lost in most horror movie heroines.” A.A. Dowd of The A.V. Club writes that Jamie and Rachel split

10317-594: Is scalded to death by Myers in the hospital therapy tub. Featured in the only nude scene in the film, Shoop discussed filming the scene, and recalled getting an ear infection : "[The water] was cold and dirty. They were playing it off like the water was boiling, but it was absolutely freezing! Leo [Rossi] and I were so cold, our teeth were chattering.!" Gifford and Alicia played minor supporting roles as head nurse Mrs. Virginia Alves and orderly Janet Marshall. Actor Lance Guest played an EMS driver, Jimmy. The Last Starfighter director Nick Castle stated in an interview, "When I

10498-423: Is sent into a fit of rage when Jamie touches his face. Ultimately, Loomis is able to shoot Michael with tranquilizer darts and beat him unconscious with a wooden beam. Michael is subsequently imprisoned at the local jail, awaiting transport to a maximum-security facility, where, Meeker says, he will remain "until the day he dies," to which Jamie responds, "He'll never die." After Jamie is escorted out to be taken home,

10679-467: Is taken to Haddonfield Memorial Hospital while Loomis continues his pursuit of Michael, accompanied by Sheriff Leigh Brackett. Loomis mistakes teenager Ben Tramer for Michael due to Ben wearing a similar mask, resulting in Ben being hit by a police car which veers into a nearby van and bursts into flames, burning Tramer to death. The bodies of Annie Brackett , Lynda Van der Klok and Bob Simms are discovered by

10860-412: Is the second installment in the Halloween film series and serves as a direct sequel to Halloween (1978). The story picks up immediately after the cliffhanger ending of the first film, with Michael Myers following survivor Laurie Strode to the local hospital, while his psychiatrist Dr. Loomis continues his pursuit of him. Though Carpenter and Hill co-wrote the screenplay to the sequel, Carpenter

11041-552: The Boston Red Sox who joined the OSS during World War II . In August 2018, Rudd was cast in Netflix's comedy series Living with Yourself , alongside Aisling Bea . He also executive produced the series, which premiered on October 18, 2019. He also appeared in season 3 of Hulu 's comedy mystery series Only Murders in the Building . From 2004 until 2021, during all appearances on

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11222-540: The Halloween II Michael Myers mask, Halloween II Michael Myers mask with blood tears, Michael Myers props, and Michael Myers' coveralls. In 2023, an officially licensed tabletop board game based on the film, produced by Stop the Killer and Fright-Rags, was announced. An adaptation of the screenplay was printed as a mass market paperback in 1981 by horror and science-fiction writer Dennis Etchison under

11403-774: The Knocked Up spinoff This Is 40 , directed and produced by Apatow; and reprised his role of Brian Fantana in Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013). In 2007, he starred in The Oh in Ohio and The Ten , which reunited him with David Wain and Michael Showalter , and then in Over Her Dead Body with Eva Longoria the next year. In his next comedy which he also wrote, Role Models , he and co-star Seann William Scott portray energy drink salesmen forced to perform community service in

11584-527: The Lyric Theatre, London . In 2001, he starred as Adam in the original London production of Neil LaBute 's The Shape of Things , and again Off-Broadway for three months starting in October 2001. Two years later, a film version was made with the same cast. In 2003, Rudd married Julie Yaeger, whom he met (shortly after working on Clueless ) in his publicist's office, where she worked. She has since become

11765-888: The superhero Scott Lang / Ant-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), beginning with Ant-Man (2015) and most recently in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023) and the Ghostbuster Gary Grooberson in Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024). Rudd has also appeared in numerous television shows, including the sitcom Friends as Mike Hannigan , guest roles on Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! , Reno 911! and Parks and Recreation , and as guest host of Saturday Night Live multiple times. He had

11946-404: The supernatural plot device of her telepathic visions connected to Michael. Othenin-Girard planned for Jamie to be stabbed in the leg by Michael while she was in a laundry shoot so that her escape would seem "almost impossible" to audiences. He believed that a young girl being stabbed "in the extreme confinement of a very dark chute is sooo mean and sooo unfair. I took great care not to shoot it in

12127-541: The "difficult task of playing mute for most of the film, but she delivers a grounded and believably terrified performance that's even stronger than her work in Halloween 4 ." Even in negative reviews of Halloween 5 as a whole, Harris's performance as Jamie still received praise, with Richard Harrington of the Los Angeles Times criticizing the film and asserting that Harris was "actually pretty good" in her role. Jamie's death in Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers

12308-530: The "perfect balance of innocence and bravery, as even though she was young, she fought for her life like any other adult character in the franchise." Dustin Pinney referred to Jamie as a "great character because we can relate to her" and "one of the brightest spots of the series" due to her determination and humanity. Jamie was well received in Halloween 4 , IGN opining that Harris "is very credible and relatable and took an idea that probably had some fans cringing --

12489-435: The 17th best out of 100 final girls. Jack Wilhelmi observed, "Like it or not, Jamie’s inclusion in the franchise brought a tremendous amount of depth and characterization to staples like Dr. Loomis and Michael Myers, giving them a foil to build off of and play against." Adrienne Tyler called Jamie "a very likable character" with just as much bravery as any other heroine in horror films and that the performance of Harris made Jamie

12670-703: The 1987 National Forensics League National Tournament. He attended the University of Kansas , where he majored in theater and belonged to the Sigma Nu fraternity's Nu Chapter. He studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts , with fellow actor Matthew Lillard . He also spent three months studying Jacobean drama at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford . While at acting school, he worked as

12851-869: The 2007 edition of the long-running sports documentary series Hard Knocks , which featured the Kansas City Chiefs , whom he continues to support. It was the only season not to feature the series' regular narrator, Liev Schreiber . Rudd appeared as John Lennon in the comedy film Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story in 2007; and as a drug-addled surf instructor in Nicholas Stoller 's Forgetting Sarah Marshall in 2008 with Jason Segel and Jonah Hill , both of which Apatow produced. Rudd had uncredited cameos in Year One (2009) and Bridesmaids (2011). In 2012, he starred in and co-produced with Apatow Wanderlust with Jennifer Aniston . He starred with Leslie Mann in

