Halloween (2018 movie) is a direct sequel to the original Halloween film, a slasher flick starring my favorite Halloween and horror character, Michael Myers. I ended up watching the film at an early midnight showing for employees at AMC theater, where my friend works. The audience of AMC staff wasn't my cup of tea. The constant laughter, whispering, and talking throughout undermines the seriousness of the horror flick, which it is a great one.
The movie starts 40 years after the first one left off. Michael is old, but we hardly ever get to see his complete face. However, he's just a plain looking, bearded, tall, generic white guy from what we can see. His victim from the first movie Laurie Strode, whom he didn't kill is old, and looks even older. She's estranged from her daughter, the horror of Michael ruining her life, her marriage, etc.
Michael ends up getting sent to another facility. Somewhere on the road the inmates break free, and Michael is on the loose, setting the movie up for the grisly murders. The body count isn't very high in this movie, but the killings are much more grisly than the original film. Not only that but Michael goes on a killing spree on Halloween night! Evil ensues.
Once he finds a knife, its trademark Halloween time. Once again, the murders are pretty simple, but we see that Michael is a lot more aggressive with his killings. He's the face of evil, as they say. Anyways, so he's on the run murdering everyone he can, mostly teenagers, cops, and his doctor, but eventually Laurie Strode finds Michael and they have an epic battle in her booby-trapped house, the house she built waiting for this moment, to kill Michael Myers. She's prayed for this, she says earlier in the film when she finds out he's on the loose.
They trap Michael in the basement, and set the whole house on fire, a scene reminiscent from Halloween II. Of course, Michael is presumed to be alive, and in the last scene we see Strode's granddaughter clutching the knife Michael had used. Fin.
The movie is actually pretty great, considering that nothing could've topped the original film and that making a sequel to the original is pretty damn difficult, never mind those other six (or however many!) other Halloween movies there are. I think this movie is a good horror flick, it has the gore, the evil mascot, the innocent victims, and even a smidge of evil mysticism (the inmates at the hospital when reporters go see Michael).
I think the movie's most serious aspects were undermined by the audience, but I still enjoyed the movie even if they all thought they had to be coolest kids in the room. The acting, while not great, was still decent, and Michael Myers' character was perfect, I remember him being the same way in the original. In this aspect, they excelled especially.
This is a great holiday movie to watch right now. Even if you don't like horror movies (like me), I think this is something even people who are afraid of horror movies can enjoy. There's some grisly murders, but some of it is downright laughable, like when Michael stomps on a guy's head, and the head explodes into pukey chunks. You would have to be unbelievably strong to do that! Anyways, check out the movie, its the best time, its fresh, and its almost Halloween.
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