Halloween (October 19th, 2018)

[MaulFan]

I just got back.

First impressions, it was an enjoyable film, and I would consider it one of the better sequels in the franchise, but it's also flawed and could be better.

It doesn't quite feel like a Halloween movie to me, it feels more like a survivor's tale and it just happens the survivor is Laurie Strode and she survived Michael Myers. This essentially was shaped up to be like a T2 of the Halloween series, get a glimpse at the survivor after everything, but instead of giving us that glimpse while giving us more of what was so good in the first part of the story, that seems to take a backseat and large emphasis is place on the survivor.

I really enjoyed a lot of the cinematography once Michael was in mask, and the homages were really enjoyable. I felt like Michael's violence was somewhere between Halloween and Rob Zombie's Halloween. Not as over the top as RZ went, but certainly far more "shock value" than the early films. As I mentioned before, I get that you have to offer this up for the masses of today, but I think a perfectly fine film could have been done without them. The teeth dropping just felt ver out of place and was a bit dumb.

Overall, I feel like Michael was portrayed as soulless evil again, but in earlier films he was a slow stalking predator, where here he felt like a freight train plowing his way to his target. I wish we had gotten a bit more of that stalker quality shown. I would say overall, pacing felt very fast, almost too fast at times, there were some moments where i was like, whoah, we're already at this part.

I thought the daughter and granddaughter worked well, the other kids were throwaways as usual, I found it interesting that one cliche actually never panned out into a pay off kill like you'd have expected.

The very end feels a bit X-Files/Halloween 4, be very curious to see if this is a one off or the start of something.

Spoiler

It definitely feels Halloween 4 all over again and also feels like an X-Files episode, where pure evil is almost like a disease that just takes someone over when they are vulnerable to it, like it took Michael as a child and stayed with him until Allison grabbed his knife and it may transfer to her. It is a bit of a d'oh moment though, like we've seen how bad things got spawning off this idea in Halloween 4, why go through so much effort to erase all those bad moments only to then end with one of the biggest franchise blunders.

At this point, I'd rank the Myers films as follows, Halloween 3 is it's own film.

1. Halloween 1978
2. Halloween 2 (1981)
3. H20
4. Halloween 2018
5. Halloween 4
6. Halloween 6
7. Halloween 2007
8. Halloween 5
9. Halloween 8
10. Halloween 2 (2009)

 

[jye4ever]

Perfect review!

Teeth dropping was really dumb not even RZ version did that lol

Did you notice him punching the guy at the gas station in the background thru the window it looked like he was in a street brawl very un shape like.

His walk in the bathroom scene was very clumsy like really bad.

The focus on the knife instantly reminded me of 4 I was like why are they going there.

The acting by JLC daughter was atrocious.

I think RZ movies just might have better atmosphere!

How about the big shocker when it happened I was like WTF lol

The good parts were far and few between.

Holy crap the 2 cops reminded me of the dumb 2 cops from 5!

 

[MaulFan]

Well they said they did a lot of homage to the past films, I think the 2 dumb cops may have intended to be just that, like in 5, just slightly less silly.

The big shock I’ve know about for months and thankfully didn’t affect me as bad as some similar moments in other shows and movies. They do a good job of setting Michael up as “anything goes”, that moment even sets you up later to worry he’s gonna do something even worse because it’s like, does he have any limits. The scene with the motion lights was cool. Judy Greer is best at comedic roles, interesting casting choice, not horrible but not stand out either, girl in Resurrection was better.

 

[a-dev]

1. Halloween 1978
2. Halloween 2 (1981)
3. H20
4. Halloween 2018
5. Halloween 4
6. Halloween 6
7. Halloween 2007
8. Halloween 5
9. Halloween 8
10. Halloween 2 (2009)

To my knowledge I've only seen the original and H20. Didn't know there was so many of them

 

[jye4ever]

Well they said they did a lot of homage to the past films, I think the 2 dumb cops may have intended to be just that, like in 5, just slightly less silly.

The big shock I’ve know about for months and thankfully didn’t affect me as bad as some similar moments in other shows and movies. They do a good job of setting Michael up as “anything goes”, that moment even sets you up later to worry he’s gonna do something even worse because it’s like, does he have any limits. The scene with the motion lights was cool. Judy Greer is best at comedic roles, interesting casting choice, not horrible but not stand out either, girl in Resurrection was better.

I know i’m trashing this movie but before I continue doing that let me make myself perfectly clear here about one thing and that is Resurrection is 100x worse than this.

Now back to trashing this movie.

That new Dr. was horrible.

MM had a bald spot.

That black chief of police with a cowboy hat was a waste of screen time he added nothing to the narrative.

That boy cheating on his girlfriend added nothing to the narrative but man was she smoking lol

 

[MaulFan]

Yeah tiger girl was hot. Interesting point, I believe this and H20 are the only movies in the franchise without nudity, at least unique nudity, there is the Judith clip from ‘78.

One detail I like that they included was not only the needle hole in the mask but a scar on Michael’s neck as well.

