David Gordon Green’s Halloween is about to rewrite the history of the entire horror franchise, ignoring every single one of the sequels and continuing the story anew, 40 years after John Carpenter’s Halloween. It sounds bold and it sounds risky, but only if you weren’t already familiar with the history of Halloween. The franchise pulled the exact same trick 20 years ago, in the sometimes underappreciated Halloween H20… which is still - for now, at least - the best sequel in the franchise. Let's look back at the film on the occasion of its 20th anniversary this week!
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Calling it the best sequel isn't saying too much, of course. The Halloween series was and still is notorious for its scattershot quality, with strange digressions into conspiracy cults and psychic powers retroactively ruining the original film’s celebrated simplicity. Halloween was the story of a masked serial killer named Michael Myers who went on a killing spree on October 31st, something that could, terrifyingly, happen to anyone in the audience. But as the sequels progressed Michael Myers fought a little girl with ESP, joined a doomsday religion and uncovered one long-lost relative after another. In other words, the kind of stuff that could happen to nobody.
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Full spoilers follow!
Calling it the best sequel isn't saying too much, of course. The Halloween series was and still is notorious for its scattershot quality, with strange digressions into conspiracy cults and psychic powers retroactively ruining the original film’s celebrated simplicity. Halloween was the story of a masked serial killer named Michael Myers who went on a killing spree on October 31st, something that could, terrifyingly, happen to anyone in the audience. But as the sequels progressed Michael Myers fought a little girl with ESP, joined a doomsday religion and uncovered one long-lost relative after another. In other words, the kind of stuff that could happen to nobody.
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