13032-469: The Akkad credit. The Scream Factory Blu-ray was repackaged and re-released in 2014 as part of the company's "Complete Collection," which features the entire film series. In October 2021, Scream Factory released Halloween II on 4K Ultra HD. The film was scanned from the original camera negative, and the transfer was approved by cinematographer Dean Cundey. Audio options include a new Dolby Atmos mix as well as

13213-663: The Broadway production of Richard Greenberg 's Three Days of Rain with Bradley Cooper and Julia Roberts at the Bernard Jacobs Theater. In 2012, Rudd appeared in the Broadway production of Craig Wright 's Grace at the Cort Theatre , with Academy Award nominee Michael Shannon , Kate Arrington, and seven-time Emmy Award winner Ed Asner . In 2000–2001, Rudd was in a production of Long Day's Journey Into Night with Jessica Lange , Charles Dance and Olivia Colman , at

13394-471: The TV reporter. Carvey originally had a bit of a bigger role, including some speaking scenes, before his scenes ultimately got mostly cut. Halloween executive producers Irwin Yablans and Moustapha Akkad invested heavily in the sequel, boasting a much larger budget than its predecessor: $ 2.5 million (compared to only $ 320,000 for the original). Italian film producer Dino De Laurentiis assisted in financing

13575-510: The Witch (1982), Christine (1983), and Prince of Darkness (1987). The film's score was a variation of Carpenter compositions from Halloween , particularly the main theme's familiar piano melody played in a compound 5/4 time rhythm . The score was performed on a synthesizer organ rather than a piano. One reviewer for the BBC described the revised score as having "a more gothic feel." The reviewer asserted that it "doesn't sound quite as good as

13756-465: The adult Michael Myers in the original. Veteran English actor Donald Pleasence continued the role of Dr. Sam Loomis, who had been Myers' psychiatrist for the past 15 years while Myers was institutionalized at Smith's Grove Sanitarium. Curtis (then 22), again played the teenage babysitter Laurie Strode, revealed in this film as the younger sister of Myers. Curtis required a wig for the role of long-haired Laurie Strode, as she had her own hair cut shorter at

13937-459: The altered scene's appeal for its gore and special effects. Harris made her eventual return to the series as Annie Brackett in Rob Zombie 's Halloween remake, as well as its subsequent sequel . Her representation contacted the filmmakers of the 2018 Halloween about reprising the role of Jamie in some way, but they were not interested. Not only are

14118-517: The cast previously or later appeared in films or television series by Universal Studios (the distributor for this film). Kramer was previously cast in a supporting role as Deputy Jeff Hendricks in Jaws and Jaws 2 (1978). In Halloween II , Kramer played Dr. Graham, a dentist who examines the charred remains of Ben Tramer. Rainey was chosen to play Haddonfield Memorial Hospital's drunk resident doctor, Frederick Mixter. A host of character actors were cast as

14299-477: The character of Jamie Lloyd dies early in the film, the initial versions of Farrands' script had her character surviving until the final act, at which point she was ultimately killed by Michael. When screenwriter Kevin Williamson first outlined Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998), he created the storyline in which Laurie Strode has faked her own death and taken on a new identity as a specific way of retconning

14480-442: The character's death in Halloween 4 . In Williamson's original treatment, there are scenes in which a Hillcrest student does a report on Michael Myers' killing spree, mentioning the death of Jamie, complete with flashbacks to 4-6 mentioned in the text. "Keri"/Laurie responds to hearing the student's report on the death of her daughter by going into a restroom and throwing up. In a controversial decision, director Steve Miner retconned

14661-506: The comedy film Clueless with Alicia Silverstone . Rudd followed Clueless with supporting roles films such as in Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers as Tommy Doyle, William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet , The Locusts , Overnight Delivery , The Object of My Affection , and 200 Cigarettes . He was in the cast of the 1999 film The Cider House Rules that received a SAG nomination for Outstanding Performance by

14842-458: The comedy-drama film The Fundamentals of Caring , alongside Selena Gomez , and lent his voice to the animated films The Little Prince and Sausage Party . He also lent his voice to a struggling actor named John in the animated comedy film Nerdland (2016), alongside Patton Oswalt . Rudd was also cast as the lead in The Catcher Was a Spy (2018), playing Moe Berg , a catcher for

15023-588: The continuity, thus erasing the Jamie Lloyd character from the new canon. After the release of Halloween: Resurrection , there were various ideas on how to proceed with a ninth installment. Josh Stolberg , who also unsuccessfully proposed a Hellraiser crossover with Bobby Florsheim , pitched Halloween: Bad Blood , which would have brought back Jamie Lloyd. The film would have been set between Halloween H20 and Halloween: Resurrection and depict Jamie as having survived multiple encounters with Michael in addition to having "honed her self defense capabilities." After

15204-404: The cut of Halloween II at the time. Schoolnik and Carpenter spent a weekend editing Goldblatt's cut of the film, ultimately excising around 14 minutes. During this editing process, Carpenter realized that an unresolved plot hole was present: It was unclear as to how Michael Myers was able to track Laurie to the hospital. To resolve this, Carpenter shot a sequence featuring a young boy walking on

15385-503: The deaths of Michael Myers and Dr. Loomis and leaves the audience in a gray area as to whether Jimmy survives, the television cut features an extended ending showing Jimmy alive (with a bandaged head wound from his slip) in the ambulance with Laurie Strode. They hold hands and Laurie says, "We made it." Halloween II was first released on VHS , Capacitance Electronic Disc , and LaserDisc in 1982 by MCA/Universal Home Video and later by Goodtimes Home Video . In 1998, Goodtimes released

15566-406: The decision to assist Dr. Loomis, "she both accepts her Final Girl status while also agreeing to use her feminized powers of empathy." Eric Browning writes that during Halloween 5 , Tina becomes Jamie's "primary caregiver" in the absence of Rachel and "cares more about Jamie than physical intimacy with her boyfriend". Daily Grind House observes that Rachel's death receives backlash "because it paves

