Remember in the original when Laurie fends off Michael from the bottom of a closet with nothing more than a wire hanger? Obviously David Gordon Green and Danny McBride couldn't resist giving a subtle shout-out to such an iconic horror movie moment.
The climax of the film happens when Michael finally reaches, and is able to penetrate, Laurie's booby-trapped compound. In one of the tensest horror sequences in recent memory, Laurie hunts through her home in the dark, room by room, in search of Michael, who is hiding somewhere. Finally she reaches a room full of old target practice mannequins and spots blood all over the closet door, seemingly giving the killer's location away. When she opens it, however, her son-in-law's dead body falls out instead, and Michael leaps from behind the curtain on the other side of the room.
Although she doesn't get to poke his eyes out with a hanger like she did decades earlier, the prolonged focus on the closet is unquestionably a reminder of what she endured the first go around. Also, the way her son-in-law's body flops out of the closet is reminiscent of the way Michael shoves Bob's corpse into a cabinet in the original.