Review of Halloween (2018) by Viniciusbrito — 26 Oct 2018

After the events of 1978, when Michael Myers killed a lot of people and almost slay Laurie Strode, he got arrested and once again was sent to a asylum, wich he was keeped there, apparently for the next 40 years. During these 40 years, the other side of the event, Laurie Strode tried to go on with her life, marrying and having children, but always looking foward in her life for a possible reencounter, so she train and also trained her daughter for a possible situation. After a bus crash, Michael escape and start his slaughter once again, making possible a confrontation with Laurie. Directed and written by David Gordon Green and also written by Jeff Fradley and Danny McBride.

The storytelling did a good job in first introduce the new characters and make very clear who they are and what they think about the old events, how the trauma of Laurie did affected her later on in her life, they made this aspects very clear wich was important, you really feel that the movie of 78 is also living in here. One thing that it was very important that they build for this movie to work, is that for us to care about the characters, wich indeed happened, first I already did cared for Laurie Strode, and the situations that they placed here did me care for some other persons around the movie, of course there are some people that we just wanted to see smashed by Meyers, by there is a concern aspect in our part for the characters, they build it with dialogues and letting we feel the family. One thing that I didn't liked very much, is the fact that the movie have a more laid back moments, there are some jokes out of time that really took out the tense of some moments. There are some moments of party and relationship with teenage drama that is completely displayed in this movie, that was so anticlimatic, in the original also had these, but they didn't wasted time in showing that, just mentioning.

There is some small conversations about how the killer can influence the victim and how the victim influence the killer, they did talked a bit about the psyche of the assassin and the victim. This helps to define the personality of Laurie.

The movie isn't as scary as the original, that is for sure, but still, it does have some tense moments that are very deserving to be mentioned. The persecution in the streets of haddonfield are very well done, you can feel the despair of being hunted by Myers, there are scenes inside of houses that you just don't where he is that was very scary and tense. During the last run of the movie all of happens is a full show, they completely nailed it, the whole final sequence is great, scary, badass and even emotional.

The kills in this movie are also very creative, some of them mixing moments of fear with badass situation for Myers, it is nasty and gore in some parts, you can see how Myers is still very badass, there are scenes that he is hiding in the shadows stalking just as he likes to, there are different weapons that he uses and differents methods.

Jamie Lee Curtis did a show in this movie, for me she could completely keep the essence of her character, and still put another layer on her, I completely bought the trauma that she put on her, there are some emotional moments and some desespere moments, she did a great job, so on the concern with the others together with the hate, I found her, once again, great. Judy Greer plays the daughter of Laurie, she did a nice job, you could tell that she wanted to protect her children and had a different way to see things than her mother, in moments of action she was a badass as well in a certain moment. Andi Matichak played the grand daugther of Laurie, she is a teenager that tries to understand and put her grandma in the social with them once again, she was nice. Haluk Bilginer plays a crazy doctor, he did a nice job, he convinced me in his blindness in not seeing what he had to.

The movie cinematography was very good, the movie used references from the original movie, where we had shots of Michael doing something or just standing in somewhere, and in this one we have very similar shots, but with another one, doing or standing in the same way, implying that the hunter has now changed sides, and that was just beautiful to watch. There are some sequences without cuts that are just gorgeousl filmed, it was great.

The soundtrack of this was made by John Carpenter once again, and it is fantastic. He keeped the gentle sounding of the original, but it did had some epicness imput on that, in other moments it was just the classic, like I felt that I was watching the one from 78 once again, that was great. He also created some new themes, the new tracks are fabulous, inspiring, scary and full of adrenaline, I loved the soundtrack in here.