I haven't seen it yet.
Maybe it's that I'm not the biggest fan of the series in general.

I think I was maybe a little too young at the time I tried to watch them.

I found most of them quite boring and dry...perhaps it was suffering comparisons to Freddy Krueger and Hellraiser movies, that more direct visceral horror I grew up with as an 80s kid.
I didn't even appreciate the original 1 & 2 until some years later when I saw them again...they're really more like "thriller" class horror films.

As an adult, I think this is what made the original so great.
Tight. Tense. Claustrophobic...and you know maybe just one of the best musical scores ever on a horror film. It was such a direct, human and simple film with such a small setting, though it was everything it needed to be.
The Loomis "narrative", describing this creature, this just...force of nature that set up shop in a human body, who now exists as nothing other than something like evil incarnate.
It's almost like the ALIEN of the slasher genre. Anyways, yeah I liked it.

The second one built on that and was a decent sequel. In fact I think I may have liked it more.
Though at/beyond the original sequel and the other movies to follow, I did find there to be a certain quality that was shed so that, I don't know...maybe the film could feel a bit more contemporary or "complete". The back stories. The brother/sister thing. The family ties/curse and all that...Me? I didn't need all that, and to be honest found the great majority of the numbered sequels pretty much samey...competent...but didn't really draw me in.

I liked the bare-bones experience the original was.

I'll note that I also quite liked H2O. I only saw it once, so maybe it's my younger self speaking...but the way they brought it into the 90's and it felt both like the original films and something newer, and successfully so. It did borrow from the feel of the slashers of the time like Scream...and was kind of aimed at bringing in a new audience I suppose, but it worked.
It was a...perhaps not quite as serious...reasonable follow up/successor to the original series.

All in all though...I liked 1 & 2, not the rest of the numbered ones, liked H20 for it's freshness and continuation, and...yeah resurrection was horrible.

Didn't *hate* Zombies first one...but yeah the whole humanising of Michael did not work for me...so of course the second one was just ...no.

I'll stick to saying though, I feel like the movie was at it's best when we were dealing with the unknown, no ties, just this murdering figure that was like a hungry, stalking shark.

So what I'm hoping for, is something of a return to that. From what I'm hearing, aside from an attempt to add some comedy (guess I can thank Danny McBride for that), it's a competent follow up to the first that's the same in tone.

Personally, I'm HAPPY to forget about the sequels...because I didn't like most of them, and they kind of wrecked what they did with H20 with an abysmal, stupid sequel anyway.

Looking forward to it - wasn't about to let people at the cinema destroy it (Don't know if I've mentioned I won't go to horror films anymore), so I'm hoping that I'll be able to get a BLURAY double pack of the original and this one.
Bonus if it's as good as the BluRay treatment "The Thing" got - if you guys haven't seen that, you have to.

Blahblahblah. Done talking now.

To be fair I feel like they could have at least left part 2 as a sequel. I mean it all happened in the same night so there's really no reason why they couldn't have just left it at that. I mean it's hard to talk about with people who haven't seen it and even then especially without spoilers but I will say they took the series in a whole new Direction with some of the things that happened in the movie and if they do continue it, which I really hope they do, I hope we get some questions answered. The tension and some of the scenes was amazing, the writing was spectacular, the acting from everyone was great and much like the original where the death scenes weren't really over-the-top, neither were these but you get the sense of how insanely brutal they were especially when you see this one guy. Deadsy knows the guy I'm talking about, don't you deadsy? ::big grin::

This has a whole new feel to it than any other Halloween movie and I liked it! It's like I said though, I just hope they plan on continuing with it or else I wouldn't see the point. With that said, this does change everything you've known so far in the story.

And not to mention for even, for her age, Jamie Lee was pure sex in this movie.

Maps to the Stars, 2014. 9/10

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I'll check out that Secret Santa. First time hearing of that one.

The Christmas Chronicles 9/10

Loved this! To me, Kurt Russell can do no wrong, and looks damn good doing it! Mrs. Claus, on the other hand, needs to stop walking down Michael Jackson's plastic surgery path. Leave it alone, lady. You're starting to look like a freak.

One Cut of the Dead (Kamera o tomeru na!)
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What I originally thought was just a fun but kind of cringe gimmick of a movie (where it's all shot in just one take), after 40 mins takes a turn and becomes a brilliant and genuinely funny movie about the 'making' of that one shot short film.

Very clever and highly entertaining.

8.5/10

Better Watch Out 9/10

I fucking loved this! All that shit though just so your cliche young teenage boy with the exact same haircut as every other brunette that wears dorky clothes and has a raspy whiny voice could touch a titty. That ending was so fucking satisfying and in my opinion made the entire thing a wonderfully written and acted movie. Definitely one of the best holiday movies I've seen.

Agreed.

Loved the performance of the psycho kid.

I think they could have done without that clip in the credits unless it was only meant to get a laugh out of people. But yeah, I was surprised with this one. The world needs more slasher movies and less of the exact same ghost story movie just with slightly different events and a different title. Shit possesses and haunts shit and moves shit. We get it. ::big grin::

Bad Times at the El Royale - 10/10

Holy fuck!!! This movie was simply astonishing! Where to begin... the cinematography was beautiful! The writing was amazing! The acting was superb! This thing kept me on the edge of my seat the entire time and while it isn't necessarily horror per se, it certainly had the elements of suspense and even mystery. This movie was so Tarantino-esque with the way the story was presented to us and just when you start thinking what the hell can happen next, the story goes in a whole other direction but it all comes together so beautifully. I cannot recommend this movie enough to any of you. The only problem I have isn't even with the movie, it's with something they spoil in the trailer. It's not even that important of a spoiler but the point is they still shouldn't have done it. I won't say what it is but a lot of people probably already know just from the trailer itself. Watch this movie though, you won't be disappointed!