15747-512: The distributor's promotion of the film as horror while at the same time stressing that the sequel, like its predecessor, "was more a quality suspense film than a 'slice and dice' horror film." Use of the tagline More Of The Night HE Came Home —a modified version of the original Halloween tagline—hoped to accomplish the same task. Universal released the film on October 30, 1981 in the United States on 1,211 screens. Internationally, Halloween II

15928-465: The early 1980s, with most of the graphic violence and blood edited out and many minor additional scenes added, while others are removed. This cut of the film was released in 2012 by Scream Factory on their Collector's Edition Blu-ray disc, and again in 2014 as a standalone DVD accompanying the "Complete Collection" Deluxe Edition Blu-ray set, which features entire series. The television cut runs approximately 92 minutes, roughly one minute less than

16109-498: The evil of her uncle. Little and McElroy did not return for the sequel. Little later said the duo would have furthered developed the relationship between Jamie and Rachel: "What we would have done was to work on the relationship between the sisters – between Danielle and Ellie – as I do think that was the core of the movie then. We clearly would’ve gone in a very different way, but it really wasn’t up to me to decide at that point because I didn’t have time to participate." The first draft of

16290-467: The family connection between Laurie and Michael. Stunt performer Dick Warlock played Michael Myers (as in Halloween , listed as "The Shape" in the credits), replacing Castle who was beginning a career as a director. Warlock's previous experience in film was as a stunt double in films, such as The Green Berets (1968) and Jaws (1975), and the 1974 television series Kolchak: The Night Stalker . In an interview, Warlock explained how he prepared for

16471-439: The film as continuing part of the prominent slasher trend, noting that Carpenter and Hill appear to be "picking up a few tricks from their imitators (most notably Friday the 13th )." Janet Maslin of The New York Times instead compared the film to other horror sequels and recently released slasher films of the period, rather than to its predecessor: "By the standards of most recent horror films, this—like its predecessor—is

16652-493: The film for its "reprehensible content," summarizing that " Halloween II , as a reprise, simply piles up a greater number of corpses." Roman Cooney of the Calgary Herald noted that while the film is "not the bloodbath other movies of its ilk have been, several of the murder scenes are so painfully gruesome as to be tasteless and more than merely distressing," and added that the plot is "convenient rather than complex, relying on

16833-558: The film for two Saturn Awards : Best Horror Film and Best Actor for Pleasence. The film lost to An American Werewolf in London (1981) and Harrison Ford was chosen over Pleasence for his role in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), respectively. Carpenter later said that he considered the film's twist that Laurie and Michael were siblings to be a bad idea and that he only came up with it because he

17014-407: The film in a 2-disc Collector's Edition Blu-ray on September 18, 2012, with new special features, including two audio commentaries, two "behind-the-scenes" featurettes, deleted scenes, an alternate ending, the theatrical trailer, TV and radio spots, and a still gallery. The Collector's Edition also contains the television cut, along with a downloadable script of the film. This Blu-ray release restores

17195-456: The film in unique ways. They save the film from complete obscurity and garner a good amount of sympathy for their characters." Jamie has drawn comparisons to Tommy Jarvis from the Friday the 13th franchise as both are child characters introduced in the fourth installment of their respective series who defeat the killer and are also "foreshadowed to become the killer themselves" before appearing in

17376-401: The film notes that "Carpenter, concerned that the picture would be deemed too 'tame' by the slasher audience, re-filmed several death scenes with more gore." When asked about his role in the directing process, Carpenter told an interviewer: That's a long, long story. That was a project I got involved in as a result of several different kinds of pressure. I had no influence over the direction of

17557-487: The film on DVD in a non-anamorphic version. Three years later, on September 18, 2001, Universal Home Video released an anamorphic widescreen DVD. The film received its first North American Blu-ray released on September 13, 2011, through Universal, packaged as a 30th Anniversary Edition. This release sparked controversy immediately due to the fact that Universal removed the credit " Moustapha Akkad Presents" and replaced it with "Universal, An MCA Company, Presents"... in

17738-403: The film was to "bridge the later films (4–5) in the series to the earlier films (1–2) while at the same time taking the story into new territory so that the series could expand for future installments." Akkad told Farrands that while he liked the script, he felt it was too long and needed to be cut in half with the first half serving as the basis for the sixth film. The script by Farrands featured

17919-474: The film, Carpenter refused to direct and originally approached Tommy Lee Wallace , the art director from the original Halloween , to take the helm. Carpenter told one interviewer: "I had made that film once and I really didn't want to do it again." After Wallace declined, Carpenter chose Rosenthal, a relatively unknown and inexperienced director whose previous credits included episodes of the television series Secrets of Midland Heights (1980–1981). Rosenthal

18100-439: The film. The theatrical distribution rights to Halloween II were sold to Universal Pictures . To advertise Halloween II , Universal printed a poster that featured a skull superimposed onto a pumpkin. This imagery is described by film historian and sociologist Robert E. Kapsis as "an unmistakable horror motif." Kapsis points out that by 1981 horror had "become a genre non grata " with critics. The effect of this can be seen in

18281-494: The film. I had an influence in the post-production . I saw a rough cut of Halloween II , and it wasn't scary. It was about as scary as Quincy . So we had to do some post-production work to bring it at least up to par with the competition. Rosenthal was not pleased with Carpenter's changes. He reportedly complained that Carpenter "ruined [my] carefully paced film." Regardless, many of the graphic scenes contained elements not seen before in film. Roger Ebert claims, "This movie has

18462-492: The final girls in the Halloween franchise, Jake Dee observed that Jamie “overcomes her past trauma and schoolyard bullying for being related to Michael Myers, only to have her homicidal uncle stalk her mercilessly and relentlessly”. Dee notes the character overcoming her uncle's mental hold on her and “her own sense of evil” and cites this as making her one of Michael's strongest opponents. Princess Weekes of The Mary Sue writes that Jamie works as an effective protagonist due to

