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Only one victim is killed with a syringe to the eyeball: Dr. Mixter.
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** Dick Warlock's (The Shape) son Billy appears as one of Ben Tramer's friends.
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** Dick Warlock's (The Shape) son Billy appears as one of Ben Tramer's friends. His other son Lance plays a boombox-toting cowboy that Michael bumps into on the street.
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* CerebusRetcon: Doubles as FridgeHorror. The revelation that Michael is [[spoiler: Lauries older brother]] suggests that in the opening of the first film, when he is walking towards his parents with a bloody knife while they were coming out of the car, [[spoiler: he might well have been on his way to murder her as a child while she was sitting in the back seat.]]
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* CerebusRetcon: Doubles as FridgeHorror. The revelation that Michael is [[spoiler: Lauries Laurie's older brother]] suggests that in the opening of the first film, when he is walking towards his parents with a bloody knife while they were coming out of the car, [[spoiler: he might well have been on his way to murder her as a child while she was sitting in the back seat.]]
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** Two of Michael's victims are killed with a syringe jammed to the eye.
** Dr. Mixter is also shown with a syringe stuck right in the middle of his eye [[GrossUpCloseUp in a loving close-up]].
** Dr. Mixter is also shown with a syringe stuck right in the middle of his eye [[GrossUpCloseUp in a loving close-up]].
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* InTheBack: Nurse Jill is killed when Michael stabs her in the back with a scalpel.
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* ThePublicDomainChannel: Laurie watches it.
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* ThePublicDomainChannel: Laurie watches it.Every tv is always playing Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968 on repeat.
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** And of course, Michael himself gets shot in both eyes by Laurie.
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** And of course, Michael himself gets shot in both eyes by Laurie.
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** Jimmy is changed to still be running around the hospital looking for everyone while the final conflict is still going on. He doesn't discover Mrs. Alves's body until near the end, and it's edited so that him slipping looks like it's caused by the explosion. Of course the scene where he faints in the car with Laurie is cut.
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** Jimmy is changed to still be running around the hospital looking for everyone while the final conflict is still going on. He doesn't discover Mrs. Alves's body until near the end, and it's edited so that him slipping looks like it's caused by the explosion. Of course the The scene where he faints in the car with Laurie is cut.
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* ShoutOut: Characters are watching ''[[Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968 Night of the Living Dead]]'' on TV in a couple of scenes.
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** Characters are watching ''[[Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968 Night of the Living Dead]]'' on TV in a couple of scenes.
** Characters are watching ''[[Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968 Night of the Living Dead]]'' on TV in a couple of scenes.
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** In the same scene, the way Janet discovers Doctor Mixter's corpse is identical to the way Ms. Bates's corpse is found in Psycho, and is immediately attacked by the killer thereafter, though the one in Psycho actually survives. It isn't surprising given that Jamie Lee Curtis is the daughter of Marion Crane who is the star of Psycho, and Halloween takes many of Psycho's elements and themes.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: A character so happens to wear the same outfit and mask that Michael has, only with blonde hair instead. It ends up misleading the police and Loomis.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: ContrivedCoincidence:
** A character so happens to wear the same outfit and mask that Michael has, only with blonde hair instead. It ends up misleading the police andLoomis.Loomis.
** Michael just happens to bump into someone carrying a stereo playing the news, with the broadcast handily revealing that the one survivor of Michael's rampage was taken to Haddonfield Memorial.
** A character so happens to wear the same outfit and mask that Michael has, only with blonde hair instead. It ends up misleading the police and
** Michael just happens to bump into someone carrying a stereo playing the news, with the broadcast handily revealing that the one survivor of Michael's rampage was taken to Haddonfield Memorial.
* DullSurprise: Laurie has a very muted reaction to [[spoiler:seeing Michael murder a nurse]]. The camera effects imply that she's in a state of shock, which she snaps out of [[spoiler:when Michael drops the nurse and starts advancing on her.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** Michael breaks into a school and drives a knife into a child's drawing of their family, specifically the young girl depicted. Loomis remarks "sister", at the sight, clearly drawing a parallel between Michael's vandalism and his killing of his sister fifteen years prior. [[spoiler:After TheReveal, it becomes clear that Michael was expressing hatred for his ''younger'' sister as well.]]
