It’s been about 11 days since the new “Halloween” movie was released and the movie has racked up over $76 million in just the first weekend.

The original “Halloween” was released October, 1972. It was directed by John Carpenter, who actually lived in Bowling Green for sometime. In the original movie Michael Myers a 6 year old boy, kills his older sister, Judith, with a knife.

In the movie you can see Michael killing his older sister through a mask and it is soon revealed after he walks out with the bloody knife that he is also wearing a childrens clown costume.

Michael is sent to Smith’s Grove Sanitarium, which is a reference to Smith’s Grove in Bowling Green. After 15 years Michael escapes Smith’s Grove and he returns back to Haddonfield, Illinois, in a car that he stole from a nurse and his old doctor Samuel Loomis (Donald Pleasence).

Michael returns to Haddonfield and kills several teens to try and get to Laurie Strode. In the second film we find out that Michael is related to Laurie somehow but this isn’t very relevant in the newest “Halloween”.

After killing all of Laurie’s friends, Michael comes after Laurie while she is babysitting two kids. Michael is unable to get a hold of Laurie and eventually Samuel Loomis, shoots Michael several times in the chest knocking him out of a window.

In the second film Laurie is sent to a hospital. Where Michael tries again to kill her, after killing many patients and nurses for unknown reasons Michael finally finds Laurie and tries to kill her but is unsuccessful. He once again fights Dr. Loomis and finally gets arrested.

In this most recent film. The 11th one in the series it goes back to the plot of the first and second film and continues off of Michael being arrested and sent to Smith’s Grove Sanitarium again.

In this movie we can see that Michael is much older. In a scene where two journalist try provoking him with his mask but he doesn’t budge. We can see though that Michael’s skin is a lot more wrinkly and that his facial hair and hair is turning white and grey.

After the journalist try provoking Michael. He gets transferred to another prison through a prison bus but the bus crashes and everyone escapes. Police catch all of the patients except for Michael. He steals a truck and shows up to a gas station where the two journalist are. He struggles killing the male journalist but eventually kills him and the other female journalist.

Michael goes on a rampage killing everyone he sees trying to get to Laurie just like in the first film. He kills a total of 17 people in two days, his last kill is the husband of Laurie’s daughter.

Laurie, Karen (Laurie’s daughter), and Allyson (Karen’s daughter, Laurie’s granddaughter), eventually end up trapping Michael in the basement of their old home. They set up a trap where whenever Michael goes down there they pull a lever and spikes trap him down there. They light the basement on fire and escape through a mans truck.

The new Halloween movie was one of the best Halloween movies in the series but it still has some cons to it.

One of the main cons in the movie is that it’s kind of repetitive. There are many scenes in the new movie that are very identical to scenes in the original “Halloween”.

One scene for example is Michael Myers walking in someone’s yard heading towards a shed to grab a hammer. In the original Halloween there is a scene almost identical to him grabbing a hammer from a shed.

Another scene that is identical is a scene where Laurie falls out of a window. In the new film instead of Michael falling out of the window like in the original “Halloween”, Laurie falls out instead and then goes back in the house to hide.

These repetitive scenes kind of take out the juice of the movie in my opinion. It gives a flashback to the original movies and that’s good for one scene but after two it feels like the director couldn’t come up with any original ideas so he decided to steal from the original movie.

Another con that I found in the movie was the amount of people Michael killed. In the first 30 minutes of the movie it feels like we’re watching a bad netflix movie that uses gore to try and attract people to watch it. This feeling never really stops throughout the movie. The only part where people weren’t dying left and right was the last 30 minutes of the movie when the three generations of girls are fighting Michael.

The last con in my opinion is the teenagers in the movie. We get introduced to Cameron (Dylan Arnold), Allyson (Andi Matichak), Dave (Miles Robbins), Vicky (Virginia Gardner), and Oscar (Drew Scheid). Each one of these teens get killed off just like in the first film except for Allyson who is Laurie’s granddaughter. We don’t really get a connection or make any bonds with these teens so when they die we don’t really care. It feels like they just added these people so that they could get killed off.