Halloween (Gordon-Green, October 19, 2018) Movie • Page 37

I didn't make that connection but you could be on to something there.

 

I think it could've been shot better, but this ending is an homage to the original's. The uncertainty, and his breathing during the credits. It does leave a bit of tension seeing the burning basement without him standing there. Just like the shots of all the houses and rooms he was in at the end of the first one. I don't know exactly what the purpose of the shot showing her granddaughter holding the knife was about though.

I don't think it would've made sense for Laurie to stay in the house and die with him. She lived the way she did and trained her daughter to be careful because she is afraid of being killed, not because she wants to die. She got married twice, had a kid, stays in contact with her granddaughter, etc etc. She clearly wants to be alive and have a normal life but can't get over trauma.

 

Good point. Didn’t make that connection at first. I didn’t mind the abrupt ending. Seems in vogue these days. Watched it follows for the first time this weekend and it’s also kind of abrupt.

 

I keep thinking about how awesome a Halloween Horror Nights house based of this movie would be just with the backyard/lights scene and the mannequins.

Just off the conversation I had with my friend that hated it, I feel like without a lot of knowledge/passion for the franchise people have a lot more criticism for this movie. She had seen the original once, only a few months ago, and did not enjoy it either. Or maybe I'm just majorly biased, haha.

 

My girlfriend didn't like it at all. But she doesn't like slasher films at all so that came as no surprise. Essentially, for her to like a horror movie it has to have things crawling on the floor or ghosts. Otherwise, she doesn't get scared so she doesn't think it's a good horror movie. (I know, what am I doing with this lady right?)

 

Dammit did I love this movie, think I'm gonna see it again if I can.

 

I am podcasting about this with a friend after work today. It's mostly a movie/tv show podcast and I am his "horror correspondent" but we've discussed a variety including Hereditary, Eighth Grade, Weiner Dog. Show is called The Analysis, if you're interested

In addition to my review of it, I was going to touch on the fan service and easter eggs in it for franchise fans and also Jamie Lee Curit's "boast tweet" about it being biggest horror opening with female lead/biggest opening with 55+ female lead/second biggest October opening ever/best Halloween opening ever.

Anything else I should bring up?

 

If this was a TRUE sequel to the original WTF did they title it Halloween. So effing confusing.

 

I think the scenes that they cut are interesting. This info is from a leaked screenplay and interviews with DGG.

- Laurie has had a variety of jobs over the years but is currently unemployed

- podcaster dude scares his lady in the shower with the mask

- Allyson goes for a jog and sees a dead dog hanging from a tree (implication that Mikey did it) .

- the Myers house was destroyed and turned into a community garden

- annoying boyfriend character gets arrested for arguing with cops outside the school

- original ending is mike gets shot by Karen with a crossbow and slinks off into the woods like a loser

- DGG wanted to “count” Halloween 2 but Danny McBride swayed him to dismiss it.

 

Would have liked it if they addressed the original house. Was the doll house a nod to that?

Annoying BF should have been gutted

IDGAF what she does for work

The jog scene would have been cool

I still think the ending is as lame as that.

 

I'm fine with Michael not killing another dog

 

Yeah, kill as many of us garbage humans as you want, Mike. Please leave our dogs alone. Cats, too.

 

I feel like the doctor’s speech in the car when he’s driving around with the sheriff has some Samhain references. I’d have to see it again to clarify. Am I crazy?

 

I really, really liked this. Thought it was terrifying and Jamie Lee Curtis really showed up for it. Favorite part was Carpenter's score, which was referential to the original but still worked magnificently as something still scary in 2018.

Main gripe was (huge plot spoiler) the twist with the doctor was cheap, unearned, and confusing. It was the most cliché horror movie logic moment of the movie, this highly-researched doctor with decades of experience suddenly turning heel, stabbing someone in the face, and letting a murderer free just to see what'd happen. I didn't really buy it as something he'd do, and it was strange how quickly they undid it by having Michael kill him. That said I'm glad they undid it instead of committing to him, because the final scene in Laurie's house was by far my favorite scene in the film.

 

"Unearned" is a good way of putting that.

 

I do also acknowledge more now everything the doctor was saying to the journalists, and to Allyson. He wanted nothing more than to find out what triggers or drives Michael. When the intro was happening I was thinking to myself why is this doctor allowing them to bring this mask into an asylum and try to mess with him? But it was obviously exactly what he wanted. I think once that didn't work, sabotaging the bus is the next best idea. I would guess we're to assume the doctor stabbed the policeman on the bus as well as Hawkins, since all of the inmates were behind a cage too?

Still, I make no excuses. The twist needed to better fleshed out and told to the audience if that was what they were going to do all along.

 

When the doctor kills the guy onscreen, he says somethng along the lines of "So this is what it feels like" so I don't think he killed anyone on the bus.

 

They could have used ALL of that time to do more with the character that mattered and get more time with Allyson. I think she was kind of underdeveloped.

 

No he didn't. He was an accessory! lol

 

Good catch. I don't think I heard him say that when he killed Hawkins. Cons of going to see horror movies on opening weekend. I was in an RPX theater too.

 

Ah I didn't know that was up. Wish I wasn't at work so I can watch it.

 

Has anyone read the 2018 novelization? The audiobook comes out today. Idk that I wanna drop $25 for it. Maybe I’ll set up an audible trial and check it out.

 

So good.

 

I read the spoilers for this and it feels so silly