Halloween 2: Alternate Ending (Tv Cut)

The ending to the rarely broadcasted TV cut that switches the movie around quite a bit and especially turns a darker, eerie conculsion into one that ends on a happier note.

Just as the ambulance is about to pull away, a white sheet pops up behind Laurie...

...to reveal the warm-hearted acquaintance she made the night before named Jimmy.

Laurie's face of fear crumbles into a wave of thankful, stunned relief as she realizes that she won't be the only one who came out alive from the long, traumatizing night of terror.

Many fans critize this scene particularly for the acting and the cheesiness it brings to the end of a great movie, but I think Jamie Lee's work here feels as genuine as it always does, as in this alternate ending, Laurie may have lost old friends but now she might just gain a new one. The fear and happiness for the future washes over her face, because she knows that it may be over but it will never be over.

"What's the matter?"

"WE MADE IT!"

Though I wonder why this ending even needed to be shot; everything else was altered/cut because of violence and such, but the original ending could have stayed fine where it was. The original, with Laurie just gazing out past us as Mr. Sandman tunes in and Michael's mask burns is haunting and dark. With Laurie Strode as the (supposedly) only survivor of the massacre. I wonder if this was shot as an alternative end to the actual movie and not just the TV version, because that might make more sense.

Just one of the many fascinating things about these movies.