** In the hospital, Laurie dreams about her mother telling her that she's adopted, and of visiting a boy in a (different) hospital. [[spoiler:One WhamLine later, it becomes clear that the boy is a young Michael.]]
* ForTheEvulz: After escaping from Loomis, Michael steals a kitchen knife from a nearby house, murders a random young woman, then breaks into a school where he leaves the knife driven through a child's drawing of a family ([[{{Foreshadowing}} specifically, the young girl]]) and scrawled "Samhain" on the chalkboard in blood. Exactly ''why'' he did any of this is left unrevealed.
** Michael breaks into a school and drives a knife into a child's drawing of their family, specifically the young girl depicted. Loomis remarks "sister", at the sight, clearly drawing a parallel between Michael's vandalism and his killing of his sister fifteen years prior. [[spoiler:After TheReveal, it becomes clear that Michael was expressing hatred for his ''younger'' sister as well.]]
** In the hospital, Laurie dreams about her mother telling her that she's adopted, and of visiting a boy in a (different) hospital. [[spoiler:One WhamLine later, it becomes clear that the boy is a young Michael.]]
* ForTheEvulz: After escaping from Loomis, Michael steals a kitchen knife from a nearby house, murders a random young woman, then breaks into a school where he leaves the knife driven through a child's drawing of a family ([[{{Foreshadowing}} specifically, the young girl]]) and scrawled "Samhain" on the chalkboard in blood. Exactly ''why'' he did any of this is left unrevealed.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Dr. Loomis blows up the room he and Michael are in to stop him.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Dr. Loomis blows up the room he and Michael are in to stop him. [[spoiler:Both possible timelines presented by [[FilmHalloween4TheReturnOfMichaelMyers the sequels]] [[Film/HalloweenH20TwentyYearsLater to this movie]] show that [[SubvertedTrope both Loomis and Michael survived]].]]
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* IdentificationByDentalRecords: [[spoiler:Ben Tramer's body is so badly burned that they check his teeth, but they can't tell whether or not it was Michael.]]
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* IdentificationByDentalRecords: [[spoiler:Ben Tramer's body is so badly burned that they check his teeth, but they can't immediately tell whether or not it was Michael.]]
* NoKillLikeOverkill: Rather than just drown Nurse Karen, [[{{Sadist}} Michael]] shoves her face into scalding water until she dies.
* OhCrap:
** Loomis nearly has a heart attack when he realises that [[spoiler:Michael is still after Laurie, now helpless and unguarded at the hospital.]]
** Once the shock wears off, Laurie understandably freaks out at the sight of Michael and rushes away as fast as her injured ankle will allow.
* OhCrap:
** Loomis nearly has a heart attack when he realises that [[spoiler:Michael is still after Laurie, now helpless and unguarded at the hospital.]]
** Once the shock wears off, Laurie understandably freaks out at the sight of Michael and rushes away as fast as her injured ankle will allow.
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* SoftGlass: Michael simply walks through a glass door with ease and no apparent cuts.
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* SoftGlass: Michael simply walks through a glass door with ease and no apparent cuts.cuts, though this being [[ImplacableMan Michael]], it may be less a case of soft glass and more unstoppable killer; either way, Michael noticeably stumbles for a moment after breaking the glass.
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* VaderBreath: Michael still breathes very audibly like in the first film.
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* VaderBreath: Michael still breathes very audibly like in the first film.film, although it's not as loud or constantly evident as in the preceding film.
* WhamLine: From Nurse Chambers, revealing Michael's motives and giving Loomis a major OhCrap moment.
--> '''Chambers''': That Strode girl, [[spoiler:that's Michael Myers' ''sister''.]]
* WhamLine: From Nurse Chambers, revealing Michael's motives and giving Loomis a major OhCrap moment.
