Count me in the “pretty fucking awesome” camp. Lots of fan service. Slight spoiler, they played this in the end credits..
Should be catching this on Peacock soon. Maybe this weekend. I heard the Blu will have a different cut and alternate ending. Maybe wait until that?
I thought this one was terrible. The body count is high and there were a couple of kills I enjoyed but what a dumb bunch of characters. Everyone wants to kill Michael going so far as to chant "evil dies tonight." By the end of the movie I couldn't help but feel what was the point of this? If some of you enjoy this that's great but it is truly a poorly made film.
I loved it. Call me crazy, but I actually had even more fun with this one. It just had a better creepy atmosphere, and felt more like proper Halloween, than the last one. The 1978 flashback was definitely a highlight.
Just got back from the theater. I liked it. I didn't love it, but watching it every October will be a breeze. Quick review: http://splattercritic.com/2021/10/halloween-kills/
Enjoyed it. Loved the 70s part. Something is still off with the reboots. I enjoyed them but something about the magic of the originals is long gone. Probably the nostalgia factor given I watched the first five as a kid/young teen. I think there's just too much gore in these. I know that is blasphemy to some of you. Just my two cents.
I'm not sure if I'd say I personally like it more than the last one. The 2018 film had a better ending I think, in the fact that you could watch it as a completed story. This new one is obviously left wide open for the next film so it's a bit different in that regard. In any case, I'm thinking of watching the two back to back closer to Halloween. I get what you mean. These are far gorier films than the original ever was. Kind of feels like a different Myers, but I guess the idea is that he's back with a vengeance and making up for lost time.
I thought Kills was terrible. Every choice the writers made seemed off. None of the comedic bits hit. All the characters acted like they were victims of a city wide gas leak considering how foolish they acted. The riot scene in the hospital went on forever after the very obvious point was already made. The whole film seemed to both pander to and take advantage of the goodwill of certain horror fans. I never liked Rob Zombie's Halloween films but at least he had a voice and a style that seemed genuine (albeit not to my taste either).
I enjoyed it a lot more than I did the initial time I saw Halloween 2018 at the movies. I appreciate that they tried things that were different. And yeah, it does suffer a little bit with being the middle part of a trilogy that cannot be fully appreciated as a standalone. But I do like the callbacks with returning characters from the first last as well as not forgetting characters that died in the last one. I do wish that Lindsey had as much character development as Tommy did, especially since they got the original actress, but maybe they’re saving that for the next chapter. Over all it was a high wire act to get this exactly right and I think they succeeded in the ways that mattered most. Edit: I like that they have returned Michael’s sense of humor like posing Big John and Little Jon in the same positions as in their framed photo. It’s the little things.
This felt a little more like a pre-MPAA cut of a F13, than it did a Halloween, but not in a good way. Large body-count, excess gore, but it all mostly seemed like padding for a story that never really materialized. Aside from callbacks to other, better films in the series, this entry seemed really aimless. It didn't help that this entry has, IMO, the worst versions of the various score pieces from the original film and I kinda hate this "crispy" version of the mask. It also felt more like the Rob Zombie films, in style if not substance, than the John Carpenter original. I'm a big supporter of doing a partial reboot of the series and eliminating the "family" angle that permeated all of the prior sequels and remakes, but we're technically three films into this Halloween universe, and it didn't really feel like this film laid much groundwork for Halloween Ends nor did it provide any additional context into the lore of Michael Myers. It's time to shit or get off the pot, already.
It’s going to be impossible to surpass the original, or even equal it. That said, if we are totally honest there was no “story” that ever really materialized in the original either. If we are to believe the lore, the test audience back in 1978 didn’t like the film until the music was added. It was always the atmosphere, not the plot, that sold the movie. It sounds nice, but I don’t think any of us really want more added to the lore of Myers. We “think” we do, but we don’t. With the “With every kill Michael commits, he transcends” explanation we are already treading perilously close to the Thorn plot device. The more they explain about him, the lesser the Shape becomes. But I do understand the concern of the body count being too high like more of a F13 film. However, it’s more of a natural outgrowth of the ending of the last film. This is the 21st century where news travels lightning fast via smart phones. You can’t realistically have events take the same night and not increase the violence exponentially and have domino effects. That’s the thing that I always thought Halloween II got wrong. Aside from the cop car killing Ben Tramer and a small protest at the Myers house we never got a real impression the public even cared. And the hospital being barren with not even a reporter lurking in the shadows to get some footage of Laurie was frankly unbelievable.
Jesus, this was the main thing I didn't like about the movie: not EVERY character needs to have an "iconic" speech, and none of them need several. I mean, even Laurie's seemed neverending (and pretty unnecessary in the ending scenes). It was okay. I'll watch it again, and will probably even buy it when the new trilogy set pops up down the road.
Lol https://www.ihorror.com/petition-reads-remove-the-slaughtering-of-firefighters-from-halloween-kills/
I mean, that petition is either a joke or they are one massive snowflake. What does he want, Michael to have some tea with them and thank them for their troubles?
Ha ha ha! This is hilarious! And was obviously written by a child - a child who may or may not be able to count to potato.
What a stupid, vapid, cunt! I would love to hear that this a joke, but I suspect, unfortunately it's not. People really need to learn about the off button and how it's used, instead of trying to force there shitty agenda on the world.
