{"id":336659,"date":"2021-09-08T23:00:23","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T20:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-halloween-kills-review-it-will-feed-your-nostalgia-for-bad-sequels\/"},"modified":"2021-09-08T23:00:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T20:00:23","slug":"watch-halloween-kills-review-it-will-feed-your-nostalgia-for-bad-sequels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-halloween-kills-review-it-will-feed-your-nostalgia-for-bad-sequels\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Halloween Kills&#8217; Review: It Will Feed Your Nostalgia for Bad Sequels"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a387392b8123\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a387392b8123\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-halloween-kills-review-it-will-feed-your-nostalgia-for-bad-sequels\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Halloween_Kills_Review_It_Will_Feed_Your_Nostalgia_for_Bad_Sequels%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Halloween Kills&#8217; 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Review: It Will Feed Your Nostalgia for Bad Sequels&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Halloween_Kills_Review_It_Will_Feed_Your_Nostalgia_for_Bad_Sequels%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Halloween Kills&#8217; Review: It Will Feed Your Nostalgia for Bad Sequels&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        In 2018, when David Gordon Green was given the hallowed mission of rebooting the \u201cHalloween\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> (that the director of \u201cAll the Real Girls\u201d would embrace becoming the showrunner of a slasher franchise says a lot about the 21st century, but let\u2019s leave that for another time), his job was to wipe away 40 years of bad sequels and to restore the lurchy cinematic <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>smanship, the perfectly-timed-shock-cut ingenuity, and the scary-classic mystique of the 1978 \u201cHalloween.\u201d (That the original was, itself, a mayhem-by-the-numbers knockoff of \u201cThe Texas Chain Saw Massacre\u201d says a lot about the state of horror movies back then, but let\u2019s leave that for another time.)<\/p>\n<p>The mission was accomplished. \u201cHalloween: The Reboot That We Promise, This Time, Is Actually Good and Not Just a Cheap Ripoff Imitation\u201d had the same relation to the 1978 \u201cHalloween\u201d that \u201cThe Force Awakens\u201d did to \u201cStar Wars.\u201d It wasn\u2019t the real thing but an incredible simulation. Green had the craft and spirit to mimic John Carpenter\u2019s elemental midnight B-movie canniness. The movie was just diverting and scary enough, and it got to remind the whole world of how cool, in her stalwart fear and fight, Jamie Lee Curtis always was.<\/p>\n<p>Set 40 years after the first film, the 2018 \u201cHalloween\u201d took us back, in spirit, to the innocent garishness of the late \u201970s, and that was a (minor) triumph. But in \u201cHalloween Kills,\u201d which picks up im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely after the last film, with Curtis\u2019s Laurie Strode being rushed to the hospital after having tr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed Michael Myers in her trick basement and burned him alive, Green more or less abandons the previous film\u2019s enjoyable retro flavor. Michael, who was no more killed by Laurie than he was in all the other \u201cHalloween\u201d installments (\u201cHalloween Kills\u201d is the 12th), proceeds to go on his latest kitchen-blade stalker rampage, and the new movie becomes all about fusing the \u201cHalloween\u201d formula with the tropes and obsessions of today. Which turns out to be a real fear-killer.<\/p>\n<p>The damage caused by Michael is now spoken of in the language of recovery. This starts when Tommy Doyle (Anthony Michael Hall), who was one of the two kids Laurie was babysitting on that fateful 1978 Halloween night, stands up before the costumed crowd at a bar and, in between talent-show acts that are more terrifying than anything else in the movie, he says, in solemn tones of sharing, \u201cPlease join me in commemorating the victims, and the survivors, of that Halloween.