Halloween trailer

Solid. Pretty much what I was expecting.

Maybe a little bit. She seemed to deliver it all perfectly fine way. You do seem pretty determined to hate it regardless of the content though.

Why is that? Is it because Laurie Strode won't be a Mary Sue like Rey in the awful new Star Wars movies or is it because the new Halloween isn't going to be politicize like most of the garbage that Hollywood produces today?

Remind me what the point of this movie is again, besides a quick cash grab.

Somehow the idea of Myers being captive for 40 years from the night of the original just doesn't sit well with me.

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.

So since they're ignoring everything after 1978, does that mean Harold Elrod never existed? Does that mean he never got that ham sandwich?

I don't get the hate, honestly. I thought it looked satisfying and a pleasant surprise.

There now exists a continuity where we get an answer to whether or not Harold wanted mayonnaise on his sandwich. Hopefully the film delves into this.