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Halloween (2018)
- type
- Movie
- Kind
- Horror
- release date
- 19/10/18
- interpreter
- Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer and Andi Matichak
- director
- David Gordon Green
- distributor
- Universal
- mpaa
- R
We gave him a B +
Long live Michael Myers, so maybe someone will finally be able to kill him – in a big, funny, scary, squishy, super-meta sequel that brings him back to the iconic original of 1978.
Forget everything you know or should have removed from your browser history, regarding other franchise entries you've been to. Director David Gordon Green and co-writer Danny McBride set them aside for the main story of the original survivor Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), now a ferocious grandmother with a gun and a long and long memory. She has a semi-separated daughter (Judy Greer) and a granddaughter too (Andi Matichak). And she knows that Michael (played by Nick Castle and James Courtney) is transferred after 40 years to another mental health center.
Curiously, things are not going well in the transfer. Soon, Michael is on the loose in Haddonfield, Illinois, on the anniversary of his Halloween night rampage four decades ago, and the number of bodies is accumulating like so many churros on a taco trolley. Green (All real girls, Express pineapple, Senior Directors), formerly an independent author and now a sort of genious companion, clearly loves his source. He and McBride fill out the scenario of comic riffs and reference winks to the original, even as the film lets Michael stumble, stomp, and make his way through Haddonfield's frightened and ill-considered population.
The tropes are all there: make-up sessions for teenagers, frantic escapes through a dark wood, death by ax and steel boot and convertible. (Also the iconic score, the pumpkin color font of the credits and some original characters.) In some ways, Green could even be also faithful; there is no new dead Pool-the twisting of the breaking of the fourth wall or this story-why-it-crying.
Instead, the movie works mostly because it's so basic and funny: Michael still does not speak; his mask and his slow, deadly and deliberate march say everything they need. At the age of 59, Curtis seems to have completely arrived in her role as Queen of the Night Madness, and she's having a good time in jeans and a scary wig, swinging her shotgun and screaming for everyone to enter the trunk .
In the end, she might even have finally got her guy – but real hate never really dies, as all good horror knows. And neither one nor the other, if the box office is strong enough, makes men boogie. B +
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