This movie is criminally underrated, it’s so good I consider it to be the end of the Halloween series. A perfect conclusion to 'The night he came home'.
Potential94 That was what Carpenter and Hill had in mind. They planned to make an anthology series with new villains and characters in movies under the “Halloween” name. So they made “Halloween III: Season of the Witch”. But people hated that movie when they first saw it because it didn’t have Micheal Myers in it. And that spawned more sequels which I enjoy. Aswell as Season of the Witch.
+Casper Jean Rimbaud Agreed! Donald Pleasence should have gotten an Oscar for his performance as Dr. Loomis. "We are all afraid of the darkness inside ourselves."
The actor played villians for years before his Halloween part.....most famous in James Bond. He said in an interview the only parts he got was for villains. Then he did the part of Dr Loomis and said all the parts he got after was only all good guys.
The Pumpkin starts out nice and innocent like Young Michael Myers. Then it reveals itself as pure evil and what it truly is, like grown up Michael Myers.
Also a good representation of how the movie was supposed to be good like the original but the skull opening is symbolic for how dead sleep I was after watching this shitty movie.
Saw it in the theater in 1981. By the way movies in the 70's and 80's had the best opening titles. I hate that they do not do them now. Opening titles = epicness.
Clayton Von Isaacs, I'm officially jealous!! Halloween 2 is my all-time favorite horror movie! I would've loved to have seen this in the theater back in '81. I was only 8 at the time so, unfortunately, that didn't happen. ☹️
@TheScorpio Vampyre That 2018 film was trash. It was the last movie I saw in a theater and ever will see until Hollywood gets its act together & drops the anti-male/feminist & other agendas that has ruined so many franchises of my youth with shitty sequels. Until then, Hollywood can screw off (no wonder ticket sales have been so abysmal in general compared to the past in the last 4+ years). A shit movie with shit characters that only sold tickets from its link to the original film. The only thing I liked about that movie was the mask, which was the 2nd best mask after the original mask in the first 2 films. A damn waste having a really good mask after all those years on a bad film. There was no reason for Laurie to be armed & ready for Michael considering she didn't go through what she did in H2 and would've never found out about being his sister. Even more because Michael was supposedly captured, so she would have no reason to be on edge as she was about him being that dangerous since everything that she witnessed that resulted in her knowing how invincible he was happened as a result of events that didn't happen in that timeline. It doesn't even make sense because they reveal that Myers was captured when he disappeared & was not even around to be captured. It ignores the ending of the first film where Loomis shoots him and Myers is gone by the time he makes it to the window to see what he expected to be Myers' corpse. So it's not even a true sequel to the 1st film when it cherrypicks and leaves stuff out that is inconvenient to its plot. Myers having been captured in a retconned version of the events in H1 also makes him considerably less of a threat when we saw how entire police forces couldn't handle him in H4 & H5 and he was only captured in H5 after Loomis' crazy plan and we saw how long that lasted after Wynn killed everyone to bust him out. Wynn taught him how to drive and was responsible for his escape in H1 (they don't let patients walk around freely like zombies in mental institutions like Loomis & Marion saw when they arrived at the gate of Smith's Grove) and there was no way he would've let his plan of unleashing Myers get stopped & allow Michael to be captured for 40 years without doing anything about it. It was obvious from the free roaming patients outside by the gate, from Loomis' comment about someone teaching Myers how to drive, and the way the camera focused on Wynn after Loomis' comment that Wynn was neck deep involved with Myers' escape all the way back in H1, years before they confirmed it in H5 & H6.
Halloween II (1981) is my favorite Halloween movie out of the entire franchise. I love the creepy hospital setting, the deaths, and even the opening. It's without a doubt my favorite Horror Movie Opening ever!
@@MarktheNerd85 Its actually still Canon. Halloween has 3 different timelines. Saying this movie not canon is like saying the ending of part 1 is no longer canon cause the new movie changed that ending.
@@HorrorSquad I know they wanted to erase all the sequels after the first one, but they never explained from the new one how he they said they apprehended michael after that night, like exactly what happened after Loomis shot him and fell down off the house and eventually walked away? Did they then apprehended him?
@@jeezyy_ They actually did. Don't remember which scene but I think it was from the Doctor dude. He says that the Sheriff deputy that in the new movie was the first one to respond at the end of the original Halloween movie and he was the one who arrested Michael Myers.
@@HorrorSquad maybe must've missed that part. Would've like to known details of how deputy's reaction as he arrested him realizing this man is still alive as he got shot 6 times lol
Random question but am I the only one that feels parents ruin halloween? I'm saying this because for two freaking years in a row, my Halloween was ruined by overprotective parents. I dressed up as Jason Voorhees two years ago and got a lot of praise for that costume but had a couple of parents scold for by saying I'm trying to scare their children when I was doing nothing wrong. All I was doing was dressing up as Jason. Next year, I dress up as a pig masked serial killer and same problem. Stupid parents. Don't wanna be scared on freaking Halloween, don't come out of your freaking house! Halloween is suppose to be scary. So this year im going as Indiana Jones because I'm sick and tired of having my Halloween ruined. Anyone else feel the same? Is the media to blame?
byron herrera people say it is one of the best horror movie sequals ever and give it 4-5 stars and that, folks, is the most underrated horror movie of all time.
