8 Reasons Why Halloween Just Blew Up At The Box Office

Undeniably, a huge driving factor of the film's success is the nostalgia.

Nostalgia for this type of genre film of the seventies and eighties is off the charts right now. One need look no further than something like Stranger Things, a show that has garnered immense success and acclaim by cashing in on the aesthetic, music, and tone of films like Carpenter's own from the seventies and eighties.

Halloween is not only an actual property from that era, but the film itself is also a direct throwback to that era. David Gordon Green's direction is purposefully calling back to Carpenter and Dean Cundey's Panaglide-powered camera work on the original. Carpenter himself is back to score the film, alongside Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies, and brings with him that vintage synth sound that has become so iconic and popular in today's media.

This is all so notable because it is the first time a Halloween film has deliberately done this since it was actually the eighties. Other installments like H20, Halloween: Resurrection, or Rob Zombie's Halloween have been firmly rooted in their own era. While Halloween 2018 does feature earmarks of its time (hello, podcasting journalism duo) it is able to capitalize on this hunger for this particular brand of nostalgia by just being true to itself and the original.