Halloween (2018)

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  TheMovieDiorama

  5 / 10

  Halloween treats us to some gory killings but tricks us into believing that this is a fresh sequel. There is a difference between paying homage and blatantly creating a pale imitation of an original film in a franchise, especially one spanning four decades. This confused sequel falls into the latter and slashes its way through another missed opportunity. Laurie Strode has waited forty years to acquire revenge, and now serial killer Michael Myers has escaped a rehabilitation facility to wreak havoc in Haddonfield once again. Oh, and it's Halloween again...obviously. The natural evolution of film itself, between 1978 and now, has been vast. Certain aspects of this sequel work, and feels that it has evolved with its audience and Strode herself. Her character is the most developed and represents an intrinsic growth, particularly with the trauma she succumbed to from the events of the original. She's vengeful, empowered and vigilant. The antagonistic Myers remains the same as he lumbers around the streets, stabbing and slicing innocent lives to showcase the improvement of gory makeup. The inherent issue is with how much a replication this sequel is. Far too many scenes were repeated and it became tiresome quickly. From Strode's granddaughter looking out the school window to a one take scene of Michael slaying people to three teenagers walking down a paved path to Strode falling off the balcony and disappearing to a doctor following Myers' case for many years and...well, you get the idea. It was as if the writers were too scared to actually change the structure in the slightest. Balancing the narrative between Strode's personal vendetta and her granddaughter's drunken shenanigans at school was a total miss, unable to blend two differing tones together. If this was a direct remake, it would've worked. The fact that this is a sequel that literally imitates scenes from the original, is lazy and uninspired. This is without mentioning the rushed conclusion and underused podcasters. A conflicting sequel, to which fans will blindly adore, but does introduce the menacing Michael Myers to a new generation.

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