I love how when Dr Loomis turns to run off he stops and glances at the house almost as if he knows he can't leave Laurie behind BECAUSE of Michael but he still has to FIND Michael
Bare with me... I was 14 when this movie came out. I saw it opening night. for those of you who didn't experience this movie in a movie theater back in 1981, words cannot describe how absolutely scary these opening credits were. Allow me to explain it: the auditorium is dark. The theme starts over Donald Pleasance as he runs off camera. There's a smattering of applause from the audience. Here we go! Suddenly the screen cuts to black and the pipe organ on the base notes (:17 mark in this clip) hits as the Moustapha Akkad credit fades in. The audience began roaring and cheering. The pumpkin suddenly flickers to life and I'll never forget the feeling of being trapped at that point as the camera pushes in, pulling me in with it. It was like being on a rollercoaster as the chain drags you slowly up that first hill. The butterflies. The urge to want to piss your pants and throw up at the same time. Palms sweating. Nervous laughter. And it felt like that grinning pumpkin was saying "my boy, there ain't no turning back now." Then it splits, slowly opens, a skull hiding in there all along. Fuck! It was terrorfying. I literally remember thinking to myself, "maybe this wasn't such a good idea..." Of course, I ended up loving it.
What an awesome comment describing the experience!! I really appreciate it!! As i read your words I sat there visualizing being in one of those seats near you that day, imagining the feeling you describe and the experience. I was born in 85, Michael has always been and always Will be my favorite slasher, even one of my all-around favorite movie characters. MAN if i only i could have been been born 10-15 years earlier to have experienced all of the amazing horror films of the 80's as they came out!! I'm jealous!! I remember the first time i watched this movie, probably at 14 years old,late 90's, The scene where Mike's mask slowly appears while he' behind the nurse when she realizes the doctor had been stabbed with a needle in the eye, It was a stomach-flipping, paralyzing scare-the-shit-of-you-to-down-the-very-Core type of feeling. I felt sick and somehow wired for the next f'ing Hour! And i LOVED IT! Just a truly amazing piece of horror-Artwork. That, the music, story, the basement elevator chase sequence, H2 is Still my favorite of the whole franchise.
@@TheDlk85 I was the fortunate victim of circumstance being born in 1967. My dad took me to see everything. He took me to see Jaws when I was 7, Halloween in 1978 when I was 9. Alien in the summer of 1979, The Shining in 1980. By 1981 I was 14 and was finding ways of getting into R rates movies on my own. Avco Embassy pictures was in full swing and putting out Escape From New York, The Fog, The Howling, Scanners. It was a lot of fun.
Superb opening. I remember seeing this in the cinema back in '81 and this theme was just booming from the speakers. My second favourite horror sequel after Psycho II.
I saw this on pirate VHS back before it was released... lol everyone came round to watch it... it was THE Horror movie to watch. Amazing memories and to me it ends the story perfect.
Always loved 2:50 through the conclusion of the intro. The theme reaching it's climax with rhe skull becoming fully revealed and more inhumane has always been somewhat significant to me. In contrast to the bland Jack-o-lantern in Halloween, it definitely feels like the skull represents Michael the human is "dead" and The Shape/Boogeyman is all that is left. Any trace of what we could interpret to be an (obviously psychopathic and mentally deranged) but otherwise "ordinary" man is totally gone. He took six slugs at the end of Halloween and was back on his feet in less than fifteen seconds. He isn't pumped full of PCP or psych meds, either. He's simply so far gone that all traces of humanity have been lost. As Loomis would say, there's nothing there but evil. The mystery and the not knowing is what is scary about the original two Halloweens. Everything from him legitimately morphing into a vessel for evil despite a relatively normal upbringing down to the emotionless mask he dons. He's still a horror icon but if they'd allowed Carpenter to move on from Myers and conclude his story with Halloween 2, he'd be ten times more terrifying than he is today. The unknown is so much more chilling and disturbing than the explanation.
You make a really good point.. But i just wouldnt be able to get enough, and for the exception of #5 and Rob Zombie's #2 (which still wasnt bad), ive loved every single one that followed.
When it first started, I wasn’t crazy about the digital track. However, when the organ kicked in, it just went gothic! And then the pumpkin opened. OMG!!! And that last music starting at 2:50, that was just creepy!!! Brilliantly done!
I think it's on par with the original Halloween intro. I love in the first one when the camera slowly zooms into the eye of the pumpkin and then the film begins and the audience sees from the eye of the villain. It added a wonderful anonymity and anticipation to the opening of the film for the audience. Just as this one. But since it's a skull, I suppose it could mean that this time we see the following scene from the perspective of a killer who has already died once before (at the end of the previous film).
The skull is the evil that lies beneath the surface of Halloween, of Haddonfield, a reminder to the audience that evil exists within man. The choice to zoom in on the left eye of the skull is a reminder of the first one, but also could be taken as the nature of Michael Myers, once the screen is completely black as the camera zooms completely into the eye, the movie transitions into Michael's POV.
Trans8010 The whole purpose of the opening sequence was to build fear and suspense. As Debra Hill said she didn't want to leave this movie open for private interpretation! Which exactly what you're doing. By trying to explain the opening sequence of this film. Just a very bad interpretation!
The best intro song of all the Halloween franchises.. Hands down! I love the use of the organ in this installment, or however it's spelled. Very, very scary
@ and don't forget that the scene where we see Michael the most in H1, the Closet scene, and the scene where he first goes to stab Laurie was Tommy Lee Wallace.
The first 2 Halloween Movies are untouchable. Why they made “Halloween 3 Season of the Witch” is because they originally wanted to make an anthology with more than just one villain. But people loved Michael Myers so much that the movie got crapped on and went to make more sequels for Michael Myers soon after because of his popularity.
