Written by Erica Rose Jackson The original Halloween is my all-time favorite scary movie and I’ve watched every installment this franchise has to offer. Halloween H2O and Halloween: Resurrection are two of my favorites since the original...until Halloween 2018 and Halloween Kills surfaced anyway. Before you discredit my review because of my love for Resurrection, it’s important that you know, the only reason I enjoyed that film was for the scene where Busta Rhymes tells of Michael and Michael just leaves. It gets me, every time. Enough about the other Halloween films, though, we’re here to discuss Kills. The 2018 film really brought the series back to what made it so special in the original and I had very high hopes for its sequel. As the release date grew closer and reviews from people I respect started to come in, my hype level went through the roof. Needless to say, I watched Halloween Kills the day it premiered and I loved every minute.
Last we saw of the famed slasher Michael Myers, he was burning beneath Laurie Strode’s home. Well, Laurie’s plan didn’t work out and the first responders freed Myers from his smoky grave before he proceeded to murder all of them. Michael has some fighting skills in this installment like we’ve never seen from him before, and I am very much here for it. Michael is killing with a vengeance in Kills, hence the name and his kills offer more gore than we’re used to. Not as much as Rob Zombie's offerings, but more than your run-of-the-mill Halloween film. Laurie (Jamie Lee Curtis), Karen (Judy Greer), and Allyson (Andi Matichak) head to the hospital for Laurie’s stab wound thinking they’ve taken out Myers. This film introduces us to many characters from the 1978 original and they’re all ready to take Myers out, for once and for all. Unfortunately, whether Michael is pure evil or something supernatural, there’s no stopping him. I don’t want to give away too much so I’ll just touch on a few of my favorite pieces of Halloween Kills. The introduction is phenomenal! We even get some Loomis (Donald Pleasence), who was always my favorite in the original films. Frank Hawkins (Will Patton) survived and there is a lot more to his story. Michael Myers is a literal killing machine and I loved everything (well, almost) he did in this film. Halloween Kills is an excellent follow-up to the original and the 2018 film. I streamed it on Peacock but I fully plan to see it again on the big screen because it feels like a must see in the movies type of feature. Go watch it, y’all You will not regret it.
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