Budget: $20million
Directed By: David Gordon Greene
On the whole i generally hate it when a movie series goes back and branches off a new continuity.
Now Halloween 2018 did that with ignoring everything from part 2 onwards. Suffice it to say I did enjoy 2018. Now this was meant to be released last Halloween, but due to c19 it got delayed until now, or Oct 15th.
I have to admit the trailer didn't wow me and actually set off a few alarm bells when I heard mention of Micheal becoming stronger with each kill. I immediately dreaded they were going to use the most silliest of plots again: the cult of thorn. More on that later.
The film as of writing this has made over $50 million, amazing for an 18/R rated film. This is of course the middle offering of a trilogy so yes I will say here the previews saying it does just 'end' are right but come on theres going to be a 3rd one to finish it off.
The music score is beyond brilliant with John carpenter working on it and remixing some of his OG Halloween tunes.
The last one ended with a lot of people wounded or dead and Micheal hopefully being crisped up in Lauries basement. Well this opens with Lauries grand-daughters boyfriend finding a wounded Hawkins and basically saving his life from the neck stabbing he got in 2018.
We are then given a closer look into what happened after Loomis 'Shot him 6 times' in a flashback to the night 40 years ago.
The film goes pretty much the way any Halloween film goes but the first few kills are a bit silly especially the killing of some of the OG older cast when they are in the car, especially the their new friends of the doctor and nurse combo.
Laurie gets mended in the hospital as does Hawkins there's some more flashbacks where Hawkins explains he stopped Loomis from killing Micheal back then. Some of the other kids from back 40 years mentally scarred from that night gather a mob to kill Micheal, this backfires at one point where one of the other mental patients gets confused for Micheal and I think that's some commentary on how mob mentality can get. Once a gestalt entity forms like that it's hard to separate again. This was one of the pet peeves I had with the film though was the writing seemed a little repetitive and basic at times, with the mob chanting evil or He dies tonight all the bloody time. Again I get it, I get why but it was just to much for me.
Now there is a certain invincible quality to Micheal in this movie and he takes a beating on occasion and just takes it in his stride. I think this is what Laurie is referring to in the trailers and said in this film too, thankfully it doesn't seem at least in this movie to be anything to do with the cult of the thorn again, I a\m interested to see if that gets any kind of tying up in the next film we'll just have wait to see.
Laurie doesn't do much in this film, not for lack of trying, she gets put back to bed a few times by her daughter, but she is an old woman with a stab wounded gut, what do you expect.
The kills are often brutal and I won't spoil anymore, This is a decent midway point now, i'm interested to see where it goes, I've heard the next one is a time jump, though I thought I remembered them saying this was going to take place over 1 night originally but again maybe C-19 has changed those plans.
Halloween kills is by far not perfect, it's a great midway point with a few flaws THN awards Halloween Kills (2021) a strong 3 out of 5 stars.
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