{"id":353635,"date":"2021-10-16T10:34:05","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T07:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/halloween-kills-is-a-severely-disappointing-sequel-at-best\/"},"modified":"2021-10-16T10:34:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T07:34:05","slug":"halloween-kills-is-a-severely-disappointing-sequel-at-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/halloween-kills-is-a-severely-disappointing-sequel-at-best\/","title":{"rendered":"#’Halloween Kills’ is a Severely Disappointing Sequel at Best…"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#’Halloween Kills’ is a Severely Disapp<\/a>ointing Sequel at Best…<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

     <span class=\"mx-1\">And a terrible cash-grab at worst.<\/span>\n<\/p><div id=\"\"><figure class=\"sf-entry-featured-media<\/a> \"><img width=\"800\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/halloween-kills.jpg\" class=\"articlethumb wp-post-image\" alt=\"A cash grab in Halloween Kills\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/halloween-kills.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/halloween-kills-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/><p>\n                    <span class=\"sf-entry-flag sf-entry-flag-creditline\">Universal Pictures<\/span>\n\n                        <\/figure><!-- START BYLINE --><div class=\"row align-items-center justify-content-center my-4 text-center medium dark-gray\">\n        By\u00a0Rob Hunter\u00a0\u00b7 Published on October 16th, 2021 \n        <\/div>\n    <!-- END BYLINE -->\n\n    Onscreen carnage is far from a requirement in horror cinema as stellar slices of terror can be made with or without bloody deaths. If you call you film <strong><em>Halloween Kills<\/em><\/strong>, though, you better be prepared to back up that title with a heavy dose of blood-red set-pieces. The follow-up to 2018\u2019s monster hit reboot, itself a sequel to John Carpenter\u2019s 1978 original, delivers quite well on that front with with a higher victim tally than any previous entry in the franchise. Unfortunately, that\u2019s the only element the film succeeds at as the rest is a cynical cash-grab designed solely to separate fans from their money under the bullshit guise of horror that has to be about more than just genre thrills.\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
First, a quick recap. Michael Myers killed his teenage sister when he was just six-years-old, and after escaping the asylum in 1978 he returned to Haddonfield, IL where he murdered a few teens in psychotic and ritualistic fashion. Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis<\/strong>) fought him off, and after having multiple bullets lodged in his chest he was arrested and incarcerated all over again. Forty years later he escaped again, returned to Haddonfield again, and slaughtered several more people only to be caught in Laurie\u2019s elaborately stupid, four-decades-in-the-making plan that left him trapped and burning in her basement.<\/p>\n
Halloween Kills<\/em> picks up mere moments later (after a wholly unnecessary flashback to the cops who caught him back in 1978) as Laurie\u2019s daughter Karen (Judy Greer<\/strong>) and granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak<\/strong>) rush her to the hospital with stab wounds. (Don\u2019t get your hopes up for a slickly updated riff on 1981\u2019s Halloween II<\/em> as you\u2019re better served checking out 2008\u2019s Cold Prey 2<\/em>.) The three generations of Strode women see their victorious celebration cut short with the news<\/a> that Michael has not only escaped the blaze but also made quick and bloody work of the first responders. He begins cutting an epic and bloody swathe through the citizens of Haddonfield, and with Laurie recuperating from surgery the quest for vengeance falls to Karen, Allyson, and an unruly and unlikely mob of drunk townsfolk.<\/p>\n
This being the middle film of a trilogy, you can probably guess how well that goes for them.<\/p>\n
That last point is one of the many problems with Halloween Kills<\/em>, and blame rests with the inarguable talents spearheading these reboots. Director David Gordon Green<\/strong> once again co-wrote the script with Danny McBride<\/strong> \u2014 they\u2019re joined by Scott Teems<\/strong> this time around instead of Halloween<\/em> 2018\u2019s Jeff Fradley \u2014 and together they initially pitched the trilogy as one with a purpose. The implicit understanding was that the duo had a three-film story line mapped out to bring this narrative to an epic close. While the 2018 film is a messy, poorly written mediocrity skating by on nostalgia and grue, it at least feels like a whole movie. Halloween Kills<\/em> is a different beast altogether and instead consists of generous filler and a set-piece stretched to feature length. The entirety of this film should have been a single sequence in a sequel, but greed is good and green is god.<\/p>\n
