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Originally Posted by Morningriser
Halloween (2018) 8.5/10
Considering everything this Series has been put through, this was great! I mean it feels weird knowing the story leading up to this, despite this movie cancelling out every single sequel which is what made it feel weird because as viewers we cannot just forget all the sequels. With that said I don't understand why they couldn't have found a way where Laurie either survived in Resurrection or it was a dream or something since they were totally able to do the switch on us with how H2O ended. I also cannot help but feel like if they don't make another one then this one was a complete waste. It would be a very bizarre ending to the story if it is but I'm holding the hope that we were left with a cliffhanger rather than an ending.
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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.