Rick Rosenthal

So yeah, a lot of that tension is just not really exploited either.

Brand reworked the script, uh, with, uh, the director once the producers settled on series veteran Rick Rosenthal, uh, director of the second film, as well as many low-budget TV and straight to video titles, uh, in between there.

I think one other theatrical release.

It's the first time a director came back to make another Halloween movie.

And again, it's one of the few times where he's way too well-lit and the mask's imperfections show.

So getting that, the last vision of this continuity of Michael Myers, aside from his eyeball in the, the very last shot, is him just kind of like a doofy Christ figure wiggling around in an overlit room.

So I wanna mention, with all these various different endings, the director, uh, Rick Rosenthal, and there were some rumors about him being fired from the project that he denies, um, but he did apparently pitch, uh, the idea to copy the film Clue by releasing the film to theaters with different endings attached.

Um, but this didn't get very far.

I think the movie itself was just an absolute...

They were grasping for, they were being like, "Let's bring back Rick Rosenthal," who did Halloween II.

Like, he's like a...

I mean-

definitely.

Either way, yes, Rick Rosenthal directed

that film and took it the direction he wanted to.

Again, folks, like we said before, Carpenter was kind of like, I don't know if I really want to do a second one.

I don't want to know what to do with it.

I don't want to make it ridiculous, run into the ground.

So Rick Rosenthal took it.

Dick Warlock...

I'm talking about Scarefest weekend, and, uh, we're gonna get into it right now.

Uh, let's talk about a film by Rick Rosenthal, his 1981 directorial film debut, Halloween II.

[upbeat music] Hello, everybody.

I'm Jeff Johnson.

Well, let's talk, uh...

Let's get into Halloween II.

Let's, let's talk a little bit, uh, three things you may not know about, uh, director Rick Rosenthal.

I bet Wes is gonna know m- well, a lot of these though, Dave, 'cause he's-

[laughs]

Yeah, and he came up with that all by himself because, uh, Rick Rosenthal directed this and, you know, Dick Warlock was like, "Well, how do, like, how do I get the move? Like, how do I..." He, I love that because he was so invested in the Michael Myers movement from the OG and wanted to transition it.

But of course, like, you know, it was back in the day.

It's not like today where we, like, inspect every little thing.

[laughs]

It was like a whole thing my whole childhood.

So I love that little thing that, you know, John Carpenter, Rick Rosenthal, and Debra Hill put in here that that's an Hall- another Halloween aspect.

Like, what the hell? There's this kid with this, and that was disgusting with the razor blade.

Say what

we will, but Rick Rosenthal, bless him, on Halloween II, made sure to make the movie look aesthetically like the first film.

Tommy Lee Wallace, freaking amazing, on Halloween III.

And then even Dwight Little.

It came out in 1994.

It was so poorly received that the director, Rick Rosenthal, disowned it and had his name removed.

Anton, we have covered a film directed by Rick Rosenthal.

Do you know what it is?

That's studios, right, right.

Not

directors.

And

But, uh, [laughs] But I just, I just didn't get it.

But I know a lot of people, my friend Tom, he was a big, uh, Pac-Man guy.

So I would watch him.

He would-

I was, I was for a little bit.

Yeah.

Um, my, my friend, I, m- my friends are, are bigger gamers than me-

Yeah

Yeah, but he wrote it with Deborah Hill, his lifelong partner in cinema.

Rick Rosenthal would take the reins.

And he, there's really nothing that I know of his that he's directed.

He ended up going into TV a lot.