Halloween (2018 David Gordon Green & co-scr)

Well, we thoroughly enjoyed this sequel / remake / funny parody, the latter evident in the scene where doctor Haluk Bilginer relates the same sort of psycho-babble as his mentor Loomis would have done (he even sounds quite like Donald Pleasance). With tons of references to the original to please fans like us, and a winning disregard for logic and even the source story (he only killed five people? we last saw him burned to death at the end of II? He can't be killed!! - the more I think about it, the Brexit reference works - whatever you do, it / he still comes back to haunt you.)

Did they ask Dean Cundey to shoot it? Michael Simmonds was DoP. The music's a nice reimagining by Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies, Timothy Alverson edited.

Written by Green, Jeff Fradley and Danny McBride. Carpenter (70) was an exec producer.

In the washroom scene I'd rather be stabbed than crawl around on that floor.

With Jaime Lee are daughter Judy Greer and her daughter Andi Matichak, with Will Paton, Rhian Rees, Jefferson Hall, Toby Huss (good as Greer's husband).

Rather pleased with myself for identifying the snatch of Repo Man after Wilder knows how many years.

Green made Pineapple Express with Seth Rogan and Danny McBride, and also wrote a Suspiria draft which Luca Guadagnino then ignored (probably to that film's loss).

Didn't have much in the way of suspense, and not nearly as stylish as the original, but great fun.