And that makes David Gordon Green’s movie a suitable bookend.
But by calling this 2018 chapter Halloween, as the director tells EW, what it essentially does is serve as the second half of a story that John Carpenter started in this original film, 40 years ago.
Truthfully, once the new movie is out on home video, you will want to pair it with Carpenter’s original, because it completes the story of Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) and the madman who arrived in her quiet suburban town on Halloween night, oh so many years ago.