 Just a season to wear the incorrect holiday hat. Ooh, that's a hot mug, guys. Hey guys, this is my review for the 2018 Halloween film. I actually did see this when it came out in theaters, but I think I saw it so late after the fact that I didn't bother doing a review for it. And since Halloween kills just came out, and I'm about halfway through that piece of crap, I decided to finally actually sit down and review the first one again. I have watched it the other day, and yes, Errol, it's not exactly stellar. It's still a decently put together film. In this film, it is a continuation from the first film made by John Carpenter back in the 70s, who also contributes the music to this film, which is honestly the shining gem of this series so far. This film discounts everything that happened after the original film. Michael Myers has been in a mental institution for 40 years. Laurie Strode has become one of those doomsday preparation psychos, but she actually does have a reason. She's been waiting for Michael to eventually escape. And as we'll see, some of that preparation just kind of goes to shit. This starts off with these two kind of pompous investigators talking to him, showing him the mask before he gets transferred to another facility, which you know something's gonna go wrong. And just like the fugitive, Michael Myers is able to get out, and the first person he kills on screen is a child by breaking his neck. So that right off the bat, that's already a big whoa. It's not pulling punches. And I actually enjoy that aspect to it, assuming the word of the bus crash and escape of all the mental patients starts to spread around. She gathers her family in pieces as they're going around the town, kind of enjoying a Halloween before Michael starts to just go on random ass killing sprees. And really his entire trajectory in this film is random, because he goes from what looks like a highway road to the middle of a town, which then leads to a pretty cool one shot. It's not something superb, but it's still pretty well done. And it's a very enjoyable tense moment. But then he kind of just strides off again and he doesn't kill a bunch of people. The killing is kind of sporadic in this film, but it's still following a sense of sensibility, very much unlike the sequel. And all the while this is going on, there is a cop who actually was part of the manhunt firm, Michael Myers, 40 years ago, as well as Myers's new crazy doctor dude who are trying to find him. And there's a bunch of twists and turns with that. And then eventually everything meets up at Laurie Strode's house where there is a battle. For a woman who's supposedly been preparing herself for 40 years for this to happen, she does some really dumb shit right off the bat. She has done some pretty decent, if that very mature, home alone preparations to the house. But I find that for someone who's been preparing themselves for near on 40 years for this person, she starts with a shotgun. And then when she goes back into the house, knowing he is in the house, she goes for a Winchester rifle. I'm sorry, but my codness is going, why are you using a long range rifle for close quarters combat? Lo and behold, guess what fucking happens? This does lead into her daughter and her granddaughter kind of helping her out. And there is a bit of good development with them because you go from hating Karen to being like, ah, because she has a really great moment when she hits him. The movie ends on a pretty decent kind of cliffhanger. All the while though, you are still sitting there going, how the fuck is this senior citizen taking out these people with absolutely no issue? By God, does it get so much worse in the second film? Overall, you can definitely see that the director, David Michael Green and fucking funny enough, co-writer Danny McBride. What? Do have a lot of respect and they do a lot of great homages to the original film, as well as some of the other films in the series on a little bit of a note. And it is a pretty decent flick. It's not exceptional. It's not bad. It's not trying to strive to be anything different. It is literally just being a very well put together, very solid thriller film. And it's not going to supersede the original films, even Halloween H2O in any effect. Because like I said, I saw this movie three years ago and I completely forgot that I actually did see it. But but it's a decent all around flick. I would definitely suggest watching the original and then you can come around and watching this one. So in the end, I'm going to give Halloween a four out of seven. You got some cool kills. You got some cool character development, Laurie Strode. And then you just have this kind of different what if, considering there are so many goddamn Halloween movies now that the entire timeline slash anthology is completely fucked. Imagine working at one of the very few video stores that still exist and trying to categorize these because someone's going to come up and be like, why is there three different Halloween's? Anyways guys, that's all from me. I hope you enjoyed the review. If you did leave a like and if you're interested in more subscribe. And yes, I will be reviewing Halloween kills. That movie inspired me to review this one because Halloween kills, it's a trash heap. Anyways guys, until then, see you next time.