Setting this 2018 sequel, and in some ways reboot, to the original John Carpenter horror masterpiece precisely 40 years after the original, while ignoring all other sequels, was a bold move that pays off in David Gordon Green’s Halloween.

Halloween is here. It’s chilly, it’s cozy, it’s scary — setting the perfect mood for a good horror movie, right? Well, unless you absolutely hate horror movies, like I do.