The new dr was a waste but he seemed familiar from an older film. His motives make him seem a bit like Wynn in Curse of Michael Myers.

This movie makes a lot of commentary on world reaction to events like this and people behind them, valid and interesting, but out of place in a slasher film.

Even though Michael gets roughed up as much as usual, I felt like he bounced back to quickly, the shot of him popping up from the closet in the background when you think he’s dead is classic, that’s part of the fun of Michael, he seems dead but never is.

 

[jye4ever]

C’mon Maul just admit it you were highly disappointed.

I’m miserable and I need company lol

They really had no clue what to do with MM did they.

I feel like I got kicked in the nuts I think my Halloween is now ruined.

I just might watch the RZ Halloween in protest.

 

[YoNoSe]

Jeez go slam your balls in a drawer or something but don’t watch RZ Halloween.

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

Jeez go slam your balls in a drawer or something but don’t watch RZ Halloween.

Anything is better than RZ Halloween

 

[jye4ever]

In protest I said lol

I got my hard liquor ready to go for some white trash Michael Myers

When i’m bummed out I do stupid things.

 

[Caped Baldy]

Just got back from it. It was everything I wanted (to an extent) from a Halloween sequel and while I left with some reservations, I also had a big smile on my face walking out. It's a lot of fun and is definitely a crowd pleaser, granted you're in there with the right bunch. If only my Hereditary showing had just a bit more and it would have topped this experience.

Place was pretty crowded too, lots of laughs and they loved the babysitter dynamic with the black kid like mad. Couple of "ooh ****" heard with some of the more brutal kills. A young guy with his girl on my left kept mildly talking throughout like "OMG why won't they just shoot him, how dumb" to which I leaned over and said "You want the damn movie to end just like that?"

Firstly, Myers. Holy crap, Myers is menacing again. They definitely do a good job of incapsulating the heinousness and utter lack of remorse, though I guess he's already like that in the original but just much, much more violent here since it has been 40 years since he's had a taste of killing. I think it's the simplicity of the killings (much like some of the basic elements of the film itself) that makes them stand out more.

JLC was probably the best she's ever been though I wish there was just a little bit more of her. She does such a good job of portraying a woman with PTSD but she needed bit more of those quieter moments with her child and granddaughter. If anything the pacing of the film was maybe a little too fast for any of this to happen? I dunno.

The best parts of the film were Myers going from house to house killing randoms like a savage, though the part from the trailer where he goes and gets the hammer and stalks the woman would have been better off without the main theme playing IMO.

Now onto the big WTF heel turn twist moment: dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb but not a deal breaker thankfully cos it gives us one of the best kills and ups one on Cult of Chucky there if you know what I mean. The script writers probably couldn't think of a way to get Myers to the house so they just said **** it let's go with this laughably dumb twist.

I really liked Will Patton as Hawkins but felt dissatisfied with the way he was 'handeld' during you know what but they did show some glimpses of good chemistry with himself and Laurie especially when he made her jump from behind.

So aside from one odd plot twist, some coincidences of Myers being in the right place at the right time (which has to be expected I guess), I really liked this film. It's simple at its core, it's fun, it's often funny, it's very tense and breathes some life into a franchise with so many bad sequels and stands as a worthy, but not superior, successor to Carpenter's 78 classic.

So my rankings right now:

H78

H18
H2
H4
H3
H20

 

[jye4ever]

When he

Spoiler

smashed his head to pieces they cut back to it and it was mostly intact

 

[matturibe1]

Just got back from it. It was everything I wanted (to an extent) from a Halloween sequel and while I left with some reservations, I also had a big smile on my face walking out. It's a lot of fun and is definitely a crowd pleaser, granted you're in there with the right bunch. If only my Hereditary showing had just a bit more and it would have topped this experience.

Place was pretty crowded too, lots of laughs and they loved the babysitter dynamic with the black kid like mad. Couple of "ooh ****" heard with some of the more brutal kills. A young guy with his girl on my left kept mildly talking throughout like "OMG why won't they just shoot him, how dumb" to which I leaned over and said "You want the damn movie to end just like that?"

Firstly, Myers. Holy crap, Myers is menacing again. They definitely do a good job of incapsulating the heinousness and utter lack of remorse, though I guess he's already like that in the original but just much, much more violent here since it has been 40 years since he's had a taste of killing. I think it's the simplicity of the killings (much like some of the basic elements of the film itself) that makes them stand out more.

JLC was probably the best she's ever been though I wish there was just a little bit more of her. She does such a good job of portraying a woman with PTSD but she needed bit more of those quieter moments with her child and granddaughter. If anything the pacing of the film was maybe a little too fast for any of this to happen? I dunno.


The best parts of the film were Myers going from house to house killing randoms like a savage, though the part from the trailer where he goes and gets the hammer and stalks the woman would have been better off without the main theme playing IMO.

Now onto the big WTF heel turn twist moment: dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb but not a deal breaker thankfully cos it gives us one of the best kills and ups one on Cult of Chucky there if you know what I mean. The script writers probably couldn't think of a way to get Myers to the house so they just said **** it let's go with this laughably dumb twist.

