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| Franchise star Jamie Lee Curtis returns to 'face her fate' - the scarred, menacing mask of her brother Michael Myers, on this dark poster for David Gordon Green's Halloween |
40 years after the murders in Haddonfield, Illinois: Survivor Laurie Strode has become a strange hermit living in a kind of fortress, as her mass-murderer brother Michael Myers breaks free from a prisoner transport - right before Halloween ...
Halloween is written by Jeff Fradley (Vice Principals (2016-17)), Danny McBride (Your Highness (2011)) and co-writer/director, Arkansan master filmmaker David Gordon Green (George Washington (2000)), whose 13th feature it is. It is the 11th film in the Halloween franchise and a sequel to the original Halloween (1978), which ignores all the following sequels and reboot.
The film succeeds in giving the languishing franchise a strong dose of fresh juice. The murders are many - really many! The look is dark and deeply professionally done. But the scares are not as palpable for a horror veteran. Perhaps Jamie Lee Curtis' (Virus (1999)) Laurie Strode has become too militant, and everyone else on the contrary, too easily kill-able?
Halloween is highly brutal and has a strong ending. My favorite part, however, was the new score by John Carpenter (Escape from New York (1981)), Cody Carpenter (Masters of Horror (2005-06)) and Daniel A. Davies (Condemned (2015)), which is built around Carpenter's original score and is awesome.
Related posts:
Halloween franchise: Halloween (2007) - Zombie's remake is a bloody stinker
Halloween: Resurrection (2002) - Myers returns to turkeyville
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989) - Precious few cuts from rock bottom
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) - Myers returns for dull slasher
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) - Evil masks ravage in Wallace's under-appreciated horror
Halloween (1978) - Carpenter's haunting slasher classic
David Gordon Green: 2011 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2011 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2011 in films - according to Film Excess
The Sitter (2011) - Green and Hill's inappropriate babysitter movie is a crude hoot
Your Highness (2011) - Green's dismissed, golden stoner/raunch adventure comedy
George Washington (2000) - Green's evocative North Carolina youth debut masterpiece
Watch a teaser trailer for the film here
Cost: 10 mil. $
Box office: 259.9 mil. $
= Mega-hit (returned 25.59 times its cost)
[Halloween premiered 8 September (Toronto International Film Festival) and runs 106 minutes. Shooting took place from January - February 2018 in South Carolina, with re-shoots in June 2018. The film opened #1 to a 76.2 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it spent another weekend at #1 and another one in the Top 5 (#5), grossing 159.3 mil. $ (61.3 % of the total gross). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were Mexico with 12.4 mil. $ (4.8 %) and the UK with 11.5 mil. $ (4.4 %). Universal reportedly spent 75.5 mil. $ marketing the film. The film was followed by 2 more in Green's Halloween trilogy; Halloween Kills (2021) and Halloween Ends (2022), both with Curtis as well. Before Halloween Kills Green returned with Dickinson (2019, TV-series) and Mythic Quest (2020, TV-series). Curtis first returned in An Acceptable Loss (2018). Halloween is certified fresh at 79 % with a 6.80/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]
What do you think of Halloween?
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