Halloween Kills another film suffering delays to it’s release from the global pandemic, finally arrives and it couldn’t have turned out a better time to release it. In what is a cinematic version of a Twitter pile on, Michael Myers re-emerges to slash his way once more through plenty of box office returns.
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, Ill., 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.
In what is one of the more sadistic, down right violent and ultimately satisfying slashers in recent years, despite some short comings Halloween Kills really does hit all the right notes in all the right places.
Intercutting the Halloween 2 finale next to the end of the 2018 Halloween film, it doesn’t take long for the brutality to escalate, rising from the fiery remains of the house that the Strode’s thought they had finally ended the nightmare that was Myers he’s off after impailing several members of the fire service and gouging a few of them to death he’s off on his yearly journey to terrorise the inhabitants of Haddonfield once more.
The various deaths are pretty inventive for a film thats the 12th part of the series. They are at times pretty barbaric, ultra violent and not for the squeamish, especially if you’re not a fan of violence to the eyes. The film does however lack any real scares as you are bludgeoned with death after death until the finale, where the halloween story arch comes apart at the seams and tries to create Myers in to some form of supernatural super being ahead of the probable finale of Halloween Ends, which is due out in twelve months time.
The plot did fairly leaky and the aforementioned stab at culture war politics aside, it is for the most part a lot of fun if you’re a fan of the genre or the Halloween movies themselves. Obviously it struggles to hold a candle to the first two movies in the franchise, but by bringing back some of the original movies characters, it certainly seems to try and tie itself to the series and make some sense of the storyline. It even tries to encompass season of the witch, the diabolical third entry, which to this day still cannot justify it’s existence.
Jamie Lee Curtis does her best to keep proceedings in order with Laurie Strode almost being our narrator while the chaos ensues everywhere else. David Gordon Green and the writing team of Danny McBride and Scott Teems certainly give it, their best effort and only time will tell if it’s all worth it when it culminates with Halloween Ends.
For now sit back and enjoy all the eviscerations, slashing, bone breaking fun for the spooky season that Halloween Kills brings.
Halloween Kills is in cinemas Nationwide now.
