Halloween (2018)

Mr E · 06-06-2018 3:54pm #1

A teaser for the trailer has just been released. :rolleyes:
Full trailer on Friday.

https://twitter.com/halloweenmovie/status/1004377376644423680

Sad Professor · 06-06-2018 4:17pm

Why is this called Halloween if its a direct sequel to the original and not a remake/reboot?

Ipso · 06-06-2018 5:47pm

Maybe call it All Saints day.
I'm cautiously optimistic about this.
Is it true that Halloween was originally meant to be an anthology where each film was a separate story set on Halloween?

Rothko · 06-06-2018 6:01pm

Ipso wrote: »

Maybe call it All Saints day.
I'm cautiously optimistic about this.
Is it true that Halloween was originally meant to be an anthology where each film was a separate story set on Halloween?

Yeah the third movie is unrelated to the rest.

Padraig Mor · 07-06-2018 10:16am

Didn't they remake this once already (or is that my imagination)? I'll leave out the obligatory comments re classic, no need, etc.

ancapailldorcha · 07-06-2018 11:05am

Padraig Mor wrote: »

Didn't they remake this once already (or is that my imagination)? I'll leave out the obligatory comments re classic, no need, etc.

They did. Rob Zombie directed it. I don't know how good it was or wasn't.

nix · 07-06-2018 11:43am

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

They did. Rob Zombie directed it. I don't know how good it was or wasn't.

If i recall, the first one was decent and the second one was an absolute mess, i cant really remember them though to be honest. I just remember feeling overall let down

Aul Danny Mcbride is heavily involved with the screen play on this, while i love Danny, i just fear this movie will be more like a Scream movie instead of an actual Halloween flick :pac:

DvB · 07-06-2018 1:47pm

The original Halloween & the direct sequel Halloween II are the only ones worth watching, III at a push is decent, but as a stand alone movie with nothing at all to do with the others. All the remakes after that have been so poor I forget which ones I've watched. I doubt I'll even bother with this, would rather take out my DVD's of the original 2 & give them a watch.

Mr E · 08-06-2018 2:35pm

This looks great! That music... jesus, still fantastic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek1ePFp-nBI

pixelburp · 08-06-2018 2:44pm

That actually looks pretty OK; when I heard Blumhouse were going to make it I was cautiously optimistic, figuring they had a better chance than others to craft a decent Halloween sequel.

Fox Hound · 08-06-2018 2:52pm

I like Rob Zombies Take on the Halloween series, it was messy at times, But I like the tone of all his movies, something oddly crazy about them,

I like the fact they are starting fresh with this one and ignoring all the other sequels, thats a plus in my book,

This will probably be a soft reboot of the first one, as it will hit the same beats as the first movie and definitly have some call backs,

Ill defo watch it and hope for the best

Bret Hart · 08-06-2018 6:02pm

What running time are we looking at for this, 100+? Anybody know when it'll be released over here ?

I'll avoid going too see it for it's opening weeks. I'm a huge Halloween fan,so want too watch this in a somewhat peaceful setting.

CastorTroy · 08-06-2018 6:18pm

pixelburp wrote: »

That actually looks pretty OK; when I heard Blumhouse were going to make it I was cautiously optimistic, figuring they had a better chance than others to craft a decent Halloween sequel.

It's only recently that I've started hearing Blumhouse mentioned in advertising material for films. Think it was Truth or Dare.

I liked Halloween 4.
It is strange that they just decided to do a sequel after the remake series.

Mrcaramelchoc · 08-06-2018 6:55pm

good god talk about milking the ****e out of something.lay the thing to rest ffs.even if they made the same movie with different name it might be better.its purely a money making excercise at this stage.

esposito · 08-06-2018 8:19pm

Bret Hart wrote: »

What running time are we looking at for this, 100+? Anybody know when it'll be released over here ?

Not sure about the running time. I’m hoping it’s more than the standard 90 mins for most horrors. 100-120 mins would be good.

October 19 it will be released.

Loughc · 08-06-2018 8:25pm

This actually looks really good. One of the best trailers I’ve seen in a while. I can’t wait for this now.

oneilla · 08-06-2018 11:27pm

Ipso wrote: »

Maybe call it All Saints day.
I'm cautiously optimistic about this.
Is it true that Halloween was originally meant to be an anthology where each film was a separate story set on Halloween?

