«Halloween» .. The face of routine wandering in the crisis of nostalgia

One of the most dangerous decisions in the film industry is writing a second part of a big, well-known film that has achieved global success and created a state of mania with its fans. Occurred a few years ago when Ryan Kugler came to Creed with a new vision of Rocky films and gave Sylvester Stallone a new entry into a series whose parts suffered failures in the 1980s.

Today we have the new Halloween, the number 11 in the series, which comes 40 years after the original part in bold decision, especially when the new part ignores all the previous parts and even corrects what he considers are mistakes in the past films.

The decision was made by David Gordon Green, director of The Pineapple Express and Our Brand is Crisis, and Jesse Belm is a famous low-budget horror filmmaker who has made a name for himself in the renaissance of modern horror cinema.

Of course, the original filmmaker John Carpenter returned to the film with his son Cody, and it is known that Carpenter writes the texts and music of his films and releases them. Malik al-Akkad also returned as a producer, the son of Mustafa al-Akkad, who died in the terrorist bombings in Jordan in 2005, and this film is dedicated to his soul.

The film begins with two young British journalists who want to record a podcast about the story of the famous killer Michael Myers (Nick Kassell of the first film and James Judney Courtney) who slaughtered five people in the fictional city of Haddonfield 40 years ago. the first.

When they meet him in a high-security prison, we see him without his famous mask but the shot from behind. After a series of unconvincing events, Myers flees from a bus during his transfer, and goes to kill those who failed to kill her 40 years ago.

Targeted Laurie Stroud (Jimmy Lee Curtis) - returns to the role that was launched by Jomtien after 40 years. Laurie has become obsessed with the face of her arch-enemy Myers and thirsts to kill him personally and we see her prepare for the day of confrontation. Laurie armed with guns and trained and her home equipped with all kinds of traps, like the home of assassin Jijsu of the famous Saw films.

We know that the last 40 years have not been easy for Laurie. She has suffered a failed marriage and has been very strained in her relationship with her daughter, Kerin (Judy Greer). Her granddaughter Allison (Andy Matishak) is sympathetic to her grandmother. "Halloween" was one of the most misguided cinematic series. There were attempts to re-launch, first in 1998, following the great success of the famous Scream or "I Know What I Did Last Summer" series.

Today we are witnessing the second attempt to re-launch. It is true that "Halloween" was the one that launched the wave of Slasher or the Slave, which dominated the horror cinema from the late 1970s to the beginning of the millennium, and Scream films were affected. If we follow the history of the films of the films, «Seiko» legend Alfred Hitchcock in 1960.

"Halloween" may bring back the soul-to-face movies, which will determine its revenue at the box office and the numbers until now seem very promising, exceeding $ 100 million against a budget of only $ 20 million.

Technically, the film suffers! Despite his approaching two hours, he does not explore the psychological state of Laurie and remains on the surface, even though she is the most intriguing personality, it is true that her character was not so deep as the original Carpenter 1978, but the character here deserves more attention than any previous film of the series, But it does not happen because Green warned and preferred a fighter character like Elaine Ripley of Alien films.

The idea of ​​the film is a coup against the original film, that is, if you see the original upside down, it is about a criminal escaping from a bus and a victim thirsting for confrontation, that is, the victim has become the hunter. Green is not experienced in horror and his experience in comedy, as well as writer Daniel McBride, as evidenced by the large number of dialogues and lack of suspense fully.

The first 45 minutes of the film is filled with dialogues that mean nothing but correcting the concepts that appeared in the previous parts and this film wanted to deny them. The next hour her dialogues offer nothing useful because Myers is relieved and delighted to kill his victims who have nothing to do but attempts to escape and jerk. In other words, if you see this movie without a voice you will understand it completely!

As far as Green fills the film from interviews, he is not full of suspense, often because of his lack of experience in horror and his full dependence on turning Myers into a popular myth. The characters speak of him as though he were from another world. Greene deliberately magnifies the camera and shoots either From the bottom to the top, a reference to the grandeur of personality, or makes him walk like a robot to strip him of human qualities or focus his face from the bottom.

Greene also relies on shots from the first film, such as Allison looking from the window of the row to the outside street, and her grandmother stands up to look at her (in the original film Laurie was looking out the window to find Myers seen), a dead body, On a wall. This puts him in a Nostalgia crisis that restricts him from introducing new ideas or developing the idea of ​​film and building on it.

Of the aspects that have not been explored by Greene personal psychologist d. Sartin (Turkish Halok Belginer) is obsessed with studying the killer who reveals a surprise before the last scene. If you were a newcomer you would be surprised, and if you were a professional you would wish it had not happened.

The film focuses on the three-way relationship between Lori, her daughter Karen and her granddaughter Allison in the face of Myers. The tripartite relationship clearly points to the film's support of feminist ideology by portraying the bastard in conflict with one family of three women of different generations.

Greene relies on violence more than making an atmosphere of suspense. This is unlike the original film based on the psychological intimidation of the viewer, but as we mentioned earlier, Green warned and played on what he thought was more guaranteed for his lack of experience. , In a long boring shot free of any suspense and not even fitting as the «Halloween» synonym for horror.