--> '''Chambers''': That Strode girl, [[spoiler:that's Michael Myers' ''sister''.]]
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*** In the international TV version, this cut doesn't happen, the only cut being the splatter of blood on Alice.
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Not to be confused with ''Film/HalloweenII2009'', the sequel to Music/RobZombie's 2007 ''Film/{{Halloween|2007}}'' remake.
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Carpenter intended for this film to mark the end of the Michael Myers story, and [[Film/HalloweenIIISeasonOfTheWitch the next film]] in the franchise did something completely different altogether. Two of the ''Halloween'' sequels pick up after the events of this film: ''Film/Halloween4TheReturnOfMichaelMyers'' serves as a direct sequel to the events of this film with a new protagonist, while ''Film/HalloweenH20TwentyYearsLater'' ignores ''Halloween 4'' (and its two sequels) to continue the story of Laurie Strode.
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While it didn't enjoy the first film's critical success, ''Halloween II'' was still very well-received by fans and was a box office success. Carpenter intended for this film to mark the end of the Michael Myers story, and [[Film/HalloweenIIISeasonOfTheWitch the next film]] in the franchise did something completely different altogether. Two of the ''Halloween'' sequels pick up after the events of this film: ''Film/Halloween4TheReturnOfMichaelMyers'' serves as a direct sequel to the events of this film with a new protagonist, while ''Film/HalloweenH20TwentyYearsLater'' ignores ''Halloween 4'' (and its two sequels) to continue the story of Laurie Strode.
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* PrecisionFStrike: Bub: "Sorry, guess I just fuck up sometimes"
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* PrecisionFStrike: Bub: "Sorry, guess I just fuck up sometimes"all the time"
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* TakingYouWithMe: Inverted. In an attempt to kill Michael, Dr. Loomis lures him into the oxygen room, turns on the tanks, then lights his cigarette lighter while still inside the room with Michael.
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** Jimmy is last seen losing consciousness (or dying of blood loss, depending on your interpretation) in his car and falling face-first onto the steering wheel. The alternate ending has him alive and well with Laurie in the ambulance.
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** Jimmy is last seen losing consciousness (or dying of blood loss, loss or concussion, depending on your interpretation) in his car and falling face-first onto the steering wheel. The alternate ending has him alive and well with Laurie in the ambulance.
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** Marion Chambers, who just seemed to be someone who accompanies Loomis at the beginning of the first film. She comes along here and drops a huge revelation.
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* PrecisionFStrike: Bub: "Sorry, guess I just fuck up sometimes"
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* RougeAnglesOfSatin: The credits identify the US Marshal as a "Marshall." A Marshall with two Ls is someone's name, not a type of police officer (unless his name is Marshal Marshall).
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* SlashedThroat: The Marshall accompanying Loomis dies this way when he assumes Michael is dead.
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* SlashedThroat: The Marshall Marshal accompanying Loomis dies this way when he assumes Michael is dead.
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* CerebusRetcon: Doubles as FridgeHorror. The revelation that Michael is [[spoiler: Lauries older brother]] suggests that in the opening of the first film, when he is walking towards his parents with a bloody knife while they were coming out of the car, [[spoiler: he might well have been on his way to murder her as a child while she was sitting in the back seat.]]
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* TheCameo: Anne-Marie Martin (aka Eddie Benton), Jamie Lee Curtis' ''Film/PromNight1980'' co-star and future wife of Creator/MichaelCrichton, has one as Darcy, the friend whom Nurse Janet gives a lift.
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* TheCameo: Anne-Marie Martin (aka Eddie Benton), Jamie Lee Curtis' ''Film/PromNight1980'' co-star and future wife of Creator/MichaelCrichton, TheCameo:
** Anne Marie Martin, who played Wendy in ''Film/PromNight1980'', hasone an uncredited cameo as Darcy, the Karen's friend whom Nurse Janet gives a lift.Darcy. She came on to help out when reshoots were being done.
