Oct 192018
Slasher flicks have never really been my thing, never cared for the genre. Heck, I’ve never seen the original “Halloween,” so far as I know. Still, something about this writeup about the new sequel speaks to me:
…Laurie Strode, played once again by Jamie Lee Curtis. Laurie has excellent reason to suspect the presence of dark and evil in the world, and she taught her daughter from a young age about firearms, the fallen nature of man, the failures of the state, the blessings of rugged individualism, and the collected works of Russell Kirk. Okay, maybe not that last part, but still: Halloween is a gung-ho, gun-loving, liberal-trolling, capital-punishment-backing conservative manifesto in the format of a slasher flick.
Huh.