Halloween kills!

A truly awful movie. Anyone associated with it should be ashamed. Talk about milking the shite out of something. I would love an interviewer to be straight up and ask Jamie lee curtis what the hell she was thinking doing this trash. Ruining the good name she and the original Halloween movies had.

And i can't believe you know what happened at the end..

I thought the first movie looked great - gorgeous cinematography- so for that alone, I'm looking forward to seeing it on the big screen. Most slasher stories are cack anyways, so I'll just enjoy the Halloween/autumnal vibes and kills :) BTW director David Gordon Green has signed on to direct a new Exorcist trilogy, and also he's directing HBO's new Hellraiser series. He's really becoming the king of horror reboots! Not sure if Danny McBride is involved with those, but I have a lot of goodwill towards these guys since Eastbound and Down/Kenny Powers (although the last season of that was terrible, and probably only done for the money). I don't know if there are any Eastbound fans here, but for me the funniest moments in Halloween were the scenes featuring Eastbound's Mammy (the woman who shows the podcasters Judith Myer's grave) and Kenny's TV rival from the show (the guy who plays the sheriff) - they were such OTT ridiculous, characters in that show that seeing them in a serious horror movie jarred and made me laugh out loud.

At least they didn't cast Danny McBride as Michael (in the show when his ex-girlfriend April tries on a Kenny Powers merchandise mask, he tells her that she looks like a retarded Michael Myers!)

Not gonna bury it like some on here, compared to some Halloween movies it's the godfather.

There are kernels of an interesting horror movie in there (mob mentality, turning Myers into the Joker) but yeah, a fun bloodbath with a paper thin story that serves as a bridge between the first and last movies.

Apparently ‘Halloween Ends’ will be left with a twist, so of course, things will continue forever ha

I liked

As someone who generally enjoys Halloween movies. I didnt enjoy this one , just dont think alot of the elements worked all that well. The mob mentality aspect in particular i found contrived and poorly implemented and scoured the film of any atmosphere.

The key to horror is suspense, not gore or violence.

John Carpenter was a big fan of Hitchcock and got suspense perfect in the first Halloween, which is why its considered a classic and is the best in the franchise, despite having tiny budget.

Some of it has the type of creative genius that comes from young people on a budget who are forced to use imagination to create tension and suspense.

Remember the scene where Myers mask in the shadows slowly comes into focus.

It still scares me now even though I'm an adult who's seen it many times.

Likewise Silence of the Lambs gets suspense perfect.

Does Halloween Kills have any scenes of suspense? A few but none memorable

Yeah having Michael's whole driving force be

I really, really wanted to like it especially given the last outing. As soon as I saw one of the Real Housewives in it I knew it was doomed!

i did like the escalating brutality of Myers but that was it, as far as the positives go. Save, maybe for the excellent remodelling job the Johns did of the house.

I thought she was very good in it, and she had probably the only genuinely scary scene in the whole film when Michael was pursuing her. In hindsight, I really enjoyed the movie. It's well made with the best version of Michael Myers yet. The original Michael was a young opportunist murderer, targeting defenseless teens. Now he's a 60 year old dude with a lifetime of rage, and he's basically a wild animal on the loose, who must be stopped. I think you have to suspend disbelief watching these movies; Michael is the boogeyman after all, and you can't expect a few bullets and knife wounds to put him down :) People are going to act dumb in this movie, because they don't know anything about Michael beyond his actions in the first movie 40 years ago, which would not be fresh in people's minds. There's none of the original sequels in this timeline, so this is all new to the people of Haddonfield and they are in shock that Michael is doing what he's doing. Laurie was the only one who was ready for him, and she was in hospital for the whole movie.

Part of me suspects that the ending may get retconned. The scene where Michael starts fighting back against the mob is shot in an unusual way, which makes me think it may be a fantasy or even Laurie's worst fears (especially the ending with Karen). I think it may turn out that Michael got captured before the mob finished him, and he's back in custody. Otherwise how can they forward 4 years in the next one, which the director/writer has said will happen? Will Michael spend 4 years slowly walking around Haddonfield eating out of bins? Maybe he will keep going to cosplay conventions and enjoying the free buffet and anonymity. Time will tell I guess.

I am looking forward to the third one now, if for no other reason just to see how DGG wraps it all up. Age will get Michael eventually anyways :) [I would be impressed if they threw in the twist that Michael was given the original Silver Shamrock mask from Halloween III, and this is why he is the way he is. That would really stick it to Halloween fans.]

Went to see it last night. As a Halloween movie connected to the original its terrible. As a standalone unconnected slasher it's terrible. The plot has more holes than a sieve. The "acting" is some of the worst I've ever seen and that's coming from someone that loves the likes of Street Trash and Return of the Living Dead. The only thing that saves this from utter terribleness is some top notch gore effects but even those cannot save it from an utterly meh/10.