Category: Review

The Halloween franchise was due for another reboot.

We must start with the opening.

After the Halloween franchise had diminished beyond recognition by the sixth outing in the franchise, it needed a new spark.

And so the first Halloween timeline ends with a whimper. This is a bad, bad, bad movie.

If Halloween 4 squeezed the last viable juice from the Michael Myers lemon, Halloween 5 rubs the pulpy rind in the viewers’ eyeballs.

The subtitle “The Return of Michael Myers” works on three levels.

I’ll start with the obvious.

Despite its cliffhanger ending, Halloween doesn’t really suggest an obvious sequel story.

I’m not sure that there’s a specific name for the recurring cultural phenomenon that I have in mind.