Jamie Lee Curtis is back as Laurie Strode to kick Michael Myer's ass in the upcoming movie Halloween
which sounds like a reboot to Halloween but it's actually a sequel.
But not a sequel to the sequels, it's a "re-quel".
It's the eleventh Halloween movie but it's only Part II, serving as a direct sequel to the original making this the second "Part II"
Unless you count Rob Zombie's Halloween II which was the second movie called Halloween II
But that was a sequel to the 2007 film called Halloween
This one which is Part II to the 1978 Halloween is the third to be called Halloween.
Halloween, Halloween, Halloween.
Laurie Strode was declared dead in Halloween 4 and died again in Halloween: Resurrection
But history is being erased again, much like how Laurie returned in H2O, which was twenty years after the original
and this new one is twenty years after that.
So, it's H2O2O..
..But it ignores H2O, so a more appropriate title might be H4O.
But unlike H2O, it doesn't mean water. And water's obviously the first thing you think of when you're talking about Halloween!
That's when they first started releasing these movies in the summer.
So you have swimming in mind, you know, you're thinking water. It's all about water!
But with this one, you know on second thought, H4O is the name of a Navy ship
so it DOES have something to do with water after all.
But H2O picked up after Halloween II, making it Halloween III.
The third Halloween III because the first Halloween III was not connected to the first two movies
It didn't even have Michael Myers.
It was an attempt to turn the franchise into an anthology series.
But nobody liked that!
Because, who would ever think,
a movie series called Halloween could have any other Halloween-themed stories?
Halloween II killed Michael Myers and Dr. Loomis and it didn't just kill them, incinerated them!
Burned them to a crisp!
But hey...
Who cares?
Halloween 4 brought him back, making Halloween III obsolete and for the fact that
they're watching Halloween IN Halloween III kinda makes it impossible for it to take place in the same world.
So, with Halloween III out of the picture, Halloween 4 is technically
Halloween III.
Halloween 5 came next, which would technically be Halloween 4
and then came Halloween 6, which dropped the number all together, calling it Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers.
In fact if you go by the subtitles: return, revenge, and curse
That's the same as The Pink Panther series because
Of course, a horror series about a masked killer should draw parallels to a comedy series about a bumbling detective.
Makes perfect sense!
4, 5, and 6 are known as "The Thorn Trilogy" because that mysterious symbol starts appearing
and there's this guy in a black trench coat walkin' around
and there's rooms and constellations and shit!
And the story got so out of control, they couldn't even make sense of it with TWO different cuts of Halloween 6!
You might prefer the original producer's cut.
Where Michael Myers rapes his teenage niece becoming Uncle-Dad to the new baby.
Or you can choose the theatrical version which just ignores all the bullshit.
And gives you an exploding head!
YEAH!
One version's lacking in Michael Myers, the other's lacking in Dr. Loomis
One version, Michael's defeated by a bunch of tiny stones on the floor, the other he's beat by a lead pipe.
Both versions were so horrendous, it killed the franchise.
This would be the first of THREE times the franchise was killed, not counting Halloween II
The first Halloween II, which killed it deliberately.
And Halloween III was a different thing so,
Halloween 6 was the first to really kill it
and was too tough to figure out how to follow-up on so they just made H2O
and followed THAT with Resurrection
and that one was so bad, it again, killed the franchise.
Then you had the duology, the double dose of Rob Zombie's Halloween and Halloween II.
The first being polarizing and second being just flat-out bad, so bad
That guess what...
You know.
It killed the franchise.
Now, it's been nine years since, can you believe it? And they're giving it another go.
And you know what?
I'll take it. Why not? Let's see Michael Myers put on the mask again.
Let's see him kill another mechanic and take his clothes, again.
Let's see Laurie Strode turn badass, again.
Let's see somebody hide in a bathroom stall, again.
Through every sequel, reboot and re-quel, I'll keep coming back especially for the fact that this one
They're releasing it...
in OCTOBER!
WOW!!
A Halloween movie... in OCTOBER??
Who would've thought?!
Will I be reviewing it as part of the Monster Madness festivities?
Yes!