31 Nights of Halloween Horror - Night 31 - Halloween (2018)
Halloween (2018)
106 mins
Dir. David Gordon Green
USA/2018
We made it to the end. We watched a lot of different movies, some bad, some good some so bad they are good. As a refresher here is a run down of all 30 movies we watched this month.
1) Count Dracula
2) Sinister
3) The Witchmaker
4) Big Alligator River
5) Splinter
6) The Nun
7) Nightmare Castle
8) Pyewacket
9) Terrifier
10) Burial Ground
11) Mandy
12) Mom and Dad
13) Barracuda
14) Re-Animator
15) Strangers: Prey at Night
16) Symptoms
17) One Dark Night
18) DeepStar Six
19) The Bay
20) Lovely Molly
21) The Red Queen Kills Seven Times
22) Daughter of Dracula
23) Mimesis: Night of the Living Dead
24) Happy Death Day
25) Nail Gun Massacre
26) I Drink Your Blood
27) Last Shift
28) Parasite
29) Southbound
30) Dead of Night
Of those I had only seen Count Dracula, Nightmare Castle, Burial Ground, Re-Animator, DeepStar Six and I Drink Your Blood before. So I have watched 24 new movies this month, not too bad. Of those Pyewacket, The Bay and The Red Queen Kills Seven Times were my favorites. For our final movie this month, it is only fitting we watch one of the most anticipated horror films to come out this year. Halloween.
Remember Halloween 2, 4, 5, 6, H20 & Resurrection? Yeah fuck all them, they don't matter anymore. Kind of like H20 said fuck parts 4, 5 & 6. This new Halloween picks up 40 years later after the original Halloween and brings back Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode and people are ecstatic just like they were 20 years prior with H20 and everyone remembers how that turned out. But this one will be different. Will it? Really?
Two true-crime podcasters go to Smith Grove Sanitarium where Michael Myers has resided the last 40 years ever since the events on Halloween night 1978. Some how these two podcasters got their hands on the mask that Michael wore on that day and decide to bring it with them to show him. At what point this would ever seem like a good idea that a doctor would allow this is beyond me. So Michael stands with his back to them and they hold up the mask yelling at him to look at it. Why wouldn't they just walk around to the front of him and show it to him if he isn't turning around? Not sure on that one. Next they head over to Sarah Connor, I mean Laurie Strode's house. She has been suffering from PTS for the last 40 years and has pretty much holed herself up in a bunker of a house waiting for Michael Myers to return. She has two failed marriages, a daughter who is not fond of her and a granddaughter who is the new Laurie Strode of the movie named Allyson.
The next day Michael is being transported to a Maximum security prison. Of course the bus crashes all the inmates escape and the guards are killed. So Michael is now wandering the streets and heads to a gas station to kill a mechanic so he can get some overalls to wear and low and behold who also happens to be at the gas station but the two podcasters. Lucky for Michael he kills those two douches and gets his mask back just in time for Halloween night. It's off trick r treating in the neighborhood as Micheal does what he does best, some baby sitter killing. This was actually the best part of the movie to me, I would of rather have seen more of this and less trying to come with an unbelievable reason why this was all happening. But anyway, like I said, its Halloween. Allyson is out at a Halloween party, catches her boyfriend flirting with another girl, she confronts him, he grabs her phone and drops it in a big bowl of pudding. She is like whatevs and walks off. Now what normal teenage girl is not going to freak out about losing her phone and at the very least stick her hand in to get it. Allyson is like fuck this and heads home, but our buddy Michael Myers is also out and about, so let the chase begin.
Ultimately a series of events gets Michael Myers to Laurie Strode's bunker and the showdown that has been 40 years in the making, minus the last time if happened 20 years ago, that we are supposed to pretend never happened, begins. Not sure why she decides to hunt him down with a cumbersome shot gun and not an automatic weapon or at the very least a hand gun inside a house. After much running and hiding and grabbing and shooting, Laurie finally gets Michael where she wants him and puts an end to him much like the end of the first Halloween 2 that we are ignoring, but a little less climactic. But after grossing over 100 million in two weeks, you can bet that Michael Myers will be back. So who really cares.
Look I know people love this character and with bringing back Jaime Lee Curtis and John Carpenter redoing the music and getting a check, they already had it made up in their minds it was going to be an awesome film. But the reality of the situation was, it really wasn't that great of a movie. It had quite a few problems with it and most of them I have to chalk up to lazy writing. We waited over ten years for another Halloween movie and this was the best you could do? People were pissed about Zombie's Halloween and while that certainly has it faults as well, this is really no better. I really wanted to like this movie, I honestly thought it was going to be good. Perhaps that is why I was so disappointed, because it really isn't. At the end of the day it is no better then any of the sequels it is asking us to forget. Well maybe better then part 6...and Resurrection. That one was pretty bad too. I'll just stick with the original Halloween and see what they throw at us next year. Maybe they will ask us to forget this movie and make another Halloween 2, which means technically we will have 4 Halloween 2s.
So there you have it, another 31 Nights of Halloween Horror has come to an end. I am throughly exhausted, but chances are I will probably go watch another movie tonight. Thanks to everyone for reading and commenting, I hope you enjoyed reading about them as much as I enjoyed watching them, well some of them. And just because Halloween is over doesn't mean you should ever stop watching horror movies. Watch one a day and keep America strong. See you next year.
