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David Gordon GreenCinematography:
Michael SimmondsCast:
Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, James Jude Courtney, Nick Castle, Anthony Michael Hall, Will Patton, Thomas Mann, Jim Cummings, Dylan Arnold (more)VOD (2)
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The Halloween night when Michael Myers returned isn’t over yet. Michael manages to free himself from Laurie Strode’s (Jamie Lee Curtis) trap to resume his ritual bloodbath. As Laurie fights for her life from injuries from her last encounter with Michael, she inspires her daughter Karen (Judy Greer), granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak), and all of Haddonfield to rise up against their unstoppable monster. The vigilante mob then sets out to hunt Michael down, once and for all. (Universal Pictures UK)
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The worst Terminator sequel ever. Slashers have always flirted with a certain supernaturalness to their evil, and Carpenter's first Halloween was a pioneer in this regard. But he used the apparent inscrutability of Myers as a mysterious framework to which he cleverly subordinated the style, staging and behaviour of the desperate characters. In Halloween Kills, everything is turned upside down, the mysterious killer becomes nothing but a ripoff of Terminator, the focus is on brutality instead of atmosphere, and the story of vulnerable teenage girls is turned into a community-wide uprising, ending with a twist straight out of old sci-fi. If you don't look at it as just another Halloween, you're at least left with a fairly brisk and bloody slasher that occasionally tries to stylistically reference the classics, but even then it's no picnic. Laurie is just a number and the attempt to spread attention among a dozen characters fails miserably. 45
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Halloween Kills is a problematic movie, which suffers from the second-movie-in-a-trilogy syndrome (it lacks a beginning and an end). It also suffers from the chosen scenario, where the plot is spread too thin because of having a lot of newly introduced supporting characters. It also looks slightly "padded out" with too much filler. Plus, with the enormous fan service and countless (and unnecessary) flashbacks, the movie’s makers overdid it. In other words, it is a bit chaotic. I do not mean to be horrible about it at all, I had a good time watching this movie, however, I have some concerns as to whether the creative team around David Gordon Green actually knows in which direction the whole trilogy is heading (other than simply making more money go to their own wallets).
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A film as pointless as Mynář's press conference. It doesn't bring anything new to the genre, a soup reheated so many times that it’s inedible, and when it does come up with something unusual, which I consider to be the "popular uprising" of Haddonfield residents, it's as silly as Ovčáček's tweets. And Michael Myers here strikes me as an immortal cyber version of the T-1000 from Terminator and not a flesh-and-blood creature.
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Evil is not dying Tonight. I'm not as pissed off as others, but I definitely expected more. The Halloween from 2018 was a level above in almost every way. When Michael Myers is on set the film is an effective horror slasher with cool kills and decent gore, a 4 star flick, but when he's not on set, which unfortunately is most of the time, it's pretty boring for and 2-star worthy. There are lots of uninteresting and weird characters dealing with some kind of urban trauma which I was absolutely not interested in, I'd rather watch young teenagers going house to house and Myers killing them one by one than watching this bunch of grown ups dealing with boring adult stuff, oh yeah drama is already here too! We've known for 40 years that, Myers comes back to life and it's a wonder anyone is surprised about it today, it's like walking into a strip club and being surprised there are strippers. Also illogical character behaviour has always been a part of slashers. The original movie from 1978 wasn't some deep story mindfuck with philosophical overtones and abstract thinking either, after all there's a woman screaming before Michael even pulls a knife out of his pocket, so Jokes on you Bitches! I, on the other hand, will complain about the lack of murders and Myers, who spends maybe 30 minutes on his rampage, and the downright unsatisfying finale that lacks atmosphere and suspense. I can still remember the atmospheric finale in the house. Ironically the best gore scene of the film is from a dude who jumps out the window by himself, and the firemen had bigger balls in the trailer. So Malignant is unthreatened so far this year, maybe Antlers or Last Night in Soho? Story 2/5, Action 3/5, Humour 2/5, Violence 4/5, Fun 3/5 Music 4/5, Visuals 4/5, Atmosphere 3/5, Suspense 3/5, Emotion 1/5, Actors 2/5. 6/10.
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I was looking forward to the new Halloween even after the mixed reviews from Venice. I thought the attendees of that festival just couldn't appreciate a simple, blunt, but fun, brutal and atmospheric slasher ride. The whole campaign, after all, had been hyping that Halloween Kills would be mean and evil; the biggest Halloween ever with a massive body count. And that’s what dominates even in the responses here: that it's decent carnage and that the main problem is the illogical behaviour of the characters. That, for me, it’s just the bullshit that the campaign has drilled into our heads. Halloween Kills is awfully boring and very poorly constructed conceptually. It tries to psychologise the collective trauma of Haddonfield and spends an incredible amount of time with annoying characters that no one has ever cared about or can care about. And Laurie is stuck in the hospital the whole time, doing nothing. The kills are fine, but they don't take up much screen time, and I certainly don't think Myers is on screen more than in other instalments of the series. If only! At the expense of Tommy, Lonnie and those other annoyances. With each successive "Evil dies tonight!" I wanted to throw the monitor out the window more and more.
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