Halloween

Halloween is [Laurie Strode's] love letter to all of us, wrapped in a most excellent slasher movie.

[Forgets] that a decent Halloween movie should take its cue from Michael Myers: low on chat, high on surprise. Even so, this one can still boast a higher-than-average proportion of treats among its tricks.

A brutal rumination on intergenerational pain, and the ways that male cruelty can make good women bad.

Now, with the 11th movie in the franchise, we have something a little daring.

Rather than having the camera move implacably down a fated path, [Carpenter] seems to be flexing his muscles along with his anti-hero, as if hoping to guarantee them both a place in the horror hall of fame.

Halloween embraces the simplistic fear of the original and crafts a 40-years-in-the-making follow-up that will scare the crap out of you.

Ultimately the great attention paid to artistry and atmosphere can’t be denied.

While the movie does have its flaws, I highly recommend for you to see Halloween. It pays homage to the original film but also establishes itself as an excellent follow up to the original

When you have framed yourself as a direct sequel to an all-time horror classic and you’ve wiped out a lot of the series history, it’s easy for us to expect a little more than a standard slasher film.

The best directed film since Carpenter's original showcasing cinematography and stylish sequences the genre rarely sees. Myers is also the scariest he's been since 78'. The script and characters let down what comes close to being blood-soaked excellence.