The first sequel to John Carpenter's seminal horror film. It is still Halloween night 1978 and Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) is in hospital recovering from Michael Myers' near-fatal attack upon her. She now believes Myers to be dead, but somehow he comes back from the grave and the mayhem begins all over again.

Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper and Crispin Glover star in this American crime drama. Teenager John Tollett (Daniel Roebuck) strangles his girlfriend, Jamie (Danyi Deats), and leaves her body beside the river. As word gets out among the young people of the town, some are torn between keeping faith with their peers or exposing the crime and risking retribution. Matt (Reeves) and Clarissa (Ione Skye) are uncomfortable keeping silent, while speed freak Layne (Glover) believes that as John's friends they should help him cover-up the murder. Layne and John turn to Feck (Hopper) for advice, the local drug dealer and himself a murderer.