And lo, the planets did align and beckon for fate to be met. The time of watching and writing this is October 31st, the night of Halloween. The luck of the delivery shuffle held true, and on this day but one movie has the most logical bearing to be watched - Halloween. We’ve already visited in the past, but it’s time to visit the new - and in all honesty, although a review doesn’t exist for each and every one, at this point I have seen mostly all of them (I’m missing Number 3 and the second Rob Zombie movie) so it’s almost a return to form. Heck, you’d probably be surprised to know but I am moderately sure that I in fact started way late into this series - back with H20 - before I got into horror movies in the first place. Still, even as we drive past the perfect alignment of day and night, it also services another factor - that of tying into an idea of a sort of mid-run reboot, much like it seems as though the newer Terminator movie is doing. That’s right, it’s not a new thing at all, this franchise has been playing it fast and loose during it’s existence as well. Find your Shatner mask and hide the big cutters, tonight we watch (the 2018) Halloween.
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