The original 1978 Halloween might be one of my favorite horror films ever. While the acting and dialogue is super corny by today’s standards, to me the film still holds up due to it simply being an amazingly well made film. The cinematography is gorgeous and haunting, John Carpenter’s directing is masterful, and his score is iconic.
40 years later, Halloween returns to theaters, but this film ignores every sequel to the original Halloween. This sequel is a real return to form for not only the Halloween series, but the slasher genre as well.
The movie is surprisingly a lot of fun, even though it’s about a monstrous killer that goes around butchering innocent people. The film has a lot of humorous moments to relieve some of the tension, but when things get suspenseful, it gets suspenseful. The director of this movie very clearly has a good understanding of crafting an intense scene, as there’s multiple sequences in the film where the entire audience was on the edge of their seat.
John Carpenter returns to the series to do the soundtrack once again, and the score for this film is just as good, if not better than the original.
I don’t want to get too much into detail about this film so I don’t spoil it, but I highly recommend seeing it yourself. If you enjoy slasher films, or just good horror movies in general, this is a must watch.
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