This version of the theme has a much creepier tone to it than the original. I almost prefer it to the original in many ways. The part that always gives me chills is when the pumpkin splits apart and there is a creepy looking skull staring back at you in the title sequence. I remember first seeing this film and the first one on TV back when I was 16 for the first time and being enthralled more by the music than anything else. Still scary after all these years too.
Even as a kid, I found John Carpenter's themes to be repetitive. However, as I grew older, I understood why... The Thing and this film have very foreboding tones, indeed.
Sean Vasquez The Thing score is mesmerizing and hauntingly brilliant. It gives me chills and is one of the best out there that isnt Carpenter or John Williams.
rick grimes Yes, indeed. I saw this film when I was 6 years old, when it came out. The music had a lot to do with it's intensity and creepiness. Thus, I have this film on Blu-ray. :-)
BURNZY187 Horror is an interesting genre, there's soooooo many factors that go into what "best" means. Was it scary? How was the atmosphere? How was the music? Did you care about the characters? etc. For example I consider the Babadook one of my two favorite horror movies, because I thought it was quite scary and I cared about the characters. Halloween 2 didn't scare me in the slightest and there were at most 2 people in the movie that I care about, but its music and atmosphere are beyond phenomenal so I still consider it my other favorite horror movie.
the original, also fuck off if you hate this movie but Halloween 3 is my 2nd favorite, Halloween h20, again fuck off if you hate this movie, rz Halloween 2, then Halloween 4
Halloween II theme song is pretty nice expect for the skull looks like Michael Myes but the song is intense and one more thing the pumpkin spits open that it revealed Michael is the one cuting the pumpkin in half and I like this music because it's intense.
Now this is how i see it H2, H4 timeline because those are the only flims that respected john carpenters characters and plus those 2 films went with the same intro as the 1st film but they added thier own remixes to it, anybody agrees with me
Daquan Weaver 4 is fun. It captured that autumn atmosphere quite well. I just couldn’t get over how in the blue hell Loomis survived 2 and how Michael could even see.
One of the most greatest, memorable, scariest, and iconic opening scenes in horror cinema. To this day it still gives me chills and goosebumps. It never gets old. 😍😎💯👍😏😰😱
I never understood why H2 wasn't well received. After all, it was an immediate continuation from where H1 started. What's scarier than the bogeyman on the loose in a hospital. The "Shape" stalking Lori ever so patiently in what amounted to one elongated scene to where Loomis rescues her, but another stalk begins. Classic!
Remember seeing this on opening night. I was 14, in the 8th grade. I'll never forget when the bass notes kicked in on the 'Moustapha Akkad Presents" title card in that synthesized pipe organ, the audience just started hooting and hollering like we were climbing the hill of a rollercoaster. I prefer it slightly to the piano notes of the original as that pipe organ just gives it such a gorgeous gothic feel.
Ik the 1978 is the more classic and the best but this intro to me is as good as the first one. The music somehow fits with the movie and I just love the way it sounds. Plus Halloween II 1981 is my fav movie in the franchise and I hafta say 1981 so people don't think I'm talking about 2009 (even though I love the Rob zombie movies)
Am I the only one who thought this one was the best one? I mean I know the 1st one was better filmed by carpenter directing but I liked this one more because dick warlock as Michael made it intense as hell with his slow walk and I like the dark hospital setting.
+GetReked That's because for Halloween II, Dr Loomis had watched The Rocky Horror Picture Show the night before and decided to do the Time Warp Again so to shot Michael one more time to make sure he was dead... but John Carpenter and Debra Hill had decided Michael wasn't dead afterall and since Rick Rosenthal was shooting the sequel it would have been unwise to make that movie only 10 mintutes long. :D
Best intro exchange ever, and i been into horror since i been white. Homeowner: "IS THIS SOME KIND OF JOKE, I BEEN TRICK OR TREATED TO DEATH TONIGHT" Dr. Loomis: "YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT DEATH IS"
The opening sequence is excellent. From picking up the knife from the old folk to the first victim on the phone with the radio breaking news to Lori going to the hospital...Excellent. A local Hospital provided a great horror setting for the sequel. I also like the late decision to make lori, michael’s sister. Classic.
This will always be my favorite Halloween and my favorite Michael Myers. Thank you Dick Warlock!! Michael and Laurie will always be siblings to me. This intro give me chills!
This version of the theme song is more sinister then the original I’m not saying saying it’s better but in my opinion there both as good as the other it’s a matter of anyone else taste weather you like the simplicity of the original or much more sinister and up beat that is H2 I feel like there both equal
I have a question but what does this pumpkin supposed to represent like I know the first pumpkin from the first movie meant like yeah it’s Halloween and this holiday has pumpkins and there is going to be a psychopathic serial killer doing what he must enjoy?
As a kid on Halloween this movie will go down as my favorite horror movie...well 1 and 2 to be exact. It terrified the hell out of me as sat in front of the TV with a bag full of candy.
just brillant. halloween movies can give you a buzz from being scared and that is priceless. best time ever late 70's and early 80's for slasher movies. get drunk, eat popcorn, hold your loved one and get freaked out by these movies its a high like a drug and its so cool!
why's there a skeleton In the pumpkin jack o lantern it looks the skeleton of Michael Myers or another dead person it was really creepy when I first saw it.
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This movie is criminally underrated, it’s so good I consider it to be the end of the Halloween series. A perfect conclusion to 'The night he came home'.
Potential94 That was what Carpenter and Hill had in mind. They planned to make an anthology series with new villains and characters in movies under the “Halloween” name. So they made “Halloween III: Season of the Witch”. But people hated that movie when they first saw it because it didn’t have Micheal Myers in it. And that spawned more sequels which I enjoy. Aswell as Season of the Witch.
