Laurie Strode confronts her long-time foe, Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.Laurie Strode confronts her long-time foe, Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.Laurie Strode confronts her long-time foe, Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.
- Awards
- 4 wins & 27 nominations
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- TriviaThe film's producer is Malek Akkad, who is the son of Moustapha Akkad, the producer of the original 1978 "Halloween." Moustapha Akkad was murdered, along with his daughter Rima (Malek's sister), in the terrorist bombing of an Amman, Jordan hotel in 2005. Jamie Lee Curtis has recounted how the first person she saw when she came to the set for the first day of filming the 2018 film was Malek, who she remembered as a 7 year-old child visiting the set during production of the original film. She added that seeing Malek for the first time since his father's death immediately brought her to tears.
- GoofsAs Allyson is walking with her friends along a sidewalk discussing her grandmother they pass a lawn decoration that is a tombstone with RIP. There is an edit to a wider shot during the same sentence, but now they are passing by a plastic skull positioned in front of a tree that had not been there.
- Quotes
Laurie Strode: Happy Halloween, Michael.
- Crazy creditsThe opening and closing credits is stylized after the original 1978 version.
- ConnectionsEdited from Halloween (1978)
- SoundtracksTonight in the Moonlight
Performed by The Morrie Morrison Orchestra
Written by H.O. Morrie Morrison
Courtesy of Fervor Records
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Didn't fall for the hype, was still disappointed
I'm not a die-hard fan, having only seen maybe 3 films out of the whole franchise a million moons ago, so sorry for my ignorance if need be.
That said, I found this one extremely lackluster. Very little suspense beyond the opening scene of the with the reporters coaxing Michael with the mask, which is given in the trailers. Then the film devolves into highly questionable circumstances. After escaping, Michael merely plays a game of "right place, right time", appearing in places with no buildup or reason. No shots of him waiting, stalking, or putting fear into anybody; he's just there and does his thing. So unless he has some ESP that lures him to where anyone with the slightest link to the family is, it feels like jarringly fantastical coincidences. The kills are gruesome but most are off-screen.
In between, there's a set of useless characters: the "comic-relief" father who is basically a checkmark to have a nuclear family, the sheriff who is apparently the only cop in town actually looking for Mike, and the cowboy who is apparently the boss of that sheriff and only appears just to be on-screen, the boyfriend, etc. None of them provide anything substantial except for the fan-service of the sheriff reprising his role. Then there's the considerable of people doing dumb things moments or ones of sheer disbelief that ruin the flow.
As for the principal characters, Curtis is great as the overly cautious grandmother, as well as the mom who doesn't want to put up with it, and the granddaughter who wants to bridge them. However, that dynamic barely gets off the ground since there is actually very little interaction between them before the finale, and even then it feels severely contrived.
I can't say how it scores as a franchise sequel, but as a horror/slasher film alone it doesn't get a pass.
That said, I found this one extremely lackluster. Very little suspense beyond the opening scene of the with the reporters coaxing Michael with the mask, which is given in the trailers. Then the film devolves into highly questionable circumstances. After escaping, Michael merely plays a game of "right place, right time", appearing in places with no buildup or reason. No shots of him waiting, stalking, or putting fear into anybody; he's just there and does his thing. So unless he has some ESP that lures him to where anyone with the slightest link to the family is, it feels like jarringly fantastical coincidences. The kills are gruesome but most are off-screen.
In between, there's a set of useless characters: the "comic-relief" father who is basically a checkmark to have a nuclear family, the sheriff who is apparently the only cop in town actually looking for Mike, and the cowboy who is apparently the boss of that sheriff and only appears just to be on-screen, the boyfriend, etc. None of them provide anything substantial except for the fan-service of the sheriff reprising his role. Then there's the considerable of people doing dumb things moments or ones of sheer disbelief that ruin the flow.
As for the principal characters, Curtis is great as the overly cautious grandmother, as well as the mom who doesn't want to put up with it, and the granddaughter who wants to bridge them. However, that dynamic barely gets off the ground since there is actually very little interaction between them before the finale, and even then it feels severely contrived.
I can't say how it scores as a franchise sequel, but as a horror/slasher film alone it doesn't get a pass.
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- Oct 20, 2018
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- Halloween 3
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- Budget
- $10,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $159,342,015
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $76,221,545
- Oct 21, 2018
- Gross worldwide
- $259,939,869
- Runtime1 hour 46 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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