Halloween Kills (Gordon-Green, October 15, 2021) Movie • Page 16

Hopefully this is just the case of the middle film of a trilogy not being as good as the first and can bounce back in the final film. How many middle films were better than the first in a trilogy?

Empire Strikes Back
Spider-Man 2
The Dark Knight
The Winter Soldier

 

I feel like the reverance Michael Meyers is treated with in these new movies only makes sense if you consider the sequels canon. Otherwise he’s just a guy who went on one murder spree 40 years ago and yeah that’s bad but doesn’t really earn the “he’s not even human” mentality he gets in 18 and this movie

Also it’s unbelievably lame to introduce a new character here whose whole thing is “I was a cop and I could’ve stopped him in the first movie but I didn’t”

 

in the original, michael myers broke a car window with his open palm and got up right away after getting shot multiple times and falling from a second story balcony. he stabbed a guy so hard that he was able to hang from the wall like a painting

he has never, ever been just a guy

he’s the embodiment of evil

 

Not to mention the whole point is how a tragedy in a small town like that becomes lore and the story grows within the community to be much bigger than the incident itself.

 

I liked it. It's a huge mess, but there aren't any criticisms you can throw at this that you can't throw at every other movie in the big 3 franchises besides maybe Halloween 1978, and I choose to like almost all of those.

 

Yeah this is a firm 3.5/5 for me. The script was…. But the kills and sheer brutality of it was a sight to behold. Not to mention, the sequence in the park was the first time I’ve been scared/nervous in a mainstream horror film in the while.

 

I was entertained. That’s about all I can say. I don’t really have an attachment to the series but I enjoyed the last one and this one.

 

Watching 2018 before I watch this tonight. Woof

 

Glad I have A List. I really was disappointed. Namely because it didn't really have a plot. It's clear that it was just a transition until the final chapter and they were so noncommittal about the supernatural stuff.

 

Is it a confirmed thing that they only wanted to do two? I thought it was a trilogy from the start. I also feel like not having the brother/sister thing tying them together bothered me more this time than last. I think that relationship grounds the story, whereas this is just aimless brutality.

 

McBride said they originally had an idea for a sequel with the 2018 film and were even considering filming it back to back with the film, but they wanted to wait and see how people reacted to Halloween ‘18. Then a year later they announced it would be a trilogy with Kills and Ends. It seems like they originally had 2018 and a sequel planned but later formed it into a trilogy.

 

Even if half of the ideas in this were just small pieces of the original second film, the second film would have been bad lol - cut it all

 

DGG said Ends will focus more on the Laurie/Michael dynamic and step back from the spectacle in Kills, so I feel like Kills was just added filler to make a trilogy tbh

 

aimless brutality is good

 

Aimless Brutality is the next big deathcore sensation.

 

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/m...ills-box-office-opening-last-duel-1235032467/

Long live the slasher

 

watched this again on peacock with my wife and yeah sucks the second time too

 

horror and wrestling: art for the people

 

I’d rather watch 25 hours of Goldberg wrestling at his current age in Saudi Arabia than to watch this again.

 

Aimless brutality has never been entertaining to me. I like the earlier Friday the 13ths which I guess could maybe qualify but the kills aren’t exactly brutal.

 

you’d rather watch something evil than something about evil? ok

 

here’s a positive review of this i really enjoyed and matched up with my experience of it https://boxd.it/2danOV

 

I mean, yes, but for this story I like that it was fated

 

I just got out of the theater, and I loved this. The kills were brutal, and that’s what I went for. Honestly liked it more than 2018. The humor in that movie didn’t land at all for me.

The hospital scene was ridiculous. I was dying when they were looking for the mental patient, and you saw him sneaking around. Reminded me of the old scooby doo cartoon.

 

Hmmm this wasn’t great. Not nearly as bad as some of these reviews but man some of the choices here were baffling