![]() Halloween Kills is a movie much less about our primary characters and becomes more about how the town of Haddonfield reacts to the appearance of the famed boogeyman back in their community after forty years. Even goddamn Laurie Strode is incidental in this movie. Anything else in the plot is really incidental. So… what you get is… again… villain emerges from the fire, heads home, and kills people. (It has already earned a respectable $50 million domestically at the box office.) As such, I think it would have been wiser to make this a TWO movie enterprise, rather than a three-movie trilogy, but Universal is going to laugh its way to the bank, having released a profitable empty vessel in its second act. That much really doesn’t constitute a spoiler. You also know that Laurie Strode is going to make it. You know that Michael Myers is going to make it. Therefore, some things are a given going into this movie, which robs it of any climactic suspense. Moreover, it’s the MIDDLE bridge episode of an expected trilogy. Halloween Kills suffers badly for being a horror sequel. Good on ya, Mike! Celebrate what you love! (Even if it’s a celebration of an empty-calorie sequel.) Note: This review is a bit of an interesting counter to my colleague and co-host Mike Campbell, who really enjoyed this movie. Sorry for the spoiler alert, but that’s pretty much what the movie is. Just Michael going home and slaughtering everyone between where he is… and home. ![]() Michael moves from point A to Point B and anybody in between gets a knife to the neck. The entire plot is summarized in one simple sentence. “If you track Michael’s victims, it’s a straight line to Michael’s childhood home.” Lonnie (Robert Longstreet) in Halloween KillsĪnd there you have it, folks. Jamie Lee Curtis in one of her few scenes in Halloween Kills (2021)
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