Synopsis
Two decades after surviving a massacre on October 31, 1978, former baby sitter Laurie Strode finds herself hunted by persistent knife-wielder Michael Myers. Laurie now lives in Northern California under an assumed name, where she works as the headmistress of a private school. But it's not far enough to escape Myers, who soon discovers her whereabouts. As Halloween descends upon Laurie's peaceful community, a feeling of dread weighs upon her -- with good reason.
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Cast
- Jamie Lee CurtisLaurie Strode / Keri Tate
- Josh HartnettJohn Tate
- Adam ArkinWill Brennan
- Michelle WilliamsMolly Cartwell
- Adam Hann-ByrdCharles 'Charlie' Deveraux
- Jodi Lyn O'KeefeSarah Wainthrope
- LL Cool JRonald 'Ronny' Jones
- Janet LeighNorma Watson
- Joseph Gordon-LevittJimmy Howell
- Branden WilliamsTony Allegre
Recommendations
- 80
Chicago Reader
If you can accept the flouting of logic and credibility that usually goes with this kind of horror picture, this scary and suspenseful genre exercise, chock-full of false alarms and brutal shocks, really delivers. - 70
Variety
While plot mechanics aren't wildly imaginative, pic nonetheless delivers requisite jolts in an above-average package. - 60
The New York Times
For horror film devotees eager to know how this unseasonable visit from the darker spirits of autumn rates, frankly, it's more marketing trick than moviegoer treat. - 60
TV Guide Magazine
This efficient fright machine features a knowing cameo by Curtis's mom -- "Psycho's" Janet Leigh -- a couple of bloody good scares and a genuinely affecting performance from Curtis. - 50
Chicago Sun-Times
He can take a licking and keep on slicing. In the latest Halloween movie, he absorbs a blow from an ax, several knife slashes, a rock pounded on the skull, a fall down a steep hillside and being crushed against a tree by a truck. Whatever he's got, mankind needs it. - 50
Austin Chronicle
Miner strives to imbue the film with the requisite autumnal haze of the original but then gives up midway through and instead resorts to the standard stalk 'n' slash formulas. - 50
Washington Post
The movie, directed by Steve Miner, a "Friday the 13th" vet, never quite gins up the giddy, sick, politically incorrect power of the more high-powered "Screams" of late. - 40
Film Threat
BRILLIANT and WITTY. Those are two words that will not be used to described this film.
