Yeah!!! another Halloween movie in my list, no doubt it will be up there near the top ten. To say I got this nickname mainly due to my love of the original movie is true so I have to love all Halloween movies then don’t I? Well maybe I would point out where this version of Halloween fits into my list of Halloween movies we haven’t had Halloween or Halloween 2 or 4 in the list yet. We have had Halloween 3 and every other one that followed 6 already done and dusted which means we are looking at this version of Halloween 4th in the Halloween movie lists of mine. This is not to suggest that this movie was anything but a success in the important terms which is the cash stakes. It was made on a tiny budget of $10m which seems next to nothing nowadays and went on to gross $255.5m at the box office. In terms critics scores and there was a bit of a difference with those. Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 79% which is some 5 points ahead of me, but I am sandwiched between the two as IMDb gave this a lowly 6.6/10 so we are not close on the tri-critic basis. I will move onto the plot, which ignores every other Halloween movie out there with the exception of the first movie.
Michael Myers has been in a mental hospital for much longer than any of the other movies. He is visited by two reporters who are interested in visiting the murderer from the seventies but shows them no interest. They then head to the only survivor from that fateful night in Laurie Strode. She lets them in for a sum of money to be interviewed and then they go on their way where they run back into Michael Myers in a garage. Meanwhile Laurie has dedicated her life to prepare for Michael’s return and has made a life behind a fenced off wooded home with hidden basement entrances, firing range and booby traps a plenty. Her daughter on the other hand thinks she’s mental and has ruined her life for no good reason but she still has the love of her granddaughter who is young and in love and going to Halloween parties. Well it goes without saying that Michael turns up to kill as many people as possible to be able to get to the rest of his family. That should be enough of the plot to get your juices going.
Well this is not a bad movie and is an interesting new take on the story but for me it was a big BIG ask to get over the fact that there was many other movies that I had loved and then learnt to hate as it turned a single story into a fantasy of dead people coming back alive and that doesn’t even include Michael who gets killed in every movie yet is back for the next outing. So, you could forgive them for deciding to ignore all the others but maybe not the actor that has come back I just feel that they have gone with the idea of well we cannot write them back into this any more times there is just no way back. Hmm I’ll tell you what we’ll do is ignore all the others and just follow on from the last one you were alive in it. Well I can do that oh you died in the last one, how are we going to get you back? I know we’ll just ignore all the others and call it Halloween 2. There’s already a Halloween 2 mate… oh for ffff
This movie is the end result and it has the important element of suspense which made the original so good it also has the added benefit of modern graphics so you can kill off people in a dramatic way and the gore can be seen which is completely different from the original where there is no blood. I enjoyed this movie despite not wanting too, I also went to the cinema to see this so I must of enjoyed it and was good to see a Halloween movie at the cinema as I had only seen Halloween 2 and 3 at the cinema before. It was good to see a Myers movie without knowing what was going to happen so to feel the tension of the suspense. I enjoyed this movie but it will never take over my love of the original film and the following movies so to ask me to ignore them is a tough ask and why its not under 200 in my list but it does have a score of 74%. Give it a try it’ll be worth it.
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