Halloween Kills

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Minutes after Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), her daughter Karen (Judy Greer) and granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak) left masked monster Michael Myers caged and burning in Laurie's basement, Laurie is rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, believing she finally killed her lifelong tormentor. But when Michael manages to free himself from Laurie's trap, his ritual bloodbath resumes. As Laurie fights her pain and prepares to defend herself against him, she inspires all of Haddonfield to rise up against their unstoppable monster. The Strode women join a group of other survivors of Michael's first rampage who decide to take matters into their own hands, forming a vigilante mob that sets out to hunt Michael down, once and for all. Evil dies tonight.

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Halloween Kills should satisfy fans in search of brute slasher thrills, but in terms of advancing the franchise, it's a bit less than the sum of its bloody parts.

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Halloween Kills doesn't do much to move the Michael Myers saga forward, but viewers looking for hardcore horror violence won't be disappointed.

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Richard Whittaker

Austin Chronicle

As a sequel to the deliciously absurd 2018 resurrection, it's a ponderous bore, far-too-intermittently broken up by spurts of the franchise's signature gore.

Nov 3, 2021

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David Stratton

The Australian

Halloween Kills is an ugly, messy film. It's a little depressing to learn that yet another sequel is supposedly in the works.

Rated: 2/5

Oct 30, 2021

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Becca James

Chicago Reader

Halloween Kills fails to resurrect the franchise.

Oct 30, 2021

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Susanna Norbiato

Loud and Clear Reviews

To use Goya’s words, “the sleep of reason produces monsters,” and Michael Myers is the Fear that we all carry within us, and that we come face to face every day, when we look at ourselves in the mirror.

Rated: 3.5/5

Sep 17, 2024

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Sarah Vincent

Sarah G Vincent Views

John Carpenter had a sense of pacing which heightened the tension with judicious kills whereas “Halloween Kills” is all chaos cinema and Beauty and the Beast’s Mob Song without the music.

Jun 10, 2024

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Stephanie Bunbury

Deadline Hollywood Daily

Never was there a film truer to its name. They’re sliced up with kitchen knives, hollowed out with a fluorescent strip light, bisected with a chain saw and impaled on banisters. The body count is phenomenal. We love this stuff. You know we do.

Sep 16, 2023

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seth there will never be no other. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 11/01/24 Full Review KXF 3/5. Superb action and cinematography. Wastes way too much time, though, with ridiculous sub-plots and cringe dialogue from insufferable characters. The repeated phrase "EVIL DIES TONIGHT" now haunts me just as badly as the never-ending Silver Shamrock commercial. Rated 3/5 Stars • Rated 3 out of 5 stars 11/01/24 Full Review PJ Cool flashback to 78. Cool sequence coming out of the burning house. Weak evil dies tonight through line. Micheal killing Rated 3.5/5 Stars • Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 10/14/22 Full Review Delfin While the plot is not as great as 2018 and does not touch the original, Kills is very entertaining and delivers to its name. It also shows how The Shape affects people outside of the Strode family which was great to see and it sets up an exciting confrontation in Ends between Laurie and The Shape. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/13/22 Full Review kevin I never got to see this film. I purchase as you can see however, upon arriving to the theater they say that their machine is broken and they can not gone my purchase. I was very upset and have to drive an hour home. Rated 1/5 Stars • Rated 1 out of 5 stars 07/13/22 Full Review Bruised Banana Halfway decent follow up to a great horror reboot. So much stalling and failed drama makes it a bore many times. Lack of humor takes a toll. Rated 2.5/5 Stars • Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 05/11/22 Full Review Read all reviews

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David Gordon Green Director Jamie Lee Curtis Laurie Strode Judy Greer Karen Anthony Michael Hall Tommy Doyle Andi Matichak Allyson Will Patton Deputy Frank Hawkins

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