Nov 2, 2008 by B. Alan Orange

Halloween 2 Going to Theaters Instead of Direct-to DVD

Despite Dimension Films announcing two weeks ago that Halloween 2 would be a Direct-to-DVD sequel, producer Malek Akkad said at this weekend's Halloween: 30 Years of Terror convention in Pasadena that any and all sequels would first have a theatrical release. According to Bloody Disgusting, the next installment will be a direct follow-up to Rob Zombie's 2007 Halloween remake.

Though it is not known if this next film will follow Michael Myers adventures in a hospital, as 1981's original Halloween II did, it was reported that Tyler Mane, the man behind the mask in Zombie's installment, would be returning as the omnipresent killer.

No further story details have been released. The film does not have a set start date at this time.

Halloween II was released August 28th, 2009 and stars Sheri Moon Zombie, Chase Wright Vanek, Scout Taylor-Compton, Brad Dourif, Caroline Williams, Malcolm McDowell, Tyler Mane, Dayton Callie. The film is directed by Rob Zombie.


Sources: Bloody Disgusting

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Comments (25)

  1. Mieko_Siede

    lol @ err... Sometimes when I get an opinion it just flows out until I feel the point is made.

    3 years agoby @mieko-siedeFlag

  2. Orionbolt

    Uhhh I'm not sure about this movie. I guess u could have him have massive brain damage. After that gunshot he took.

    3 years agoby @orionboltFlag

  3. T.Clark

    I read it, but while I was reading it, I told myself it was a review and not a comment lol Well said, though, mieko

    3 years agoby @insertusernamehereFlag

  4. Err

    mieko doesn't seem to appreciate the seriousness of the adhd phenomena overtaking americas youth.

    translation: im not reading any of that.

    3 years agoby @err2005Flag

  5. HESSIAN

    I love Michael Myers like family, but how are they gonna get a Part 2 out of this? Wasn't he shot point blank in the head at the end? Sh*t, what am I talking about? This is Hollywood, maybe she missed and shot his shoulder or some stupid thing like that. Money talks ya'll.

    3 years agoby @hessianFlag

  6. JR

    yes i know toture isnt scary, im not a gorehound. i seen movies that are based on terror and not gore that i liked.

    strangers

    exorcist

    and a few others. but i indeed liked it more i found the original boring and just not entertaing you may think im into the new films and hate all originals thats not true. i like jaws,exorcist friday the 13 and many others so its not the remake thing just think of this as a new movie if you hate it and its way better, i just didnt like the original it was boring. and i dont find vilolence scary i find it shocking and entertaing..lol but i though his was better. and for those of you who said myers was a p*ssy for having a heart? are you nuts the sequels showed more of his heart dumbass'es and showed more sympaphy for him like robs. btw, i do enjoy gory films though..lol

    3 years agoby @jokerrules33Flag

  7. T.Clark

    @ Crypt: And HIS vision sucked.

    @ JR: The original was based on REAL terror. Rob's was, your right, NOT scary, but your wrong that it was MORE scary. His was based on VIOLENCE, not TERROR. You, JR, are just so blinded by blood that you forget what true terror is. Terror isn't "torture porn." Torture Porn, such as in Halloween or Hostel, is designed to get you horny, and then slash the horniness right out of ya when ya see the girl get thier throat slashed while getting porked...NOT scary

    3 years agoby @insertusernamehereFlag

  8. JR

    blah! i found the remake better...yes i know let the hate begin, but the original isnt realy that good esipacily now, the original was slow,boring and not scary at all. back then yes but now? hell no! rob's wasnt scary either but at least it was more scary, brutal and was faster pace. now sure it had its problems 'but' what movie dosent? and stop bitching oh its so bad! an yet the pepole who are trashing rob i see are a big fan, and they love devils rejects. stupid pepole, i bet all you young kids are saying that to look cool to the adults. i see it on youtube some guy said the original was awsome i saw it when it was out and young and it was way better! bull sh*t he was 16 years old when he said that. fuccking haters.

