Halloween (2018)

Forty years goes by fast.  But to think of the changes since this first movie came out:  Back then I was only 13 and could not see this R-rated movie in a theater.  There was no cable TV, no VCR, no Netflix.  Over the years, I saw most of it, and the lore went down in history.

Now we have the Baby Boomer Grandmother back in the person of Jamie Lee Curtis.  She is  loaded for bear, ready to face down Michael Meyers.  And guess what?  He's looking for her too.

Interestingly, co-written by Danny McBride, he of all things nostalgic for the 70s.  So this becomes a bit of a parody, which is probably the right tack to take.  There's really no surprise as to what will happen on this  Halloween night, which makes this perhaps the perfect scary but-not-too-scary movie.

A healthy R-rating again with the blood and gore, the impaling, singing blade noises, slasher thumps,  and the up-close-and-personal-face-to-face stabbings.  The gunshots are just for show.   All washed down with the pot- smoking, flask-drinking, dry-humping American teenagers that the original movie made famous.

God Bless Haddonfield, IL.

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