i finally went and seen rz H2 for the second time lastnight. my girlfriend and i caught the 10:05 show and when we walked into the H2 viewing room i was shocked. it was about 3/4 full! for the 3rd weekend playing and it being the late show i thought maybe 10 to 15 people would be there, no it was about 75% full. ive read several posts on here about people walking out of the theatre on H2 so i kept an eye out for this and anyone the left must of just had to piss because they came right back, same as the first time i saw it opening night. ive also read posts of people laughing at seemingly serious scenes during the film. who hasent experienced this in any film youve watched in the theatre? there was alot of laughing going on during the 2007 remake and when i seen the friday 13th remake and im setting there thinking, “what is so funny about that”? when you get that many people togeather theres always someone cracking jokes trying to lighten the moment. its natural for some people to joke or make fun of things that make them feel uncomfortable, scared, nervous, or any unsettling emotion. laughing during a horror film doesnt necessarily mean the movie sucks, it usually means there are some “class clowns” in the theatre and thats their way of separating themselves from the film and easing their unsettling emotions. if they where laughing because they thought the movie was literally a joke, then they would get up and walk out, but on one did.
i heard alot of cringing sounds throughout the film, seen girls covering their eyes, and a couple of “oh shit’s” but not one boo or this sucks from anyone in the theatre. lastly my girlfriend isnt a huge horror fan, ofcourse most girls are not, but she said she liked rz H2 better than the friday 13th remake. thats an unbiased opinion coming from someone who isnt a big horror fan, just an average opinion. i just wanted to share my experience of seeing H2 for the second time and my opinion of it hasnt changed, all in all its an entertaining, very brutal, very different but enjoyable Halloween film. the things i disliked about it after the first viewing i still dislike but i consider it to be my 4th favorite in the Halloween series. i think RZ’s H2 will still go on to make more money than most of the other Halloweens.
With a 3rd place opening weekend, and a major drop to 6th in it’s second weekend with only a 5 million dollar take and now it’s subsiquent disappearence from the top 10 on it’s 3rd week, this film’s theatrical take is done. Finished.
Yeah I saw that too. http://www.imdb.com/chart/
Doesn’t look too good for a part 3D if you ask me. Movies that don’t bring the bread home tend to get sequals on Direct Video.
glad to see you got to go enjoy the film again. I actually went again this week. Dropped the kids at school and caught an 11:30am show. There was me and maybe a dozen people there. There was a small group of late teen/early 20’s girls that verbally cringed at several kills.
The things I disliked stayed the same…but what has grown even more on me is the grunting during the stab thrusts and Manes acting.
The scene where he’s sitting in the barn and first you see his hallucination and then you see him alone in the barn with his head slightly tilted with his eyes wandering…EVIL!
In JC’s Halloween Michael was for sure “The Shape” or “Evil”. In RZ’s he’s for sure “The Psychopath”. Casey at propshop nailed it!
When I watch H2 I keep thinking…what a f’ing lunatic.
good brutal stuff
if Halloween films didnt start going direct to video after the failures of H5 and H6 then RZ’s H2 wont be the cause of them going directly to video.
H5 grossed 11.6 million
H6 grossed 15.1 million
the U.S gross for H2 is currently over 30 million
the opening weekend for Resurrection made 12,292,121 while the opening weekend for H2 made 16, 349, 565.
if they were going to start sending Halloweens straight to video it wouldve happened long before now.
as i closed out my original post with, RZ H2 has already and will go on to make more than some other previous Halloween films.
come on folks, i know alot of people dont like the new H2 but Rob didnt nail the coffin lid shut on the series. the fact that it has already done better than Resurrection proves that.
Rob may be done with Halloween but Halloween is not done with its franchise or the big screen. there will be another Halloween film and then we’ll see how well that one blows over.
Thanks Shane for depicting your experience.
looking confidently forward for an release date for our theaters!
hey no problem Florian. you know i call em like i see em. if i thought RZ’s H2 sucked i would just as quickly say that as i say i do like it.
man that sucks that you guys overseas have to wait so long to see it after it is released in the U.S. but im sure you will like it for the most part.
im confident after the worldwide grosses and dvd/blue ray sales are figured in H2 will be a decent money maker. later flo
i loved H2 but i dont like how people always base its general success and watch value on the money it makes. If a handful of fans thoroughly enjoyed it thats what matters most.
i agree with you bud.
the majority of box office numbers threads have been posted heavily by people who dislike RZ H2. i think for some of them who dislike it, showing that this film isnt making as much money as the last one or it isnt in first place at the box office makes them feel like that is some kind of “pyhsical proof” that its a bad movie and that their opinion of ‘it sucks’ is the right one and cant be disputed if they have numbers on their side.
ive been told that what i just stated is psycho analyzing. you can call it what you want but that observation appears to be factual to me.
so since RZ H2 has already done better than resurrection, i might as well use the ‘numbers’ for my defence for the film.
here now young blood. im sure your old enough to know you cant take other peoples opinions for your own so until you see it dont just assume its “pretty bad”. i would suggest giving it a watch for yourself so you can form your own judgement. if your friend is a class clown and rarely ever takes anything serious, then he was probably one of the loud mouths at the theatre that constantly try to crack jokes at non-funny scenes to enlighten the mood for himself and trying to get a rise out of others, thus not dedicating a whole lot of attention to the film itself.
i think it is a different Halloween than any other in the series and there are several things about the film that i dont like. i dont like the whole ending for example, it just doesnt work for me. however i think its the most agressive, brutal Halloween to date and i do like that. michael myers seems completely unstopable and i didnt mind his extra clothing.
so go check it out for yourself “michaelmyers_lolipop” you might actually like 
Loved the movie myself…and i was a class clown…but grew up when i had to.
the movie is a serious one and most class clowns dont take things seriously
you should know that…
and like people have been saying…make up your own mind…dont jump on the wagon
because it is the cool thing to do right now…
People spout box office numbers because in the end…that’s all the studios care about. A “handful” of fans that actually liked this does not play well for the suits. So it’s not just us that laugh at Zombie’s attempt to make a buck that matter.
