Note: We have already published the following article and reworked it for the TV broadcast.
Just in time for the 40th anniversary of Halloween – The Night of Horrors, the new 2018 Halloween film has ignored any previous sequels or reinterpretations and picked up on John Carpenter’s style-defining horror classic.
In the film by David Gordon Green, which airs today at 10:35 p.m. on RTL II, slasher icon Michael Myers returns to the small town of Haddonfield after decades, where he was struck by a traumatized Laurie Strode, determined to fight (Jamie Lee Curtis) is already expected.
Here you can watch the German trailer for the new Halloween:
Halloween – Trailer 2 (German) HD
In the new Halloween, the trauma of the past brutally bursts open
In his Halloween film, David Gordon Green stages a Haddonfield in which 40 years have passed since the original and the present still seems like it was in one a long time ago traumatized state of shock stopped.
Laurie Strode is very lively in this film, but at the same time can hardly be compared to the young woman from John Carpenter’s classic. Jamie Lee Curtis’ significantly aged signature role turns out to be a… embittered, heavily marked and paranoid personality. It quickly becomes clear that since the horrific events of that time, Laurie has not gone a day without thinking about the figure who horribly murdered her friends.
In addition to Laurie, this new Halloween film also explores a generation of people living with profound trauma that continues within a family and 40 years later all of Haddonfield infected Has.
Halloween is a successful slasher between old-fashioned horror and modern heaviness
This serious trauma rages in the second half at the latest in the form of Michael Myers like a violent storm by Haddonfield. Then David Gordon Green’s Halloween proves to be an often astonishingly gripping horror film after the first half, which was told somewhat bumpily.
Check out the trailer for the Halloween Ends trilogy finale here:
Halloween Ends – Trailer 2 (German) HD
Dealing with serial killer icon Michael Myers is one of the most fascinating things here. Following the example of John Carpenter’s original, the director keeps him hidden in the dark like a ghostly shadow before Myers, like in Rob Zombie’s bestial Halloween reinterpretations, like a berserker shockingly brutal murders.
Next to one imaginative camerawork and editing, in which David Gordon Green savors planned sequences and the play with light and shadow, this Halloween also lives from Haddonfield’s timeless charisma. 40 years later, the green front yards, white garden fences and tranquilly furnished single-family homes of the suburbs once again give way to the all-consuming darkness on Halloween night.
Even occasional humorous dialogues intersperses the comedy director appropriately. Further testimony to the many qualities of this new Halloween film, in which far-reaching decisions from the past, insurmountable fears and disturbing aftermath ultimately collide in the grand showdown.
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Have you seen the new Halloween movie? Which movie from the franchise is your favorite?