Halloween Kills

20211 hour 45 minsREnglish

HorroRated verdict

Worth a Look

2020sSlasherCreature FeatureSerial KillerOccult

Directed by: David Gordon Green
Written by: David Gordon Green, Danny McBride, Scott Teems
Produced by: Courtenay Cooper, Jason Blum, Jamie Lee Curtis, Atilla Salih Yücer, Danny McBride, David Gordon Green, Jeanette Volturno, Couper Samuelson, Rick Osako, Ryan Turek, Bill Block, John Carpenter, Malek Akkad, Ryan Freimann, Matt Akey, Margaret Lewis, Eric Frazier

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Slashers Creature Features Serial Killer Urban Horror

Why it’s HorroRated

Halloween Kills has a real idea about mob violence and collective fear that it never quite makes land the way it should. The expanded Haddonfield community gives the film scope the first entry didn't have and Michael Myers has rarely been more unstoppable. A middle chapter that asks you to trust the conclusion.

Synopsis

The middle chapter of Green's trilogy expands the scope of the Halloween night massacre and makes Haddonfield's collective response to Michael as much of the subject as the killer himself. The mob violence complicates the franchise's usual moral clarity in ways the film is more interested in presenting than resolving. A transitional entry that sets up the trilogy's conclusion.