The new Halloween movie…
Firstly if you haven’t seen any of the other movies, it doesn’t matter. The beginnings of Michael Myers are understandable and easy to follow.
It begins with the 10-year-old Myers living with his mother, baby sister, older sister and step-father. The step-father is abusive and aggressive, the mother is a stripper, the older sister is a bit of an easy-lay and the baby is obviously, innocent.
Myers initially begins to torture and kill animals, disturbing to say the least when you see this young child doing it from behind a clown mask… Once discovered to be mentally unbalanced with the early warning sign of attacking vulnerable things like animals, he runs away to take care of a bully larger than he is, beating him to death with a shovel.
Returning home his mother doesn’t recognize how damaged her son is and only knows about the animals, she goes to work and while she is away Myers proceeds to wipe out the whole family with the exception of his baby sister. Committed to a detention center, Myers becomes the study piece for a Doctor who does seem to want to help him but when he is left alone with a photo of him and his sister, Myers strikes, attacking a nurse with a fork.
After the attack on the nurse, Myers’ mother returns home and kills herself…
15 years later Myers escapes from the detention unit in a massacre, finding his way to the small town in Illinois where he grew up looking for his baby sister, now a teenager, with friends similar to Myers’ older sister. He goes on a rampage, killing everyone on his path to his sister while sitting in the house he grew up in…
Myers seems to be trying to reform his family as he collects his mother’s tombstone, one of his sister’s friends (to take the place of his easy-lay older sister), so when he eventually captures his younger sister, he seems satisfied. He kneels there with the picture of him and his baby sister and hands it to her, but she doesn’t understand… She was never told who she is.
She decides to try to get Myers’ knife, stabbing him in his shoulder then attempting to escape, as things wind down you find yourself wondering how much longer it’s going to take before Myers (who has now become angry and wants to kill his sister rather than just “collect” her) finds her…
She eventually escapes but as you’ll know if you’ve seen the rest of the movies… He isn’t dead.
So I was left with a few thoughts and questions about the movie…
It is a great movie, well-worth seeing if you like horror. There’s a lot of young breasts on display, so however you feel about that is up to you… We had a laugh in the movie theatre when one of the slutty girls says: “See anything you like?” and a guy behind us shouted “Boobies!” You also find yourself kind of understanding Myers mind, you understand the bullying he got from his step-father, sister and external influences and you really begin to think… But it doesn’t stop you being horrified by what he does during the movie.
Two questions:
1. How did the police know to go to the house his sister was babysitting at down the street, rather than the house the Police were called to (and the call to 911 was made from)? Who wrote this script!? 
Actually this is the only error I can spot in the movie and it’s minor, I normally spot more errors than one the first time I watch a movie!
2. Would Myers have killed her, if she hadn’t snatched his knife and drilled it into his shoulder?