    3 years agoby @jokerrules33Flag

  9. The CryptKeeper

    For all you guys that DIDN'T like Zombie's remake, you totally missed it. It was HIS vision, and that's it. Zombie had always been a Halloween fan all his life, and he finally got to make it, according to him. He wasn't doing a remake, he was doing it HIS way. And no, it's not the same thing.

    and and what the hell? Why would they even THINK to make a movie like this to be a direct to DVD film? But I am glad to know there will be a sequel. Hopefully it'll be better than the original Halloween II, because that one sucked.

    3 years agoby @catwomanFlag

  10. Stallion889

    ACTUALLY THE REMAKE FROM ZOMBIE SUCKED!!!!!!! IT DID EVERYTHING WRONG... IT TRIED TO GIVE A SOUL TO A SOULESS MURDER.. THAT IS THE WHOLE PART, MICHAEL MYERS IS SOULLESS, RUTHLESS, MURDER WITH NO HEART. JUST TO KILL... F*CK ROB ZOMBIE HE BLOWS!!!!!!

    3 years agoby @stallion889Flag

  11. Mieko_Siede

    I don't really have a problem with Zombie's re-imagining of Michael Myers in Halloween. In fact, that's what it is classified as, a re-imagining, not a remake. There is a difference when a movie takes a change of direction and tone. Remakes tend to be bland imitations of the same movie, this wasn't the case for Halloween. The point of John Carpenter's Halloween was the idea of a person being born pure evil. During Myers time in the mental ward he transcended from a crazy child into something else, evil incarnate. From the point of his escape, he was no longer Myers but, the shape. The shape could not be stopped by mere bullets or sharp blades piercing its flesh. It had a thirst to kill and an objective beyond any rational thinking. He was born possessed.

    That said, in viewing what we call the "classic" recently I realized something. Halloween was only classic because of its time. When it came in there was nothing like it, and for a long time there was nothing replacing Myers. As children or whenever we first saw Carpenter's vision it was aw inspiring in the scope of horror. But now that I've seen it again, I thought as I always have since the initial thrill died, what was the real point. There was nothing menacing about that Myers. There was no real method to the madness. For goodness sake, we didn't even know that Jamie Lee Curtis was his sister in the first film. We didn't know why he was doing what he was doing except for the rants of the hysterical and loopy Dr. Loomis. We just accepted it. There wasn't much story told, we were just left to wonder. And Carpenter himself didn't plan on expanding the story. He was really making that one up as he went along. It was a great concept. It was a gripping one as well. Michael Myers was scary because on Halloween night, he could have easily been anyone in a crowd. Not knowing what direction imminent danger is coming is the worst way to get it. But that Myers still didn't do much to grip you to keep it real. He didn't wreak havoc, he killed a few kids to get to Laurie. He clung to shadows and landscapes sneaking up on sinful teenagers sending them to their doom, the boogie man.

    We grow attached to our so called, "classics". 7 times out of 10 a remake or re-imagining turns out to be lack luster. For that reason, we don't care to see what we already grew to embrace tarnished for another vision. But there are those few occasions that our classic cinema can be updated and brought out in a way that the original takes couldn't convey. They are sometimes more thought out, more thought provoking, and more realistic in a heightened reality as it is. We don't want to see our classics as flawed when someone comes along to revamp them. But don't confuse a remake with a re-imagining. That only means one is inspired by the concept of the other, but not actually drawing from it.

    Zombie didn't remake a classic, he created a stand alone of his own. He made Myers more of a psychological character. Not an invincible shape, but one that had psychopathic traits too far gone before anything could have been done about it. As he spent time in captivity, he fell further and deeper into his mind eventually becoming trapped there. He was hell bent on connecting with the only thing he could identify with, the only person, Laurie. But in his finding her, she wasn't the baby sister left behind years ago. She was on the brink of adulthood and into a life that kept a wall between them. He had a rage in him as a child that took over, it wasn't the teasing that brought him to kill, it was an urge. It was a craving that even he didn't connect with until he lost himself in the institution. This Myers was sincerely crazy, not a shape, but a similar concept. His life was gone before it had a chance to begin. He was meshed with internal rage and dysfunctional environment and needed to be ended. It made a lot of sense and was a great film once you remove it from Carpenter's vision and accept Zombie's as its own.

