As many horror fans might be able to tell you, no one was terribly excited to make "Halloween II." John Carpenter's 1978 "Halloween" was a runaway success, making $70 million on a minuscule $300,000 budget, so it seemed inevitable that a sequel should be made. The problem was, writers Carpenter and Debra Hill didn't have many ideas for one. "Halloween" was so efficient and trim, there wasn't a lot of extra story to be told. Michael Myers, the masked killer, didn't speak, and was constantly described as a bleak, mindless source of evil and death. He was so evil, his own psychiatrist shot him six times. Michael was semi-supernatural, and didn't lend himself well to mythology.

Carpenter famously declined to direct "Halloween II," passing on duties to Rick Rosenthal. He and Hill still wrote

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