Laurie Strode confronts her long-time foe, Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.Laurie Strode confronts her long-time foe, Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.Laurie Strode confronts her long-time foe, Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.
- Awards
- 4 wins & 27 nominations
Michael 'Mick' Harrity
- Warden Kuneman
- (as Michael Harrity)
Storyline
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- TriviaThe film's producer is Malek Akkad, who is the son of Moustapha Akkad, the producer of the original 1978 "Halloween." Moustapha Akkad was murdered, along with his daughter Rima (Malek's sister), in the terrorist bombing of an Amman, Jordan hotel in 2005. Jamie Lee Curtis has recounted how the first person she saw when she came to the set for the first day of filming the 2018 film was Malek, who she remembered as a 7 year-old child visiting the set during production of the original film. She added that seeing Malek for the first time since his father's death immediately brought her to tears.
- GoofsAs Allyson is walking with her friends along a sidewalk discussing her grandmother they pass a lawn decoration that is a tombstone with RIP. There is an edit to a wider shot during the same sentence, but now they are passing by a plastic skull positioned in front of a tree that had not been there.
- Quotes
Laurie Strode: Happy Halloween, Michael.
- Crazy creditsThe opening and closing credits is stylized after the original 1978 version.
- ConnectionsEdited from Halloween (1978)
- SoundtracksTonight in the Moonlight
Performed by The Morrie Morrison Orchestra
Written by H.O. Morrie Morrison
Courtesy of Fervor Records
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worthy slasher sequel
Forty years after the events of the original Halloween film, murderer Michael Myers escapes from captivity and returns to Haddonfield, Illinois on Halloween night to pick up where he left off. Survivor Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), who has spent the preceding decades a paranoid recluse and survivalist, determines to kill Michael once and for all, and to protect her estranged daughter (Judy Greer) and teenage granddaughter (Andi Matichak). Also featuring Nick Castle as The Shape.
Director Green (working from a script by comic actor Danny McBride, Jeff Fradley, and himself) ignores the events of all of the myriad sequels and reboots, including the superior 1981 Halloween II. That was probably a good idea, as the film series' storyline had become hopelessly confused. Parts of this latest iteration work, others don't, but I felt that it was probably the best in the series after the first two. I enjoyed a lengthy scene of Michael killing his way through adjacent houses as busy Halloween activities take place all around him. The film does an excellent job of stripping the almost supernatural qualities of the character away, showing how he methodically goes about his business in a disturbing yet all too real way.
The film takes a left turn late in the proceedings which I won't go into here to avoid spoilers, but I'll say that the last act is heavily contrived, yet still not without some payoff. The cast is good, though not great, and newcomer Matichak does well as the youngest "damsel in distress". There are frequent nods and callbacks to the first film, as well as a few reworkings of moments from the sequel. In fact, that aforementioned last act seems to revel in taking the finale of the original and subverting it. The score, by John Carpenter and his son Cody, is good, but again not up to the original. As far as slasher sequels go, this is top shelf, but it's still a slasher sequel, so don't expect high art.
Director Green (working from a script by comic actor Danny McBride, Jeff Fradley, and himself) ignores the events of all of the myriad sequels and reboots, including the superior 1981 Halloween II. That was probably a good idea, as the film series' storyline had become hopelessly confused. Parts of this latest iteration work, others don't, but I felt that it was probably the best in the series after the first two. I enjoyed a lengthy scene of Michael killing his way through adjacent houses as busy Halloween activities take place all around him. The film does an excellent job of stripping the almost supernatural qualities of the character away, showing how he methodically goes about his business in a disturbing yet all too real way.
The film takes a left turn late in the proceedings which I won't go into here to avoid spoilers, but I'll say that the last act is heavily contrived, yet still not without some payoff. The cast is good, though not great, and newcomer Matichak does well as the youngest "damsel in distress". There are frequent nods and callbacks to the first film, as well as a few reworkings of moments from the sequel. In fact, that aforementioned last act seems to revel in taking the finale of the original and subverting it. The score, by John Carpenter and his son Cody, is good, but again not up to the original. As far as slasher sequels go, this is top shelf, but it's still a slasher sequel, so don't expect high art.
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- Also known as
- Halloween 3
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- Budget
- $10,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $159,342,015
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $76,221,545
- Oct 21, 2018
- Gross worldwide
- $259,939,869
- Runtime1 hour 46 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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