15 Upcoming Movies That Might Be Surprisingly Awesome
5. Halloween
Release Date: October 19
Why It Should Suck: The new Halloween is a second attempt to resurrect the flailing horror franchise, this time with the incredibly inconsistent David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express, Your Highness) at the helm.
The fact that the new Halloween is a direct sequel to the 1978 original has a certain sense of desperation to it, throwing out all the subsequent movies - including Halloween II's revelation that Michael Myers and Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) are siblings - in the hope of course-correcting the series with a thinly-veiled "soft reboot."
Why It Might Be Awesome: The main encouraging sign here is the active involvement of original director John Carpenter, to the extent that he'll even be providing the movie's score.
Green and co-writer Danny McBride have meanwhile made it abundantly clear that they're huge fans of the original Halloween and are deeply invested in delivering a worthy sequel, which at least suggests it won't just be a cynical attempt to jolt Myers' corpse back to life.
Also, it'll be undeniably fun seeing Curtis back in the Laurie role, especially after the character's death in 2002's Halloween: Resurrection was so incredibly unsatisfying.
If Green can tap into the quasi-supernatural eeriness of the original slasher classic, this could be a potent reinvention of a screen icon that satisfies fans both new and old.