Halloween (2018) - Film Review
Halloween is directed by David Gordon Green and stars Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, Toby Huss, Will Patton, and Nick Castle.
Plot
Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers (Nick Castle), the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.
Review
We did it. We finally got a great Halloween movie after 20 years. After H20 we got Resurrection and the Rob Zombie movies, the less said about those, the better. But we're past those and we're talking about the new one.
This is spoiler free by the way, but I'm not doing a Spoiler Talk for this movie.
One thing I don't like is that they named the movie Halloween. Why couldn't they have given it a subtitle? They should've called it Halloween H40.
This movie makes all other sequels non-canon, even the original Halloween II, making Michael and Laurie no longer siblings. This isn't the first time they made sequels non-canon. H20 ignored 4, 5, and Curse, and this ignores everything.
I like this more than 4 and H20 but I don't think I like it more than Halloween II.
It's got some really good kills, I won't spoil any though.
There are several callbacks to the other movies, including one I loved with Michael and Laurie (but I won't spoil) and the opening credits are just great.
Let's talk about the cast. It was great seeing Jamie Lee Curtis back as Laurie, especially after that whiny, annoying Laurie in the Rob Zombie films. In H20, she fought Michael at the end, but in this movie she is ready from the beginning, she has shotguns, she has traps, she is ready. Also, how could she afford all that? This is my favorite version on Laurie we've gotten.
Judy Greer is good as Karen, Laurie's daughter. It would've been nice if they got Danielle Harris back to play this alternate version of Jamie, but they didn't, that would've been cool though. Karen's childhood was pretty much her being taught by Laurie how to escape Michael, and how to shoot and everything and you can tell she's just trying to live a normal life on her own.
Three people play Michael in this: Tony Moran, Nick Castle, and James Jude Courtney all played Michael. I like how they made Michael a bit more human in this but he does have his superhuman strength. There's no Thorn, there's no redneck household, just back to the way he used to be and that's awesome. Also, there is a part in the trailers where it shows a long shot of Michael walking through Haddonfield, and it's so much longer in the movie and it's great.
Overall, Halloween is my favorite horror film of the year and probably just one of my favorite films of the year. It's so great to see this franchise be good again.
I'm going to give Halloween a 9/10.
Well, another marathon wrapped up.
Previous review - Halloween II (2009)
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