Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2018 0:49:21 GMT
Vanishing into the night at the finale made him seem something beyond flesh and blood..........perhaps even a product of all the ancient, eerie superstition and folklore that we mock with candy, costumes and parties each year in October. It made us wonder if he was indeed the Bogeyman.........or something equivalent and beyond our comprehension. It fit the setting, mood and occasion and left us much to ponder.
For him to have been merely picked up that night by the authorities and presumably fed, treated, clothed and familiarised with over 4 decades, just relegates him to the level of regular violent inmate - the kind that we have aplenty.
His face, behaviour, profile and existence would be so well documented and exposed over 4 decades that there'd be little mystery to him at all. We'd have had a trial, extensive photos, video footage, documentaries and who knows how many books/magazine articles all about the 1978 Halloween killer over 40 years that the dark, unfathomable enigma of The Shape would no longer exist...........and for me, that dark enigma - fuelled by Pleasence's ominous descriptions and warnings, are what kept us edgy with grim anticipation in the original.
I'm not sure why Laurie expects him to be after her or her kin since she is not his sister. That just seems a by-product of having Curtis on board again. I like Jamie Lee but without her being Myers sister, there's no real reason for her to be centre stage or for Myers to specifically target her.
He might as well be back in Haddonfield stalking young girls who remind him of Judith (which was very much his implied motive and agenda in the original).
My hope is that the film still finds a way to entertain - and I believe it can.
I doubt however that it will intrigue, surprise or scare.
Simest would be excellent at CinemaSins.