** Dick Warlock's (The Shape) son Billy appears as one of Ben Tramer's friends.
** Anne Marie Martin, who played Wendy in ''Film/PromNight1980'', has
** Dick Warlock's (The Shape) son Billy appears as one of Ben Tramer's friends.
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** Loomis' expression at the end of the first movie (after seeing that Michael has disappeared) is one of resignation. In this film, it's one of shock.
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** After the nurse discovers Dr. Mixter's body, Michael [[EmergingFromTheShadows emerges from the shadows]] precisely as he did at one point in the first film. (or perhaps, just like in the first film, the viewer's eyes adjust to the darkness in time to see him, meaning he was there the whole time).
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* ImprobableInfantSurvival: The young boy with the razorblade stuck in his teeth and his mother leave the hospital just before Michael's invasion.
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* AmbiguousSituation: Did Jimmy lose consciousness, or did he die from some unseen injury he sustained off-screen? The alternate ending shows it to be the latter, although why he lost consciousness in the first place is unclear. [[note]] He clearly hits his head when he slipped and fell. Then he got up and managed to stagger around before either passing out again or dying outright. It's actually a very common presentation of certain types of head injuries. [[/note]]
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* AmbiguousSituation: Did Jimmy lose consciousness, or did he die from some unseen injury he sustained off-screen? The alternate ending shows it to be the latter, although why he lost consciousness in the first place is unclear. [[note]] He [[note]]He clearly hits his head when he slipped and fell. Then he got up and managed to stagger around before either passing out again or dying outright. It's actually a very common presentation of certain types of head injuries. [[/note]]
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* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler: Michael wants to kill his second sister, Laurie.]]
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* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler: Michael [[spoiler:Michael wants to kill his second sister, Laurie.]]
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* TheCameo: Anne-Marie Martin (aka Eddie Benton), Jamie Lee Curtis' ''Film/PromNight1980'' co-star and future wife of MichaelCrichton, has one as Darcy, the friend whom Nurse Janet gives a lift.
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* TheCameo: Anne-Marie Martin (aka Eddie Benton), Jamie Lee Curtis' ''Film/PromNight1980'' co-star and future wife of MichaelCrichton, Creator/MichaelCrichton, has one as Darcy, the friend whom Nurse Janet gives a lift.
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* ChairRevealChairReveal: Dr. Mixter's chair is turned around to reveal him already dead with a needle jammed in his eye.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: See ChekhovsGunman.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: See ChekhovsGunman.A character so happens to wear the same outfit and mask that Michael has, only with blonde hair instead. It ends up misleading the police and Loomis.
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* EyeScream: Two of Michael's victims are killed with a syringe jammed to the eye.
** Dr. Mixter is also shown with a syringe stuck right in the middle of his eye [[GrossUpCloseUp in a loving close-up.]]
** Dr. Mixter is also shown with a syringe stuck right in the middle of his eye [[GrossUpCloseUp in a loving close-up.]]
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* EyeScream: EyeScream:
** Two of Michael's victims are killed with a syringe jammed to the eye.
** Dr. Mixter is also shown with a syringe stuck right in the middle of his eye [[GrossUpCloseUp in a lovingclose-up.]]close-up]].
** And of course, Michael himself gets shot in both eyes by Laurie.
** Two of Michael's victims are killed with a syringe jammed to the eye.
** Dr. Mixter is also shown with a syringe stuck right in the middle of his eye [[GrossUpCloseUp in a loving
** And of course, Michael himself gets shot in both eyes by Laurie.
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* IdentificationByDentalRecords: [[spoiler: Ben Tramer's body is so badly burned that they check his teeth, but they can't tell whether or not it was Michael.]]
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* IdentificationByDentalRecords: [[spoiler: Ben [[spoiler:Ben Tramer's body is so badly burned that they check his teeth, but they can't tell whether or not it was Michael.]]
*ImmediateSequelImmediateSequel: The film starts off with Michael getting shot and falling off the balcony and continues on from there.
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* KilledOffscreen: The head nurse is found already dead by one of the employees. The audience never saw Michael off her.