Happy Halloween
Damien
Halloween (2018)
106 mins
Dir. David Gordon Green
USA/2018
We made it to the end. We watched a lot of different movies, some bad, some good some so bad they are good. As a refresher here is a run down of all 30 movies we watched this month.
1) Count Dracula
2) Sinister
3) The Witchmaker
4) Big Alligator River
5) Splinter
6) The Nun
7) Nightmare Castle
8) Pyewacket
9) Terrifier
10) Burial Ground
11) Mandy
12) Mom and Dad
13) Barracuda
14) Re-Animator
15) Strangers: Prey at Night
16) Symptoms
17) One Dark Night
18) DeepStar Six
19) The Bay
20) Lovely Molly
21) The Red Queen Kills Seven Times
22) Daughter of Dracula
23) Mimesis: Night of the Living Dead
24) Happy Death Day
25) Nail Gun Massacre
26) I Drink Your Blood
27) Last Shift
28) Parasite
29) Southbound
30) Dead of Night
Of those I had only seen Count Dracula, Nightmare Castle, Burial Ground, Re-Animator, DeepStar Six and I Drink Your Blood before. So I have watched 24 new movies this month, not too bad. Of those Pyewacket, The Bay and The Red Queen Kills Seven Times were my favorites. For our final movie this month, it is only fitting we watch one of the most anticipated horror films to come out this year. Halloween.
Remember Halloween 2, 4, 5, 6, H20 & Resurrection? Yeah fuck all them, they don't matter anymore. Kind of like H20 said fuck parts 4, 5 & 6. This new Halloween picks up 40 years later after the original Halloween and brings back Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode and people are ecstatic just like they were 20 years prior with H20 and everyone remembers how that turned out. But this one will be different. Will it? Really?
Two true-crime podcasters go to Smith Grove Sanitarium where Michael Myers has resided the last 40 years ever since the events on Halloween night 1978. Some how these two podcasters got their hands on the mask that Michael wore on that day and decide to bring it with them to show him. At what point this would ever seem like a good idea that a doctor would allow this is beyond me. So Michael stands with his back to them and they hold up the mask yelling at him to look at it. Why wouldn't they just walk around to the front of him and show it to him if he isn't turning around? Not sure on that one. Next they head over to Sarah Connor, I mean Laurie Strode's house. She has been suffering from PTS for the last 40 years and has pretty much holed herself up in a bunker of a house waiting for Michael Myers to return. She has two failed marriages, a daughter who is not fond of her and a granddaughter who is the new Laurie Strode of the movie named Allyson.
The next day Michael is being transported to a Maximum security prison. Of course the bus crashes all the inmates escape and the guards are killed. So Michael is now wandering the streets and heads to a gas station to kill a mechanic so he can get some overalls to wear and low and behold who also happens to be at the gas station but the two podcasters. Lucky for Michael he kills those two douches and gets his mask back just in time for Halloween night. It's off trick r treating in the neighborhood as Micheal does what he does best, some baby sitter killing. This was actually the best part of the movie to me, I would of rather have seen more of this and less trying to come with an unbelievable reason why this was all happening. But anyway, like I said, its Halloween. Allyson is out at a Halloween party, catches her boyfriend flirting with another girl, she confronts him, he grabs her phone and drops it in a big bowl of pudding. She is like whatevs and walks off. Now what normal teenage girl is not going to freak out about losing her phone and at the very least stick her hand in to get it. Allyson is like fuck this and heads home, but our buddy Michael Myers is also out and about, so let the chase begin.
Ultimately a series of events gets Michael Myers to Laurie Strode's bunker and the showdown that has been 40 years in the making, minus the last time if happened 20 years ago, that we are supposed to pretend never happened, begins. Not sure why she decides to hunt him down with a cumbersome shot gun and not an automatic weapon or at the very least a hand gun inside a house. After much running and hiding and grabbing and shooting, Laurie finally gets Michael where she wants him and puts an end to him much like the end of the first Halloween 2 that we are ignoring, but a little less climactic. But after grossing over 100 million in two weeks, you can bet that Michael Myers will be back. So who really cares.
Look I know people love this character and with bringing back Jaime Lee Curtis and John Carpenter redoing the music and getting a check, they already had it made up in their minds it was going to be an awesome film. But the reality of the situation was, it really wasn't that great of a movie. It had quite a few problems with it and most of them I have to chalk up to lazy writing. We waited over ten years for another Halloween movie and this was the best you could do? People were pissed about Zombie's Halloween and while that certainly has it faults as well, this is really no better. I really wanted to like this movie, I honestly thought it was going to be good. Perhaps that is why I was so disappointed, because it really isn't. At the end of the day it is no better then any of the sequels it is asking us to forget. Well maybe better then part 6...and Resurrection. That one was pretty bad too. I'll just stick with the original Halloween and see what they throw at us next year. Maybe they will ask us to forget this movie and make another Halloween 2, which means technically we will have 4 Halloween 2s.
So there you have it, another 31 Nights of Halloween Horror has come to an end. I am throughly exhausted, but chances are I will probably go watch another movie tonight. Thanks to everyone for reading and commenting, I hope you enjoyed reading about them as much as I enjoyed watching them, well some of them. And just because Halloween is over doesn't mean you should ever stop watching horror movies. Watch one a day and keep America strong. See you next year.
Happy Halloween
Damien
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