John Passarella

The official novelization of the highly anticipated revamp of the classic horror film Halloween. In 1978, Laurie Strode survived an encounter with Michael Myers, a masked figure who killed her friends and terrorized the town of Haddonfield, Illinois on Halloween night. Myers was later gunned down, apprehended and committed to Smith's Grove State Hospital. For forty years, memories of that nightmarish ordeal have haunted Laurie and now Myers is back once again on Halloween, having escaped a routine transfer, leaving a trail of bodies in his wake. This time, Laurie is prepared with years of survival training to protect herself, her daughter Karen and her granddaughter Allyson, a teenager separated from her family and enjoying Halloween festivities. Cover Image © 2018 Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved.

Halloween: the Official Movie Novelization

Geoffrey Froggatt

This movie novelization did what most movie novelizations do and told the exact same story as the movie while providing insights and extra context for the characters and situations from the movie. While this novelization did a great job adapting the script to book form, I wish there were more additional content that wasn’t in the movie. There were actually a few moments that weren’t in the novel, including one of my favorite moments with Karen in the basement. While I loved the movie that this novelization is based off of, I found Michael Myers to be less interesting in book format.

Becca Futrell

Wild, it’s exactly like the movie & yet I had a way better time reading it than watching it.

Halloween: the Official Movie Novelization

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