I’ve never watched any other sequels. AFAIK this story is over.
Ikr! 30% on Rotten Tomatoes? Really?
@@horrorlandhorror16 they also originally didn't want to make any sequels to the original but the studio demanded it
U basterd I were gunnu say that!!!
Dr Loomis will forever be known as the best character in the horror genre. Simply amazing performance from DP.
RIP my friend...........
+Casper Jean Rimbaud Agreed! Donald Pleasence should have gotten an Oscar for his performance as Dr. Loomis. "We are all afraid of the darkness inside ourselves."
Yup dr loomis and Michael Meyers are the best
right on the money
The actor played villians for years before his Halloween part.....most famous in James Bond. He said in an interview the only parts he got was for villains. Then he did the part of Dr Loomis and said all the parts he got after was only all good guys.
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R.I.P Moustapha Akkad 1930-2005, a true grandfather of the Halloween movies.
He was Sadly killed in a 2005 Terrorist attack by Alciden and Jordan same with his daughter so his son Malek Akkad took over
When I saw H2 in the theater and the skull in the jack o lantern was revealed, the audience broke into spontaneous applause. Good intro.
awesome
Alan High I wish I would've been there to see it.
that's an awesome mental image! was this in '81? curious what city
I'd give anything to have been around to watch the 1st 2 Halloween films in theaters
Back then i was still swimming around in my fathers ballsack
This might be a weird question: why did they cheer at that part?
"You Don't Know What Death Is"
One Of The Best Quotes From The Halloween Series.
The original Halloween and Halloween II are basically one long movie when watched back to back, and the perfect duology!
It’s perfectly seemless.
They are 2 peas in a pod
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Eh I’m not really a fan of Halloween 2. Honestly the cliffhanger from the original is the perfect way to end a horror movie marathon on Halloween
@@justinjanicki6561 I do love the ending of the first and I am even planning on doing a short video essay about it and the H20 ending
The Pumpkin starts out nice and innocent like Young Michael Myers. Then it reveals itself as pure evil and what it truly is, like grown up Michael Myers.
WOLFPACK LEADER best analogy for this intro I’ve ever heard, I never saw it that way, but now I’ll never forget it.
When was young Michael Myers nice and innocent?
@@adamsbriee6330 because he had the age and appearance of a child that no one would have ever expected to become a killer
Agreed it’s as if the pumpkin unraveling is symbolic of michaels sanity slowly unraveling but once it was gone there was no coming back.
Also a good representation of how the movie was supposed to be good like the original but the skull opening is symbolic for how dead sleep I was after watching this shitty movie.
"You don't know what death is."
The Boogie Man oh hell you do
SerialKillerX fuck of Jason
three Bruises rude
"You don't know what shit is."
-AVGN
The mark of Thorn is the key to your power... samhain.
I cannot think of a more distinctly creepy opening credits sequence for a horror movie to date. This opening sequence had me legit shook as a kid.
Saw it in the theater in 1981. By the way movies in the 70's and 80's had the best opening titles. I hate that they do not do them now. Opening titles = epicness.
Halloween 2018 opens and closes like this and Halloween original. Not a spoiler but just a heads up.
How about that Mandy intro?
Clatyon Von Isaacs some openings are good now in days in depends
Some openings are good now in days it depends
Clayton Von Isaacs, I'm officially jealous!! Halloween 2 is my all-time favorite horror movie! I would've loved to have seen this in the theater back in '81. I was only 8 at the time so, unfortunately, that didn't happen. ☹️
Jamie Lee Curtis. Donald Pleasance. John Carpenter. There will never be any horror films as epic as Halloween.
The Thing? Also by John Carpenter.
Halloween + Halloween 2 > Everything else, but number 1 slasher is Jason Voorhees.
@@user-vd8nu2jj5h Jason is cool but he wouldn't exist without Michael Myers so Michael is still number one.
They were only in 1978 at the same time.
@TheScorpio Vampyre That 2018 film was trash. It was the last movie I saw in a theater and ever will see until Hollywood gets its act together & drops the anti-male/feminist & other agendas that has ruined so many franchises of my youth with shitty sequels. Until then, Hollywood can screw off (no wonder ticket sales have been so abysmal in general compared to the past in the last 4+ years). A shit movie with shit characters that only sold tickets from its link to the original film. The only thing I liked about that movie was the mask, which was the 2nd best mask after the original mask in the first 2 films. A damn waste having a really good mask after all those years on a bad film. There was no reason for Laurie to be armed & ready for Michael considering she didn't go through what she did in H2 and would've never found out about being his sister. Even more because Michael was supposedly captured, so she would have no reason to be on edge as she was about him being that dangerous since everything that she witnessed that resulted in her knowing how invincible he was happened as a result of events that didn't happen in that timeline.
It doesn't even make sense because they reveal that Myers was captured when he disappeared & was not even around to be captured. It ignores the ending of the first film where Loomis shoots him and Myers is gone by the time he makes it to the window to see what he expected to be Myers' corpse. So it's not even a true sequel to the 1st film when it cherrypicks and leaves stuff out that is inconvenient to its plot. Myers having been captured in a retconned version of the events in H1 also makes him considerably less of a threat when we saw how entire police forces couldn't handle him in H4 & H5 and he was only captured in H5 after Loomis' crazy plan and we saw how long that lasted after Wynn killed everyone to bust him out. Wynn taught him how to drive and was responsible for his escape in H1 (they don't let patients walk around freely like zombies in mental institutions like Loomis & Marion saw when they arrived at the gate of Smith's Grove) and there was no way he would've let his plan of unleashing Myers get stopped & allow Michael to be captured for 40 years without doing anything about it. It was obvious from the free roaming patients outside by the gate, from Loomis' comment about someone teaching Myers how to drive, and the way the camera focused on Wynn after Loomis' comment that Wynn was neck deep involved with Myers' escape all the way back in H1, years before they confirmed it in H5 & H6.
