Author: Jeannette Catsoulis / Source: New York Times
It’s been four decades since Michael Myers and his fright mask first gave us the willies in John Carpenter’s “Halloween,” which makes him 61 — and, if David Gordon Green’s same-name sequel is to be believed, still in possession of a ramrod spine, pile-driver fists and non-arthritic knees.
The meals at Smith’s Grove Sanitarium, where he’s been cooling his heels all these years, must be unusually nutritious.On the other hand, Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), the feisty Illinois babysitter who once eluded Michael’s stalk-and-slash spree, has aged more credibly than her nutjob nemesis. Now a grandmother and self-described basket case, Laurie has weathered two failed marriages and estrangement from her daughter, Karen (Judy Greer), who’s scarred by a childhood steeped in doomsday preparation. Eyes burning beneath a fluff of gray hair, Laurie lives in a fortresslike home with a hidey hole in the kitchen and gun cases in place of art, convinced that Michael will one day return for her. (She may be paranoid, but she’s no fool: When two true-crime-seeking English podcasters show up at her steel gates, she says little to help them and sends them packing.)
[Read The New York Times review of the original movie]
And return Michael does (played by James Jude Courtney, with a cameo by the originating…
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