As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.
- Remember that jack-o'-lantern in the first film's opening? They topped that.
- The pumpkin on the film's poster. The pumpkin has a skull for a face.
- The theme song is unsettling enough on the piano alone, but played on an organ with a synthesizer bass...
- Michael's utter relentlessness in pursuing Laurie. It perhaps doesn't top the Nothing Is Scarier nature of him potentially targeting anybody, like in the first film, but the way he zeroes in on her and simply won't stop is utterly terrifying, and at one point actually prompts Laurie to ask why he won't die.
- One moment in particular – where Michael, while pursuing Laurie, Loomis, and Marianne, walks straight through a plate glass door without so much as a flinch – really starts to solidify Loomis's maybe not-so-unfounded belief that the guy ain't even human.
- Going along with this, the shot of Michael walking while on fire before he dies. It's just so damn creepy to watch him be so determined to fulfill his objective that even his own imminent death doesn't faze him.
- Michael lifting up a nurse with a scalpel one-handed, as well as him breaking through a thick, locked door later on in the film, certainly adds to this as well. Not only does Michael not stop, he's got strength that he can use even after all the abuse he's taken throughout the night. No one and nothing will get in his way.
- If you get nervous or scared in hospitals, this is not the movie you should be watching.
- Doubles as a Tear Jerker – the Michael doppelganger getting hit by a speeding police car and then pinned between it and an ambulance which suddenly explodes, causing him to immediately burn to death. It's made worse by the fact that said person was just an unassuming regular. (If only Loomis had paid more attention to the hair color on the mask...)
- What's worse still is that this death of an innocent trick-or-treater, who is eventually revealed to be Ben Tramer, Laurie's high-school crush from the first film (and therefore a probable minor), is treated as just a footnote in the movie. The "good guys" basically negligent-homicided a kid and no one was too bothered by it.
- Laurie and Loomis being trapped in a small room with a blinded Michael Myers swiping erratically with his scalpel. This also applies to the shot of him bleeding from the eyes in the same scene.
- Also? The reason he's blind is because Laurie shot both his eyes out... and all it did was blind him instead of put him down for real. Nothing spells out that Michael is something other than human more than the fact that something which should be instantly fatal doesn't do any more than moderately handicap him.
- Michael drowning Karen in the scalding hot tub, especially disturbing with the skin peeling off her face.
- The kills in which Michael uses needles. Especially if you're Afraid of Needles.
- The young boy who turns up at the hospital with a razor blade stuck in his teeth, playing into the Urban Legend of children's Halloween treats containing objects or poisons intended to harm them. And the fact that this is never retroactively explained away as being at all related to either Michael Myers or the child-hurting antagonists of any other film in the franchise (e.g., Silver Shamrock, Cult of Thorn, etc.) arguably makes it the film's most disturbing mystery (leading one to wonder exactly what other potential homicidal maniacs are menacing the supposedly quiet town of Haddonfield).
