Halloween (2018)

Directed by

David Gordon Green

Genre

slasher film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

R

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 5,086 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman must protect her family when a serial killer she survived forty years ago escapes from a mental hospital. She has spent her life preparing for this confrontation.

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What happens

Halloween is a 2018 American slasher film directed by David Gordon Green, who co-wrote it with Jeff Fradley and Danny McBride. It is the eleventh installment in the Halloween film series and a sequel to Halloween (1978), ignoring the events of every other film in the franchise. The film stars Jamie Lee Curtis reprising her role as Laurie Strode. James Jude Courtney portrays Michael Myers, with Nick Castle returning to the role for a cameo appearance. Halloween also stars Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, Will Patton, Haluk Bilginer, and Virginia Gardner. Its plot follows a post-traumatic Laurie Strode who prepares to face an escaped Michael Myers in a final showdown on Halloween night, forty years after she survived his killing spree. After the release of Rob Zombie's Halloween II, the 2009 sequel to the 2007 remake of the original, another follow-up went into development from former rights holder Dimension Films, but did not come to fruition. As a result, the studio lost the rights to the intellectual property, which were later obtained by Blumhouse Productions with John Carpenter's involvement. Carpenter, who disagreed with the remake's portrayal of lead killer Michael Myers, planned on helping the studio to make the next Halloween film into what he believed to be more terrifying than the preceding sequels. Filmmakers David Gordon Green and Danny McBride, who were already fans, proposed their vision to Blumhouse and Carpenter. It was accepted and developed into a sequel to the original. Halloween was filmed from January to February 2018 in Charleston, South Carolina, before reshoots took place that June. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2018. It was theatrically released in North America on October 19, 2018, by Universal Pictures. The film received generally positive reviews from critics with praise for Curtis' performance, Green's direction, scares, and tone, with many deeming it both the best Halloween film since the original and a return-to-form for the series. It was a box office success, grossing over $259 million worldwide on a $10 million budget. Upon its release, Halloween became the highest-grossing slasher film in unadjusted dollars, breaking the record Scream had previously set in 1996, as well as setting several other box office records. The film was followed by two sequels: Halloween Kills (2021) and Halloween Ends (2022). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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