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Halloween (2018)

★ 6.6 · 5,036 ratings on TMDB

You don't believe in the Boogeyman? You should.

Halloween poster★ 6.6

Laurie Strode comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.

DirectorDavid Gordon Green
CastAndi Matichak, Haluk Bilginer, James Jude Courtney, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jefferson Hall, Judy Greer
GenresHorror, Thriller
The emergence reading

Halloween keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

World War Z (2013)E4/E14 · Horror, ThrillerThe First Purge (2018)E10/E11 · Horror, ThrillerBlade II (2002)E4/E10 · Horror, Thriller28 Weeks Later (2007)E4/E12/E14 · Horror, ThrillerThe Purge: Election Year (2016)E12 · Horror, ThrillerInvasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)E13/E14 · Horror, Thriller

Same people

Shared director or cast.

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