What’s It All About
The 1 Sentence Summary of Halloween Kills
The people of Haddonfield, Il rally together to hunt down the worst evil the town has ever known, Michael Myers..
Cast and Director
Directed by David Gordon Green, Halloween Kills stars the Queen of Horror herself, Jamie Lee Curtis and the her princesses Judy Greer and Andi Matichak. All in all, Halloween kills boasts a solid cast, including actors from the original 1978 Halloween and newcomers to the franchise.
Spoiler Alert
We’d much rather you watch the movie than read some of our favorite and least favorite parts about it. But if you have to know, check out our breakdown below.
It would be easy to call out Michael’s first body count sequence as it was awesome. However, our favorite scene was not too long after Michael’s appearance. After escaping Laurie’s compound, Michael made his way to the home of an older couple who were enjoying their evening with some wine and married couple’s banter. They were funny but you knew it wouldn’t last. Michael did his thing and killed them both. While the wife lay bleeding out, Michael dragged the husband’s body into the kitchen and put him up on the counter, within the wife’s view. He then proceeded to take the kitchen knives, one by one, and stick them into the husband’s body. This scene extinguished any idea that Michael Myers has a shred of humanity left in him.
The obvious choice is Michael Myers. Halloween kills provided a lot of kills, some of which included a creative and comedic flair. However, we’d be remiss if we didn’t also call out Big John and Little John, the couple that currently lives in the Myers home. They’re scenes were some of the best in the movie and they will have you hoping they live.
Halloween Kills has plenty of opportunity for jump scares but it was pretty obvious when they were coming and we had no jumps. That being said, instead of best scare, let us tell you about our favorite kill. Michael goes back to his childhood home where Big John and Little John now live. They hear someone upstairs and Big John goes to check it out. After he clears the study, Michael shows up behind him, shanks him in the arm pit and then turns him around and gouges his eyes out with his thumbs. It’s brutal and devastating as we had grown to love Big John and really wanted him to live.
The biggest issue with this movie is the lack of Laurie Strode. We went into the theater excited about a showdown between Laurie and Michael. The idea of Jamie Lee Curtis slipping back into the role of Laurie Strode to team up with Laurie’s daughter and granddaughter, forming an team of absolute badass women was what excited us about Halloween Kills. Instead, Laurie stayed in the hospital with very few scenes and the move was about a townie getting a mob together to take Michael out.
Also, the repetitious dialogue got old pretty quick. There was no need to repeat that it was the 40 year anniversary of the first attacks as often as they did and the battle cry of “Evil dies tonight!” got old too.
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Summary
Scare Critics Say: WORTH A WATCH
Scare Critic Review
If we’re being honest (and we always are), Halloween Kills is not the movie we were looking forward to seeing. It lacked the match up of badass Laurie Strode vs. Michael that it was hyped up to be and felt more like a live action remake of the sequence in Beauty and the Beast where Gaston gathers the town’s people into an angry mob to “Kill the beast!” Much of the dialogue was weak, often repeating that it had been “40 years” and the battle cry “Evil Dies Tonight” was overused as a seemed to be filler in place of additional dialogue. However, that being said, there was much about Halloween Kills that we did enjoy. Halloween Kills is a throwback to the classic Halloween movies and was styled to look as so. From the music to the flashback scenes, it felt like an old school horror movie with better production quality. It was so good to see blood effects that utilized old school fake blood pumping out of wounds instead of the CG effects so many movies are using now. There’s nothing like the splatter using actual fake blood. Also, although much of the dialogue felt lazily written, there was a good mix of the drama the town was going through and humor to lighten the mood and put a viewer at ease in just the right moments.
Scares Breakdown
- Michael Myers
- Blood Effects
- Record Kills
Good
- Blood Effects
- Atmosphere
- Michael Myers is extra brutal
- Big John and Little John
Bad
- Weak Dialogue at times
- Lack of Laurie Strode action
- What were they shooting at?
