Sharon's Reviews > Halloween

I'm a big fan of the John Carpenter film so I was expecting a fairly straightforward movie tie-in, given that this book was written after the film.

I was pleasantly surprised - this gives the characters so much more depth, and we find out so much more about Michael Myers and what makes him tick. We see how a curse in ancient Northern Ireland led to an evil soul doomed to walk the earth, repeating evil deeds over and over - and how it eventually ended up affecting Michael's Grandfather and then himself. We also see what happened during Michael's stay at the Sanitorium.

His psychiatrist, Sam Loomis, gets a great chunk of the story here too. As does Laurie Strode - we delve deeper into their characters and really get to know them. The plot stays faithful to the film, whole scenes are exactly the same but there's always a little extra something to ramp up the tension.

The sex and violence is pretty graphic here - there are no holds barred - but overall if you're a fan of the film, this is not just another tie-in, it's a real treat. Well worth trying to track a copy down.