Flashbacks take up a solid chunk of time as we see Officer Hawkins\u2019 (Will Patton<\/strong>) back story \u2014 you\u2019ll think it\u2019s unnecessary, but the film disagrees and actually flashes back twice to the very same scenes. Others flashback to the 2018 film, while still others flashback to Carpenter\u2019s original so that it can hit viewers with more nostalgia in the form of grown-up versions of Tommy Doyle (Anthony Michael Hall<\/strong>), Lonnie Elam (Robert Longstreet<\/strong>), and Lindsey (Kyle Richards<\/strong>, who actually played young Lindsey back in 1978). Not to be left out, both Sheriff Brackett (Charles Cyphers<\/strong>) and Nurse Marion (Nancy Stephens<\/strong>) are back too.<\/p>\n
Do any of them add a goddamn thing to Halloween Kills<\/em>? They do not. The script wants to convince you otherwise as everyone blames themself for something or other \u2014 the twin themes here are guilt and, wait for it, trauma \u2014 but not a single lick of it earns drama or interest. What it does do is keep Laurie on the sidelines as she\u2019s barely a supporting player here. Instead we follow her daughter, granddaughter, and a mob in search of justice, and while both Greer and Matichak are strong actors they\u2019re both tasked with playing increasingly stupid characters. It\u2019s just difficult to root for idiots.<\/p>\n
Speaking of dipshits we just can\u2019t bring ourselves to care about, the bulk of the film sits on the shoulders of newcomers, strangers, and some familiar faces as the town of Haddonfield finally decides they\u2019ve had enough of this Michael character. It seems the entire community is suffering from trauma and has been for forty years. This even though many of them have to be reminded that the original killings even happened at all. They\u2019re not taking it sitting down, though, and with Hall\u2019s bat-swinging, over-the-top Tommy Doyle taking lead the mob gathers their pitchforks \u2014 both metaphorical and quite literal \u2014 and goes hunting. Their warcry? \u201cEvil dies tonight!\u201d<\/p>\n
Yes, you\u2019ll want the majority of these idiots to meet the wrong end of Michael\u2019s blade \u2014 especially after they drive an innocent man to suicide \u2014 and Halloween Kills<\/em> is happy to oblige. If carnage without consequence or purpose was the plan then congrats to Green and McBride, I guess, but this is far from a standalone film. Its primary character has no arc, no journey, no movement here, and instead we\u2019re saddled with other far-less interesting and paper-thin characters who simply appear, act idiotically, and die. Again, while that summarizes the bulk of slashers in the past and present, this new Halloween<\/em> trilogy enjoys pretending it\u2019s far more than just that. You could argue that the 2018 film succeeds on that front (even if its trauma-centric dialogue and themes are janky nonsense), but this one isn\u2019t even trying. The town is traumatized, it tells us, and that\u2019s that apparently.<\/p>\n
While that\u2019s an inconsistently successful shorthand towards ensuring we care about Laurie\u2019s situation in the 2018 film, it\u2019s highly ineffective on this larger scale. The film absolutely wants viewers to cheer at the grisly demises, as Michael slices, dices, and tears his way through dozens of people with fighting skills he apparently picked up since escaping the asylum the night before. (Shout out to James Jude Courtney<\/strong>, though, for giving his take on The Shape a real pep in his step.) It\u2019s something of a mixed message, though, because, you know, all their trauma and such, but it\u2019s part and parcel with the laziness of the script as a whole. There\u2019s no story here, there\u2019s only a twenty-minute diversion stretched to one-hundred-and-six to squeeze out more profit. It\u2019s Peter Jackson\u2019s The Hobbit<\/em> with far more dismemberments and a bit less singing.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s frustrating about it all is that Green is a wildly talented filmmaker. He crafts some cat and mouse sequences well alongside cinematographer Michael Simmonds<\/strong> and editor Timothy Alverson<\/strong>, but they\u2019re in service of a script that\u2019s utter junk. It diverts you from the character that matters with worthless flashbacks, cheeky nostalgia, and a Donald Pleasance lookalike\/soundalike. Similarly, the score by John Carpenter<\/strong>, his son Cody Carpenter<\/strong>, and Daniel A. Davies<\/strong> is so deceptively great you\u2019ll almost think you\u2019re watching an equally good slasher. You are not.<\/p>\n
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\n            Rob Hunter has been writing for Film School Rejects since before you were born, which is weird seeing as he’s so damn young. He’s our Chief Film Critic and Associate Editor and lists ‘Broadcast News’ as his favorite film of all time. Feel free to say hi if you see him on Twitter @FakeRobHunter<\/a>.        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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