Halloween II (1981) is my favorite Halloween movie out of the entire franchise. I love the creepy hospital setting, the deaths, and even the opening. It's without a doubt my favorite Horror Movie Opening ever!
I bet your upset now that it isn't Canon anymore? Halloween 2018 is a great movie as well
@@MarktheNerd85 Its actually still Canon. Halloween has 3 different timelines. Saying this movie not canon is like saying the ending of part 1 is no longer canon cause the new movie changed that ending.
@@HorrorSquad I know they wanted to erase all the sequels after the first one, but they never explained from the new one how he they said they apprehended michael after that night, like exactly what happened after Loomis shot him and fell down off the house and eventually walked away? Did they then apprehended him?
@@jeezyy_ They actually did. Don't remember which scene but I think it was from the Doctor dude. He says that the Sheriff deputy that in the new movie was the first one to respond at the end of the original Halloween movie and he was the one who arrested Michael Myers.
@@HorrorSquad maybe must've missed that part. Would've like to known details of how deputy's reaction as he arrested him realizing this man is still alive as he got shot 6 times lol
Thee most underrated horror film of all time.
+byron herrera Err, no that was Halloween III by a million x
Random question but am I the only one that feels parents ruin halloween? I'm saying this because for two freaking years in a row, my Halloween was ruined by overprotective parents. I dressed up as Jason Voorhees two years ago and got a lot of praise for that costume but had a couple of parents scold for by saying I'm trying to scare their children when I was doing nothing wrong. All I was doing was dressing up as Jason. Next year, I dress up as a pig masked serial killer and same problem. Stupid parents. Don't wanna be scared on freaking Halloween, don't come out of your freaking house! Halloween is suppose to be scary. So this year im going as Indiana Jones because I'm sick and tired of having my Halloween ruined. Anyone else feel the same? Is the media to blame?
byron herrera people say it is one of the best horror movie sequals ever and give it 4-5 stars and that, folks, is the most underrated horror movie of all time.
RogerWare Inc. i dont know why you posted that here out of all places but I definently feel you.
Mr. Badass I AGREE
I love how when Dr Loomis turns to run off he stops and glances at the house almost as if he knows he can't leave Laurie behind BECAUSE of Michael but he still has to FIND Michael
This intro is creepy.Underrated film.I also like the intro for Halloween 4,with it's atmospheric shots of the farmlands at sunset.
Chris Reidy highest gross horror of 1981. Not underrated at all
+Ri5004 was it really?
What do you mean by underrated people says it's the best sequel of all time
Chris Reidy how is it underrated people love it
Bare with me... I was 14 when this movie came out. I saw it opening night. for those of you who didn't experience this movie in a movie theater back in 1981, words cannot describe how absolutely scary these opening credits were. Allow me to explain it: the auditorium is dark. The theme starts over Donald Pleasance as he runs off camera. There's a smattering of applause from the audience. Here we go! Suddenly the screen cuts to black and the pipe organ on the base notes (:17 mark in this clip) hits as the Moustapha Akkad credit fades in. The audience began roaring and cheering. The pumpkin suddenly flickers to life and I'll never forget the feeling of being trapped at that point as the camera pushes in, pulling me in with it. It was like being on a rollercoaster as the chain drags you slowly up that first hill. The butterflies. The urge to want to piss your pants and throw up at the same time. Palms sweating. Nervous laughter. And it felt like that grinning pumpkin was saying "my boy, there ain't no turning back now." Then it splits, slowly opens, a skull hiding in there all along. Fuck! It was terrorfying. I literally remember thinking to myself, "maybe this wasn't such a good idea..." Of course, I ended up loving it.
I was the same age, could barely watch this movie alone when I was young.
What an awesome comment describing the experience!! I really appreciate it!! As i read your words I sat there visualizing being in one of those seats near you that day, imagining the feeling you describe and the experience. I was born in 85, Michael has always been and always Will be my favorite slasher, even one of my all-around favorite movie characters. MAN if i only i could have been been born 10-15 years earlier to have experienced all of the amazing horror films of the 80's as they came out!! I'm jealous!!
I remember the first time i watched this movie, probably at 14 years old,late 90's,
The scene where Mike's mask slowly appears while he' behind the nurse when she realizes the doctor had been stabbed with a needle in the eye,
It was a stomach-flipping, paralyzing scare-the-shit-of-you-to-down-the-very-Core type of feeling. I felt sick and somehow wired for the next f'ing Hour! And i LOVED IT!
Just a truly amazing piece of horror-Artwork. That, the music, story, the basement elevator chase sequence, H2 is Still my favorite of the whole franchise.
👏👏👏👏👏well described
@@pamelqtaylor8335 thanks
@@TheDlk85 I was the fortunate victim of circumstance being born in 1967. My dad took me to see everything. He took me to see Jaws when I was 7, Halloween in 1978 when I was 9. Alien in the summer of 1979, The Shining in 1980. By 1981 I was 14 and was finding ways of getting into R rates movies on my own. Avco Embassy pictures was in full swing and putting out Escape From New York, The Fog, The Howling, Scanners. It was a lot of fun.
