Review of Halloween (2018) by Jon P — 18 Oct 2018

A direct sequel to the original John Carpenter classic, so why isn't is called Halloween II? Because it would be confusing to have three Halloween II's? Ahh, so, three Halloween's it is, the original, a remake and a sequel to the original, it makes sense.

So this one, is a remake of Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, with Laurie Strode, still in the picture and Michael's niece playing a lesser role. Mixed with Halloween H20, when it deleted it's previous installments to bring back Laurie Strode.

So this one deletes all previous installments including H20, and the remakes and takes place as if Michael was caught on Halloween night 40 years ago. It's a shame, Halloween II (the original, haha) was dope.

... As with Halloween 4, Michael is being transferred, shit happens he breaks free and goes after his family, but in this alternate universe Laurie didn't die in a car accident and left her daughter, in this, she goes full on Sarah Conner, and prepares, because she knew Michael would escape one day, raising her daughter John Conner style also in preparation, which neither John nor Laurie's daughter took seriously til crap when down!! And yep, Mikey makes his way back to Haddonfield in time for Halloween and of course the Halloween dance at the high school.

So the whole teen element of this one was kind of pointless, just seems to be added in to attract the younger audiences to an R-rated film? I dunno. I guess that one teen is also Michaels niece so... And just how supernatural is Michael.

.. how is he able to track down a group of teens, who all go their separate ways, and he hasn't been in town for 40 years. Smith's Grove must have the internet for inmates. All leading to a showdown between Ellen and the Queen Alien, crap, I mean all leading to Laurie and a showdown with her bro.

.. Any real fans of the series, and I mean those in between sequels, part 6 in particular, the Cult of Thorn, I'm pretty sure they're hinted at in this, not sure, just my thought... As a whole I liked it, I liked the different slices of the other films in the series.

(Spot the Season of the Witch masks?) Will there be a Halloween 2. Of course there will be, they have literally run out of ideas in Hollywoo. Filmbufftim on FB.