18643-536: The first close-up I can remember of a hypodermic needle being inserted into an eyeball." The film is often categorized as a splatter film rather than a slasher film due to the elevated level of gore. Carpenter composed and performed the score with Alan Howarth , who had previously been involved in Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), and worked with Carpenter on several projects including Escape from New York (1981), Halloween III: Season of

18824-461: The first film, notes that the plot of the sequel was rather simple: "The plot of Halloween II absolutely depends, of course, on our old friend the Idiot Plot , which requires that everyone in the movie behave at all times like an idiot. That's necessary because if anyone were to use common sense, the problem would be solved and the movie would be over." Hill rebuffed such critiques by arguing that "in

19005-830: The first time since The 40-Year-Old Virgin for the Jay Roach -directed comedy Dinner for Schmucks . In 2012, he had a supporting role in the drama The Perks of Being a Wallflower , playing Mr. Anderson, a teacher of Charlie, played by Logan Lerman . He starred in the 2011 comedy-drama film Our Idiot Brother with Elizabeth Banks , Zooey Deschanel , and Emily Mortimer . It was the fifth film that Rudd starred in with Elizabeth Banks. He had previously appeared with her in Wet Hot American Summer (2001), The Baxter (2005), The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005) and Role Models (2008). In 2012, Rudd signed to appear on four episodes of NBC's Parks and Recreation as Bobby Newport,

19186-456: The first time. However, subsequent rewrites changed her to 'Karen', removed any connection to the character of Jamie and actress Judy Greer was cast as Karen with a different backstory. Danielle Harris, who portrayed the character as a child, expressed disappointment that Laurie would be depicted as having a daughter that was not Jamie, while she hadn't minded Laurie having a son instead in H20. The film

19367-575: The fourth through sixth movies can be seen on his books, one of which is Jamie. The cancelled comic Halloween: The Mark of Thorn was to feature Jamie, as well as Tommy Doyle, Rachel Carruthers and the Man in Black. In 2019, Trick Or Treat Studios released clown costumes based on Jamie's costume in Halloween 4 . She is also featured in the first series of the Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers Wall Decor Collection. Patrick Bromley observed that incorporating children into horror franchise sequels "is usually

19548-558: The framework of the storyline." Melissa Joan Hart had auditioned for the role, among various other girls. Up against her was Danielle Harris, who had previously had a reoccurring role on the daytime soap opera One Life to Live as Samantha Garretson; Harris was ultimately cast in the role after auditioning in New York. Jamie Lloyd was Danielle Harris' first feature film role, for which she appears at horror conventions and on Halloween series-related websites. Little recalled Harris coming to

19729-451: The genre in the eighties." Like the original Halloween , this and other slasher films have come under fire from feminist critics. According to historian Nicholas Rogers, academic critics "have seen the slasher movies since Halloween as debasing women in as decisive a manner as hardcore pornography ." In 1982, the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films , USA, nominated

19910-509: The governor's orders and under the enforcement of a US Marshal . On the way, she tells him that Laurie is Michael's younger sister; she was put up for adoption after the death of Michael's parents, with the records sealed to protect the family. Realizing that Michael is after Laurie and being told she was brought to Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, Loomis forces the marshal at gunpoint to drive back to Haddonfield. Jill finally finds Laurie, only to be killed by Michael, who then pursues Laurie through

20091-406: The head tilt were the things I carried with me into Halloween II . I didn't really see that much more to hang my hat on in the first film. Warlock also claims that the mask he wore was the same one Nick Castle used in the first film. Hill confirmed this in an interview. The supporting cast consisted of relatively unknown actors and actresses, except for Jeffrey Kramer and Ford Rainey . Most of

20272-399: The heroine role previously held by Laurie Strode as the pair of sisters "are stalked by Myers, who in turn is hunted by both a scarred, limping Loomis and a mob of trigger-happy hillbillies." Little said that Jamie and Rachel had the "universal fear" of being "in a group of people and then suddenly, you are completely alone, isolated and scared." He recounted wanting to explore this feeling with

20453-458: The highest-grossing film of all time . He reprised his role in 2023 with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania . Rudd reprised his role as Andy from Wet Hot American Summer in the Netflix prequel Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp , alongside an ensemble cast including Bradley Cooper , Amy Poehler and Elizabeth Banks, all reprising their roles from the 2001 film. In 2016, he appeared in

20634-650: The hospital's staff. Many were acquaintances of director Rosenthal. He told an interviewer, "I'd been studying acting with Milton Katselas at the Beverly Hills Playhouse and I brought many people from the Playhouse into Halloween 2 ." These included Pamela Susan Shoop , Leo Rossi , Ana Alicia and Gloria Gifford. Rossi played the part of Budd Scarlotti, a hypersexual EMS driver; Rossi as well as several others, such as Stephens, had been members of an acting class with Rosenthal. Shoop played Nurse Karen Bailey, who

20815-405: The hospital, where he cuts the phone lines and disables all the cars in the parking lot by slashing all the cars’ tires so no one can escape and call for help. Wandering the halls in search of Laurie, he kills the security guard, the doctor, paramedic, and several nurses throughout the night. In her hospital room, Laurie dreams about the time she learned she was adopted, and remembers she once visited

20996-460: The hospital. She manages to escape to the parking lot and hides in a car. Jimmy regains consciousness and soon arrives and tries to start and drive the car to safety, but passes out again due to the concussion sustained from the slip and fall causing the horn to blare, attracting Michael's attention. Loomis, Marion, and the marshal reach the hospital just in time to save Laurie. Loomis shoots Michael until he falls down, seemingly dead. While Marion calls

21177-523: The jokes, Rudd has explained that sleep, diet, and exercise are his holy grail of anti-aging. He reported that eight hours of sleep, along with cardio, exercise with weights, and healthy meals, make it possible for him to defy aging. Rudd identifies as Jewish, although he has also admitted that he is not "particularly religious." Rudd is a supporter of the Stuttering Association for the Young (SAY),

