Halloween Part II
 a TRUE FANEDIT by Modernknife
This ALL NEW CUT combines several HALLOWEEN sequels featuring Laurie Strode into one Complete Sequel Epic from 1978-2002. member ratings: |
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TAGLINE: The Night SHE Came Home!
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INTENTION:
Using footage from three sequels and the extended cut of HALLOWEEN, the Laurie Strode story has been expanded and remixed into one epic film. The story still picks up directly from the end of HALLOWEEN and concludes Michael Myers’ night of horror, then jumps forward twenty years later as Laurie prepares for his return. A new soundtrack has been created with original tracks by John Carpenter from HALLOWEEN and HALLOWEEN III. Additional scenes of Dr. Loomis from the extended television version of HALLOWEEN have been added as flashbacks. This new cut is designed as a direct sequel to the theatrical version of HALLOWEEN.
EDITING DETAILS:
In order to retain the original John Carpenter score, several scenes now contain no sound effects. When possible, some scenes have been re-looped with new sound effects.
The JOHN CARPENTER REMIX SOUNDTRACK is designed to give the sequel the same sound and feel as the original film, reprising several musical cues.
The ORIGINAL “MR. SANDMAN” PURIST SOUNDTRACK is for those who do prefer the original music by John Carpenter, Alan Howarth, John Ottman and Danny Lux.
There are a few continunity issues when trying to speed up a few kills.
Some hospital characters appear, then dissappear. They are now killed off screen.
Footage from the Extended Television Version from FIFTEEN YEARS EARLIER with Loomis have been added as flashbacks, a la THE GODFATHER PART II.
The RESURRECTION scenes with Laurie Strode are now included as a dream sequence.
Several character visual flash memory sequences have been layered into the narrative using clips from all HALLOWEEN films.
CUTLIST:
–Opening recap of HALLOWEEN ending has been shortened.
–Loomis now fires 6 shots instead of 7.
–Re-edited the shooting of The Shape off the balcony.
–Added new title sequence for “Halloween Part II”
–Replaced most music cues with original John Carpenter HALLOWEEN music.
–Removed old woman screaming at sight of blood.
–Removed the first kill of girl in house from HALLOWEEN II.
–Removed the kid with razor blade apple.
–Added FLASHBACK #1: Loomis at the Michael Myers meeting Part I
–Removed the Ben Tramer accidently killed in Shape costume sub-plot.
–Removed media report mention of Michael Myers being burned up in accident.
–Shortened or removed scenes with nurses and staff.
–Shortened or removed scenes of Michael walking around Haddonfield.
–Added FLASHBACK #2: Loomis visiting Michael in his room. Now scored with music.
–Added Dissolve from Michael in room as child to walking on street as The Shape.
–Removed Nurse and Boyfriend subplot in the hottub. No “scalding” kill.
–Removed the nonsense humor of guard looking around Hospital.
–Added HALLOWEEN music to silent walking scenes around Hospital.
–Expanded Laurie’s dream to include clips from first film.
–Added FLASHBACK #3: Loomis at the Michael Myers meeting Part II.
–Added flash frames of Judith Myers from behind Michael’s mask in the first film as he looks over the nurse he just killed.
–Jimmy is now killed in the pool of blood by Michael Myers.
–Removed scenes of Laurie leaving Hospital and hiding in car.
–Shortened the conversation in car with Loomis and Marion Chambers.
–Loomis now takes charge quicker — no extra dialogue with Marshall.
–As Loomis, Marion and Marshall enter Hospital — Laurie runs to greet them and The Shape springs into attack.
–Tightened shots as Marshall is killed by Michael.
–Added flash frames of young Michael as Loomis shoots him.
–Re-edited entire operating room scene with Michael, Laurie and Loomis.
–Added flash frames of Judith Myers from behind the mask as Michael stares at Laurie.
–Lauire shoots Michael a third time.
–Added clips of Michael’s body being taken to morgue as Laurie’s ambulance drives away.
–Added surprise sting of Michael in the morgue.
–Added “Twenty Years Later” title card.
–Removed “Mr. Sandman” from opening of H20.
–Tightened shots with Marion Chambers and the hockey kids.
–More John Carpenter music added, including cue from HALLOWEEN III.
–Re-edited scenes from RESURRECTION, now features a voice-over from Loomis speaking about the dangers of Michael — ending on Laurie locked in her room.