Superb opening. I remember seeing this in the cinema back in '81 and this theme was just booming from the speakers. My second favourite horror sequel after Psycho II.
Lucky, would love to have seen this in theaters.
tvmoviefan me too. This movie is my favorite out of all the Halloween movies.
SoEightiesItHurts omg you must be so old!!
SoEightiesItHurts Must have been amazing. Wish i could have experienced that 👍
I saw this on pirate VHS back before it was released... lol everyone came round to watch it... it was THE Horror movie to watch. Amazing memories and to me it ends the story perfect.
Neighbor: is this a joke? I've been trick or treated to death tonight.
DR. Loomis: you don't know what death is.
what did he mean by that ??
lol
nightwing2016 batsvssupes because he shot Michael more than once and that to him was shocking
as soon as the music plays it gives me goosebumps
Always loved 2:50 through the conclusion of the intro. The theme reaching it's climax with rhe skull becoming fully revealed and more inhumane has always been somewhat significant to me. In contrast to the bland Jack-o-lantern in Halloween, it definitely feels like the skull represents Michael the human is "dead" and The Shape/Boogeyman is all that is left. Any trace of what we could interpret to be an (obviously psychopathic and mentally deranged) but otherwise "ordinary" man is totally gone. He took six slugs at the end of Halloween and was back on his feet in less than fifteen seconds. He isn't pumped full of PCP or psych meds, either. He's simply so far gone that all traces of humanity have been lost. As Loomis would say, there's nothing there but evil. The mystery and the not knowing is what is scary about the original two Halloweens. Everything from him legitimately morphing into a vessel for evil despite a relatively normal upbringing down to the emotionless mask he dons. He's still a horror icon but if they'd allowed Carpenter to move on from Myers and conclude his story with Halloween 2, he'd be ten times more terrifying than he is today. The unknown is so much more chilling and disturbing than the explanation.
You make a really good point..
But i just wouldnt be able to get enough, and for the exception of #5 and Rob Zombie's #2 (which still wasnt bad), ive loved every single one that followed.
When it first started, I wasn’t crazy about the digital track. However, when the organ kicked in, it just went gothic! And then the pumpkin opened. OMG!!! And that last music starting at 2:50, that was just creepy!!! Brilliantly done!
Yup
There Is definitely something wrong with me because I think this theme is great
I think this version of The Halloween theme is the best too.
There's NOTHING wrong with you....
there is nothing wrong you this improvement on the main theme is even better now then ever before
Aidan Mercer Original is still better
I think it's on par with the original Halloween intro. I love in the first one when the camera slowly zooms into the eye of the pumpkin and then the film begins and the audience sees from the eye of the villain. It added a wonderful anonymity and anticipation to the opening of the film for the audience. Just as this one. But since it's a skull, I suppose it could mean that this time we see the following scene from the perspective of a killer who has already died once before (at the end of the previous film).
Brilliant way to put it.
or the skull means halloween 2 is gonna be more violent than the first movie
The skull is the evil that lies beneath the surface of Halloween, of Haddonfield, a reminder to the audience that evil exists within man. The choice to zoom in on the left eye of the skull is a reminder of the first one, but also could be taken as the nature of Michael Myers, once the screen is completely black as the camera zooms completely into the eye, the movie transitions into Michael's POV.
Trans8010 The whole purpose of the opening sequence was to build fear and suspense. As Debra Hill said she didn't want to leave this movie open for private interpretation! Which exactly what you're doing. By trying to explain the opening sequence of this film. Just a very bad interpretation!
Love this movie! It's one of the best horror movie sequels ever made! I am going to watch this first one and second one back to back on Halloween.
You don't know what death is!
yes i do, im not stUpid ya know
Skalopulton301 I shot him six times, I shot him in the heart, he's not human!
Skalopulton301 shit know that I réalisé that line more in my head and the ghostly theme...makes it all the more intensifying
You don't know what that is.
"Well sure I do, you see I'm a failed comic" ::que up theme::
Anyone is here after that amazing Halloween 2018 intro? It still gives me chills.
Halloween 1 and 2 are time tested and are still the best out of the whole series.
The best intro song of all the Halloween franchises.. Hands down! I love the use of the organ in this installment, or however it's spelled. Very, very scary
And let us not forget Dick Warlock playing Michael. He did the Best job out of all the Halloween films.
pwkpilot same
@ but hodder isn't the original Jason....
@ and don't forget that the scene where we see Michael the most in H1, the Closet scene, and the scene where he first goes to stab Laurie was Tommy Lee Wallace.
And tyler maine
Sorry if i spell the name wrong
For a short guy who is suposed to be an invincible Evil entity
He did pretty darn good.
The best intro of the series.
Rudy Valentin and it's also my favorite Halloween movie.
I always used to think the jack o lantern was creepy.
it was really creepy to me too. The skeleton of Michael Myers.
The first 2 Halloween Movies are untouchable. Why they made “Halloween 3 Season of the Witch” is because they originally wanted to make an anthology with more than just one villain. But people loved Michael Myers so much that the movie got crapped on and went to make more sequels for Michael Myers soon after because of his popularity.
Loomis at 0:04 Aw great here we go again
This version of the theme has a much creepier tone to it than the original. I almost prefer it to the original in many ways. The part that always gives me chills is when the pumpkin splits apart and there is a creepy looking skull staring back at you in the title sequence. I remember first seeing this film and the first one on TV back when I was 16 for the first time and being enthralled more by the music than anything else. Still scary after all these years too.