21358-461: The killer retroactively hurts Halloween 4 and "the dumb psychic link that replaced Jamie’s actual villainy in Halloween 5 is lame and serves to push the fifth installment into 'worst of the franchise' territory, just like Friday the 13th: Part V ." Chad Collins called the psychic connection between Jamie and Michael "psychobabble and more complicated than it needs to be. Worse still—and I say this as

21539-592: The kiss of death" but that Jamie's inclusion in Halloween 4 revitalized the series. According to Bromley, "Jamie has been dealt a difficult hand by life: orphaned at a young age, Jamie feels like an outcast at school" while wanting to fit in and have normalcy, Bromley crediting the performance by Harris with evoking "the character's innate sadness without turning Jamie into a mope." Megan Summers of Ranker calls Jamie "the emotional core" of Halloween 4 and that "Jamie tries her best to defend herself as Michael closes in on her" despite her age and background. In his ranking of

21720-471: The late night comedy shows hosted by comedian Conan O'Brien , when promoting his projects Rudd would explain the clip that is about to be shown, but would then throw to a clip from the 1988 movie Mac and Me instead. Rudd admitted that he "never imagined" that the running gag would last so long. "There's something so tricky about it. Cause here I am. I'm gonna sell my wares on TV. Like, 'Here's something from what I just filmed.' It just seemed—and still does to

21901-415: The movies that tell the tale of Jamie Lloyd incredibly underrated in general, her character has, in many ways, suffered the most of any character in the franchise. In 2013, Jamie was ranked 520th on Empire's The 666 Greatest Horror Movie Characters . Screen Rant listed Jamie as the eighth best Halloween character. /Film ranked Jamie as the 3rd best Halloween character. Medium.com lists Jamie as

22082-424: The mysterious "Man in Black" attacks the police station and frees Michael. Jamie enters to see numerous police officers dead and Michael gone, causing her to sob in terror. In Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995), a deleted scene included in the Producer's Cut shows the Man in Black kidnapping Jamie (portrayed by a combination of Harris via footage from the previous film and a similarly aged body double in

22263-436: The narrative arc of the series in the subsequent films. It was retconned in Halloween , the 2018 rebooted sequel of the franchise, when Laurie's granddaughter Allyson ( Andi Matichak ) dismisses the idea that Laurie and Michael are siblings as "just something people made up." Screenwriter Danny McBride felt that Michael Myers would be scarier if he had no motive for killing people. Film critic Roger Ebert , who praised

22444-449: The opening scene of the original Halloween due to both her clown costume resembling his and the point-of-view shot through her mask and that the conclusion showed "Michael is victorious even in death, for his evil has infected his family." Dominique Othenin-Girard said he wanted Jamie to have the chance to redeem herself after stabbing her stepmother. Girard believed removing Jamie's speaking ability would give her "a heavy punishment and

22625-463: The original piece", but "it still remains a classic piece of music." The film featured the song " Mr. Sandman " performed by The Chordettes , which would later be featured in the opening scenes of Halloween H20: 20 Years Later . Reviewers commented on the decision to include this song in the film, calling the selection "interesting" and "not a song you would associate with a film like this." The song worked well to "mimic Laurie's situation (sleeping

22806-453: The original. Wallace explains: "Since the release of Halloween , horror movies had changed. There was inflation involved in terms of violence and gore and what you saw onscreen, to the point that John [Carpenter] felt like he was in a box—he could not do the same thing that Halloween had been doing." According to the film's official website, "Carpenter came in and directed a few sequences to clean up some of Rosenthal's work." One reviewer of

22987-443: The performance of Harris and "the fact that she as a child was being thrust into these terrible situations." Weekes views Jamie as a foil to Michael who reminds the audience of "the fragility of childhood and how easy it is for a child to be warped into becoming something they are not" and asserts that Jamie could have become like Michael if she did not have a support group who helped her. David Crow of Den of Geek cites Jamie, as she

23168-459: The place was once again Haddonfield, Illinois. The character of Laurie Strode was revealed to have died, leaving Britti with the Carruthers family, which included Rachel, the family's seventeen-year-old daughter. Britti's name was later changed to Jamie, a homage to Laurie Strode actress Jamie Lee Curtis. The ending of Halloween 4 features Jamie stabbing her foster mother as she seemingly inherits

23349-460: The police at the Wallace residence. Upon learning his daughter has been killed by Michael, Sheriff Brackett blames Loomis and abandons the search, leaving Deputy Gary Hunt to take his place. At the hospital, paramedic Jimmy develops an attraction to Laurie, but head nurse Virginia Alves limits the time he spends with her. After hearing a newsflash revealing Laurie's location, Michael makes his way to

23530-399: The police on the marshal's radio, the marshal tries to check Michael's pulse as Loomis warns him to stay away, knowing he isn't dead. Michael revives and slits the marshal's throat with a scalpel . Loomis and Laurie run into an operating room, where he gives her the marshal's gun before being stabbed by Michael. Laurie shoots Michael in both eyes, blinding him. As he swings the scalpel around

23711-416: The pool of blood has been significantly shortened (or removed altogether in some prints) and moved just prior to the explosion which kills Myers and Loomis. Jill's stabbing is less graphic, and a moan from the ground implies she might have survived it. Also added are scenes of Michael cutting the power (this explains the dark setting throughout the latter half of the film) and a power generator kicking in. There

23892-559: The previous DTS-HD 5.1 mix and the film's original two channel mix presented in DTS-HD 2.0. The included Blu-ray also features the new 4k scan and Atmos mix. A third DVD also includes the TV cut that was available in Scream Factory's previous collector's editions. Trick or Treat Studios has released a series of officially licensed Halloween II masks, costumes, and props from Universal Studios, beginning in October 2012. Some of these include

24073-482: The production. There was discussion of filming Halloween II in 3-D ; Hill said, "We investigated a number of 3-D processes ... but they were far too expensive for this particular project. Also, most of the projects we do involve a lot of night shooting—evil lurks at night. It's hard to do that in 3-D." Dean Cundey , the director of photography on the first film, reprised his role as cinematographer, opting out of shooting Tobe Hooper 's Poltergeist (1982) as he felt