–Removed the false scare of the guard and patient. Now Michael kills guard quicker.
–Shortened the scene on roof between Laurie and Michael.
–Added flashback clips from first film as Michael stabs Laurie in the back.
–Removed Laurie’s Dream from H20 opening.
–Laurie wakes up from RESURRECTION dream screaming (all the asylum was a dream).
–Trimmed John’s friends and L.L. Cool J’s character from story. Now they are just bait.
–Removed John’s goofy faces in classroom.
–Removed most of John and Molly’s romance subplot.
–Shortened scene between Laurie and Norma.
–Removed several lines of dialogue between Laurie and Will.
–Removed and tightened scenes with Sarah and Charlie.
–Tightened argument in car with Laurie and Molly.
–Added echo of Laurie screaming “MICHAEL”
–Added flash clips from all films over final scene with Laurie and Michael.
–Final scene is now FINAL. Off with his head.
–Added end credits.
AWARDS:
winner of the Occtober 2009 true fanedit contest on Fanedit.org:
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whuaa ..awesome…edit…manny thanks i enjoyed this version…verry much…..:))
Review by clockwork — October 31, 2009 @ 3:49 pm
HALLOWEEN PART II by modernknife
review by boon23
Prologue:
I am not a huge Halloween buff. The first one was great, but about everything that followed was IMO rather lame, most of all caused by a slow undying and very unbelievable creature named Michael Myers. What made the first one so special became in its repeats a bore most of the time, when there was constantly more gore added, because the scares were not scary anymore. The concept of this fanedit directly intrigued me though, because it is a bold one. Combining so many movies to one, what Modernknife calls an “epic” is a huge and very difficult undertaking.
As for all my reviews: this is just my personal opinion of this fanedit. I cannot tell anybody else, if he or she will experience it in the same way or the opposite. So my review is not objective and does not reflect the opinion of fanedit.org.
!!!!This review contains heavy spoilers!!!
The edit:
I watched the “John Carpenter Remix” version and skipped then through the “original purist soundtrack” and I think I regret that decision a lot. While the movie is edited well and follows the fate of poor Laurie, the music was the one thing that bothered me in the entire first part of this fanedit. It felt “over-scored”. Scenes that should have been silent to be scary were suddenly all drenched in the Halloween theme, which although well done, took all the scary mood away. The “original purist track” contains the badly needed silence for a horror movie. It is what made Halloween scary. It is what kind of makes any horror movie scary. Silence that is suddenly interrupted has a lot more impact than a score with an altering theme that plays almost all the time.
The long hospital scenes were a bit confusing for me, especially when at one time Michael leaves the building for no reason and then is back for no reason. Now Michael is not known as a big thinker, but that felt weird to me. The hospital scenes were more or less a body-count delivery and had so little impact on the story of Laurie.
Part 2 of the fanedit with the H20 parts was great IMO. It was very well edited and heavily trimmed at the right places. And the sound mix and score worked great for this part.
So, while the first half was a rather frustrating experience for me, the second part was pretty good. But discovering that my main issues were not present in the “original purist soundtrack” was quite a revelation of the not so great kind, because it made me truly wish I had watched that first or that at all, but right after oen time, I could not watch it again.
Overall I was a bit entertained from the first half, very entertained from the second half, but in the end disappointed by the overall package. It was not bad, but also not epic for me. Worse than the originals? Oh no, but I was hoping for more.
editing: 8 of 10 (the hospital scenes were too long and a bit confusing)
entertainment: 5 of 10 for the “John Carpenter Remix and 7 of 10 for the original purist soundtrack (which is an estimate, since I did not watch that entirely)(originals: H2: 6 H_resurrection: 4, H20: 6)
Image and video quality:
Image and video quality were very good.
Video quality: 10 of 10
Audio editing and audio quality:
There were no hard audio cuts. Audio was too low ion volume.
audio editing: 10 of 10
sound quality: 8 of 10
resulting in a 9 of 10 for overall audio
presentation:
The DVD comes with slightly but quite basic animated menus with sound that are ok. Cover art is attached and quite well done. The extras contain a different audio mix (which is a great extra) and a basic info menu. There is a new title sequence in the movie and also partly self created end credits that could have been done a lot better. The fanedit.info is detailed and informative.
