Halloween Kills: Your thoughts?

[KingOfBBN]

I liked it but definitely a bridge movie and the most violent Halloween ever. We’ve come a long way from the original where there was no blood and only 5 people died. In this film...

*SPOILER*



Michael kills 27 people and I believe there’s a total of 29 deaths in the movie. Just brutal. Anyway, I liked it but not as much as the 2018 one.

 

[-BBH-]

I liked it quite a bit. Thought the middle of the movie seemed odd and out of place. Thought the end was fantastic as were the flashback sequences. They nailed the feel of 1978 in them.

John Carpenter's score was f*cking awesome.

 

[KingOfBBN]

I liked it quite a bit. Thought the middle of the movie seemed odd and out of place. Thought the end was fantastic as were the flashback sequences. They nailed the feel of 1978 in them.

John Carpenter's score was f*cking awesome.

The 1978 parts were my favorite and so well. The entire look of the film changed to match that 70s-cinema look. Loved that. Agree on the soundtrack.

I liked all of the cameos from the original. Surprised Laurie was more on the backburner in this film.

 

[LineSkiCat14]

Ahem.. Horror Movie Thread..

.. but I liked it a lot. Aside from some very dumb character moments, and a lack of the Strode family for much of the movie, I thought it was great. They really captured a town in a frenzy over a killer, showing everything from people being terrified, to overly confident and everything in between. I really enjoyed the bar scene which shows a lot of different character's interactions during the premise of a killer being down the block. The kills were great, blood shed galore. Visually great, solid sound design.

This and it's prequel are far better than any Halloween released in the last 30 years, aside from H20. It's better than 5, 6, resurrection and whatever the hell Rob Zombie was doing..

 

[KingOfBBN]

Ahem.. Horror Movie Thread..

.. but I liked it a lot. Aside from some very dumb character moments, and a lack of the Strode family for much of the movie, I thought it was great. They really captured a town in a frenzy over a killer, showing everything from people being terrified, to overly confident and everything in between. I really enjoyed the bar scene which shows a lot of different character's interactions during the premise of a killer being down the block. The kills were great, blood shed galore. Visually great, solid sound design.

This and it's prequel are far better than any Halloween released in the last 30 years, aside from H20. It's better than 5, 6, resurrection and whatever the hell Rob Zombie was doing..

Yeah totally agree. My list basically goes Halloween 2, Halloween, Halloween 2018, H20, and now this. Part four was decent. But anything else suuuuuucked. Didn’t bother watching Zombie’s second installment. Not a fan of the white trash angle he always goes for.

 

[LineSkiCat14]

Yeah totally agree. My list basically goes Halloween 2, Halloween, Halloween 2018, H20, and now this. Part four was decent. But anything else suuuuuucked. Didn’t bother watching Zombie’s second installment. Not a fan of the white trash angle he always goes for.

Same man. Can't stand his Hillbilly sleaze movies that try to make the viewer sympathize with the antogonists. Growing up with his first few movies like Devils Rejects, I've always found that the people drawn to his work were weird.

 

[ganner918_rivals60369]

Pretty lame. They replaced tension and suspense with gore, the "mob is a monster" thing just felt like filler, and the ending sucked.

 

[BlueVelvetFog]

Did they ever think to just cut his damn head off? I understand them not doing it in 1978, but at the end he survived six bullets and a fall out a window. Maybe in H2, Loomis should have shot him in both eyes—then when Michael was stumbling around swinging that scalpel, grabbed an axe from the old firebox and decapitated him on the spot. (Before barbecuing him, of course).

 

[-BBH-]

I actually liked the ending quite a bit. The flashbacks were awesome. Just that middle 30 minutes or so kept it from being a really good sequel. Instead, it's just OK.

 

[LineSkiCat14]

Did they ever think to just cut his damn head off? I understand them not doing it in 1978, but at the end he survived six bullets and a fall out a window. Maybe in H2, Loomis should have shot him in both eyes—then when Michael was stumbling around swinging that scalpel, grabbed an axe from the old firebox and decapitated him on the spot. (Before barbecuing him, of course).

You have to suspend SOME disbelief.. and make the characters dumber than you or I.. or else slashers and many horror movies really wouldn't exist: the killers largely wouldn't make it past the midway point of the 1st movie.

Also worth noting that this movie technically take places after the 1st Halloween and the 2018 version. It ret-con'd everything after it, which takes away a lot of MM's inhuman strength. So for Halloween Kills, he's really a guy who took a beating from Strode, got shot a bunch of times (ok, a little far fetched), healed in an insane aslylum,.. and in the remake, gets out, gets stabbed a few times, I think shot, and almost burns in a house fire... not ALL that far fetched to think he couldn't have survived all that. So all that stuff that happened to him in the other films, didn't exist. And to the town folk.. they only know about him from his killing spree in the 70s. The events of the 2018 movie hadn't quite hit the rest of the town in Halloween kills.

a long winded way of me saying: they probably thought that final beatdown was enough to put down a crazy man who killed a few people.. not a super human who has survived 9 some odd movies of pain.

 

[BlueVelvetFog]

Thoughts and prayers for the denizens of Haddonfield IL

 

[Nightwish84]

I'm calling it Friday the 31st. I liked aspects of it like the half fried mask, score, and flashbacks but ultimately I don't like Michael doing creative kills and bulldozing an entire town. One of the best moments of the series is when Michael chokes Bob and stabs him once, then turns his head to the side mimicking a dog. That's creepy and simplistic. Old guy/new Michael crushes a head with a single boot stomp and pushes 8 knives into someone's back. Eh, I'll watch Jason for that. Michael is better at slow stalk and slash.

Plus all the hospital mob "oh gosh the guy who looks like a beetle that we thought was Myers killed himself" stuff was terrible.

 

[kyeric]

I'm calling it Friday the 31st. I liked aspects of it like the half fried mask, score, and flashbacks but ultimately I don't like Michael doing creative kills and bulldozing an entire town. One of the best moments of the series is when Michael chokes Bob and stabs him once, then turns his head to the side mimicking a dog. That's creepy and simplistic. Old guy/new Michael crushes a head with a single boot stomp and pushes 8 knives into someone's back. Eh, I'll watch Jason for that. Michael is better at slow stalk and slash.

Plus all the hospital mob "oh gosh the guy who looks like a beetle that we thought was Myers killed himself" stuff was terrible.

Totally agree with the creepiness and simplicity of the first couple Halloweens. My 2 favorite horror/slasher movies of them all. Part 3 wasn't even about him and 4 just isn't 1 or 2 and from then on I really haven't paid any attention. Haven't even seen the 2018 version.