Halloween

Halloween is a faithful, fundamental sequel (and funny too)

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With original director John Carpenter's blessing, Green manages something that is both a tribute to and an evolution of the 1978 classic, with moments designed to create resonances that are not just re-enactment but part of his bigger theme of trauma-causing scars (there are also, in a nod to his days as an Austin resident, a couple of subtle visual nods to the original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre).

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David Gordon Green takes the Michael Myers saga back to its start, with a direct sequel to John Carpenter's landmark slasher film.

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Jamie Lee Curtis and director David Gordon Green gives us the one true sequel to the gamechanging 1978 original

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Director David Gordon Green delivers a very 2018 entry for the 40-year-old franchise

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Director David Gordon Green doesn’t give the franchise a glorious rebirth, but at least it’s a functional facsimile

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After 40 years in a mental asylum, silent killer Michael Myers breaks loose and returns to Haddonfield, butcher knife at the ready. This time, however, Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) — the sole survivor of his previous Halloween-night massacre — is ready for him, determined no longer to be a victim.

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Finally, Hollywood has made a good “Halloween” sequel. It took them only 40 years.

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David Gordon Green’s John Carpenter update is slick and sick, but little is left of that sleep-destroying dread.

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Why choose when you can have tricks and treats? David Gordon Green does horror fans a favor, bringing Michael Myers' slasher-movie saga back to its roots.

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David Gordon Green’s Halloween is just another inferior Michael Myers rampage

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It takes a granny (Jamie Lee Curtis) to get tough on Michael Myers

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This isn’t a wisecracking, tongue-in-cheek picture: Green wants us to believe in his Bogeyman, and Curtis is his ace card. Leaving no room for winks or giggles, she makes Laurie’s long-festering terror the glue that holds the movie together.

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As much I hate to say this, I’m not sure that David Gordon Green, Danny McBride and the people behind a new sequel to John Carpenter’s “Halloween” really understand what made the first film a masterpiece.

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Director David Gordon Green returns us to Haddonfield for a slasher reunion but the much hyped face-off between two old foes is frustratingly routine

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There’s an intriguing larger theme that the filmmakers are trying to mine about terror and tragedy being passed down a family tree.

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