    A sequel though, that's unnecessary for this. There is really no other direction to go in from the way Zombies graphic chiller ended. I'm not interested because it is now threatened to fall under the same scrutiny as Carpenter's vision had with so many senseless sequels to it building a bogus story around the boogie man; though admittedly I did enjoy H2O. I don't care to see a sequel made to Zombie's work, it really doesn't make sense to make one unless this Myers can transcend death. But there is that slight curiosity that makes me want to read the plot to it.

    3 years agoby @mieko-siedeFlag

  12. Structure (ONSTRA)

    that'll be nice, except for the fact that I wont really go see it in the theaters anyways, I'll bring it on dvd.

    3 years agoby @gaj1992Flag

  13. Err

    your argument sounds like my argument about why the remake of texas chainsaw massacre. in the original bubba (that was his name, not 'tommy') was just a retard who treated people as cattle.
    in the remake they made him a contemptuous psychopath.

    anyway i agree with the vis, but i still liked zombies version, even if they did change the origin-portion of the story.

    3 years agoby @err2005Flag

  14. T.Clark

    Rob Zombie's film totally missed the point of Myers. He made him out to be a p*ssy who only kills because he got picked on as a kid. And cell, this won't be a sequel to a sequel...it'll be a remake of a sequel and a sequel of a remake...duh.

    3 years agoby @insertusernamehereFlag

  15. Err

    rob zombie made it a point to tell folks that he would not be returning should the studio choose to make a sequal. i remember hearing him say that in an interview.

    they'll probably some washed up lame ass to do it, like steve miner, and he can spray his crativity-free diarhea all over it and serve it to us on a paper plate.

    hell maybe they'll get some over the hill rapper to star, like ja rule, or xzibit.

    3 years agoby @err2005Flag

  16. JonSpidey07

    what no, this can't be
    the remake stunk so bad
    they should be ashamed of themselves

    3 years agoby @jonspidey07Flag

  17. XJWS79

    A sequel to rob Zombie's Halloween didn't think that was going to happen, but the I liked his version. Despite the fact it's considered a remake. I'm interested to see where he goes with the story or if it will follow the original Halloween 2 plot or something new.

    3 years agoby @xjws79Flag

  18. Brian

    Yeah, seriously. Weird.

    3 years agoby @brianFlag

  19. CelluloidDreams

    (Scatches head while reads above info!)....WHAT THE HELL!??!

    HOW CAN HOLLYWOOD RE-MAKE A SEQUEL OF A SEQUEL...?? I'M CONFUSED.....OHHHH WIAT THIS WAS ALREADY DONE W./"The Hills Have Eyes" PART 1 & 2 ALREADY!!!

    I GUESS THE RENT IS DUE AND ROB ZOMBIE NEEDS TO MAKE A HOUSE PAYMENT! The Re-make of "Halloween" was just sh*t! A pure waste of money and the energy of a casts time and talent!

    3 years agoby @2movieguysFlag

  20. razorglove1428

    I'm okay with it so long as Rob Zombie comes back to direct. I'll need to know more about it first...

    3 years agoby @razorglove1428Flag

  21. Err

    the expression "schlockfest" comes to mind.
    i guess we'll have to wait and see.

    3 years agoby @err2005Flag

  22. Garret

    Good, the first one by zombie was great this should be good too..

    http;//www.letstalkireland.com

    3 years agoby @garretbyrneFlag

  23. JR

    sweet glad its in theaters.

    3 years agoby @jokerrules33Flag

  24. ed_wood

    Cool.

    3 years agoby @ed-woodFlag

  25. PUNISHER

    Snootchie Bootchies!

    3 years agoby @cerealkillerFlag

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