as far away as possible from
Haddonfield, Illinois, the scene
of Michael’s rampage. It’s not
so easy to swallow the version
of Laurie Strode presented in
director David Gordon Green’s
new sequel, rather annoyingly
titled Halloween. Not only has
Laurie remained in Haddonfield,
which is just down the road from
Smith’s Grove, the psychiatric
institute that continues to house
Michael Myers, but she’s also
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become a gun nut. Doesn’t she
remember how Michael survived
those six bullets, fired at point
blank from Loomis’s pistol?
Green and his co-screenwrit-
ers Danny McBride and Jeff
Fradley have taken the choice to
wipe the franchise slate clean,
ignoring all previous sequels to
the 1978 film. The main impact
of this decision is that Laurie and
Michael are no longer siblings,
a revelation made in the film’s
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