Review of Halloween Kills (2021) by Crusader — 28 Oct 2022

Unlike the previous Halloween movie it actually had more of a real story and something to say. It felt more like a modern slasher, not just people with personal drama before they get killed.

There was some things I didn't like.

The movie spent too much time trying to convince us viewers that what we had known about the series for 40 years where wrong and that Michael Myers didn't target Laurie Strode and her family on purpose.

There was a line in previous movie establishing that they weren't siblings and she was just a victim but fans didn't accept that so this time they put more effort into convincing us that Laurie didn't matter to the overall story (while still keeping her and her family in center of the story).

They killed a character I really wish they hadn't killed (this movie had a huge cast so it's not a spoiler that people die). There was one old and really tiresome trope I wish they hadn't used involving gay characters.

There was also an old trope about black characters that I felt horror movies should have stopped using years ago.

And there was a sort of twist that made me, as an old fan, role my eyes. It's hard to explain without spoiling but it's something we old fans already know since 40 years back but they treat it like it's this shocking reveal. But other than this, most of the movie was really good. And we got to see an old character that nobody expected to see again.