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Halloween review – a slasher classic you just can’t kill off
12:00am PDT - October 21st, 2018 james karen - The Guardian (AU)New hands are at the helm for a knowingly intelligent reboot of the 1978 masterpiece In his brilliant turn-of-the-century documentary The American Nightmare, Adam Simon located John Carpenter’s 1978 Halloween as the end point of a decade of countercultural ho…