\u201d The victims this time include a middle-aged biracial couple and also a gay couple, named Big John and Little John (really?), who live in Michael Myers\u2019 old house, which they\u2019ve renovated to within an inch of its dark polished floorboards. That these two treat Halloween night as an occasion to eat fancy hors d\u2019ouevres and watch \u201cMinnie and Moskowitz\u201d makes one realize there are clich\u00e9s you wish Michael Myers could kill off.<\/p>\n<p>Laurie, confined to her hospital bed, gets up out of it by giving herself a double injection of opioids. \u201cIt\u2019s all happening,\u201d says Laurie. \u201cMichael\u2019s masterpiece!\u201d What she means is that Michael isn\u2019t just a mad killer anymore \u2014 he\u2019s an orchestrator of chaos, a <em>terrorist<\/em>. His intent is not simply to murder but to cause ripples of fear (you know, like ISIS and Al Qaeda!).<\/p>\n<p>And then there\u2019s the mob that forms. Anthony Michael Hall, who in his crewcut looks like the kind of Middle American lout who cheered on the Capitol Riot, picks up a baseball bat out of the bar and heads after Michael. A crowd forms behind him, and by the time Hall gets to the hospital the crowd has swelled to a furious, surging, unruly metaphor for The Angry America Of Today. Everyone starts to chant \u201cEvil dies tonight!\u201d And as a demonstration of how this kind of thing can go awry, they target the wrong killer, thinking that Michael, unmasked, is the <em>other<\/em> crazy dude who just escaped from the local mental institution. That\u2019s a twist so preposterous it\u2019s high camp, since the guy who isn\u2019t the killer is a homunculus who looks like Danny DeVito in a hospital gown. (Did they forget that Michael Myers is six-foot-five?)<\/p>\n<p>Halloween night may be Michael Myers\u2019 masterpiece, but \u201cHalloween Kills\u201d is no masterpiece. It\u2019s a mess \u2014 a slasher movie that\u2018s almost never scary, slathered with \u201ctopical\u201d pablum and with too many parallel plot strands that don\u2019t go anywhere. Green, as clever a job as he did on the first film, wastes no time cutting back to where the \u201cHalloween\u201d series ultimately landed: in a swamp of luridly repetitive and empty sequels, with Michael turned into such an omnipresent icon that his image gets drained of any nightmare quality. He\u2019s more like someone who belongs on a lunchbox. Curtis, so good in the last one, is mostly wasted this time (you can feel the film trying to think up things for her to do), as Laurie\u2019s daughter (Judy Greer) and granddaughter (Andi Matichak) do most of the heavy lifting.<\/p>\n<p>The relentless nattering about the past \u2014 Michael is evil! And evil can never be killed! \u2014 is the sure sign of a desperate, bottom-line-fixated sequel. The other sign is that Michael Myers, stabbing knives and broken light fixtures into people\u2019s faces, may not be scary anymore, but he\u2019s still a charismatic figure of darkness. You\u2019re relieved every time he shows up, and it\u2019s all about that doleful, rubbery-gray, Hamlet-of-psychos mask. After 40 years, that mask is more expressive than any of the actors in \u201cHalloween Kills.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-tags \/\/ a-children-icon-bullet lrv-u-font-family-primary u-letter-spacing-012 lrv-u-line-height-large lrv-u-color-brand-primary\">\n<h2 id=\"optional-screen-reader\" class=\"lrv-a-screen-reader-only\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"optional_screen_reader\"><\/span>\n        optional screen reader  <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<nav class=\"o-nav  o-nav lrv-u-border-b-1 u-border-color-brand-secondary-40 lrv-u-border-t-1 lrv-u-text-align-center lrv-u-padding-b-025 u-padding-t-050@desktop u-padding-t-050@tablet u-padding-t-050@mobile-max lrv-u-margin-t-2 lrv-u-margin-b-2\" data-dropdown=\"\">\n<h4 id=\"\" class=\"o-nav__title lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-font-family-secondary o-nav__title a-content-ignore u-line-height-140 u-letter-spacing-0002\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Read_More_About\"><\/span>Read More About:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/nav>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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