Part of the reason David Gordon Green’s Halloween works as well as it does is because its focuses on Laurie Strode, her family, and how they all navigated the PTSD she'd experienced since the events of the original 1978 film. Laurie, her estranged daughter and concerned granddaughter helped bring an especially humanizing element to the franchise, and seeing them emerge alive before the credits rolled was both exhilarating and empowering.