** Same with Dr. Mixter.
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* KilledOffscreen: KilledOffscreen:
** The head nurse is found already dead by one of the employees. The audience never saw Michael off her.
** Same with Dr.Mixter. Mixter, complete with a needle to the eye.
** The head nurse is found already dead by one of the employees. The audience never saw Michael off her.
** Same with Dr.
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* MurdererPOV / VaderBreathMurdererPOV: Like the first film, the audience can see Michael's point of view.
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* RetroactiveRecognition:
** DanaCarvey, the same year he joined the cast of SaturdayNightLive, has a brief non-speaking role as a reporter's assistant.
** ''Baywatch'' actor and future soap star Billy Warlock (the son of Dick Warlock, this film's Michael Myers), briefly appears as Craig, one of the local teens looking for Ben Tramer.
** DanaCarvey, the same year he joined the cast of SaturdayNightLive, has a brief non-speaking role as a reporter's assistant.
** ''Baywatch'' actor and future soap star Billy Warlock (the son of Dick Warlock, this film's Michael Myers), briefly appears as Craig, one of the local teens looking for Ben Tramer.
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** The scene where Michael Myers steals a knife from Mrs Elrod happens later, and is edited to suggest he kills the old woman instead of Alice the girl down the street.
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** The scene where Michael Myers steals a knife from Mrs Mrs. Elrod happens later, and is edited to suggest he kills the old woman instead of Alice the girl down the street.
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** Mrs Alves tries to call Laurie's parents, scolding Janet for not already doing so. She also allows Jimmy two minutes to see Laurie. This is why she says "time's up Jimmy" in the original cut.
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** Mrs Mrs. Alves tries to call Laurie's parents, scolding Janet for not already doing so. She also allows Jimmy two minutes to see Laurie. This is why she says "time's up Jimmy" in the original cut.
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** Extra scenes after Laurie has had a reaction to the medication. Jill and Jimmy wait for Dr Mixter to respond to their call, and Jimmy runs around trying to look for Mrs Alves.
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** Extra scenes after Laurie has had a reaction to the medication. Jill and Jimmy wait for Dr Dr. Mixter to respond to their call, and Jimmy runs around trying to look for Mrs Mrs. Alves.
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** Jimmy is changed to still be running around the hospital looking for everyone while the final conflict is still going on. He doesn't discover Mrs Alves's body until near the end, and it's edited so that him slipping looks like it's caused by the explosion. Of course the scene where he faints in the car with Laurie is cut.
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** Jimmy is changed to still be running around the hospital looking for everyone while the final conflict is still going on. He doesn't discover Mrs Mrs. Alves's body until near the end, and it's edited so that him slipping looks like it's caused by the explosion. Of course the scene where he faints in the car with Laurie is cut.
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* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Michael is Laurie's brother]].
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* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Michael is Laurie's brother]].brother.]]
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* StalkerWithoutACrush: Michael has been following Laurie because [[spoiler: they're siblings.]]
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* StalkerWithoutACrush: Michael has been following Laurie because [[spoiler: they're siblings.]]siblings]].
* VaderBreath: Michael still breathes very audibly like in the first film.
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* AmbiguousSituation: Did Jimmy lose consciousness, or did he die from some unseen injury he sustained off-screen? The alternate ending shows it to be the latter, although why he lost consciousness in the first place is unclear.
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* AmbiguousSituation: Did Jimmy lose consciousness, or did he die from some unseen injury he sustained off-screen? The alternate ending shows it to be the latter, although why he lost consciousness in the first place is unclear. [[note]] He clearly hits his head when he slipped and fell. Then he got up and managed to stagger around before either passing out again or dying outright. It's actually a very common presentation of certain types of head injuries. [[/note]]
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** The same could obviously be said for Michael himself.
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* AmbiguousSituation: Did Jimmy lose consciousness, or did he die from some unseen injury he sustained off-screen? The alternate ending shows it to be the latter, although why he lost consciousness in the first place is unclear.
