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Movie review: Jamie Lee Curtis screams new life into 'Halloween' 2018

By Brandy McDonnellA version of this review appears in Friday's Weekend Life section of The Oklahoman. 3 of 4 stars.Movie review: Jamie Lee Curtis screams new life into 'Halloween' 2018Two-time Golden Globe winner Jamie Lee Curtis returns to Haddonfield, Illinois, and screams new life into “Halloween,” a worthy successor and namesake to the seminal 1978 slasher movie that spawned a long string of lackluster sequels that unfortunately would not die.The imminently watchable Curtis (“True Lies,” “A Fish Called Wanda”) got her big break playing Laurie Strode, a teenage babysitter who manages to survive the rampage of stoic masked serial killer Michael Myers, in John Carpenter’s original “Halloween.” A direct sequel to the first film, the new “Halloween” smartly ignores the plethora of dull and convoluted entries in between and picks up 40 years later with the promise of a final showdown between Laurie and Michael.Directed by David Gordon Green (“Pineapple Express,” “Your Highness”) and co-written by Green, Danny McBride and Jeff Fradley, “Halloween” mostly makes good on that promise.

 

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