To sum it up:
Some room for improvement, yet an overall really good presentation.
resulting in a 8 of 10 for overall presentation
Final result: 7 of 10 (because I stick in this case to my concept of not rating more than 1 star higher than the movie was entertaining for me)
A bold concept and an interesting edit. For Halloween fans highly recommended.
Review by boon23 — November 5, 2009 @ 4:01 pm
To reunite Halloween 2 and H20 was an idea that needed to be done.
I saw this edit with the purist soundtrack. It was a good.
Of course there is the “20 years later” text in the middle of the movie but I think that in this case it works well,
I prefer that simple way to tell the story than constant flashbacks that would have killed the tension.
(I liked the flashbacks of Loomis with young M.M though)
Review by TMBTM — November 10, 2009 @ 2:31 am
Excellent! Bravo! Well done! What an edit! I loved the original Halloween 2 back in its day, but over time, the movie slowly lost its appeal, in my opinion. Nearly 30 years later, someone has the balls to re-edit a not so favourite of mine into a memorable experience. The editing, both audio and video, was faultless and seamless. Watching the subliminal flashbacks during the first hour, especially, had tingles running down my spine. The second hour was always going to be a challenge in weeding out unnecessary scenes, but you pulled it off. The successful test was achieved when my girlfriend thought this was one entire film – not four movies frankensteined into one. As for a mark out of 10, this easily gets a 9. It loses a point only for the final 30 min or so where the music became a little monotonous, and, whilst in most parts very effective, the use of no sound effects became a little distracting (unavoidable I would guess).
All in all a thoroughly enjoyable edit. One, if not the best I have had the pleasure of viewing. This one sits proudly amongst my favourites.
Thank you.
Review by Lozza — November 11, 2009 @ 2:12 pm
I had never gotten around to watching the Halloween sequels before, but of course am a big fan of the original. In fact, to get myself in the mood for your edit, I re-watched the original the night before.
I watched the purist soundtrack, but did watch the first 15 minutes or so with your remix soundtrack to see how it was. In my opinion you got it very close to the original movie with this score… but I always felt the original movie was over-scored anyway. I thought the purist soundtrack worked well for me. This brings up my biggest complaint about your DVD menus, which is that a first time viewer will often not look at the bonus features until after they’ve seen a movie… and in this case that would mean they won’t know there is a choice of soundtracks until they’ve already seen it. This would have made me upset if I had not known before hand, and I really wish the option was on the main menu.
For the most part, editing was great. I don’t have many complaints. You changed it so “–Jimmy is now killed in the pool of blood by Michael Myers.” which was a little awkward for me, and I could tell something was off, but it got the point across and well enough.
The part that really took me out of the experience was:
“–As Loomis, Marion and Marshall enter Hospital — Laurie runs to greet them and The Shape springs into attack.”
This didn’t work for me at all. I had to rewind and watch it a second time, and I could only figure out what was going on by reminding myself that it was a fanedit. Really took me out of the experience, it was just way too abrupt and disjointed. Even though I’m sure you spared me some annoying parts by editing it in this way.
Also it was awkward towards the end when Laurie tells her son and girlfriend to drive away while she goes back for Michael. When she gets out of the car the audio cuts, and then just as abruptly music comes back in. I know you reference audio troubles in your info, but this again took me out of the experience.
Other then these complaints, it was a good experience, and even came together to make a pretty decent film and a worthy enough sequel. It’s still based off sequels that will never be great, but I will say that this was worth watching, and that I would recommend it to friends in the future. Good work.
Review by CasmirRadon — November 12, 2009 @ 12:35 am
Thanks for the comment, boon23, that made me watch the better version first. And it was great. Thanks for creating it, Modernknife.
Review by r8s8fr8 — November 27, 2009 @ 8:55 pm
arrrr now i gotta see it with the purist ST?! i missed that, bummer. i had mixed feelings about the default track – several scenes had no SFX and only score, but a few of them were much more tense so a mixed pros/cons there.
i will admit that i am not the biggest halloween fan – primarily because i think they drag on (and on) but modernknife’s H2 edit gives you ALL of the pertinent halloween plot (laurie strode) and mixed in a very creative way.
video quality and pacing are big weaknesses here, but this definitely replaces any non H1 halloween viewings. pair this and PhineasBG’s extended H1 edit for a pretty great way to watch michael myers kill ‘em off
Review by joebshmoe — December 1, 2009 @ 8:14 am