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Sofia Coppola creates dense worlds in her films.

Perhaps the most glaring of these is the fact that the 1984 version shamelessly recycles footage from the first film.

The most important thing however, is to keep the elements that made the original film work in the first place, which Aja has done while infusing it with his own style of gorgeous brutality.

This time he doubles down and tries his hand at reinterpreting Halloween II because, apparently, he just wasn’t ready to leave Haddonfield yet.

Aside from some scenes in the remake that pay homage to the original, that’s pretty much where the similarities end.