David Gordon Green’s 2018 reboot of the Halloween franchise — which kicked off Michael Myers’ most polarizing run in the series — is now available to stream on Netflix. 2018s Halloween Takes place 40 years after John Carpenter’s groundbreaking 1978 original and ignores every other sequel that came in between. It happens with a post-traumatic Laurie Strode, who is now a mother and grandmother and has been nervously waiting for Michael’s return for four decades. While being transferred to a maximum security prison, Michael escapes and heads back to Haddonfield for another gruesome killing spree on Halloween night.
When it arrived in theaters in 2018, the Halloween Reboot is hailed as the best Halloween movie since Carpenter’s original. Jamie Lee Curtis’ performance was widely acclaimed and Green’s direction of the tone and atmosphere was similarly praised. Plus, it became a massive box-office success. But now looking at it, 2018s Halloween is best remembered as the start of the franchise’s most controversial era. It was pretty satisfying Halloween Revival on its own, but it ends up launching Halloweens answer to the Star Wars Sequel trilogy.
The first movie in David Gordon Green’s Halloween trilogy is now streaming on Netflix
2018’s Halloween started a streak of horror legacy sequels
The first installment in Green’s Halloween Trilogy, simply titled Halloweenis now streaming on Netflix. 2018s Halloween Combines two of Hollywood’s biggest recent trends: legacy sequels and the horror of trauma. like Creed, Ghostbusters: AfterlifeAnd Star Wars: The Force AwakensIt introduces the next generation of heroes in the footsteps of the previous generation, and uses the events of the previous films as an in-universe metaphor to explore the franchise’s standing in pop culture. And how smile, The BabadookAnd HereditaryIt uses horror tropes and motifs to depict the devastating impact of unresolved trauma.
Why David Gordon Green’s Halloween movies are so divisive
Green’s Halloween trilogy overcomplicated the franchise
The trilogy after 2018 Halloween Divide the fan base. for starters, It was questionable whether the Halloween Reboot even needed a whole trilogy. The trilogy model is great for franchises like Star WarsThe Marvel Cinematic Universe, and Peter Jackson’s Middle-earth saga, all of which tell epic, expansive stories with a massive cast of characters. But Halloween is a franchise that revolves entirely around a notorious serial killer who goes on various killing sprees in a small town. It doesn’t have the scope or depth of storytelling that franchises like Star Wars and Marvel to tell their stories in trilogies.
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Box Office |
RT critics score |
RT audience score |
IMDb rating |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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Halloween (2018) |
$259.9 million |
79% |
72% |
6.5 |
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Halloween kills (2021) |
$133.4 million |
39% |
66% |
5.5 |
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Halloween ends (2022) |
$105.4 million |
40% |
58% |
5.0 |
When it ended, green Halloween Trilogy has seriously run out of steam. The first movie worked fine as a standalone story. It saw Laurie confronting her inner and outer demons 40 years after their initial showdown. This time she was ready for Michael and finally he trapped him in the basement and burned him alive, literally blocking her trauma and destroying it. This alone could have been a satisfying conclusion to them Halloween story, but the producers kept it going for two more movies.
It was an interesting approach to exploring the idea of mob justice, but the sequel’s message that everyone else is just as bad as Michael ultimately didn’t land, because it felt disingenuous.
in 2021 Halloween killsMichael escapes effortlessly from the burning cellar and the townspeople all come together to kill him once and for all. In theory, it was an interesting approach to exploring the idea of mass justice, however The sequel’s message that everyone else is just as bad as Michael ultimately didn’t land, because it felt disingenuous – And it was extraordinary to see a Halloween Movie where Lori spends most of the runtime confined to a hospital bed. Halloween kills Drags out far longer than it should, and its climactic beatdown disappointingly confirms that Michael is 100% supernatural.
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2022 S Halloween ends Set out to be the one Avengers: Endgame or these Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker of these Halloween Franchise. But then again, this isn’t the kind of franchise that needs a big, epic finale as the culmination of the entire saga. And as long as these Halloween Producers are doing a End game-style finale, they should have focused on Laurie’s longstanding feud with Michael. instead, Halloween ends Goes off on its own standalone story About a babysitter who is mistaken for a killer and goes down a dark path. Laurie and Michael’s final showdown is crammed into the last few minutes.
What’s next for the Halloween franchise after the last trilogy
Although Halloween Ends was conceived as the final chapter, there is a TV show in the works
Although Halloween ends was conceived as the final chapter of the series, The next installment in the Halloween Franchise is already in the works. It is a Halloween TV show in development at Miramax that will serve as a complete creative reset on the franchise. Like Greene’s trilogy, the new TV series will ignore all previous sequels and relate only to the original film. Halloween Content is so popular – and so cheap to produce – that, much like Michael, the franchise will probably never die.
Halloween is the first film in the David Gordon Green-directed sequel trilogy to the 1978 original horror/slasher film. After forty years institutionalized after the events of the original Haddonfield murders, Michael Myers escapes during a prison transfer to pursue his original target, Laurie Strode. Living in fear of his shadow for years, Laurie learns of his return, setting the stage for war while trying to protect her daughter and granddaughter from her masked tormentor.
- Director
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David Gordon Green
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106 minutes