Great to see Moustapha Akkad's name is there, can't believe they removed it from the first Halloween 2 blu-ray.
Are you serious?
Yeah, his name was removed from the 30th Anniversary Edition blu-ray in the US.
If it wasn't for him, believing in John Carpenter, these films would have never been made.
Mike Williams True.
What a George Lucas thing they pulled,.
Pipe organs give me chills
Halloween III: The Night He Didn't Arrived Home
It was "The Night Nobody Came Home"
It was "The Night Nobody Came Home"
"The night he went missing"
This intro really kicks ass!!! xD
Even as a kid, I found John Carpenter's themes to be repetitive. However, as I grew older, I understood why... The Thing and this film have very foreboding tones, indeed.
Actually, the Thing score was written and composed by Ennio Moricone I believe. Or he might have just been the composer. Not sure.
UltimateThanos Ah, corn nuts! That's right. I even have the dang album, and Mr. Morricone is brilliant. Hey, thanks man.
Sean Vasquez That's what I'm here for.
Sean Vasquez The Thing score is mesmerizing and hauntingly brilliant. It gives me chills and is one of the best out there that isnt Carpenter or John Williams.
rick grimes Yes, indeed. I saw this film when I was 6 years old, when it came out. The music had a lot to do with it's intensity and creepiness. Thus, I have this film on Blu-ray. :-)
Halloween 1 and 2 will always be the best horror movies (rob zombies remakes sucked ass)
BURNZY187 I know right rob zombie had nothing to do with the Halloween series
BURNZY187 Horror is an interesting genre, there's soooooo many factors that go into what "best" means. Was it scary? How was the atmosphere? How was the music? Did you care about the characters? etc. For example I consider the Babadook one of my two favorite horror movies, because I thought it was quite scary and I cared about the characters. Halloween 2 didn't scare me in the slightest and there were at most 2 people in the movie that I care about, but its music and atmosphere are beyond phenomenal so I still consider it my other favorite horror movie.
Even The Chordettes "Mr Sandman" has a creepy feel when you play it on it's own !
R.i.P. Donald Pleasance - quality actor.
at 2:41 arghhhhhh a skeleton in that Jack o lantern real creepy!
Damm the first 2 movies were the best, They still are💗
i've only seen the first 3
but i agree i also like season of the witch
@@issaknife802 never watched it
MAN, that is some killer synth! One of the best film score intros
Best intro ever love this movie
The first one, fourth one and new one is better
the original, also fuck off if you hate this movie but Halloween 3 is my 2nd favorite, Halloween h20, again fuck off if you hate this movie, rz Halloween 2, then Halloween 4
I just LOVE how synchronised Loomis is with the music! I'cant stop watching that awesome dramatic turn.
Loomis really is the modern day Van Hellsing.
Halloween II theme song is pretty nice expect for the skull looks like Michael Myes
but the song is intense and one more thing the pumpkin spits open that it revealed
Michael is the one cuting the pumpkin in half and I like this music because it's intense.
Incredible sequel. Criminally underrated.
just how he says "you dont know what death is" and then this music kicks in is awsome
Now this is how i see it H2, H4 timeline because those are the only flims that respected john carpenters characters and plus those 2 films went with the same intro as the 1st film but they added thier own remixes to it, anybody agrees with me
I never get tired of watching this intro.🎃
Halloween 4 is really slept on. 2nd best sequel after H2. There was no curse bullshit in it and the atmosphere set in the intro was amazing.
Daquan Weaver 4 is fun. It captured that autumn atmosphere quite well. I just couldn’t get over how in the blue hell Loomis survived 2 and how Michael could even see.
@@timetravelingilluminativam2572 Maybe he got new eyes along with those skin grafts him and Loomis got 🤣.
Jasmine Crawford Loomis must’ve had a fortune if he ended up looking better than Michael after that lol
I vaguely remember seeing this intro on TV. Must have been one of its first showings because it was around 82 or 83.
Truly brilliant that the movies end and begin in motion as the nightmare of Halloween night never ends
Halloween 2 (1981): The last good Halloween movie.
Best one in my opinion
Spencer West your opinion is 100% right
+Zome68 ..................and even better than the original, IMHO.
Yep my favorite halloween out of the franchise.
+Zome68 I think number 4 and 7 were good too
It's funny how the music has to go in a loop in the middle because of how long the credits are.
ghenulo I like it.
Builds up the tension nicely
One of the most greatest, memorable, scariest, and iconic opening scenes in horror cinema. To this day it still gives me chills and goosebumps. It never gets old. 😍😎💯👍😏😰😱
coolest horror film intro EVER!
I wish I was born around that time to see this in theaters
Who's here because of the inflating pumpkin from 'Halloween' (2018)?
your right this part 2 is more enjoyable than anything in 2018 film
nobody is here for whatever that is
I never understood why H2 wasn't well received. After all, it was an immediate continuation from where H1 started. What's scarier than the bogeyman on the loose in a hospital. The "Shape" stalking Lori ever so patiently in what amounted to one elongated scene to where Loomis rescues her, but another stalk begins. Classic!
The music and even the pumpkin is way creepier in the first one.
StoneCole yeah. This is too hammy and corny.
I'd have to say this one is creepier, all the different sounds coming together makes it very eerie
Wrong
UltimateNinja 1984 An opinion is impossible to be right or wrong.
You think
This version blows the original theme out of the water!
Jay Child not that the first is bad or its a competition, part. 2 compliments part. 1 oh so well!!!
except for the very beginning which sounds corny but it gets dope afterwards
I like the original more but this theme is still really good
Awesome intro, awesome film. I saw this first on video when I was 8, and it scared the living shit out of me.