The first one was originally going to be called The Babysitter Murders. Horror film titles in the 70s had titles which were quite blunt.

As stated above the third one is unrelated to Michael Myers. The original financier of Halloween was a Syrian named Moustapha Akkad who predictably only cared about making money.

08-06-2018 11:37pm

Trailer is decent

On one hand I absolutely hate this **** and wonder where everyone gets the energy to work on something that has been done before, and then I start think, but what if they actually pull it off, what if it’s actually good

I always give them the benefit of the doubt, and they never fail to disappoint

They literally have mastered the art of making steaming piles of **** at this stage

Liam McPoyle · 08-06-2018 11:39pm

No.

razorblunt · 09-06-2018 7:41pm

Looks good to me , that prison yard scene builds the tension really well given it's daylight.
The rest just looks like carnage on an epic scale.

HandsomeBob · 09-06-2018 9:30pm

Fox Hound wrote: »

I like Rob Zombies Take on the Halloween series, it was messy at times, But I like the tone of all his movies, something oddly crazy about them,

I like the fact they are starting fresh with this one and ignoring all the other sequels, thats a plus in my book,

This will probably be a soft reboot of the first one, as it will hit the same beats as the first movie and definitly have some call backs,

Ill defo watch it and hope for the best

I liked what Zombie did upon first viewings but I found as I watched more of his library, I became more irritated by his style and use of the samey characters.

artvanderlay · 10-06-2018 8:49am

It looks pretty good, I must say. I don't think they will take the Scream route....John Carpenter gave David Gordon Green/Danny McBride this advice

https://screenrant.com/john-carpenter-halloween-2018-advice-relentless/

which they seem to have taken.

Ok, so at the end of Halloween, Michael had been shot 6 times by Dr. Loomis, fell off the balcony and then disappeared. If this is a direct sequel, then when did they capture him? Soon after or was he on the run for a while (possibly killing more)? I wonder will they address this. Also, Michael is now 60, so will he be fit enough to do all this killing, given that he has been chained up/catatonic for 40 years? I hope they do address all these issues, because I can't get with it otherwise if I'm thinking about them :P

10-06-2018 9:26am

Hopefully there is proper ending to this series where either Michael or Laurie's character dies and thats it, the winner skips off into the sunset, job done.

If it's left open for a sequel with Jason Voorhees or Kruger or or those tornado sharks i might be interested, i hope the annoying teenagers get killed off quickly and its left with Laurie and Michael to battle it out to the finish.

But seriously lets have an ending to this long running saga because it deserves it.

HandsomeBob · 10-06-2018 9:37am

Michael will leave the franchise in the hands of his apprentice by the end of the film. :pac:

Liam McPoyle · 10-06-2018 10:25am

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Hopefully there is proper ending to this series where either Michael or Laurie's character dies and thats it, the winner skips off into the sunset, job done.

If it's left open for a sequel with Jason Voorhees or Kruger or or those tornado sharks i might be interested, i hope the annoying teenagers get killed off quickly and its left with Laurie and Michael to battle it out to the finish.

But seriously lets have an ending to this long running saga because it deserves it.

Didn't he get decapitated at the end of H20?

10-06-2018 12:03pm

Business Cat wrote: »

Didn't he get decapitated at the end of H20?

Its been so long since i saw it i can't even remember, sure isn't he always been decapitated or shot or chopped up, he keeps coming back!!!:p

Sad Professor · 10-06-2018 12:40pm

They should have called this Halloween Part II. Something to make it clear that it's ignoring all the sequels. Otherwise I can see a lot of people dismissing it as another reboot or being very confused.

Tony EH · 10-06-2018 1:29pm

This is just weird.

I really dislike this idea of scrunching up an entire film series - as bad as most of it was, let's be honest - and just chucking it in the bin and going off in another direction.

But, this seems to be...ok, strangely enough.

Problem for me is that I have a particular soft spot for 'Halloween II', as it's one of my childhood horrors. And I have a guilty love for 'Halloween III', a film so ridiculous in concept and execution, but also one that's ridiculously entertaining. I love that dumb movie.

I'll probably end up watching this, out of curiosity, but I feel oddly uncomfortable about it all.

