Songs to do CPR to

silent so the journalists focus on Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), the one woman to survive Myer’s bloodbath.

She has become a recluse inside a fortified cabin with a basement panic room.

Laurie is reluctant to share the gory details of her past or talk about the estrangement from her daughter Karen (Judy Greer) and granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak).

Soon after, the bus which is transferring Michael to a new facility crashes and the hulking predator is released back into the wild.

He heads to Haddonfield where an agitated Laurie tries in vain to prepare her loved ones for the coming storm.

‘Say goodbye to Michael and get over it,’ sighs Ally, dismissing her grandmother so she can party with boyfriend Cameron (Dylan Arnold) and best friend Vicky ( Virginia Gardener).

Halloween repeatedly bows its head to Carpenter’s original film, relying on solid jump scares to ensure a spiralling body count.

Curtis transforms Laurie into a gun-toting avenging angel, who has secretly prayed for Michael’s escape so she can lay him to rest forever with the pull of a shotgun trigger.

Action sequences are briskly choreographed and the script neatly aligns female characters as a unified force of strength against a male aggressor. New York Presbyterian Hospital has created a playlist called ‘Songs to do CPR to’ with the explanation: ‘People feel more confident performing Hands-Only CPR and are more likely to remember the correct rate when trained to the beat of a familiar song. When performing CPR, you should push on the chest at a rate of 100 to 120 compressions per minute, which corresponds to the beat of the song examples’. The playlist includes (appropriately) the Bee Gees’ ‘Stayin’ Alive’. Here’s their top ten:

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Lady Gaga, Colby O’Donis

The Chainsmokers, Coldplay Adele Justin Bieber Robyn Holy Ghost! POWERS Spice Girls Gloria Gaynor Justin Timberlake