What a let down of a movie! I loved Halloween 1, 2 & even Season of the Witch. I personally think Halloween 2 is better than Halloween 2018. This movie was just a brutal slasher film with a bad plot. I think around 15-17 people bite the dust in this film, in very gory ways.
What made Halloween 1 & 2 great is how dark the lighting was, with shadows everywhere and Myers looming out of sight waiting to attack his victoms. In Halloween 2018 the camera just follows him from house to house as he brutally kills people. What really irked me is when he killed one woman who had a baby in it's crib in the next room, which I found very tacky and offensive. and un-called for by the people who made this film. This film was very well lite......no dark, shadowy errie scenes like the original. It was like we almost always knew where Myers was at all times.
I was also looking forward to the credits, which I found to be a let down as well. Taking the original pumpkin form Halloween 1978, it starts out completely rotted, but grows back to it's original form as the credits roll.
Judy Greer's character and her husbands were annoying as were most of the characters in this movie. They never really grew on me. I liked the granddaughter and Jami Lee did a decent job, but laughed because they tried to make her character like Linda Hamilton's in T-2. You would think she would have moved far away from Haddonfield and gone under a new name (kind of like H20.) Why would anyone remain in a town like that after what she went through? A constant reminder and the fact that Myers was not that far away in the mental institution.
To me, this movie does not exist in the "real" Halloween timeline. For me, Myers died when Dr. Loomis set him on fire and he died inside the hospital. End of movie and story line!
Review of Halloween
