The newest movie in the Michael Myers’ Halloween series, “Halloween Kills” was a weak way to keep milking the series of its title instead of it’s true story at this point. At the very beginning, the characters (as their older selves) are reunited, and clips from each previous movie are shown how they experienced Myers’ traumatic killing spree. Of course, as expected, somehow Michael survives, and starts coming after all of the innocent victims.
If you’re one for gore, this is definitely the movie for you. Myers does a fantastic job of executing the kills thoroughly when it comes to his victims, it was almost as if he was invincible. It’s understandable that the movie is rated R, and for anybody whose parents are restrictive with that kind of content, asking before watching it is definitely a good idea. Overall, the movie was more of a slasher than anything else, despite some considering it a “scary” movie. Despite some getting true fear from the killer himself, the ‘jump scares’ provided truly weren’t the scariest. Maybe glass shattering or somebody jumping out of a dimly lit place, but most of the time one could foreshadow what was going to happen.
One thing that was slightly annoying, was that the characters would claim “we’re gonna get him” and “we got him for sure” but they don’t tend to seal the deal very well. Either something goes terribly wrong, or they were chasing after the wrong person the entire time and didn’t realize until it was too late. The movie takes a slight turn in perspectives about halfway through, when the citizens realized who they’d become, after mobbing and chasing Michael the entire time. They take a look back at themselves, and realize that they might also be the monster.
There are few times throughout the movie where the main family of characters have “family” moments, such as them discussing how Michael has been coming after their family for generations, and they get all emotional. Or occasions where they will have a ‘mother-daughter bonding moment’ with sweet music, about 10 seconds after somebody just got brutally murdered on screen. It was an uncomfortable transition and felt somewhat unnecessary. And of course, like any classic horror movie, the group says to not leave each other’s side. What is the first thing that they do? Split apart. That’s one thing that could make one aggravated very early on.
Overall, Halloween Kills deserves a 5/10. It wasn’t the worst, as it kept a somewhat general horror flick theme, but also lacked consistency when it came to jump scares, keeping viewers on the edge of their seat, and seemed to focus more on storyline than the slasher himself. But there was one constant that they did keep, the fact that nobody ever kills the infamous Michael Myers.
Zoe Rivera // Staff Writer