24254-453: The pseudonym Jack Martin. Etchison's novelization was distributed by Kensington Books and became a bestseller. It also features captioned black and white stills from the film at the beginning of each chapter. The film grossed $ 7,446,508 on its opening weekend, ranking number one at the box office, and ultimately went on to gross $ 25,533,818; the film sold approximately 9,184,827 tickets during its initial theatrical domestic run, less than half

24435-421: The role a year later in Halloween 5 . Adam Tyner lauded Harris as "once again exceptional in the lead role, contributing a soulful and intense performance that few actors of any age could hope to rival." WhatCulture wrote that Harris led Halloween 5 with a "sensational child actor performance". Both Eric Goldman and Louis Peitzman called Harris the best part of Halloween 5 , with Peitzman adding that Harris had

24616-475: The role for the sixth installment, now titled Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers , but the producers and Dimension Films reportedly refused to pay her the $ 5,000 she requested, and she was not fond of the script. The role was instead given to actress J. C. Brandy , who was a Halloween fan herself. Like Harris, the role was Brandy's first in a feature film. Brandy had conversations with Daniel Farrands about John Carpenter and The Fog and recalled "knowing I

24797-463: The role of Deputy Gary Hunt. He admitted in an interview that he had never watched Halloween before being cast in the part. He stated, "I did not see the original first but being from a small town, I wanted the Deputy to have compassion." Nancy Stephens , who played Loomis's nurse colleague Marion Chambers in the original, also reprised the character and was given a more important role, revealing to Loomis

24978-424: The role since Myers received far more screen time in the sequel than the original. Warlock said: [I watched the scenes] where Laurie is huddled in the closet. Michael breaks through. She grabs a hanger and thrusts it up and into his eyes. Michael falls down and Laurie walks to the bedroom doorway and sits down. In the background, we see Michael sit up and turn towards her to the beat of the music. ... Anyway, that and

25159-411: The scene in Halloween 4 in which Jamie and Rachel are separated while trick-or-treating and this fear was "not just unique to Jamie because she’s a small child." "At the inception of the film, the innocence and vulnerability of Jamie contrasted with the stern and nonchalant demeanor of Rachel," Rodoflo Salas wrote. Salas explained that the relationship progresses after Rachel recognizes "her selfishness

25340-456: The screenplay for Halloween 5 was written by Shem Bitterman. Bitterman's screenplay was written to have Jamie Lloyd becoming evil after stabbing her foster mother in Halloween 4 . This idea was rejected by the studio and Akkad, who brought in Michael Jacobs to re-write the script. After reviewing the screenplay, director Othenin-Girard added Jamie's inability to speak to the draft, along with

25521-620: The script across his room after he finished reading it. The script mentions Jamie as having disappeared and she has a brief appearance "in the form of a series of rapid shots during the Samhain/virtual reality segment: Surrounded by scattering rats, Jamie screams as she is trapped in a cage made of human bones." In June 1994, Farrands was hired to write a new screenplay, as the film had an impending shooting date scheduled for October in Salt Lake City, Utah. Farrands has said his initial intent for

25702-405: The sequel a few years after the events of Halloween . They planned to have Myers track Laurie Strode to her new home in a high-rise apartment building. However, the setting was later changed to Haddonfield Hospital in script meetings. Tommy Lee Wallace , who served on the crew of the original film, stated that "no one was all that excited" over the prospect of a sequel, but producer Irwin Yablans

25883-528: The series and told Farrands to come up with another idea; Farrands believed that "Jamie Lee Curtis with Danielle Harris would have been such a cool way to bring the whole thing full circle. That would have been a nice way to connect all the dots." Farrands expanded the "Curse of Thorn" plot line, in which Jamie Lloyd is kidnapped by a covert cult who has cursed Michael Myers via the Runic symbol of Thorn, which compels him to kill and also affords him immortality . While

26064-500: The series with Halloween H20: 20 Years Later . This installment retained Laurie's faked death from Williamson's treatment, revealing that she did so in order to avoid detection by her relentless brother. Under a new identity, Laurie has fled to Summer Glen, California , along with her only son, John Tate ( Josh Hartnett ). However, to focus more on the Laurie Strode character, the events of parts 4, 5, and 6 are implicitly written out of

26245-471: The session with her mother and that they "knew the minute she walked into the room" that they wanted her as Jamie, citing her intelligence. Little said that Harris "really just got it from the beginning" and was without tantrums, whining, or crying. Little did not remember the other auditions for the part of Jamie: "To me, in my memory, Jamie Lloyd was always Danielle." Ellie Cornell described Harris as "very precocious, very grown-up, very centred, and her mother

26426-632: The sibling bond between Jamie and Rachel causes the latter to "is what makes the suspense scenes reach such a high level of anxiety." Commentary is directed toward Jamie's role in the ending of Halloween 4 . Reviewing the film upon its release, The New York Times opined that the ending promised "a sequel with a feminist twist." Spencer Whitworth writes that although it appears Michael has finally been vanquished, his wickedness "has survived, and it has passed to his innocent niece" and that "Jamie stands as an emotionless dead ringer of her uncle". Whitworth furthers that "Jamie's transformation and Loomis' despair

26607-438: The space violently, the two fill the room with flammable gas. Loomis orders Laurie to get out before igniting the gas, immolating himself and Michael in an explosion. Laurie watches as Michael, engulfed in flames, emerges from the fire before finally collapsing. The next morning, she is transferred to another hospital, traumatized but alive. Carpenter and Hill, the writers of the first Halloween , had originally considered setting

26788-407: The street with a portable radio playing a news broadcast concerning the murders and Laurie's whereabouts; as the boy walks along, he accidentally bumps into Michael, and resumes walking. According to Warlock, Carpenter also shot the close-up footage of Michael's burning body shown at the film's conclusion, as well as the murder sequence of Anne Bruner, a teenage girl who is killed by Michael early in

26969-453: The stuff you really look forward to as a kid. You really don’t think about the fact that you’re working, because you’re young and having so much fun." Besides Harris, the other child actor to have a major role in Halloween 5 was Jeffrey Landman, who portrayed Billy. Landman watched Halloween 4 with Harris and her mother to become familiar with the series. Before filming started, Harris and Landman were brought to Salt Lake City to be trained by

