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Halloween Kills Movie Watch – news and insider info on the Halloween Kills movie (October 15, 2021).

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About the Halloween Kills movie.

Halloween Kills is directed by David Gordon Green and written by Green, Danny McBride and Scott Teems. Jason Blum serves as a producer on the film through his Blumhouse Productions banner, alongside Malek Akkad and Bill Block. The movie is a sequel to 2018’s Halloween and the twelfth installment in the Halloween franchise.. It is the second of a 3-part trilogy (ending with Halloween Ends) The film stars Jamie Lee Curtis and Nick Castle, who reprise their roles as Laurie Strode and Michael Myers, with James Jude Courtney also portraying Myers again.

Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, and Will Patton also reprise their roles from the previous film, with Anthony Michael Hall and Thomas Mann joining the cast. The film, which begins precisely where the previous film ended, sees Strode, along with her family, continue to fend off Myers with the help of the Haddonfield community.

In June 2018, writer Danny McBride confirmed that he and Green had originally intended to pitch two films that would be shot back-to-back, and then decided against it, waiting to see the reaction to the first film. Following the critical and commercial success of the last film, development on the sequel promptly began as early as October 2018. By February 2019, Teems was hired to co-write the script. The film’s title was officially announced in July 2019, along with its sequel (Halloween Ends). Principal photography commenced in September 2019 in Wilmington, North Carolina.

Halloween Kills is scheduled to have its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival on September 8, 2021. The film is scheduled to be released in the United States on October 15, 2021, by Universal Pictures, after having been delayed by one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Here’s the official movie synopsis:

“And the Halloween night when Michael Myers returned isn’t over yet.

Minutes after Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), her daughter Karen (Judy Greer), and granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak) left masked monster Michael Myers caged and burning in Laurie’s basement, Laurie is rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, believing she finally killed her lifelong tormentor.

But when Michael manages to free himself from Laurie’s trap, his ritual bloodbath resumes. As Laurie fights her pain and prepares to defend herself against him, she inspires all of Haddonfield to rise up against their unstoppable monster.

The Strode women join a group of other survivors of Michael’s first rampage who decide to take matters into their own hands, forming a vigilante mob that sets out to hunt Michael down, once and for all.

Evil dies tonight.”

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Reviews for Halloween Kills. October 15, 2021

Like Halloween (2018) before it, reviews for Halloween Kills are mixed. In general, it is praised for its classic horror styles but criticized for its convoluted structure.

“It’s complete chaos in Haddonfield across the board, making for a wild ride that brings no shortage of memorable moments of suspense and visceral carnage. As part of an overarching narrative, Halloween Kills makes for a sloppy and uneven entry without much to say. Even still, the cast fully commits to this lean, mean, and downright savage entry, carving up an effective and engaging old-school slasher.”

Bloody Disgusting

“The problem isn’t that Halloween Kills is about nothing more than brutal nihilism; that’s a perfectly acceptable thing for a horror movie to be. It’s that it tries to be about so many things on top of brutal nihilism that it loses its grip early on.”

AV Club

“Halloween Kills is scattershot and febrile, a confused film in which people spend a lot of time milling around, figuring out what to do next.”

Time

“Halloween Kills,” the middle film of a reboot trilogy started in 2018 by the director David Gordon Green, is an indolent, narratively impoverished mess that substitutes corpses for characters and slogans for dialogue. What Green appears to be killing here is time.”

New York Times

“Halloween Kills knows how to jolt an audience into fits of giggly yelps of fright, and watching this iconic villain do his thing with such calmly calculated ferocity is oftentimes bone-chilling. As gruesomely brutal as a night spent with Michael Myers should be, although the horror sequel loses some of its skull-crushing effectiveness juggling rampant carnage and social commentary.”

Movie Freak

“In picking up exactly where the last one left off three years ago, Kills separates its two key main characters, and not for the better. It just seems like a filler chapter before another main event, albeit with nasty kills, mythos building and cool references.”

USA Today

“If this bloody entr’acte, whose title addition works as both noun and verb, has little to offer but a jacked up body count on a bed of fan service, it serves both with panache, charging forward as an almost elemental slasher outing unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality.”

Indie Wire

“Green seems less interested in rewriting the “Halloween” playbook than in giving audiences what they came for, from ghastly scares to a ghoulish score.”

The Wrap

As with so many middle parts of proposed trilogies, Halloween Kills feels designed to get you from Point A to a future Point C. It forgets, however, that a middle chapter still has to work on its own, and that stranding fans, completists, casual moviegoers, etc. in a weak-link entry runs the risk of permanently turning people off of the whole endeavor.

Rolling Stone

“Green delivers a smart, sturdy second chapter. Low consequence, perhaps, but still highly entertaining.”

Total Film

“Halloween Kills suffers from being the second chapter in a trilogy, but it still delivers gory fun, fantastic performances, and an electrifying score from John Carpenter. There are enough callbacks to the original film to satisfy Carpenter fans while also expanding the mythology around Michael Myers and the town of Haddonfield in meaningful ways.”

IGN

“Halloween Kills muddies its entire concept with a bizarre, unrefined commentary on mob mentality that is quite simply some of the worst material in either Green’s career and the history of this rocky franchise (which is saying something if you’ve seen, say, “Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers”).”

