Halloween Kills

Halloween Kills

The nightmare isn't over as unstoppable killer Michael Myers escapes from Laurie Strode's trap to continue his ritual bloodbath. Injured and taken to the hospital, Laurie fights through the pain as she inspires residents of Haddonfield, to rise up against Myers. Taking matters into their own hands, the Strode women and other survivors form a vigilante mob to hunt down Michael and end his reign of terror once and for all.

  • Released: 2021-10-14
  • Runtime: 105 minutes
  • Genre: Crime, Horror, Thrillers
  • Stars: Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, Will Patton, Thomas Mann, Anthony Michael Hall, Kyle Richards, Nancy Stephens, Charles Cyphers, Nick Castle, James Jude Courtney, Jibrail Nantambu, Robert Longstreet, Dylan Arnold, Omar J. Dorsey, Brian F. Durkin, Stephanie McIntyre, Carmela McNeal, J. Gaven Wilde, Chris Emrich, Matthew Warzel, Robert Fortunato, Diva Tyler, Giselle Witt, Michael Smallwood, Salem Collins, Tristian Eggerling, AJ Taylor, Sara Elizabeth Ezzell, Jim Cummings, Airon Armstrong, Scott MacArthur, Michael McDonald, Ross Bacon, Brian Mays, Lenny Clarke, Damien Lee, Salem Collins, Giselle Witt, J. Gaven Wilde, Tom Jones Jr., Colin Mahan, Brian F. Durkin, Drew Scheid, Holli Saperstein, Ryan Lewis, Jacob Keohane, Charlie Benton, Christian Michael Pates, P.J. Soles, Bob Odenkirk, Nancy Kyes, Tony Moran, Haluk Bilginer, Jacob Normyle, Stephanie McIntyre, Shayla Bagir, Nedim Jahić
  • Director: David Gordon Green
 Comments
  • ma-cortes - 31 December 2022
    This is a solid and eerie sequel with usual grisly killings and sinister happenings.
    Another ordinary sequel starred/produced by Jamie Lee Curtis with more astonishing killings and loads of blood .Once again another following to John Carpenter's classic, this creepy sequel and gore galore film has to Michael Myers again doing another criminal spree . Following up to anxious Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) who suffers serious wounds and she must battle Michael (Nick Castle and Airon Armstrong) one last time . Laurie Strode being relentessly pursued , while the life of her own daughter and granddaughter hangs in the balance, although no one seems to believe in the existence of pure evil represented by Michael Myers . Minutes after Laurie Strode (Curtis), her daughter Karen (Judy Greer) and granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak) left masked monster Michael Myers caged and burning in Laurie's basement, Laurie is rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, believing she finally killed her lifelong tormentor. But when Michael manages to free himself from Laurie's trap, his ritual bloodbath resumes. So Michael escapes and travels to Haddonfield to kill her , as he discovers Laurie's house .As Laurie fights her pain and prepares to defend herself against him, she inspires all of Haddonfield to rise up against their unstoppable monster. The Strode women join a group of other survivors of Michael's first rampage who decide to take matters into their own hands, forming a vigilante mob that sets out to hunt Michael down, once and for all. So surviving victims of Michael Myers form a vigilante mob and vow to end his reign of terror. Evil dies tonight !. The saga of Michael Myers and Laurie Strode isn't over !. "You can't kill the boogeyman". More of the night evil came home, 40 years later . Let it burn!. Three generations Strode strong. Laurie must now take on her brother with her daughter's life at stake. Again Laurie escaping and going after Michael Myers who makes a real massacre at a Halloween party .Face Your Fate. 40 Years Later, Evil Returns Home. You don't believe in the Boogeyman? You should. Trick or Treat

    The film displays thrills , chills , cardboard horror , tension and lots of blood and gore for nauseating execution . The grisly murders are extremely scary and eerie with abundant stabbing shots . As always, Michael makes an authentic slaughter with gruesome and bloody assassinations using his supernatural and immortal force and his regular butcher knife. The film is after the first Halloween (1978) , but forty years later and being originally paced by means of various flashbacks . Laurie Strode/Janet Lee Curtis is now an unsettling and deranged grandmother who attempts to protect her daughter Karen : Judy Greer and granddaughter Allyson : Andi Matichak. Since Jamie Lee Curtis had begun to wear a much shorter hairstyle in the 1980s, she had to wear a wig that matched her original hairstyle for the film . Here stands out the large number of secondary actors including the following ones : Judy Greer , Andi Matichak , Thomas Mann, Kyle Richards , Robert Longstreet , Anthony Michael Hall, Charles Cyphers, James Courtney , Nick Castle , Will Patton, among others . The film pays tribute to Dr. Loomis , Donald Pleasance, by a stand-in , Dr. Sartain played by Haluk Bilginer . The first films of the Halloween saga were released by Universal Studios ; after the massive success of the first film, Universal picked up the sequel . When Halloween III(1982) didn't fare so well, Universal gave the rights to Trancas International, an affiliate of Universal's, who produced the films until 1989. In 1996, the rights were sold to Miramax . Usual musical score by Cody Carpenter and John Carpenter (also producer and screenwriter along with Debra Hill).

    The motion picture was professionally written (David Gordon along withwith his college buddy Danny McBride with whom he frequently works ) , and directed by David Gordon Caron (Halloween kills, Halloween ends , Prince Avalanche , Joe, The sitter, Your Highness) , though without originality . David has made a recent Halloween trilogy formed by Halloween , Halloween kills and Halloween ends (2022) . It's an OK juvenile entry into horror movie genre , being specially remarkable for Michael Myers saga followers . The first was ¨Halloween¨(1978) by John Carpenter , followed by worst and never-ending sequels : Halloween III , Season of the witch (1983) by Tommy Lee Wallace with Tom Atkins ; HalloweenIV , The return of Michael Myers (1988) by Dwight H Little with Danielle Harris and Elie Cornell ; Halloween 5 (1989) by Dominique Othenin Girard with Elie Cornell ; Halloween : the curse of Michael Myers (1995) by Joe Chappelle with Paul Rudd , and Mitchell Ryan ; Halloween H20 (1998) , 20 years later by Steve Miner ; Halloween Resurrection (2002) by Rick Rosenthal with Busta Rhymes and Jamie Lee Curtis . And Michael returned back to horror with the very successful Halloween (2022) with Janet Lee Curtis ,Andi Matichak.
  • general-lee25 - 12 November 2022
    Halloween - but without the thrills
    After I'd read about Halloween Kills on IMDb I built it up in my mind as being too brutal and grim for me to watch, so I tested myself to see if I could tolerate it.

    The shame here is that the premise of Halloween Kills - mob mentality and the self-righteousness of groupthink - is really important and makes a fair statement. It would have been a great vehicle to explore such an issue.

    The problem is that, for some reason, Hollywood seems to give huge budgets to inexperienced directors who turn out below-average work. Michael Myers is menacing, but the poor dialogue, terrible acting and total absence of any kind of pacing means that Halloween Kills is devoid of any kind of real sense of threat.

    There's too much focus on brutality and the kills are often very arbitrary characters that just don't hit the mark. Characters from the 1978 film included here could have been used to create much more emotional tension. The interactions between Jamie-Lee Curtis and Will Patton are cringeworthy. Yes, he's evil. Yes, he has to die. Don't keep repeating yourself.

    This could have been a fantastic opportunity to confront some of the madness in the world at the moment, but genuine horror is eschewed in favour of pointless details and violence that is more confusing than scary. This is Halloween - but with absolutely no tension.