Still, the film was a critical and commercial success that demanded a follow-up.
This Shape was angrier, set to kill anyone in his path. And there wasn’t as much of Michael hiding in the shadows. The gore was overdone in spots (one victim’s head is stomped like a pumpkin). Jamie Lee Curtis nailed her Sarah Connor like performance as the victim who becomes the pursuer, and Judy Greer and Andi Matichak easily held their own with the horror legend. John Carpenter’s score was haunting, the music in the film the best since the original. While Nick Castle’s presence is limited to a five-second scene, his replacement, James Jude Courtney, was intimidating in his portrayal of Myers. Part of this came just from getting the look of the mask right, an assumably easy process that many of the sequels failed badly at. Michael Myers was back to being the boogeyman, a simple, unknowable force. The finished product of Halloween (2018) mostly delivered on what fans were promised. The ingredients were there to make something spectacular. Even Nick Castle, who portrayed Michael in the first film, was coming back to co-play the Shape again in a limited role. Most importantly, Jamie Lee Curtis, the Scream Queen herself, had been coaxed into returning one more time. With their pitch having received the blessing of original Halloween director John Carpenter, who was so won over that he even agreed to provide the score for the new outing, it seemed something great was forming.
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