I love the fact that everyone brings up H8 (trickortreatmotherfucker) as a basis of accomplishment. But if you REALLY do the math, this is much more a failure on many levels. Examples you ask?
H8 budget in 2002 dollars…13 million (+ marketing budget). Total domestic made: $30,354,422.
Average ticket prices in 2002 were $5.81 vs $7.18 in 2009. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/about/adjuster.htm
H2 opened on 3,088 screens in 2009 vs. H8 opening on 2,094 screens in 2002.
H8 opened on July 12th and closed it’s run on October 31st, 2002. H2 opened on August 28th and has been dropped from 25% (-738)of screens in two weeks. H2 will NOT be in theaters in 3 months…I think that’s a given. It’s only shown two times a day at my local theaters even now in my neck of the woods.
H2 has yet to make what H8 did domestically in today’s dollars, let alone 2002 dollars. Do the math. Either way you want to add it up, all it does is equal FAIL!!
So yeah…box office numbers DO COUNT.
You are telling me that H8 ran from JULY until HALLOWEEN??? do you have a factual basis for that?
I dont think that any of the summer blockbusters of the last decade had a run like that? SPIDERMAN; TERMINATOR; HARRY POTTER still rocking in October?
Something seems a bit off there.
These days (at least the theaters in NYC) theres no movie that seems to run more than a month and a half. That includes the “big” ones too. Harry Potter “Half Blood Prince” opened July 16th; made billions and was gone by August.
One thing that i also dont get from the people using box office results to bash H2…since when does box office $$$ make a movie good?
Shit…Romero and Argento’s last films played for like a week in like 10 theaters…how would a film like MANIAC do? or most classic horrors for that matter.
They’d all be buried by the crap that makes money…movies with rappers; the mtv starlets and the like.
if we’re going to talk money though the verdict is still out but these days you really have to count post theater sales…with the dvd sales H2 will for sure eclipse most of the Halloween films.
As requested…http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=halloween8.htm
[quote=“VOORHEES”]H8 opened on July 12th and closed it’s run on October 31st, 2002. H2 has yet to make what H8 did domestically in today’s dollars, let alone 2002 dollars.
so H8 had 3 1/2 months to make its 30 million, H2 made that in 3 weeks. not to mention the economy was in ALOT better shape when resurrection was released, a time when many poeple made and had more money to spend.
thanks mr. simmons for adding to my observation that its mainly the zombie haters that try to highlight the box office numbers as its failure.
i know for some people who really cant stand this film they want it to be a huge flop but that is not the case. sure its not going to make a bank full of money, but its already made too much money to be considered a flop and its overseas earnings are still out of the equation.
and as far as year of release, how much would the original Dracula or Halloween make today if their ticket sales were priced at todays rate and economy?
would as many people go to see it? when you pull a product from a different year to compare it monetarily to a product to date, its all estimatation and speculation because what no one will ever know is would the previous product sold less or more if it were released in a different time.
the bottom line is the bottom dollar.
and lets not count chickens before they hatch. im sure the dvd/blue ray sales will surpass many of the previous Halloweens as well.
SIGH Did you even do the math? Perhaps this will put it into perspective:
H8 = $30,354,442 domestic divided by the average ticket price for 2002 ($5.81) = 5,224,516 TICKETS SOLD
H2 = $30,094,379 domestic divided by the average ticket price for 2009 ($7.18) = 4,191,417 TICKETS SOLD
Sooooo…you’re telling me that over a million people are going to go see H2 before it’s out of theaters in 2 more weeks just to equal the same number of tickets sold? I don’t think so. H8 PWND H2 in the number of tickets sold even though H2 was on 939 more screens.
And just for shits and grins…let’s do the good Halloween:
$47,000,000 divided by ($2.34 average ticket price for 1978) = 20,085,470 TICKETS SOLD
Economy…schmonomy…whatever. It’s pretty pathetic that the main reason movies are even released these days is to TRY to make a quick buck and then hope it really takes off on DVD.
i get it Gene Voorhees your a kiss/jason fan but not a rob zombie movie fan.
the FINAL amount is far from being figured in. so how about we discuss this later down the road
Gene Voorhees… 
Voorhees you better watch that Gene doesn’t tax you for that avatar!
Let’s throw in my MJ dancing sig to complete the trifecta. I shall now be known as Gene Voorhees-Jackson. Speaking of which…anyone wanna gamble on what This Is It takes in the two weeks it’s being released in theaters? It’s being released against SAW (ok…MJ is giving them a 5 day headstart). 
It opens October 28th and tickets go on sale September 27th. (I’m thinkin’ there’s some math to be done there but I’m tired of explaining)
Trickortreatmotherfucker! 
HEE…hee… 