By: Lana K. Wilson-Combs
“Halloween Kills” is brutal. The slasher film from director
David Gordon Green is the follow-up to 2018’s semi-reboot hit movie “Halloween.”
This one is messier, bloodier, and downright chilling with its brutality much of which comes at the hands of that maniacal murderer, Michael Myers played by Nick Castle and James Jude Courtney. “Halloween Kills” picks up right where the last movie left off.
Laurie Strode (a sensational Jamie Leigh Curtis, TV’s “Archer”), her daughter Karen (Judy Greer, TV’s “Archer”) and granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak, “Son”) have been through the wringer. They have beaten, burned, and finally killed Michael Myers, the walking nightmare who for years has terrorized them and every resident of Haddonfield, Illinois.
Or so they think.
Myers’ resiliency is mindboggling. Turns out, he is alive and angrier than ever and has returned to Haddonfield eager to carry out his bloody rampage. This time, Laurie (Curtis) realizes it’s going to take a village to finally rid the town of this nightmare. So, she calls on everyone to stand up to this evil monster. Most all are on board including Tommy Doyle (Anthony Michael Hall, TV’s “The Goldbergs”) who Laurie used to babysit and who also years ago survived the wrath of Myers. No one is more eager to lead this emboldened group and hunt down the stone, cold killer than Tommy.
With “Halloween Kills,” director David Gordon Green and co-writers Danny McBride, (TV’s “The Righteous Gemstones”) and Scott Teems, “The Quarry”) have upped the ante with all the ghastly shenanigans.
I'll spare you the gory details of the vicious ways in which Myers murders his victims, but the light bulb and kitchen scene are something else. Believe me, even for someone who enjoys this grisly stuff, it shook me good. “Halloween Kills” is not for the squeamish.
The movie also nicely pays homage to the John Carpenter original 1978 horror classic.
Aside from Pennywise, the killer clown, Michael Myers is my other favorite big screen villain. The “Halloween” series will culminate with “Halloween Ends” next year. After “Halloween Kills,” fans of the horror franchise should prepare for another bloody, good time. See you next October.
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Lana K. Wilson-Combs is a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA), The Black Film Critics Circle (BFCC), The American Film Institute (AFI), and a Nominating Committee Voting Member for the NAACP Image Awards.