Roger Ebert

“And yes, the ending will anger audiences unaware that, when they bought a ticket for this film, they effectively signed on for Halloween Ends, too … at least if they want any sense of resolution. But there is something entertaining, or maybe just enjoyably puzzling, about what Gordon Green and McBride think a Michael Myers movie could or ought to be. If it ain’t dead, don’t kill it.”

Globe and Mail

“What Halloween Kills lacks in ideas it partially makes up for in gruesomely authentic slasher texture. From cinematography to editing, casting to oozy prosthetic gore, Green and his crew have recreated the feel of the Carpenter original with an almost academic diligence, particularly in an extended 1970s-set opening flashback.”

The Telegraph

“Second films in trilogies are often the toughest to pull off. Maybe Green’s final chapter, Halloween Ends, will redeem what he’s done here, which ultimately feels like very little progress at all.”

New York Post

“It’s almost as if Halloween Kills is an inconsistent, sloppy mess.”

Chicago Sun Times

“If the previous movie conjured a bit of excitement by eradicating everything that had transpired after the original, that sense of novelty has quickly worn off.”

CNN

“Even die-hard horror fans can’t help but notice Halloween Kills stumbles through the nostalgia that made Green’s “Halloween” reboot work, and that “Kills” isn’t scary in the least.”

Movie Nation

“There’s a lot of baloney — along with bodies — sliced up by the end, with Laurie bloviating about how Michael has come to “transcend” something or other. But there’s nothing transcendent, let alone new in Halloween Kills.”

The Washington Post

“Despite the odd fun bit of bloodshed, Halloween Kills is mostly tired, tedious and an insult to everything John Carpenter got right first time round.”

Empire

“In trying to do too much, Halloween Kills ends up doing nothing at all, other than tarnishing this franchise’s good name.”

Los Angeles Times

“Halloween night may be Michael Myers’ masterpiece, but Halloween Kills is no masterpiece. It’s a mess — a slasher movie that‘s almost never scary, slathered with “topical” pablum and with too many parallel plot strands that don’t go anywhere.”

Variety

“The big problem is that Halloween Kills is less of a sequel than a half-baked interlude before the finale. It is a bloody, violent, chaotic and cynical mess and not even in a good or particularly scary or insightful way.”

Associated Press

New Halloween Kills Featurette shines light on returning cast members. October 1, 2021

While we wait for the next round of slicing and dicing from Haddonfield’s most notorious slasher, Universal Pictures has released a new featurette that shines a light on all the returning cast members from the original “Halloween” in 1978.

Generations of Halloween stars unite in Jamie Lee Curtis’ photo from the set. September 28, 2021

Actress Jamie Lee Curtis posted the following on Instagram today, showing OG actors alongside new members of the Halloween family.

“The genius, of our first 1978 producer, Irwin Yablans to set the OG HALLOWEEN on 10/31, adds so much as we ALL LOVE COSPLAY. It blurs the lines. What are we? Who are we? Notice people from the 1978 and 2018 movies? The gang’s all here in fear!”

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Intense Halloween Kills trailer confirms the moment we’ve all been waiting for – Michael Myers will be unmasked. September 20, 2021

The new trailer for the highly anticipated Halloween Kills teases the moment Jamie Lee Curtis unmasks Michael Myers. This final preview is intense!

Halloween Kills will be released in theaters and on Peacock simultaneously. September 9, 2021

Universal will be releasing the Blumhouse/Miramax movie Halloween Kills in theaters and on Peacock on Oct. 15. They dynamic release window of course, is expected to attract viewers to the pay tier level of NBC’s Peacock streaming service.

Jamie Curtis says there are big changes coming for Laurie. August 31, 2021

Star Jamie Lee Curtis says her Laurie character will see some big changes in Halloween Kills.

“We got to see in the 2018 movie that Laurie had become the personification of trauma. It married at the time when the MeToo Movement was at its ascent. Here you have a movie about a woman traumatized for 40 years and she is now rising up.”

Expect a huge body count in the Halloween Kills saga. (July 21, 2021)

According to several sources, the body count in Halloween Kills is something to behold. Jamie Lee Curtis said,

“It’s intense and brutal. Just brutal.”

Co-Writer Danny McBride added,

“There’s an incredible amount of killing in this movie. It’s so bloody. It’s wild. David [Gordon Green] just went for it. This is such a vicious sequel. It’s relentless.”

Total Film gives us our best look at the new Michael Myers mask. (July 20, 2021)

Total Film has put the serial slasher on their cover and it gives us our best look yet at the new Michael Myers mask.

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Picking up where Halloween 2018 left off…

Recall that Halloween 2018 completely rebooted the franchise. Laurie is not Michael Myers sister and instead, is a babysitter that was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. No more “Myers was cursed by a cult” stuff. All of the convoluted stuff from the original franchise has been ditched. Instead, Myers escapes the Smith’s Grove Psychiatric Hospital 40 years after his Haddonfield killing spree, recovers his mask, and of course, goes after Laurie. Although Myers appears to have been killed (burned alive), in a post-credits scene, Michael’s breathing is heard, indicating that he survived.

Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of “B+” on an A+ to F scale, and those at PostTrak gave the film an overall 75% positive score and a 65% “definite recommend”, while the social media monitor RelishMix noted a “positive buzz” response to the film online.

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