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Plot summary
Forty years after Michael Myers terrorized Haddonfield, Laurie Strode lives with post-traumatic stress, her house fortified against his return. She has two failed marriages and lost custody of her daughter Karen, who was taken from her at twelve. Karen's daughter Allyson tries to stay close to her grandmother. True crime journalists Aaron Korey and Dana Haines interview Michael at Smith's Grove Sanitarium, where Dr. Ranbir Sartain tells them Michael is capable of speech but refuses to talk. They later visit Laurie, offering money for an interview. Michael is being moved to a maximum security facility. During the transfer, the bus crashes and Michael escapes. Laurie learns of the escape and tries to warn Karen, but Karen waves off her warnings. On Halloween night, Allyson attends a party while Laurie patrols the streets, waiting for Michael to return.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Halloween (2018)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- David Gordon Green and Danny McBride wrote eighty drafts of the Halloween script over eight months, rewriting up until the last week of filming.
- James Jude Courtney, who played Michael Myers, based his cat-like movement on his own cat Parcival, saying cats are the most perfect hunting machines on the planet.
- Make-up effects artist Christopher Nelson studied the decomposition and wrinkling of forty-year-old masks to design the aged Michael Myers mask, aiming to recapture the original's visual feeling rather than copy it.
- Danielle Harris, who played Jamie Lloyd in Halloween 4 and Halloween 5, asked Blumhouse to reprise her role but the studio chose a different daughter character, and she said it was kind of a bummer.
- The film's opening performance was the best ever for a movie with a lead actress over 55 years old.
