Why Halloween (2018) Worked as Both a Legacy Sequel and a Franchise Revival (sponsored)
By 2018, Michael Myers had survived almost every indignity a horror franchise could inflict on its central villain. He had been killed, resurrected, retconned, recast, placed inside a reality television experiment, and pulled through multiple timelines that contradicted one another. The white mask remained instantly recognizable, but the mythology surrounding it had become cluttered. David …
