Allyson's boyfriend being a dick for no reason

Every character was beyond dumb, except that kid Julian and somewhat Vicky.

Yep, my thoughts exactly. The father character is the absolute worst. A total incompetent man-child. They do the exact same thing in the Disney Star Wars movies. Not until the last couple of years has it been deemed necessary in cinema to tear down male characters in order to prop up female ones. It's lazy and absolutely patronising to women. Do they think we are stupid? That women have no innate strong characteristics so men need to be taken down to even out the sexes? Modern Hollywood is pathetic.

That's feminism for you.

I think they had enough strong male characters to avoid being completely woke and anti-male.

For example, Officer Hawkins was a badass sheriff and he actually learned his lesson and APPLIED it this time. In the movie it said he was there and stopped Dr. Loomis from completely finishing off Michael in the first Halloween killing spree. This time around he's the only cop who took all this seriously and when he hunted Micheal his intention was to kill him upon sight. When he first see's Micheal in the house where the babysitter Vicky was just murdered he yells "Micheal"! and immediately opens fire on him as Micheal ran down the stairs! Doesnt bother saying "freeze" or anything like that xD
Then when the detective in the cowboy hat tells Hawkins to take Doctor Sartain, He responds "heck no, he's a civilian and a liability"! But the detective insists because the doctor studied Michaels psychology for decades.
Hawkins has Allyson in the backseat, Doctor Sartain in the passenger and is driving around, as soon as Allyson and the Doctor points out Micheal he RUNS HIM OVER without hesitation! The cop was truly a badass!

It saddened me to see Hawkins get killed by Sartain stabbing him in the neck. Hawkins saw the doctor as a liability but not an enemy so he got caught off guard.

Another decent male was the kid being babysat, Julian. He was smart enough to alert Vicky, tried to convince Vicky to send Dave (a man) to check out his room. Then when Vicky couldnt be helped she told Julian to run and as he ran by Dave he gave real warning with "Dave dont go up there you'll die too"! Kid was pretty awesome!

The Hunting Dad and his Son where decent. It may not have been smart to hop out of the truck, but the Dad was brave enough to realize he may need to help someone and risked it. Then the Son was brave enough to check on his Dad. It didnt end well for either of them, but they had courage to attempt to help and it shouldnt be ignored.

Another Male who showed courage, was the Journalist Aaron Korey who ran into the bathroom to help his female coworker Dana Haines. He saw Michael, tall imposing psycho killer, yet still had the sand to fight the guy!!! That takes bravery! And it even showed Dana freezing up and not taking the opportunity to either run away or help Aaron. So it didnt show Dana as a "empowered wahman" like hollywood likes to show these days.

It was sad when they died as well. I wish Dana wouldve attempted to help Aaron seeing as he tried in earnest to save her...but she froze.

I agree that the males were generally written to be man-children, but I assume that was McBride adding his schtick into the story. Just look at his usual cabal of friends. Hawkins wasn't a boob on screen

It couldve worked better if the friendzoned dude hit on her and then grew angry when she denies his advances and he throws her phone. Just an idea that wouldve made more sense than whole "proof is in the pudding" scene.

It’s almost like the boyfriend was like ‘fuck this woke shit’ and suddenly left the film.

Unfortunately he was an annoying douche and dressed as a woman for half the film so I struggled to like him.