What I love about this is when the theme cues up, it sounds like it's in the space. Like someone has speakers in Haddonfield playing the theme
we like Donald pleasance
nurul insan yeah I have seen him as Sam Loomis he does a damn good job
Yes he was much better in Rob zombie film this one was so caring
Love the Gothic sound to this verson with organ it was very fitting with this movie it had the dark Gothic sound to it loved it.
The more I listen to this opening the more creepier and awesome it gets. #youdontknowwhatdeathis
This opening really gets me and it’s an awesome theme, the first 2 in my opinion are the best
Remember seeing this on opening night. I was 14, in the 8th grade. I'll never forget when the bass notes kicked in on the 'Moustapha Akkad Presents" title card in that synthesized pipe organ, the audience just started hooting and hollering like we were climbing the hill of a rollercoaster.
I prefer it slightly to the piano notes of the original as that pipe organ just gives it such a gorgeous gothic feel.
I bet Halloween kills will do an alternative take on this intro
I Still Feel The Chills Watching This Entrance With My Aunt ... Best Sequel Ever!!!
"Been another death tonight!"
"You don't know what death is!"
"Maybe, but check out this banger" drops the beat
Ik the 1978 is the more classic and the best but this intro to me is as good as the first one. The music somehow fits with the movie and I just love the way it sounds. Plus Halloween II 1981 is my fav movie in the franchise and I hafta say 1981 so people don't think I'm talking about 2009 (even though I love the Rob zombie movies)
If the exorcist had an intro kind of like this it would be really cool
The music is spine tingling
Amy Triplett John Carpenter is a fucking genius
Am I the only one who thought this one was the best one? I mean I know the 1st one was better filmed by carpenter directing but I liked this one more because dick warlock as Michael made it intense as hell with his slow walk and I like the dark hospital setting.
In the first halloween, Dr. Loomis shot myers 6 times, but in the beginning of the second one, he shot him 7 times
You noticed that too?
+GetReked That's because for Halloween II, Dr Loomis had watched The Rocky Horror Picture Show the night before and decided to do the Time Warp Again so to shot Michael one more time to make sure he was dead... but John Carpenter and Debra Hill had decided Michael wasn't dead afterall and since Rick Rosenthal was shooting the sequel it would have been unwise to make that movie only 10 mintutes long. :D
+A Greased Scotsman me three
it was probably a glitch with the system and probably added a extra chamber and it cough it as 7
EdTonight Productions dr Loomis probably doesn't know his math
Best intro exchange ever, and i been into horror since i been white.
Homeowner: "IS THIS SOME KIND OF JOKE, I BEEN TRICK OR TREATED TO DEATH TONIGHT"
Dr. Loomis: "YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT DEATH IS"
My second favorite Halloween theme behind the original
Saw this when it came out. I was only 12. My aunt took me. I cannot begin to explain how terrifying this opening was. Have never forgotten it.
You cant kill the boogie man !
Came back after watching the “Halloween Kills” trailer!
Me too
What if for Kills they set a pumpkin on fire that reveals a skull?
@@jmaxx7410 nah they only put it on fire
The opening sequence is excellent. From picking up the knife from the old folk to the first victim on the phone with the radio breaking news to Lori going to the hospital...Excellent. A local Hospital provided a great horror setting for the sequel. I also like the late decision to make lori, michael’s sister. Classic.
This will always be my favorite Halloween and my favorite Michael Myers. Thank you Dick Warlock!! Michael and Laurie will always be siblings to me. This intro give me chills!
Lol Always negative comments from somebody. The music along with the opening of that pumpkin to expose a skull is fantastic.
This version of the theme song is more sinister then the original I’m not saying saying it’s better but in my opinion there both as good as the other it’s a matter of anyone else taste weather you like the simplicity of the original or much more sinister and up beat that is H2 I feel like there both equal
I have a question but what does this pumpkin supposed to represent like I know the first pumpkin from the first movie meant like yeah it’s Halloween and this holiday has pumpkins and there is going to be a psychopathic serial killer doing what he must enjoy?
As a kid on Halloween this movie will go down as my favorite horror movie...well 1 and 2 to be exact. It terrified the hell out of me as sat in front of the TV with a bag full of candy.
just brillant. halloween movies can give you a buzz from being scared and that is priceless. best time ever late 70's and early 80's for slasher movies. get drunk, eat popcorn, hold your loved one and get freaked out by these movies its a high like a drug and its so cool!
You don't know what HD is!
76 people didn't know what death was
I like how the flicker of the pumpkin candle goes along with the chorus of the tune piano part lol
Donald Pleasence Was a fantastic actor...RIP, he died when I was ten, loved him in these movies
You don’t know what death is......
*john carpenter has joined the chat*
why's there a skeleton In the pumpkin jack o lantern it looks the skeleton of Michael Myers or another dead person it was really creepy when I first saw it.
Its good
It definitely fits the evil, expressionless, emotionless killer Michael Myers is. It really symbolizes him.
*I liked that the start of Halloween 2 had to bring us up to date (because of no home VCRs when it was released)*
I remember watching this as a kid on USA NETWORK
Halloween 4 is the best of ALL the films after the original.
2018
damn if this intro dosent get you ectied to watch this awesoem movie i dont knwo what will..ty for the upload so creepy yet so damn awesome
This intro was legendary when I was a kid. All the other kids talked about it, how the pumpkin turns into a skull...
0:29 “Donald Pleasence in Jamie Lee Curtis”
Oh.
😂😂😂
We don't know the story there...