The opening credits of the new “Halloween” features a rotten jack-o-lantern as it is slowly brought back to life. It is an apt metaphor for a film that is attempting to resurrect the rotted corpse of the “Halloween” franchise.
In a classroom scene from the original “Halloween,” a teacher discusses a fictional author’s belief that fate is “immovable like a mountain. It stands where man passes away. Fate never changes.” That description can also be used to describe Michael Myers, the masked killer at the center of “Halloween.”
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