Film Review: Halloween kills

 Genre: Horror/thriller

Cert: 18 cert

Director: David Gordon Green

Screenwriter: (based on characters created by) John Carpenter, Debra Hill, (written by) Scott Teems, Danny McBride, David Gordon Green

Starring:  Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, James Jude Courtney, Nick Castle, Airon Armstrong, Will Patton, Thomas Mann, Jim Cummings, Dylan Arnold, Robert Longstreet, Anthony Michael Hall, Charles Cyphers, Scott MacArthur, Michael McDonald, Ross Bacon, Kyle Richards, Nancy Stephens.

Running time: 1h 45min

Parents advised reading before viewing the film as some scenes may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.

Sex & Nudity: A full frontal man nudity, in the background, between 40-41 minutes into the movie. If you look hard, you can see his penis. Seems to last a few seconds.

Near the beginning, there's a woman wearing a sleazy blouse that shows lots of cleavages.

Two characters are gay, nothing sexual is shown.

Violence & Gore: People are stabbed, slashed, and impaled with a variety of objects ranging from light tubes and broken glass to axes and knives.

It is far bloodier and brutal than Halloween (2018) the death scenes are intense and contain lots of blood and gore in detail.

Scenes of violence include slashing, stabbing, shooting, eye-gouging, choking, and repeated heavy blows with various weapons. Violence frequently results in gory injuries being sustained. In one scene, a man jumps from the window ledge of a tall building and is subsequently seen on the ground in a pool of blood and viscera, with limbs detached

The Firefighter scene is OVERLY GORY with scenes of head bashing (with brains prevalent) buzzsaws into the chest and deep into a fireman.

Heads are twisted

Children are bullied at school.

A knife is stabbed into a man's eye. It takes a few seconds for him to succumb.

A prolonged sequence near the end has a man's head smashed through a railing and then thrown up and down onto the broken parts while another character watches and we see their reaction. There is loud screaming and gargling and this sequence is extremely disturbing.

There is a sequence where a man gets stabbed in the armpit with lots of blood. The man is promptly thrown to the ground and then picked up and has his eyes gouged out with fingers and you see the eyeball pop out and there's lots of blood. The body is later seen afterward in full detail.

This movie is violent and graphic in many ways but NOWHERE NEAR as brutal as Rob zombies remakes despite what others say.

Profanity: 32 realistic uses of "fuck", 23 uses of "shit" and frequent mild use of terms of deity.

At least 6/7 uses of religious profanity (GD)

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: The character smokes weed and asks others if they'd like a hit.

A character shares a story about how he bought peyote from another character. He then describes a bad trip that the other character experienced that involved him taking off his clothes and freaking out.

There is a scene that takes place at a bar and many characters are seen drinking.

Frightening/Intense Scenes: Many disturbing scenes of terror and violence. Not recommended for those 18 and under.

It might receive an R18+ in Australia, but MA15+ would also be reasonable, nowhere near as violent as the rob zombie movies.

Story: the Halloween night when Michael Myers returned isn't over yet. Minutes after Laurie Strode (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.

Likes: With the latest installment of Halloween franchises, is Halloween kills any good? well yes and no, while the film does a good retrospect of the original john carpenters film with the night of the massacre as Michael Myer carves his way through teenagers, it gives a new direction for the film to go in, but there is one thing about this film that contradicts itself after what the director of the first reboot said about Myer being human and mortal which I will explain in dislikes, There are a few easter eggs to the Halloween 3 which is rumored to have a reboot coming.  

While for a Halloween film that film does a great job of giving the film a brutal killing horror aspect, while it wasn't as brutal as rob zombies Halloween version this film does offer some bloodthirst brutal kills, which is always good for shock value in these types of films. There is some element of humanity still in him which mentions something about the room in which he killed his sister at a young age, but something clearly got a hold of his body and mind.  

while I wanted to like this film, as I am a big fan of the Halloween franchise, especial with Michael Myers being one of the 80's iconic killers, like Pinhead (Hellraiser), Chucky, Jason Voorhees, and Freddy Krueger, they were the iconic killers to be feared in the horror genre, but feel like these directors or writers today aren't getting the characters right, like the original masters of horror, this is where I'm gonna have to point out what's wrong with this film. 

Dislikes: The biggest issue with this film is the director of the film said that they took away the supernatural part of Michael Myers and said he's just a really strong human, yet this film contradicts this with a certain scene toward the end. I get what they were trying to do with Michael Myers but it's such lazy writing and seems like they were trying to correct a mistake with the first reboot by the same director David Gordon Green, which should've been explained in the first reboot it would have made sense.

Yet trying to correct that mistake in Halloween kills it was executed right and comes across as very contradicting to what was said before when they could've just kept it in the storyline of Michael instead of taking it out. 

This isn't a spoiler because it's in the trailer, which is the dumbest writing I've seen in a horror film showing that these writers clean don't understand Michael Myer character or who he is, I get the part of 8 firefighters being brutally killed by Myers which is in the trailer, whats dumb is the writing for the people in the film, I mean come on if eight firefighters could handle Myers what the hell was a mod of people gonna do?... it truly is the worst script writing ever to get people doing the dumbest things and getting themself killed, it like you don't know whether to laugh at how dumb people were in the film or the way the script for them was done. 

Despite the brutal kills in the film, the rest of the film felt dumb and badgering the audience in to hear evil must die tonight over and over again like the audience doesn't understand it the first time they said it, it just makes this film so predictable and unfrightening, Jamie lee role in the film was absolutely pointless as well, as the film plot takes a massive turn in a different direction, it literally takes out all the jump scares for the film, making Halloween kills the worst installment in the Halloween franchise.

Overall: good brutal kills, the script was pretty poor making the people in the film dumb and mistaking stupid decisions, it is just not a great installment 

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 for Entertainment / 6.2 out of 10 for the sequel