Two decades after living a massacre on October 3 1, 1978 baby sitter Laurie Strode finds herself searched by knife-wielder Michael Myers that is persistent. Laurie now lives in Northern California under an assumed name, where she works since an exclusive school's headmistress. Nonetheless, it is not much enough to escape Myers, that finds her where abouts. As Laurie's calm community is descended up on by Halloween, a sense of dread weighs up on her -- with valid reason.