Do you want to watch Halloween Kills? here is what I think of it.
A series that started in 78, is still alive well into 2022, with Halloween Ends being the third installment. Halloween Kills looks to be the peanut and jam between the bread slice as all sequels are in a 3 part trilogy.
With Halloween Kills now available to rent on all streaming platforms, let’s take a look at one of 2021’s worst-reviewed horror sequels to an original that most audiences and critics liked, Halloween.
Halloween Kills is a sequel that never develops the layers of the original, serving as a simple one noted slasher flick with enough blood and guts to see us through. I don’t like comparing when writing reviews, but Terminator 2 fully developed the world-building and law that the original set.
Aliens took a slightly different approach and executed the source material in a vastly different manner offering audiences a totally new experience. These themes are usually the case for good film sequels, Halloween Kills on the other hand is offering nothing new.
This sequel is barely interested in doing it, but rather showing us how gruesome the kills Michael Myers can do and it’s entertaining. Having Jamie Lee Curtis be in a hospital bed added to her vulnerability as a character coming of her strong performance and character in Halloween (2018). This sequel shows us a different, more aggressive side to her.
The sequel actually to some extent undoes the world-building that was established in the first film, serving as a pure slasher flick that is entertaining to watch. Some complaints saw the violence was too much, the violence worked for me just about.
The first film could stand on its own, whereas this film cant. A loose sequel that relies on its predesaacror for its stability and this is evident throughout the film, but there are positives.
As I have said, the violence is exactly what you want and expect from the film and there are some really fun kills, on par and at times better than the original. It’s total horror fun at its most B best, but not A, in fact it maybe impossible to make an outstanding slasher horror flick whose plot is consisted of B material and the Halloween series has thrived and relished over its simplicity. But at this point, the series has an incredibly loyal fanbase who wait patiently for the next chapter.
Perhaps, The Cabin in the Woods came close with its genre defining moments back in 2012, but sometimes it’s nice to sit back and watch some well shot bloody scenes of chaos and carnage, a similar theme shared in 2009’s surprisingly enjoyable Friday the 13th produced by the bombastic Michael Bay, a swift transition from action to horror.
The film is still able to sell Michael Myers as a terrifying villain, who is unstoppable and relentless. This theme is very convincing with kills that are very innovative and this is a real selling point, although it’s strange that us audiences pay our hard earned cash to see this type of horror violence but it is what it is. I’m sure there are some excellent studies and essays that explain why audiences are so fascinated with the genre in a deeper and perhaps psychological manner.
Halloween Kills will not surprise any audience member, but the film makes for a fun Friday night experience for fans of the original and the franchise in general. Dont expect anything new, but strap in for a mindless ride with a love for its villain and Jamie Lee Curtis, who is doing a real Sarah Connor impression but maybe not quite as mad.
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