There's more than enough emotional bonding, sci-fi action, romance, bromance, and insane action sequences in this film to satisfy anyone looking for a good time.
And I didn't even mention the symbolism of Carol giving Rick her old watch; a woman's watch that was a gift she could never give up despite being from her abusive husband.
Dr. Samuel Loomis has no real rival in horror film history and the performances by Donald Pleasence were always nuanced, playful, tragic, and real, elevating whatever miserable excuse for a script he was handed into something magical.
The use of the constant rain and the flooding of the area as thematic elements never gets heavy-handed and enhances the beauty of the landscape rising up around these characters.
This time around, most of the creative teams just focused on figuring out how to get a first person perspective and then forgot to give us an interesting story.
The film's narrative itself slowly adopts a hallucinogenic style, with long silences, slow-motion sequences, mind-bending fast-cut psychedelic imagery and then suddenly the medium becomes the message.
If you were on the fence about sticking with this show because you thought it was poorly written and you didn't care about any of the characters, this isn't going to be the episode to win you over.
Peter Strickland has crafted a love letter to cinema itself, specifically to the Italian giallo cinema of the 70s -- the world of Argento, Bava, Fulci, and more.
