{"id":6452,"date":"2018-12-10T20:11:54","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T02:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=6452"},"modified":"2021-11-11T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T19:45:00","slug":"halloween-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=6452","title":{"rendered":"Halloween (2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6455\" src=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/MV5BZTkyNjc4NDktNmJkOC00ZGFmLWE1MmQtNTNiYjVkM2RhOTBhXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjQ4ODE4MzQ@._V1_SY1000_CR006601000_AL_-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/MV5BZTkyNjc4NDktNmJkOC00ZGFmLWE1MmQtNTNiYjVkM2RhOTBhXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjQ4ODE4MzQ@._V1_SY1000_CR006601000_AL_-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/MV5BZTkyNjc4NDktNmJkOC00ZGFmLWE1MmQtNTNiYjVkM2RhOTBhXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjQ4ODE4MzQ@._V1_SY1000_CR006601000_AL_-624x945.jpg 624w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/MV5BZTkyNjc4NDktNmJkOC00ZGFmLWE1MmQtNTNiYjVkM2RhOTBhXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjQ4ODE4MzQ@._V1_SY1000_CR006601000_AL_.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/>Let&#8217;s be frank: there was very little chance of me not liking a Halloween sequel starring Jamie Lee Curtis. While I think Alien is the best horror movie ever made, I think that Halloween II is the best horror movie <em>sequel<\/em> ever made. And the original is in the top five anyway, probably number two.<\/p>\n<p>Biases: acknowledged!<\/p>\n<p>Given all that, I am of course a little disappointed that Halloween II got jettisoned from the canon. I understand why they did it, and I even approve. I think I&#8217;m willing to pretend that the one disputed fact is in line with these movies but that the events in the hospital are still canon. Because, it was so good.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, enough about other movies. I appreciated a lot about what was going on here. They used the same font for the credits, of course the same music \/ composer, once again the only credit for Michael Myers was The Shape, there was even a dollhouse that I&#8217;ll swear was modeled on the original Myers home. What I&#8217;m saying is I appreciate attention to detail, and the moreso for the forty years gone since the original premiered.<\/p>\n<p>Mostly, I liked the heart of the movie, this unstoppable collision between Laurie Strode and the boogeyman. It reminded me of Aliens in that way, now that I think about it. So, y&#8217;know, good company. And there&#8217;s a bit of style in taking the exact name of the movie that you are a sequel of. Halloween, and its sequel, <a title=\"You don't believe in the Boogeyman? You should.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1502407\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Halloween<\/a>. I dig it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s be frank: there was very little chance of me not liking a Halloween sequel starring Jamie Lee Curtis. While I think Alien is the best horror movie ever made, I think that Halloween II is the best horror movie sequel ever made. And the original is in the top five anyway, probably number two. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-6452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-horror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6452"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6457,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6452\/revisions\/6457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}