My horror movie loving sister hated it. All the horror movie vloggers on YouTube, like the guy who does Cinemassacre, Sean Chandler and Cody Leach, agree it's the best thing to happen to the Halloween franchise since the original, though, like me, they agree it's still not a perfect horror movie or sequel, but it's nowhere near as bad as my sister made it out to be. Her opinion, I think, may have been influenced by Jamie Lee Curtis' far leftist politics. Regardless, she probably didn't like how the character of Laurie Strode has been living like a reclusive kook for 40 years, and I myself kind of scratched my head at that, but I'm sure in today's untra left wing feminist climate, it's all about WOMAN fighting back from victimhood. In that respect, I can understand her aversion. But as just a slasher film, it IS scary, and has a few good twists, and was wise to pick up the story 40 years later as if none of those other increasingly silly Halloween sequels, reboots and remakes had ever happened. It was also a bit more literate, made by intelligent people with more going on under the surface, with themes and intentional social commentary. And a lot of their story choices - scenes, camera angles, etc. - intentionally harkened back to the original. So although my sister says "skip this one," I say it's definitely the best thing to happen to the Halloween franchise since Jamie Lee Curtis returned the first time, 20 years ago, and along with that film (Halloween H2O) and the original, is definitely in the top 3, probably even the top 2. And just in case anyone is wondering, rounding out the top 5 would be Halloween 2 (the first one, not that awful Rob Zombie one, and the only other one to star Curtis) and Halloween 4, which was pretty good all the way through and had an amazing ending from a storytelling point of view. But this one is right up there with the best of this franchise!
