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I felt I should have rewatched the aforementioned reboot, as it picks up IMMEDIATELY after it. I pretty much forgot everything with the kids of that movie, and only recall that Laurie Strode had gone all prepper, building her entire house into a trap, for Michael's inevitable return. And she succeeded. She trapped him. He was burning up inside the ruins of the house. That is, until the fire department shows up. Why did she think Michael was that easy to kill, if she had waited 40 years for him to return to kill her?
So, yeah Michael breaks out of the burning house and goes all Rambo on the fire fighters. It is utterly gruesome and ultra-violent. Laurie is taken the hospital not knowing what just happened behind her, but soon the entire town knows, including a number of survivors of Michael's original killing spree in the 70s, who are all grown up. This is where the plot goes kind of wackadoodle.
Sure, the flick really still does a great job of retaining the mood and fear inherent to this franchise. Michael is a fucking scary killing machine. He is the epitome of the unstoppable unkillable killing machines of all other movies. Its not overtly supernatural, but it has to be ... something. Nobody just goes through what he does and walks away. And yet he does.
Alas the fear is not the prevalent element of this sequel, but more the mob mentality of reacting to him. The townsfolk are only lacking pitchforks and torches, and while I commend the side reference to Frankenstein, it really didn't work here, especially when they start using a catch phrase.
There are some fun references to the previous version of the sequel, where they focus on things that Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasance via deep faking) tried to do -- he knew that Michael was Evil Incarnate, and should be destroyed. But those are not enough to draw this movie out of the lunacy that are inherent in everything that came after John Carpenter's original classic.
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