Reviews

Turns out that Michael was captured and institutionalized shortly after the events on the first film, leaving Laurie to reckon with the trauma of what she experienced.

Halloween 3, notably, went in an entirely different direction, focusing on the Silver Shamrock organization, whereas Halloween 4 revealed Laurie Strode died in a car accident, with that film and Halloween 5 focusing on Laurie's daughter Jamie Lloyd.

Set 40 years after the original Halloween, this latest film in the series positions itself as a direct sequel to original and in some ways is a conversation with that film, the franchise and the horror genre at large.

The changes in the Laurie Strode character completely disregard the Laurie Strode we met in Halloween H20, where Laurie was a college dean working under an assumed name who had become an alcoholic.

I know I'm not much into slashers but even within its own kind Halloween is extremely boring and uninspired film.

Even having creators like Green and Danny McBride approaching the material with the best intentions does little to assuage that concern - the film itself features multiple characters whose benign first impressions are swiftly shown to be false fronts for unpleasant (and even destructive) forces that...

Halloween is an interesting film.

Some obvious, like with a couple of the murders in it, others less so, from Laurie's granddaughter sitting in the same seat in the classroom, and even ending up in a similar outfit towards the end of the film.

Halloween picks up 40 years after the original Halloween (poor title choice for a sequel) and Michael is incarcerated for his previous killing spree, but when the prison bus that's transferring him crashes he's set up for another night of killing.