27150-401: The style of the first movie. I wanted it to feel like a two-parter. You have the responsibility and the restraints of the style that's been set. It was the same crew. My philosophy was to do more of a thriller than a slasher movie. The decision to include more gore and nudity in the sequel was not made by Rosenthal, who contends that it was Carpenter who chose to make the film much bloodier than

27331-435: The theatrical version. There are also many edits. The murder of Dr. Mixter is presumed to still happen, but remains off camera; as does Janet's, although dialogue indicates she might have also gone home at the end of her shift instead of being killed. The scene where Michael stalks Alice is recut to imply that he attacks and kills her neighbor Mrs. Elrod instead. Jimmy's discovery of Mrs. Alves dead and his subsequent slipping in

27512-490: The tickets sold by its 1978 predecessor but still ranking fourth overall in the Halloween franchise's sales. While the gross earnings of the sequel paled in comparison to the original's $ 47 million, it was a success in its own right, exceeding the earnings of other films of the same genre released in 1981: Graduation Day ($ 23.9 million), Friday the 13th Part 2 ($ 21.7 million), Omen III: The Final Conflict ($ 20.4 million) and The Howling ($ 18 million). Halloween II

27693-404: The time. Charles Cyphers reprised the role of Sheriff Leigh Brackett, though his character disappears from the film when the corpse of his daughter Annie ( Nancy Loomis ) is discovered. Nancy Loomis appears as Annie in a cameo role as her father, Sheriff Brackett, closes her eyes as her corpse is being taken out of the house in a stretcher. Actor Hunter von Leer heads the manhunt for Myers in

27874-488: The trial People v. Boyer (1989). The couple were stabbed 43 times by Boyer. According to the trial transcript, Boyer's defense was that he suffered from hallucinations in the Harbitz residence brought on by "the movie Halloween II , which defendant had seen under the influence of PCP , marijuana, and alcohol." The film was played for the jury, and a psychopharmacologist "pointed out various similarities between its scenes and

28055-490: The visions defendant described." Boyer was found guilty and sentenced to death. The incident became known as the " Halloween II Murders" and was featured in a short segment on TNT 's MonsterVision , hosted by film critic Joe Bob Briggs . Following the trial, moral critics came to the defense of horror films and rejected calls to ban them. Thomas M. Sipos, for instance, stated, It would be silly, after all, to ban horror films just because Boyer claims to have thought that he

28236-440: The visual elements of the previous film "until we [the audience] get to the hospital ...  Once we're in there, I got a certain freedom: long corridors, moody dark lighting, all of that." In an interview with Luke Ford , Rosenthal explains: The first movie I ever did [Halloween II] was a sequel, but it was supposed to be a direct continuation. It started one minute after the first movie ended. You have to try hard to maintain

28417-428: The way for Tina to be our lead alongside Jamie, and Tina is often referred to as an annoying personality, which I disagree with because while she’s a bit much – very brash indeed, she’s also deeply sympathetic and protective to Jamie which I find to be heartening." Mark Ziobro opined that Jamie's connection with Tina and the performance of Harris are the best parts of Halloween 5 , citing some of their scenes as adding "to

28598-418: Was "pedestrian and predictable." The plot twist of Laurie being Michael's sister was initially never planned by Carpenter or Hill, but was conceived, according to Carpenter, "purely as a function of having decided to become involved in the sequel to the movie where I didn't think there was really much of a story left." He would later refer to this plotline as "silly" and "foolish," though it would go on to shape

28779-896: Was Goldstein; his parents were second cousins. Rudd had a Bar Mitzvah service in Ontario , Canada. Growing up, he loved reading the British comics The Beano and The Dandy , which his uncle sent him from the United Kingdom . When Rudd was ten, his family moved to Lenexa in Johnson County, Kansas . Because of his father's occupation, they also spent three years in Anaheim, California . In Kansas, Rudd attended Broadmoor Junior High and graduated from Shawnee Mission West High School in 1987. He placed 5th in Humorous Interpretation at

28960-421: Was a box office success, becoming the second-highest grossing horror film of 1981 behind An American Werewolf in London ($ 30.5 million). On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , the film holds an approval rating of 34% based on 47 reviews and a weighted average rating of 4.80/10. The site's critical consensus reads: " Halloween II picks up where its predecessor left off – and quickly wanders into

29141-502: Was assigned to the film, Lance Guest was the first name I wrote down on my list for Alex after seeing him in Halloween II ." Castle adds, "He possessed all the qualities I wanted the character to express on the screen, a kind of innocence, shyness, yet determination." Future Saturday Night Live and Wayne's World star Dana Carvey also appears briefly in a non-speaking role, wearing a blue baseball cap and receiving instructions from

29322-417: Was brought in to the write the script for Halloween 4 . The writer's strike was to begin on March 7 that year. This forced McElroy to develop a concept, pitch the story, and send in the final draft in under eleven days. McElroy came up with the idea of Brittany "Britti" Lloyd, Laurie Strode's daughter, to be chased by her uncle, who has escaped from Ridgemont after being in a coma for ten years. The setting of

29503-468: Was chosen to direct based on a short film he had made, The Toyer , while a student at the American Film Institute . Debra Hill had also considered directing at one point, but did not want to appear as "just a protégé" of Carpenter. Stylistically, Rosenthal attempted to recreate the elements and themes of the original film, stating: "conceptually, it's not at all my film. It's a continuation of

29684-465: Was determined that Embassy would retain rights to The Fog , while Yablans's Compass International Pictures would be guaranteed production rights for Halloween II . The sequel was intended to conclude the story of Michael Myers and Laurie Strode. The third film, Halloween III: Season of the Witch , released a year later, contained a plot that deviated wholly from that of the first two films. Wallace, who went on to direct Halloween III , stated, "It

29865-482: Was distributed by Universal Pictures , and premiered in the United States on October 30, 1981. The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $ 25 million domestically. A sequel with an unrelated story, titled Halloween III: Season of the Witch , was released in 1982. A direct sequel, Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers , was released in 1988. Another direct sequel, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later ,