* TheCameo: Anne-Marie Martin (aka Eddie Benton), Jamie Lee Curtis' ''Film/PromNight1980'' co-star and future wife of MichaelCrichton, has one as Darcy, the friend whom Nurse Janet gives a lift.
* RetroactiveRecognition:
** DanaCarvey, the same year he joined the cast of SaturdayNightLive, has a brief non-speaking role as a reporter's assistant.
** ''Baywatch'' actor and future soap star Billy Warlock (the son of Dick Warlock, this film's Michael Myers), briefly appears as Craig, one of the local teens looking for Ben Tramer.
** DanaCarvey, the same year he joined the cast of SaturdayNightLive, has a brief non-speaking role as a reporter's assistant.
** ''Baywatch'' actor and future soap star Billy Warlock (the son of Dick Warlock, this film's Michael Myers), briefly appears as Craig, one of the local teens looking for Ben Tramer.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
** Sheriff Brackett is last seen leaving the scene of his daughter's slaying in order to tell his wife what happened. After that he simply disappears from the film (or the franchise, for that matter), despite his actor being billed third in the credits.
** Jimmy is last seen losing consciousness (or dying of blood loss, depending on your interpretation) in his car and falling face-first onto the steering wheel. The alternate ending has him alive and well with Laurie in the ambulance.
** Sheriff Brackett is last seen leaving the scene of his daughter's slaying in order to tell his wife what happened. After that he simply disappears from the film (or the franchise, for that matter), despite his actor being billed third in the credits.
** Jimmy is last seen losing consciousness (or dying of blood loss, depending on your interpretation) in his car and falling face-first onto the steering wheel. The alternate ending has him alive and well with Laurie in the ambulance.
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* ChekhovsGun: The [[spoiler: lighter]] the police deputy gives Dr. Loomis when the two are sharing a smoke? [[spoiler: It ends up being the very thing that kills Michael.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: The [[spoiler: lighter]] the police deputy gives Dr. Loomis when the two are sharing a smoke? smoke [[spoiler: It ends up being the very thing that kills Michael.]]
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* CutPhoneLines: Michael does this at Haddonfield Memorial Hospital where he finds Laurie's there.
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* CutPhoneLines: Michael does this at Haddonfield Memorial Hospital where he finds Laurie's Laurie there.
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* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Dr. Loomis pulling a TakingYouWithMe on Michael in the hospital was intended to be this, [[DeathIsCheap but it turned out he survived for a couple more sequels.]]
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* {{Recut}}: The film had a few new things for the TV Cut:
** Violence is trimmed down and any cursing is dubbed over.
** A different shot of Loomis coming out of the house at the beginning. The neighbour who says "I've been trick or treated to death tonight" is dubbed over asking if this is a Halloween prank.
** The scene where Michael Myers steals a knife from Mrs Elrod happens later, and is edited to suggest he kills the old woman instead of Alice the girl down the street.
** Bennett Tramer getting killed is given a DistantReactionShot of Loomis and Brackett.
** Additional minor scenes with the hospital staff discussing Laurie.
** Mrs Alves tries to call Laurie's parents, scolding Janet for not already doing so. She also allows Jimmy two minutes to see Laurie. This is why she says "time's up Jimmy" in the original cut.
** Jimmy brings Laurie the Coke he promised her, and he tells her it was Michael Myers who was after her. He goes to see her later to tell her about Michael's apparent death, but she freaks out and has to be sedated. Then the power goes out and the emergency generator kicks in, explaining why the hospital is so dim for the rest of the film.
** Extra scenes after Laurie has had a reaction to the medication. Jill and Jimmy wait for Dr Mixter to respond to their call, and Jimmy runs around trying to look for Mrs Alves.
** Jill's death is softened, as there is no shot of the scalpel in Michael's hand. This makes it look like he just grabbed her from behind and dropped her. A groaning sound effect is inserted afterwards to suggest that she survives.
** Jimmy is changed to still be running around the hospital looking for everyone while the final conflict is still going on. He doesn't discover Mrs Alves's body until near the end, and it's edited so that him slipping looks like it's caused by the explosion. Of course the scene where he faints in the car with Laurie is cut.
