“Halloween (2018)” Review

40 years After the events of the first halloween movie (1978), two journalists by the names of Aaron Koney and Dana Haines head to Smith’s Grove Sanitarium, where they intend to interview Micheal Myers, who had been caught after Samuel Loomis shot him off a house balcony at the end of the first movie. Ranbir Sartain, Micheal’s new psychiatrist after Dr. Loomis’s death, informs them that while Michael is able to speak, he refuses to. While Dana records the interview, Aaron approaches Michael and tries to speak with him, but recieves no response, even after showing him his old mask and mentioning his sister, Laurie Strode.

bOTH journalists leave the sanitarium and travel to Laurie’s house, which is heavily fortified, for Laurie has been spending the last 40 years waiting for michael’s return and suffering from post-traumatic stress. These have resulted in two failed marriages and laurie losing custody of her daughter Karen. They manage to bribe her into letting them in, telling her that they they wish to know why micheal had commited all those murders in 1978, and wish to have Laurie meet with him one more time before he is transferred to a maximum security prison. lAURIE KICKS THEM OUT AFTER HEARING THIS, BUT NOT BEFORE TAKING THE MONEY THEY HAD OFFERED.

aS THE TRANSPORT IS BEING PREPARED, AND PRISONERS ARE BEING LOADED ON, dR. sARTAIN INSIST THAT HE ACCOMPANY MICHEAL AND THE BUS DEPARTS. mEANWHILE IN hADDONFIELD, lAURIE’S GRANDDAUGHTER AND kAREN’S DAUGHTER, aLLYSON, IS WALKING TO SCHOOL WITH TWO OF HER FRIENDS, TELLING THEM ABOUT HER FAMILY’S STRESS BECAUSE OF lAURIE’S PAST, AND discredits the rumor that Micheal is Laurie’s brother. Later in class, Allyson sees Laurie watching her from out the window and she meets with her. She gives her the $3,000 that Aaron and Dana had given her, telling her to have fun. At a family dinner that night at Karen’s house, Laurie shows up, and has a panic attack, to which aLLYSON COMFORTS HER. mEANWHILE, THE PRISON BUS HAD CRASHED INTO A DITCH, WITH THE GUARDS DEAD AND THE INMATES SCATTERED ACROSS THE ROAD. a MAN AND HIS SON IN THEIR TRUCK HAPPEN UPON THE CRASH, AND PULL OVER TO INVESTIGATE. tHE FATHER DISAPPEARS, AND THE SON HAPPENS UPON dR. sARTAIN, WHO HE ACCIDENTLY SHOOTS IN THE SHOULDER. hE RUNS BACK TO THE TRUCK, ATTEMPTING TO CALL THE PEOPLE, ONLY FOR mICHEAL TO SHOW UP IN THE BACK SEAT AND KILL HIM.

tHE NEXT MORNING, sHERIFF fRANK hAWKINS SUSPECTS THAT mICHEAL ESCAPED THE BUS, AND IS ON HIS WAY TO hADDONfield. Meanwhile, Dana and aARON ARRIVE AT A GAS STATION, WHERE dANA LEAVES TO USE THE BATHROOM WHILE aARON GOES TO PAY FOR THE GAS. iNSIDE THE STATION, aARON FINDS A DEAD MECHANIC MISSING HIS OVERALLS, AND A CASHIER WHOSE JAW HAS BEEN RIPPED OPEN. iN THE BATHROOM, mICHEAL ATTACKS dANA, AND aARON TRIES TO SAVE HER, ONLY FOR HIM TO BE KILLED BY HAVING HIS HEAD BASHED IN BEFORE dANA IS STRANGLED. Micheal heads to their car, and retrieves his mask. Laurie later learns about the transport crash, and breaks into kAREN’S HOUSE TO DEMONSTRATE