I can sum this film up quite easily. The previous Halloween sequels provided exactly what the trashy horror audience of it's day expected. Generic Slasher flicks (well, 4 onwards anyway).
This film provides exactly what the trashy horror audience of it's day expects. A generic "Scary Movie" genre flick.
It also does what too many modern movies have decided to do which is to pretentiously presume itself to be better then it's peers. Taking such actions as pretending the previous films didn't happen and to do a "ultimately-finally-unchangably" ending, which of course we all knew at the time and have been proved right since, wouldn't be the end of the series at all. So why do it? The Scary Movie genre elements detracted a lot from the film. Of course the modern audience is more willing to accept that then slasher flick elements so many of them say this is the best Halloween for a while, but I think when people look at this in another 10 years time they will say it was poor and stereotypical and really didn't deliver.
This was perhaps the most excessively hyped up horror I've seen for years and that is all it was - Hype. Sure it was nice to see Laurie Strode again, but it wasn't directed by John Carpenter and it didn't have anything like the atmosphere of the original Halloween and anyone that says otherwise really needs to watch the two back to back. It's not a return to form or a return to the original style. It's just trading in one trashy generic element for a more current but just as trashy generic element and then patting itself on the back for doing it.
Really between the pretentious elements and the scary movie elements I counted only one good Horror scene and a couple of bits with a reasonable "cool" factor.
Overall this is perhaps the most disappointing Horror I've ever seen. Not the worst, but most disappointing because I am a fan of the original and I did buy into the hype before I watched this.
This film provides exactly what the trashy horror audience of it's day expects. A generic "Scary Movie" genre flick.
It also does what too many modern movies have decided to do which is to pretentiously presume itself to be better then it's peers. Taking such actions as pretending the previous films didn't happen and to do a "ultimately-finally-unchangably" ending, which of course we all knew at the time and have been proved right since, wouldn't be the end of the series at all. So why do it? The Scary Movie genre elements detracted a lot from the film. Of course the modern audience is more willing to accept that then slasher flick elements so many of them say this is the best Halloween for a while, but I think when people look at this in another 10 years time they will say it was poor and stereotypical and really didn't deliver.
This was perhaps the most excessively hyped up horror I've seen for years and that is all it was - Hype. Sure it was nice to see Laurie Strode again, but it wasn't directed by John Carpenter and it didn't have anything like the atmosphere of the original Halloween and anyone that says otherwise really needs to watch the two back to back. It's not a return to form or a return to the original style. It's just trading in one trashy generic element for a more current but just as trashy generic element and then patting itself on the back for doing it.
Really between the pretentious elements and the scary movie elements I counted only one good Horror scene and a couple of bits with a reasonable "cool" factor.
Overall this is perhaps the most disappointing Horror I've ever seen. Not the worst, but most disappointing because I am a fan of the original and I did buy into the hype before I watched this.