Having said all that, I enjoyed the new Halloween more than I expected to.
While it clearly pays homage to the original, it’s not married to do doing things the way that movie did, which helps a great deal.
Also, I find the original Halloween to be a bit too slow in its build and most of the characters to be less than interesting, and thus their deaths less than tragic.
Jump scares will get me literally every single time and I end up spilling my popcorn and getting annoyed.