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Vienna / Hollywood (APA) – It's back: 40 years after Michael Myers caused fear and horror in the peaceful city of Haddonfield, the silent killer with a striking mask is back on the road. With the simple "Halloween" titled The Renewal of the Horror Franchise, director David Gordon Green resumes his intense debut. This leaves a lot of boring forgotten. From Thursday at the cinema.
The omens were still good: not only Jamie Lee Curtis faces his hangman as Laurie Strode, but also the inventor of "Halloween" John Carpenter is the executive producer and his film-forming trainer on board. Where well-meaning memories of clbadics, of course, so their pitfalls available. This suite, which is directly connected to the original "Halloween", needs a while to get started. Then there is no stop.
Myers (described by Nick Castle and James Jude Courtney) is imprisoned in a psychiatric facility in 1978 after the murder of the babysitter. Two journalists want to further illuminate the darkness for a podcast. Questions remain about the motivation of the murderer. He still does not speak. The checkered pattern of the court looks like an ad on the madness executed with precision, which will be unleashed during the next episode.
One thing is clear after the wonderfully retroactive pumpkin intro: you will not have much fun with the Halloween celebrations in 2018. A transfer into a "hell", according to Myers' phrase, the attending psychiatrist (Haluk Bilginer), finally puts things in place and soon, Michael is on the run. Laurie (Curtis gives the hardened fighter with a lot of conviction) just wait. All her life was marked by the murders, which she barely survived – to the chagrin of her family. The daughter Karen (Judy Greer) generally reacts with the rejection, the granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak) stands between the foreheads.
But soon, all parties realize that Laurie's preparations for Day X have not been in vain. Michael furrows Haddonfield and stops on anyone. Green uses the right mix of extremely explicit scenes and subliminal suspense to create the mood. In any case, this "Halloween" often looks like something from another time, with fun babysitting sections and almost clbadic ingredients of the compulsory high school ball.
In addition, Green, who was also responsible for the screenplay with Jeff Fradley and Danny McBride, scored with irony. Incidentally, the circumstance introduced in "Halloween II", according to which Laurie is actually Michael's sister, is also rejected as an invention. Otherwise, there are many references to the original. In this way, you can put these in countless sequels and Reboots – until now there were already ten "Halloween" movies – a repressed legendary formation, which in part presented quite questionable. A good decision
Because the initial premise of Michael Myers as "ultimate evil", which Carpenter has repeatedly mentioned in interviews, is enough to maintain tension. In terms of pace, Green makes no compromises, and Michael Simmond's meticulous work in many sections does the rest for a successful overall impression. But this night of pumpkins is not only excessively bloody, but eventually turns into a three-generation struggle of Strode women against an apparently unstoppable monster. Watching them is both fun and scary.
(S E R V I C E – www.halloween-film.at; www.halloweenmovie.com)
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