Halloween: reviews

What the critics say average 6.8 from 5

• 8.3 Entertainment WeeklyLeah Greenblatt Long live Michael Myers, so maybe someone can finally kill him. A big, funny, scary, squishy, super-meta sequel that brings it all back to the iconic 1978 original. Read
• 8.0 The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeFore The picture has a good shock or two up its sleeve before getting to Laurie's armored, booby-trapped home, and once it's there, it surprises us again. Read
• 7.0 VarietyPeter Debruge By contemporary horror standards, the original ?Halloween? was actually quite tame, featuring just five (human) deaths, whereas this one more than triples the body count ? and it does so with style, borrowing several of Carpenter?s classic devices. Read
• 6.7 IndiewireEric Kohn Green has made a slavish, sharply executed bit of fan service elevated by Jamie Lee Curtis? transformation into a badass grandmother back to finish the job. Read
• 4.0 The GuardianBenjamin Lee There are some effectively nasty kills and Green?s visual eye often results in some impressive imagery but both the look of the film and the script feel confused.