HandsomeBob · 10-06-2018 1:41pm

The machine has made this kind of thing ok unfortunately in recent years....."the soft reboot" where films can be retconned with one line of contempt such as in this trailer.

razorblunt · 10-06-2018 4:19pm

Business Cat wrote: »

Didn't he get decapitated at the end of H20?

I think I read before he was supposed to have swapped places with a police office or medic before that.

thebull85 · 10-06-2018 4:34pm

Business Cat wrote: »

Didn't he get decapitated at the end of H20?

Thats what we all thought, but the sequel to H20 told the story that it was actually a paramedic wearing the mask that got decapitated, while the crafty Michael made his escape.

artvanderlay · 10-06-2018 7:39pm

thebull85 wrote: »

Thats what we all thought, but the sequel to H20 told the story that it was actually a paramedic wearing the mask that got decapitated, while the crafty Michael made his escape.

I remember watching H2O and saying that that would happen if they did another sequel...I was right!

Is Michael Myers crafty though?...I don't think they have fleshed out his story at all. He's just some relentless killing machine...why? Also can't somebody overpower him in a fight? I'd like to see a slasher movie where the indestructible killer wanders into a room of MMA fighters and they kick the living sh*te out of him. Getting a big tired of these 'can't be beaten/killed psycho' films.

Bacchus · 10-06-2018 8:23pm

oneilla wrote: »

The original financier of Halloween was a Syrian named Moustapha Akkad who predictably only cared about making money.

As opposed to everyone else in Hollywood?

conorhal · 11-06-2018 1:44pm

There are some effective scares in the trailer, but making Laurie a Sarah Connor trope doesn't seem like there's much creative thinking going on. The prison yard scene is just flat out stupid. Why would prison authorities let a journalist wander in an excercise yard with a psycopath and wave his killing mask in his face? Who signed off on that?
Then there's the fact this is from the creative team that gave us 'Your Highness'...... so I'm not holding out much hope that we'll get anything but a slightly more polished verson of H20.

El Duda · 11-06-2018 2:06pm

Looks decent.

Biggest gripe is the title. Halloween FFS. Give it a number, or a suffix of some kind.

I hate that we now have to refer to Ghostbusters as 'the first one, not the 2016 one'. Please don't make me do it with this as well.

yourdeadwright · 11-06-2018 2:13pm

I thought this would be awful but form the trailer it looks like it could be a decent movie,
I really liked the day time prison scene it really helped build tension ,
As someone said how will they explain him being 60ish and still a killing machine surely the aul knees or back would be playing up ,

p to the e · 11-06-2018 2:38pm

Jamie Lee looks like Brent Spiner in Independence Day:

Tony EH · 11-06-2018 2:43pm

yourdeadwright wrote: »

I thought this would be awful but form the trailer it looks like it could be a decent movie,
I really liked the day time prison scene it really helped build tension ,
As someone said how will they explain him being 60ish and still a killing machine surely the aul knees or back would be playing up ,

If Mickey Myers can keep coming back from the dead, I don't think a touch of arthritis will do him much harm.

artvanderlay · 11-06-2018 3:18pm

I was trying to remember in Eastbound and Down where Danny McBride mentions Michael Myers. He's trying to offload all the old Kenny Powers merchandise after his baseball career stalls and his replica mask looks like a "retarded Michael Myers" :pac:

http://halloweendailynews.com/2014/07/michael-myers-invades-eastbound-and-down/

He must have always been a fan of the Halloween movies.

Frank O. Pinion · 12-06-2018 7:37am

El Duda wrote: »

I hate that we now have to refer to Ghostbusters as 'the first one, not the 2016 one'. Please don't make me do it with this as well.

The 2016 Ghostbusters full title is: Ghostbusters: Answer The Call.

Sad Professor · 12-06-2018 7:53am

El Duda wrote: »

Looks decent.

Biggest gripe is the title. Halloween FFS. Give it a number, or a suffix of some kind.

I hate that we now have to refer to Ghostbusters as 'the first one, not the 2016 one'. Please don't make me do it with this as well.

In fairness, people have been calling it "the first one" or "the original Ghostbusters" since 1989 when Ghostbusters II was released. So the release of the remake really doesn't change anything. And even then, unless you indicate that you are talking about the remake, most people who know anything about movies will assume any reference to Ghostbusters means the original.

