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Calm down, calm down. And please put the pitchforks away. It you read the title of the post and are already shouting obscenities at the computer screen, allow me to piss you off some more so you can shout more of them at me. Now look, I love John Carpenter’s original Halloween. It was groundbreaking, creepy, had a great soundtrack, and introduced us to one of the most iconic horror villains ever in Michael Myers. I can go on and on about the level of awesomeness that is and was Halloween. But…….I have to be honest. If I’m sitting at home on Halloween night, and I’m thinking of which Halloween movie I want to pop into the ol’ Blu-ray player……..I’m gonna go with Halloween II.

Perhaps it’s the fact that I can’t stop staring at Jamie Lee Curtis’ wig in the movie. Or maybe it’s because I laugh every time drunk ass Ben Tramer gets hit by the ambulance. But there’s no denying that for me, Halloween II is much more entertaining than the first. It’s more of a straight up 80’s slasher movie, and I’m ok with that. Michael Myers is way more brutal here as well – using scalpels, syringes, and hot tubs to dispose of his victims. Speaking of hot tubs…..oh my god, I just remembered why I love Halloween II so much!

Well obviously I was alluding to the infamous hot tub scene where we get to see Pamela Susan Shoop’s near perfect breasts (ahhh screw it, they are perfect) – but I wanted to class up this post and show a pic of her looking innocent in her nurse’s outfit. And speaking of nurse’s outfits, that is another thing that I love about Halloween II: The hospital setting. I don’t know why, but I find it creepy to have a maniac running (or walking briskly) around a conveniently desolate hospital. If the hospital food doesn’t kill you, Michael Myers will. Zing! But anyway, thank you for letting me gush about my love for Halloween II. Hopefully this year when you have your Halloween franchise marathon, you’ll appreciate this sequel even more and also appreciate Pamela Susan Shoop’s luscious hooters. Shout out to Al Bundy.

I think it’s safe to say that everyone who was submitted to A Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge, left with a really bad indescribable taste in their mouths. Luckily, that taste was mostly taken away when the second sequel, A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, came out in 1987. Sure, this was the beginning of what would become wisecracking Freddy, but the story was interesting (thanks in part to Frank Darabont) and it even sported an 80’s hair metal theme song from Dokken. However, it also sported the scene where we were introduced to Freddy’s bones in a junkyard.

Now, I can be forgiving of this scene to a certain degree. CGI hadn’t made it’s impact yet, so the FX team had to make due with the resources that it had. But, did they have to take a step backwards and give us something straight out of the 1981 version of Clash Of The Titans? Seriously – I kept waiting for Pegasus to swoop down and save the day. To make matters worse, we get some pretty terrible overacting and fighting techniques from Dr. Neil Gordon. Why go by my interpretation though? Check it out for yourself for the first time or relive it in the clip below:

Ahhh. Yeah, the dubbing is off on that. And the quality kind of sucks. But trust me, you don’t want to see that clip in HD. It’s a small bone to pick with an otherwise solid sequel, but a bone that needs to be picked nonetheless. Is it wrong that I actually cheered for Skeleton Freddy when he knocked Dr. Gordon on his ass with the shovel and proceeded to bury him? Too bad about John Saxon however. I’m sure he’s glad he went out the way he did though: Fighting an extremely subpar-looking Freddy Krueger skeleton in a junkyard.

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