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Halloween

2018

David Gordon Green

Jamie Lee Curtis, Nick Castle, Judy Greer, Miles Robbins ...

5.6

10,403

Horror Laurie Strode comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.

	Author	Review
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"Carpenter should be pleased, and so should genre buffs (...) The picture has a good shock or two up its sleeve"	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"David Gordon Green does horror fans a favor, bringing Michael Myers' slasher-movie saga back to its roots."	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"That Green’s sequel works as well as it does — it’s still a slasher movie — is due only in part to the director and his collaborators’ copycat admiration for Carpenter’s blueprint (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Benjamin Lee The Guardian	"For many, the thrill of seeing Michael Myers stalk the streets of Haddonfield will be enough to forget [its] many flaws (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Brian Truitt USA Today	"A new coat of paint, even on a storied house of horrors such as 'Halloween', can do wonders (…) The strong results should be a takeaway for every other scary-movie series (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times	"This new iteration is more gruesome yet much less scary, its sleekness and efficiency poor substitutes for foreboding. Sorely missing are Carpenter’s moderation and patience"	NEU
United States	Leah Greenblatt Entertainment Weekly	"The movie mostly works because it’s so fundamental, and funny too"	POS
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"Even when it stumbles, Green takes every available opportunity to inject 'Halloween' with a cinematic eye (...) 'Halloween' is often too meek to make Myers seem all that scary"	NEU
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"I hate to say this, but I’m not sure the people behind this movie really understand what made 'Halloween' a masterpiece (...) [Its] biggest sin? It’s not scary. You could never say that about the original (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Geoffrey Macnab The Independent	"Its main purpose is to startle and frighten its audience. This is a goal it achieves just as effectively as the John Carpenter original to which it pays such affectionate homage (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	William Bibbiani The Wrap	"Although it falls into several pitfalls of the genre, it’s still an effective chiller (...) The script provides multiple opportunities for visually dynamic scare sequences (...) The plot is hopelessly contrived"	NEU
United States	Perri Nemiroff Collider	"'Halloween' features a good deal of comedy and for the most part, it works (...) Green also knows precisely how to capture Michael Myers (...) [It] moves the franchise forward and respects its legacy"	POS
Canada	Barry Hertz The Globe and Mail	"The result is almost the Platonic ideal of a slasher-reboot -- it's fierce, it's lean, it's mean, and it has at least three first-pumping 'Hell, yeah!' moments (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	A.A. Dowd AV Club	"The new 'Halloween' isn’t just a pale imitation of the original—it’s an inferior 'H20' (...) 'H20' really did care about the reality of Laurie’s life"	NEG
United States	Joe Lipsett Bloody Disgusting	"'Halloween' is a worthy entry in the franchise. The plotting doesn’t quite stick the landing, but the core cast is good to great, as is the violence and the gore. (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	David Crow Den of Geek	"[It] does not quite have the purity and focus of the 1978 classic. What it does offer is the best continuation of that story in the past 40 years of numerous attempts (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Rob Hunter Film School Rejects	"Halloween is a perfectly fine follow-up to Halloween, and while we may have expected more (...) it’s hard to be too disappointed with what we’ve gotten. It’s a solid albeit standard slasher, and that’s not a bad thing to see on the big screen."	POS

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