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This film is a sequel to Halloween (2007), not a remake of Halloween II (1981). The beginning of the film is similar to the original Halloween II, but then the film jumps ahead one year and becomes its own film. Director Rob Zombie was quoted in an interview with the St Petersburg Times as saying: It's really a character piece on Laurie [Scout Taylor-Compton] and Dr Loomis [Malcolm McDowell], these really damaged people trying to carry on with their lives.

The film starts immediately after the ending of Halloween and continues for roughly 20 to 30 minutes. The plot then jumps two years. The appearance and use of cell phones, flat screen TVs, and other such modern technology seems to indicate that this film and its predecessor are set in modern times, though Rob Zombie has neither confirmed nor denied this. In the case of the Director's Cut of the film, however, the time jump is two years later. In one of the deleted scenes, a characters mentions that they are 19 and born in 1990, which sets it in 2009.

Daeg Faerch, who played young Michael Myers in Halloween, hit a growth spurt between its release and the filming of Halloween II, and therefore had to be recast due to his height.

Weird Al plays himself, as a guest on a TV talk show.

Rob Zombie, in a July 27th interview by MTV at San Diego Comic Con 2009, said that he will not make a third Halloween movie. "No. I could not see that in any shape, way or form. Never." He refused to explain why he is unwilling to be involved in the third installment of the series. "If I told you why, you wouldn't believe me," he said. "And, I don't want to tell you." Halloween III (2019) was to be directed by Patrick Lussier for release 2013, but the project seemed to fall through and was postponed for a 2019 release. That movie, too, was canceled. More recently, in an interview with Howie Mandel; Rob Zombie stated that he had such a miserable time making the first film, being constantly interfered with by Bob and Harvey Weinstein, that he didn't even want to make Halloween II. But Zombie was under a 3 picture contract. So he agreed to do the second film if they would release him from his obligation to do a third film.

In 2015, franchise producer Malek Akkad would sell the rights to Universal Pictures' Blumhouse Productions to reboot the franchise all over again. Producer Jason Blum would hire David Gordon Green for the movie, which this time would serve as a direct sequel to the very first Halloween (1978), disregarding anything that came after it. This would eventually turn into Halloween (2018) that brought franchise veterans Jamie Lee Curtis and Nick Castle back, with Curtis reprising her role of Laurie Strode after Halloween: Resurrection (2000) where her character was killed off. This movie would spawn two more sequels: Halloween Kills (2021) and Halloween Ends (2022).

Yes. It involves a much more damaged Laurie, and more clarification on why "Deborah" wants Michael to kill Laurie. Laurie and Annie don't get along quite so much, and are at each other's throats for much of the movie, and the ending is almost completely different: After Loomis goes into the shack, and "Deborah" tells Michael to "take us home," Loomis and Michael emerge from the shack. Michael removes his mask, and yells "Die!" at Loomis, before stabbing him. Brackett and the police open fire on Michael and he dies. After this, Laurie walks out of the shed, in shock. She takes the knife from Michael's corpse, and proceeds toward Loomis. Before we can see her intentions, a trigger-happy cop shoots her. Brackett screams for them to hold their fire, but they continue, and Laurie falls dead. Note, the epilogue scene from the theatrical follows, rescored and recut, but it is alluded to that this is merely a symbol for Laurie's descent into madness. However, this could be interpreted as though she survived. According to Zombie, she is dying as that scene plays, and is dead once the first credit hits the screen.