As far as the book, it does a good job of telling the story again, with a few more flourishes, but nothing that really cements it as a unique or warranted experience. If that wasn’t enough to give Rachel a good dose of panicinduced anxiety, she was then told that Dr. People in strange costumes, animal skins, armor, leather, drinking and dancing wildly around a fire. Once you got the gig did you revisit John Pasarrella’s novelisation of the 2018 movie or any other Halloween source material?

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That's probably more so to the limit of what the studio expects of the IP, the white mask, the Shape, but the next bit I'm gonna say is so trivial I may as well not even say it. The grandmother is concerned as Michael has been admitting to hearing voices and having visions and nightmares (which are about the events that happened in the prologue with Enda and Deirdre). That being said, I will also note that this was not my favorite Halloween movie in the franchise, BUT, I still love them all! If you didn't like it in a theater, but felt like there were missing pieces that would've made it better, give this a shot. So many questions I had about the movie were answered by the book, and I think the book does some lovely character work especially in regards to Allyson and Laurie's relationship (up until the ending, which felt very rushed).

Instead, Frank believes that after Michael escapes, his only obsession is to head back to his childhood home, murdering anybody who gets in his way. My only complaints were that the end really just doesn't feel right, even in the theatre- I couldn't shake the feeling that some element is missing. I love how he inhabits a liminal space between the real and the supernatural, making him a truly nightmarish figure who ultimately is unknowable. There's also a really interesting idea of Michael transferring evil to other people that either they abandoned in the move or just didn't translate well to the screen (I found the relationship between Michael and Corey super confusing, but it makes more sense in the novelization). Then, confined within the walls of that wretched sanatorium, he bided his time with unyielding patience, fifteen long years slipping by like phantoms.

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The early novelizations, penned by Curtis Richards (H1), Dennis Etchison (H2, H3), and Nicholas Grabowsky (H4) are some of the best novelizations you'll ever read, period. I thought I was going to be bored cause I’ve seen the movie but being that it’s my favorite movie franchise I thought eh why not! I won't waste time with plot details but I will highlight the wonderfully expansive and extra material this book offers to the mythology of the film and the series as a whole. Still, the shit pay derived from such endeavors was swallowed by his nightly ritual—drowning his sorrows in an alcohol-induced slumber, his drunken mind clinging to the faint hope of a miraculous reunion with his lost family, praying that this existence (because that was all this was.This novelisation gives much more credit to the story being told though and doesn’t leave Michael Myers in the background. We spoke to the author all about the project and re-creating Michael Myers rampage through Haddonfield on the page. I loved how everything played out in this and the point of view scenes from Michael were eerie and so well done. Grabowsky's writing is at times touching and emotional, however, his real talent is his ability to infuse his writing with a sense of dread and loathing that I have not experienced since H.

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There are definite story issues, and the whole psychiatrist character could have been left on the cutting room floor, and the movie would have been better for it.Enda is immediately killed by the other members of the village and his soul cursed to wander the Earth forever, re-creating the events of that night. The Shape, relentless and unforgiving, had been thwarted this night while she slipped away, evading his grasp. The author does a wonderful presenting a remorseless and relentless Michael Myers obsessed with an evil spirit. Allyson's sections especially had some really good stuff about depression, grief, and abusive relationships (fuck you Doug and honestly fuck you Laurie for encouraging that) that I wish paid off better in both the book and the movie.