** An additional ending where Laurie is in the ambulance, thinks Michael's body is coming back to life, but it turns out to be Jimmy. She embraces him and says "we made it".
** Violence is trimmed down and any cursing is dubbed over.
** A different shot of Loomis coming out of the house at the beginning. The neighbour who says "I've been trick or treated to death tonight" is dubbed over asking if this is a Halloween prank.
** The scene where Michael Myers steals a knife from Mrs Elrod happens later, and is edited to suggest he kills the old woman instead of Alice the girl down the street.
** Bennett Tramer getting killed is given a DistantReactionShot of Loomis and Brackett.
** Additional minor scenes with the hospital staff discussing Laurie.
** Mrs Alves tries to call Laurie's parents, scolding Janet for not already doing so. She also allows Jimmy two minutes to see Laurie. This is why she says "time's up Jimmy" in the original cut.
** Jimmy brings Laurie the Coke he promised her, and he tells her it was Michael Myers who was after her. He goes to see her later to tell her about Michael's apparent death, but she freaks out and has to be sedated. Then the power goes out and the emergency generator kicks in, explaining why the hospital is so dim for the rest of the film.
** Extra scenes after Laurie has had a reaction to the medication. Jill and Jimmy wait for Dr Mixter to respond to their call, and Jimmy runs around trying to look for Mrs Alves.
** Jill's death is softened, as there is no shot of the scalpel in Michael's hand. This makes it look like he just grabbed her from behind and dropped her. A groaning sound effect is inserted afterwards to suggest that she survives.
** Jimmy is changed to still be running around the hospital looking for everyone while the final conflict is still going on. He doesn't discover Mrs Alves's body until near the end, and it's edited so that him slipping looks like it's caused by the explosion. Of course the scene where he faints in the car with Laurie is cut.
** An additional ending where Laurie is in the ambulance, thinks Michael's body is coming back to life, but it turns out to be Jimmy. She embraces him and says "we made it".
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** Same with Dr. Mixter.
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* CutPhoneLines: Michael does this at Haddonfield Memorial Hospital where he finds Laurie's been taken to.
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* CutPhoneLines: Michael does this at Haddonfield Memorial Hospital where he finds Laurie's been taken to.there.
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* PoliceAreUseless: None of the police officers escort Laurie to the hospital or even stay to protect her or ask questions ''after'' she was attacked by Myers.
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* PoliceAreUseless: None of the police officers escort Laurie to the hospital or even stay to protect her or ask questions ''after'' she was attacked by Myers.Myers in the first flick. One uncaring marshal forces Loomis back to Smith's Grove to avoid embarrassing the state bureaucrats whose neglect made Myers' deadly escape and spree more likely than if earlier precautions were taken when Loomis asked for them 14-15 years earlier, leaving Haddonfield undefended (the marshal gets his deadly "dessert" towards the end when examining a seemingly unconscious Michael in the hospital).
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* CutPhoneLines: Michael does this at Haddonfield Memorial Hospital where he finds Laurie's been taken to.
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* PoliceAreUseless: None of the police officers escort Laurie to the hospital or even stay to protect her or ask questions after ''she was recently attacked by a serial killer''.
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* PoliceAreUseless: None of the police officers escort Laurie to the hospital or even stay to protect her or ask questions after ''she ''after'' she was recently attacked by a serial killer''.Myers.
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* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Michael takes out all of the hospital employees and prevents anyone from leaving the hospital in order to get away with another killing spree.
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->''"He was my patient for fifteen years. He became an obsession with me, until I realized there was nothing within him, neither conscience nor reason, that was even remotely human. An hour ago I stood up and fired six shots into him and then he just got up and walked away. I am talking about the real possibility that he is still out there!''"
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->''"He was my patient for fifteen years. He became an obsession with me, until I realized there was nothing within him, neither conscience nor reason, that was even remotely human. An hour ago I stood up and fired six shots into him and then he just got up and walked away. I am talking about the real possibility that he is still out there!''"there!"''
