This week on The Good, The Bad, and The Sequel, we're celebrating Halloween with a special HALL PASS EPISODE, and Doug is cashing in his pick for Halloween II (1981)!

Michael Myers is back, Laurie Strode is still fighting for her life, and apparently the most dangerous place in Haddonfield is the local hospital!

Picking up immediately after the events of John Carpenter's original Halloween, this sequel takes us inside Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, where a suspiciously small staff, some questionable security, and one very determined masked killer make for a Halloween night nobody will forget.

But does Halloween II live up to the original, or is Michael Myers starting to overstay his welcome?

We dig into everything, including:

🎃 Doug's Hall Pass pick — why Halloween II earned a special spot on the podcast and whether Jamie agrees with the choice

🔪 Michael Myers returning for round two — somehow surviving six bullets and a fall from a balcony like it's no big deal

🏥 Haddonfield Memorial Hospital — where is everybody, and why does this place have approximately four employees working the night shift?

👻 The movie picking up immediately after the original — one of the coolest sequel concepts in horror history

😱 The kills getting bigger and bloodier — from the hot tub scene to the hospital's increasingly creative death traps

🎭 Jamie Lee Curtis returning as Laurie Strode — although she spends a surprising amount of the movie lying in a hospital bed

👨‍⚕️ Dr. Loomis being completely obsessed with Michael Myers — Donald Pleasence once again delivering the intensity we love

🎃 The sibling revelation — the decision to make Laurie and Michael brother and sister and how it changed the entire franchise

🎬 Rick Rosenthal taking over directing duties and John Carpenter and Debra Hill returning to write the sequel