I really liked Will Patton as Hawkins but felt dissatisfied with the way he was 'handeld' during you know what but they did show some glimpses of good chemistry with himself and Laurie especially when he made her jump from behind.

So aside from one odd plot twist, some coincidences of Myers being in the right place at the right time (which has to be expected I guess), I really liked this film. It's simple at its core, it's fun, it's often funny, it's very tense and breathes some life into a franchise with so many bad sequels and stands as a worthy, but not superior, successor to Carpenter's 78 classic.

So my rankings right now:

H78

H18
H2
H4
H3
H20

Wow to say better than h2 is almost an insult, to each their own but in no way was this better than anything Carpenter that basically copied every one of the sequels in different ways. I didn't like it and a lot of pple in my theater were booing. But to each their own. But damn better than H2 wow idk what to say to that comment.

 

[matturibe1]

Yours is more in line, someone on here had halloween 2018 better that H2 I was shocked wtf did pple like about this, wasn't better than h20 either. So, good job with the review!

 

[matturibe1]

I just got back.

First impressions, it was an enjoyable film, and I would consider it one of the better sequels in the franchise, but it's also flawed and could be better.

It doesn't quite feel like a Halloween movie to me, it feels more like a survivor's tale and it just happens the survivor is Laurie Strode and she survived Michael Myers. This essentially was shaped up to be like a T2 of the Halloween series, get a glimpse at the survivor after everything, but instead of giving us that glimpse while giving us more of what was so good in the first part of the story, that seems to take a backseat and large emphasis is place on the survivor.

I really enjoyed a lot of the cinematography once Michael was in mask, and the homages were really enjoyable. I felt like Michael's violence was somewhere between Halloween and Rob Zombie's Halloween. Not as over the top as RZ went, but certainly far more "shock value" than the early films. As I mentioned before, I get that you have to offer this up for the masses of today, but I think a perfectly fine film could have been done without them. The teeth dropping just felt ver out of place and was a bit dumb.

Overall, I feel like Michael was portrayed as soulless evil again, but in earlier films he was a slow stalking predator, where here he felt like a freight train plowing his way to his target. I wish we had gotten a bit more of that stalker quality shown. I would say overall, pacing felt very fast, almost too fast at times, there were some moments where i was like, whoah, we're already at this part.

I thought the daughter and granddaughter worked well, the other kids were throwaways as usual, I found it interesting that one cliche actually never panned out into a pay off kill like you'd have expected.

The very end feels a bit X-Files/Halloween 4, be very curious to see if this is a one off or the start of something.

Spoiler

It definitely feels Halloween 4 all over again and also feels like an X-Files episode, where pure evil is almost like a disease that just takes someone over when they are vulnerable to it, like it took Michael as a child and stayed with him until Allison grabbed his knife and it may transfer to her. It is a bit of a d'oh moment though, like we've seen how bad things got spawning off this idea in Halloween 4, why go through so much effort to erase all those bad moments only to then end with one of the biggest franchise blunders.

At this point, I'd rank the Myers films as follows, Halloween 3 is it's own film.

1. Halloween 1978
2. Halloween 2 (1981)
3. H20
4. Halloween 2018
5. Halloween 4
6. Halloween 6
7. Halloween 2007
8. Halloween 5
9. Halloween 8
10. Halloween 2 (2009)

Yours is more in line, someone on here had halloween 2018 better that H2 I was shocked wtf did pple like about this, wasn't better than h20 either. So, good job with the review!

 

[Caped Baldy]

Wow to say better than h2 is almost an insult, to each their own but in no way was this better than anything Carpenter that basically copied every one of the sequels in different ways. I didn't like it and a lot of pple in my theater were booing. But to each their own. But damn better than H2 wow idk what to say to that comment.

You don't have to say anything. If you don't like what I have said so much then place me on ignore if you want. Some folks on here place the last two Star Wars films over the older ones and I don't care. I'm sorry my opinion doesn't match yours.

I like H2 and it's a good sequel but it's not directed by Carpenter and he was drunk when he wrote that retcon with Laurie being Myers sister.

 

[MaulFan]

C’mon Maul just admit it you were highly disappointed.

I’m miserable and I need company lol

They really had no clue what to do with MM did they.

I feel like I got kicked in the nuts I think my Halloween is now ruined.

I just might watch the RZ Halloween in protest.

I’m not disappointed though, this movie has a lot of potential. It’s like the kid in school who could get A’s but only puts in C effort

The on Halloween movies to actually disappoint me were Resurrection and RZ H2, and I own every film but RZ H2.

 

[Gruson]

I’m shocked too. I personally like H2 almost as much as the original. It has the same feel.

Halloween 2018 is a 3/10 or 4/10 for me. Really wanted to walk out of it the first hour it was so bad. It did pick up though but still...not even close to 1,2, or 4.

 

[newarkcapo]

No way you are intitled to your opinion and I respect that, but to me the movie was good.

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[Chakor]

Jeez go slam your balls in a drawer or something but don’t watch RZ Halloween.