HallowScream - Halloween Kills (2021) - TWO YEAR ANNIVERSARY

           Hey guys, Chuck here, and it's the official two year anniversary of Chuck's Movie Breakdown. And what better to commemorate two years of movie reviews than with my review of the latest film in the Halloween series: Halloween Kills. 

       So, the movie picks up where the 2018 Halloween film ended. Laurie Strode, along with her daughter Karen and granddaughter Allison, are escaping from Laurie's compound, where the house is burning with Michael Myers trapped inside. Unfortunately, a group of idiotic firefighters head to the house to put out the blaze, and Michael gets free and kills them all. Laurie is in the hospital for her injuries, as is Officer Frank Hawkins. Meanwhile, Tommy Doyle and a group of others who survived Michael's rampage in 1978 gather a few volunteers from across Haddonfield, including Allison, and they set out to put an end to the nightmare that is Michael Myers once and for all. And that is all I am willing to say about it, you'll have to see the movie for yourself to find out if Michael is defeated or not. 

       Okay, I definitely enjoyed the returns of Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Will Patton, and Andi Matichak from the 2018 film, and I definitely enjoyed the new additions like Anthony Michael Hall and returning actresses from the 1978 original Kyle Richards and Nancy Stephens. I also enjoyed the flashbacks involving Officer Hawkins during the events of the 1978 original, and Thomas Mann was terrific as a younger Hawkins. And the visual effects used to recreate the image of the late Donald Pleasance as Dr. Loomis were really good. 

       However, I do feel that the story, while picking up where the 2018 film ended, was a bit weaker than the 2018 film. While no means terrible (unlike the two films in the series that Rob Zombie directed), it really felt like too much of a nostalgia grab for fans of the 1978 original, referring back to that film consistently. While it's great to refer back to John Carpenter's original classic, I would've liked this one to stand a bit more on its own. 

        Overall, director David Gordon Green, who wrote the film along with Danny McBride and Scott Teems, did a good job with this film. While I definitely hoped for more originality, I still had a good time. So, Halloween Kills gets a rating of 4/5 from me. This is Chuck signing off, and I'll see you guys next time as we continue HallowScream. 

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