Review Thread - 'Halloween'

David Gordon Green's Halloween premiered at Toronto International Film Festival yesterday and reviews are starting to come out. This is looking really good so far, with most saying it's the best in the series since the original. Pretty surprising, actually. This'll definitely be another money-print for Blumhouse.Rotten Tomatoes: 93% - 8.0 Average Rating - 15 ReviewsMetacritic: 76 - Generally favorable reviewsRotten Tomatoes Critics Consensus:N/AThe Playlist - Victor StiffHalloween is a love letter to the original picture and entertaining on its own terms. Thrilling, atmospheric, and brutally violent, Green delivers exactly what fans want from the series and then some.Entertainment Weekly - Leah GreenblattLong live Michael Myers, so maybe someone can finally kill him — in a big, funny, scary, squishy, super-meta sequel that brings it all back to the iconic 1978 original.Blood Disgusting - Joe LipsettAll in all, Halloween is a worthy entry in the franchise...the core cast is good to great, as is the violence and the gore. Everything really clicks at the finaleThe Hollywood Reporter - John DeForeThe picture has a good shock or two up its sleeve before getting to Laurie's armored, booby-trapped home, and once it's there, it surprises us again.Nerdist - Katie WalshFor all of the deep and fascinating semiotic analysis of this film, it's also just a great Halloween movie.IndieWire - Eric KohnGreen has made a slavish, sharply executed bit of fan service elevated by Jamie Lee Curtis’ transformation into a badass grandmother back to finish the job.Variety - Peter Debruge - Spoiler Warning, ProbablyBy contemporary horror standards, the original “Halloween” was actually quite tame, featuring just five (human) deaths, whereas this one more than triples the body count — and it does so with style, borrowing several of Carpenter’s classic devices...before getting into the more prosthetic-heavy mayhem that follows.Business Insider - Jason GuerassioFor a project that has been riding high with anticipation from "Halloween" fans, this is no way to reward them.Den of Geek - David CrowBy paying fealty to that initial terror, 2018's Halloween the best take on what a "Halloween II" should be.Collider - Perri NemiroffWe finally have a new Halloween movie that moves the franchise forward and respects its legacy.Slashfilm - Chris EvangelistaDavid Gordon Green's Halloween is a love-letter to horror fans - a brutal, scary and sometimes funny sequel that gives the long-running franchise the respect and adoration it deserves.Description:Jamie Lee Curtis returns to her iconic role as Laurie Strode, who comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.Release Date:October 19, 2018Starring:Andi MatichakJamie Lee CurtisJudy GreerMiles RobbinsNick CastleWill PattonVirginia GardnerProducer:Jason BlumRunning Time:109 MinutesDirector:David Gordon Green ('Pineapple Express', 'George Washington', 'Stronger')Writers:Danny McBride, David Gordon GreenMusic:John CarpenterBudget:$10,000,000 via /r/movies https://ift.tt/2wXvsX3