The main reason this shouldn't have been called Halloween is because it confusingly suggests that it's a remake when it's actually sequel albeit one that ignores all the other sequels.

Bacchus · 12-06-2018 9:31am

Sad Professor wrote: »

The main reason this shouldn't have been called Halloween is because it confusingly suggests that it's a remake when it's actually sequel albeit one that ignores all the other sequels.

Should have been called "Halloween II v2"

Fox Hound · 12-06-2018 10:50am

HandsomeBob wrote: »

I liked what Zombie did upon first viewings but I found as I watched more of his library, I became more irritated by his style and use of the samey characters.

I have only watched the Halloween films, house of a 1000 corpse and the devils rejects,

Its something very rare that we get a writer/director that likes to do his own thing, I think that needs to be championed these days,,, he is not the greatest but I like his style of horror and as for the casting, Id say he finds it hard to get actors for his movies because he likes to work on low budget things (outside the Halloween franchises) plus he probably just trusts these actors, lots of Directors do this, i.e Tim Burton, Chris Nolan etc...anyway getting a bit side tracked, but this Halloween does look cool, and plus Myers is an awesome bad guy, so lets bring him back and watch him F**k things up!

razorblunt · 12-06-2018 12:03pm

yourdeadwright wrote: »

I thought this would be awful but form the trailer it looks like it could be a decent movie,
I really liked the day time prison scene it really helped build tension ,
As someone said how will they explain him being 60ish and still a killing machine surely the aul knees or back would be playing up ,

All the night-time killings delayed as he tries to pee but can't due to his prostrate issues.

I agree with the strength thing too, it's gotten a bit silly.

HandsomeBob · 12-06-2018 4:50pm

Fox Hound wrote: »

I have only watched the Halloween films, house of a 1000 corpse and the devils rejects,

Its something very rare that we get a writer/director that likes to do his own thing, I think that needs to be championed these days,,, he is not the greatest but I like his style of horror and as for the casting, Id say he finds it hard to get actors for his movies because he likes to work on low budget things (outside the Halloween franchises) plus he probably just trusts these actors, lots of Directors do this, i.e Tim Burton, Chris Nolan etc...anyway getting a bit side tracked, but this Halloween does look cool, and plus Myers is an awesome bad guy, so lets bring him back and watch him F**k things up!

It's not necessarily an issue with the actors as he does have a very decent core that do perform for him. Just seems every film revolves around hicks and a lot of exploitation in the arse end of America. That's what he brought to Halloween which was interesting in itself, but showed his limitations when viewed in the wider context of his general work.

razorblunt · 13-06-2018 5:47pm

I rewatched the trailer today when showing it to someone else, they seem to give away 3 deaths really cheaply in that.

Fysh · 14-06-2018 6:23am

HandsomeBob wrote: »

It's not necessarily an issue with the actors as he does have a very decent core that do perform for him. Just seems every film revolves around hicks and a lot of exploitation in the arse end of America. That's what he brought to Halloween which was interesting in itself, but showed his limitations when viewed in the wider context of his general work.

Not just that, but his insistence on having Sheri Moon Zombie take a significant role gets in the way too. She was surprisingly good in Lords of Salem (very much a "what it could have been" film, given that the ending just sort of peters out), but is otherwise pretty wooden.

Space Dog · 14-06-2018 10:12am

razorblunt wrote: »

I rewatched the trailer today when showing it to someone else, they seem to give away 3 deaths really cheaply in that.

I stopped watching trailers altogether for that reason. I might watch a teaser, but full trailers give away most of the film these days. I'd rather have some surprises when I get to see the film.
Oh, I actually watched the trailer for the Suspiria remake, but since I've seen the original and know the story I'll be watching that mostly for the mood, score and cinematography anyway.

Mr E · 05-09-2018 7:18pm

New trailer. Sorry, haters. This looks great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_-x4Dwz-rU

nix · 05-09-2018 7:43pm

"I've been preparing for this for a long time"

Weapon of choice: Winchester rifle, developed over 100 years ago :rolleyes::pac:

Loughc · 05-09-2018 9:12pm

This looks so good. Can’t wait.

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