Post by Toasted Cheese on Nov 13, 2018 3:45:09 GMT
I liked it better than Rob Zombie's Halloween, but I didn't like it better than Zombie's Halloween II.
It opened with a tone of Zombie's film and Michael going all crazy and grunting when he was shown the mask by the reporters. It just wasn't scary though and I felt it needed an opening that was harking back to the original 2, to somehow to set the feel. The tone was set with a slow start to the film anyway and wasn't that atmospheric either. The actors were average to awful and they were stupid stereotypes. I might have missed something, but how was Myers captured at the end of the first films events?
I also didn't find Laurie's obsession with Myers that believable compared to H20 and her obsession was understandable here because he was her brother.
I loved the twist in Halloween 2 - 81', when it was thrown into the mix about Myers and Laurie. It gave the film more of an incentive for him to continue stalking her. When I was a kid, I also thought this was a scary scene in the school room when the word Samhain was found written in blood on the blackboard. I hadn't seen the original at that time either.
For me Laurie wanted closure and to exercise all the demons that came with the experience of seeing all of her friends killed, as well as nearly being killed herself.
There were rapid edits of shots of the other patients reacting, and one of them could have even been Myers. He was also reacting by movement if I recall. They were behind him and they asked if he could feel it, although he couldn't see the mask.
Why she hadn't gotten over herself and was just a loony as Myers in a sense, didn't work for me. Even one of her granddaughter's friends mentioned about this and then he got shot down by girl power, as though he didn't know what he was talking about. 
Her granddaughter then told her to get over herself.
Her granddaughter then told her to get over herself. In the original Halloween, there were only 3 deaths, one was her friend's boyfriend. In Halloween II, there was a wake of violence wrecked by Myers in an attempt to get to her, even though she wasn't really connected to most of them. It was more believable in H20 that she ended up changing her name and was a least least less psychotic, only still disturbed on Halloween.
All those booby traps she set up were a joke and over the top to my mind.