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When Loomis thinks he sees Michael but it is actually a drunk Ben Tramer in a mask, he runs after Tramer and pulls his gun. Brackett sees this and runs out of his patrol car, slams the door, and stops Loomis before Loomis gets off a shot. A few seconds later though, the car door is now open in the background. See more...

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Jimmy didn't die even though it never shows him after he falls on the steering wheel in the car with Lori. He simply passed out. In the TV cut it shows him alive, but for some reason in the theatrical version, they left it out. See more...

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Halloween II (1981) - 13 corrections

Directed by Rick Rosenthal, starring Charles Cyphers, Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jeffrey Kramer, Pamela Susan Shoop (add more)

Genres: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

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In the climactic scene in the operating room, Laurie says "Michael, stop!" before shooting him, but her mouth doesn't seem to move. [Her lips move, it's just that it is a side angle, so it may not be totally visibe.]
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During the scene where Jimmy finds Mrs. Alves dead on the stretcher in the MAJOR SURGERY room, there is a large light on in the room. A few minutes before Michael dies at the end of the film, camera shots are seen panning throughout the hospital and hallways, one of which is the MAJOR SURGERY room. This time, the light is off. We do know Jimmy made his way out to the parking lot to get help after he slipped on Mrs. Alves' blood in that room, but it's hard to imagine in his painful and disoriented state that he would stop and take time to turn off the lights in that room given the circumstances, especially since they weren't on a convenient wall switch anyhow. [If you notice, throughout virtually the entire second half of the film (and especially as Michael, Laurie, and Dr. Loomis's climactic scene ensues), all of the lights in the hospital are off. At one point, we see Michael walking out of one of the many hospital rooms soon after the lights go out, possibly indicating that he had tampered with the electrical wiring, much as we know he did with the phone lines inside the hospital as well as all of the car tires in the parking lot. Michael cutting off the power, then, results in no one room in that hospital having working lights at the time of the panoramic view that we see at the end of the movie.]
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In the storyline, Michael Myers is supposed to only be 21 years old. Towards the end of the movie, right before Michael kills Karen in the hot tub, he puts his hand on Karen's shoulder. It is easy to tell just by looking at his hand that he would be much older than 21. (The actor who played Michael was Dick Warlock, who at that time was in his early 40's). [Actually, Dick Warlock only served as the stuntman for Michael Myer's character in the film; with the same performance previously credited as "The Shape" in the first film, played by Nick Castle. The actual role itself of Michael Myers was done by Tony Moran (b. 1957), whom was only 24 at the time of the film. The seemingly older appearance of his hand could have been due to many other factors; after all, Michael "works" with his hands quite a bit within the two films, in addition to holding it under scalding water that burned the face off of that nurse in the one scene, so aged hands seem almost expected.]
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Other than a patient that Jill responds to, no other patients or even visitors are ever seen or heard throughout the large hospital, despite the fact that the maternity ward has several newborn babies. [It's the middle of the night. There wouldn't be visitors around. And if you stretch your imagination, you can assume that the other patients are asleep (or there's very few of them present).]
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After Dr. Loomis, Marion, and the police officer enter the hospital, Laurie screams for help and climbs to her feet. She turns, and sees Michael Myers standing a few hundred feet away, next to a red light. Why is he so far away from her outside? He could've just gone out the doors that Laurie went through, which would've been much easier and logical. [He's an insane serial killer. No reason he wouldn't do something illogical.]
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In the trailer to Halloween II, the man coming out of his house asking Loomis what was going on (right after Michael had been shot) and stating that "He had been trick or treated to death tonight" was a British man probably in his 60's. In the actual movie, however, that man was now a completely different guy who was probably in his 30's or 40's, with an American accent. [Differences between the trailer and the actual movie are not valid movie mistakes.]
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Right as Laurie is being wheeled in an emergency room and the nurses and staff are preparing her, one of the nurses asks where Dr. Mixter is, and another one replies that he "is" ("is as in at the present) at the same party her folks were at, and that he was real drunk. However, a few seconds later, Dr. Mixter walks in and asks someone to get him some coffee. [Don't see the mistake. The Doctor was at the party to the nurses knowledge. The Doctor then leaves the party and happens to arrive at the hospital at that particular moment. He's asking for coffee because he had been drinking.]
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The security guard is sent to find the reason the phones do not work in the hospital. A couple of scenes later, you see a nurse chatting on a hospital phone. [This is not really true, as the only time this occurs in the order of which you speak is during the "made-for-television" Halloween II, which is the actual Halloween II, but many scenes and events are out of sequence, others are fused together (which never were in in the original theatre format) to make the film shorter, and certain scenes (such as the telephone scene you speak of) only appear on the made-for-television Halloween II.]
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At the end of Halloween 1 we see Loomis shoot Michael 6 times, however at the beginning of Halloween 2 we hear the gun being fired 7 times. Loomis still claims that he shot him 6 times. [Because we hear the shot doesn't necessarily mean that it hit Michael, so it is possible that Dr. Loomis missed.]
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When the guy in the Myers mask is being chased by the Sheriff and Dr. Loomis, the guy is hit by a cop car which crashes into a van and causes an explosion. In an overhead shot you see the body fall on the hood of the car, but when Dr. Loomis gets a closer look, the body is standing straight up burning. [He might not have died instantly, and as such, been writhing in extreme pain and terror.]
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In the end credits of the film, it says NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD is copyright 1978, when in fact, the movie was made in 1968. It can't be the copyright for Halloween 2 itself, as that was made in 1981. [The copyright is 1978. Copyrights are renewed, so although the film was made in 1968, it can be copyrighted in 1978.]
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After Michael is shot, he gets up and goes into the people's house to get their knife. But if you notice the street before he goes in, it's completely quiet, but when he comes out it is crowded with people. [That's because the neighborhood is beginning to react to all the increased police presence caused by Michael's actions.]
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In the original, after Dr. Loomis looks over the balcony to see Michael gone, he has a look on his face as if he knew something like this wasn't a big surprise (Michael surviving gunshots). But in the second film, not only is he in utter shock at Michael surviving, he repeats over and over in amazement during the film of how "he shot him six times without hurting him". [In the first film, Dr. Loomis's jaw does drop after he sees that Michael has walked away. And the scene in the second film takes place immediately after the first one; it's not unreasonable that it might have taken a minute or so for what happened to fully sink in.]
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