30046-790: Was drunk and looking for more material to include in the NBC television cut of the first film. Quentin Tarantino criticized Halloween II and every sequel that followed in its continuity for the same reason, calling it "fruit from a poison tree because Laurie is not the sister of the Shape." An incident with minor connections to the film heightened attitudes about the potent effects of media violence on young people. On December 7, 1982, Richard Delmer Boyer of El Monte, California , murdered Francis and Eileen Harbitz, an elderly couple in Fullerton, California, leading to

30227-431: Was eager to make a second film. When Yablans approached them about the project, Carpenter and Hill were in the midst of developing The Fog (1980). According to Yablans, he had planned to produce The Fog , but that Robert Rehme intervened and acquired production rights with his company, Embassy Pictures as part of a two-picture deal with Hill and Carpenter. A lawsuit between Yablans and Rehme ensued, after which it

30408-398: Was intended to finish the story of Michael Myers and Laurie Strode. It also introduces the plot twist of Laurie Strode being the sister of Michael Myers, an element that would form the narrative arc of the series in subsequent films after Halloween II —including Rob Zombie 's remake and its sequel —but was dropped from the current series' canon from the 2018 film onwards. Halloween II

30589-589: Was officially confirmed as cast in the 2015 Marvel film Ant-Man . He played lead character Scott Lang/Ant-Man . Rudd reprised his role in Captain America: Civil War (2016) as well as Ant-Man ' s 2018 sequel, Ant-Man and the Wasp ; he also co-wrote the latter. Rudd returned alongside Evangeline Lilly in Avengers: Endgame (2019), which received critical acclaim and went on to become

30770-515: Was our way of being able to expand out the franchise and make it so that we weren’t having to go after the same person every single time with each movie.” Development on a direct sequel suddenly halted when Moustapha Akkad was killed in the 2005 Amman hotel bombings while attending a wedding in Jordan , and his son Malek decided to take the series in a different direction. Early on, the script for Halloween (2018) had Jamie appear alongside Laurie for

30951-440: Was possible for someone to easily recognize which scenes were added later, citing their lack of lighting and depth. The reshoots altered Jamie's death from being killed with a silencer pistol in a hospital to her being impaled in a barn. Brandy preferred the original because "it was unnatural to have that line they gave me in the barn and it felt really forced, with blades going through my stomach", though she admitted to understanding

31132-479: Was reenacting Halloween II , or to ban cars because Texas housewife Clara Harris intentionally ran down and killed her husband. Nor does it make sense to ban otherwise useful items such as drugs or guns just because some individuals misuse them. Paul Rudd Paul Stephen Rudd (born April 6, 1969) is an American actor. He studied theater at the University of Kansas and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts before making his acting debut in 1991. He received

31313-446: Was released in 1998, which acknowledges only the first two films. On October 31, 1978 in the town of Haddonfield, Illinois, Michael Myers is shot by his psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis and falls off a balcony. He survives his wounds and escapes into the night. Wandering the alleys, he steals a kitchen knife from an elderly couple and kills the teenage girl next door. Meanwhile, Laurie Strode , who narrowly avoided being killed that night,

31494-621: Was released throughout Europe, but it was banned in West Germany from December 1990 until January 2024 and Iceland due to the graphic violence and nudity; a later 1986 release on home video was banned in Norway. The film was shown in Canada, Australia, the Philippines, and Japan. An alternate version of Halloween II (sometimes referred to as 'The Television Cut') has aired on network television since

31675-407: Was reluctant to extend his involvement and mostly refused to direct, instead appointing the direction to Rosenthal. Filming took place in the spring of 1981, primarily at Morningside Hospital in Los Angeles , California, on a budget of $ 2.5 million. Stylistically, Halloween II reproduces certain key elements that made the original Halloween a success, such as first-person camera perspectives, and

31856-446: Was steamrolling over Jamie" and tries to bring her joy during Halloween ahead of Michael encountering the pair: "Once Michael Myers arrived, Rachel took charge and fought back against Jamie's psychotic uncle on rooftops, schoolyards, and streets. She pulled out all the stops to save her sister." Chris Sasaguay wrote that Jamie demonstrated forced maturity when she commanded herself to stop crying before Rachel could see her and insisted that

32037-474: Was stepping into a part that people were so attached to with another actor, and that’s not easy". Brandy went into hypothermia during the filming of her character's escape scene, as there was a snow storm that caused shooting to cease multiple times. Reshoots for the film took place in Los Angeles, California in the summer of 1995. Brandy described the cast as being "pretty bummed about the reshoots" and believed it

32218-418: Was still credited on the packaging. Fans immediately called for a boycott of the disc and set up a Facebook page. On November 28, Universal began sending out emails announcing that the revised Blu-ray was now available and for owners of the previous disc to provide the studio with their "address and daytime phone number" to receive replacements. Scream Factory , a subsidiary of Shout! Factory , re-released

32399-430: Was the tool for the character to 'help' out the hunt for Michael Myers." Jason Barr notes Halloween 4 , Halloween 5 , Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood , and A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child as being slasher films of the late 1980s that "feature a Final Girl with telekinetic or psychic powers". Barr observes that Jamie "has a psychic bond with Michael Myers that slowly drives her insane" and notices

32580-454: Was there. Danielle was awesome, we got along extremely." Cornell said she and Harris got along famously and that they were in a "partnership – we had so many scenes together – and she made it easy." When asked about her fondness memories of working in the Halloween franchise, Cornell replied that "it was working with Dwight and Danielle" and described the support she and Harris felt: "It can be an isolating experience to be on location, living in

32761-411: Was written by Carpenter and Hill. Carpenter described that his writing of the screenplay "mainly dealt with a lot of beer, sitting in front of a typewriter saying 'What the fuck am I doing? I don't know.'" In a 1981 interview with Fangoria magazine, Hill mentions the finished film differs somewhat from initial drafts of the screenplay. Upon receiving the script, Yablans was disappointed as he felt it

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