Written by Scott Teems, Danny McBride and David Gordon Greene
Directed by David Gordon Greene
Starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, Will Patton, Thomas Mann, Anthony Michael Hall and Kyle Richards
USA
When it was announced a couple years ago that director David Gordon Greene was going to be tackling the next HALLOWEEN movie, I had hope. After all, with only a couple missteps, Greene’s career has been amazing – he’s had some mainstream hits and a couple of mainstream flops, but most of his career is made up of some of the greatest American indie films ever made – lyrical and poetic character studies that really have a unique point of view, and something important to say about the world we live in and human nature.
Unfortunately, his HALLOWEEN movie in 2018 didn’t have any of that and its sequel, HALLOWEEN KILLS, doesn’t either.
Now – let’s step back a minute. Is this a serviceable HALLOWEEN sequel, forgetting any Greene potential? I guess that depends. It definitely has Michael Meyers killing a bunch of people, like the other ones. Does that make a good HALLOWEEN movie?
If you look at the original, this one has basically nothing that made it great. It lacks the simplicity of a suspenseful situation. Here, we have Michael Meyers surviving the trap set for him by Jamie Lee Curtis at the end of the last film, to go on a killing spree in town, where the townsfolk have had enough of his shenanigans and decide to form a mob to kill him. First they get picked off one by one, then they think they have him but it turns out to be the wrong insane asylum escapee and finally they do get him – except he just survives and kills a bunch of them. The end.
I guess I’m supposed to be hyped for the sequel to this sequel but we’re how many HALLOWEEN movies deep by now? A thousand?
The best thing that can be said for this movie is that it has Halloween type stuff in it and I watched it on a super blustery fall day. That was nice.
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