Halloween Truly Does Kill

Myers leaving his childhood home from being burned

The excitement of the gore and terror built into the suspense of the movie, Halloween Kills, directed by David Gordon Green, did not disappoint the general audience. However, there seems to be missing points in the film.

With a brilliant cast from Jamie Lee Curtis to John Carpenter, Green seems to keep the movie more about carnage than plot. Even though I did enjoy the movie, there could be more. Keenan Thomas, writer for the Daily Beacon writes, “The only thing dying tonight is my enthusiasm for the sequel” and I do agree with him. The growth of the sequel is bringing the franchise down.

There is always some fun themes, and then something drastic, cruel, and unusual. The iconic, scary, suspenseful music still plays in the background whenever someone may die. The original Halloween from 1978, directed by John Carpenter, was not finished in the sense of “Michael needs more”. The reboot of the original was produced in 2018 and the sequel was Halloween Kills. After the first weekend of showing, Halloween Kills racked up a little more than $50 Million which is not exactly killing it in today’s terms. Rotten Tomatoes agrees with those numbers, with only an aggregate score of 39%.

A closeup of Michael stabbing someone

This is only my second time watching a Halloween movie, and I did enjoy the original 1978 film. Halloween Kills shows reminiscence of the first movie created in this franchise, and I think that many fans would appreciate that. This movie stays true to its roots and does not go far and beyond to try to make the movie super practical. I think that it is a strong point to have a good plot even if the movie is good in everything else.

“I'm coming for you, Michael,” said by the infamous Laurie Strode ( Jamie Lee Curtis), means that her revenge tour is coming, and she wants more. Where will the suspense begin? It seems to be that the growing suspense throughout the movie stayed constant, but there seems to be a problem. The plot likes to be where someone is about to die then the music grows louder and everyone around the scene tends to tense up. Everyone in the 2021 film does want more blood and action, but there seems to be a repeating theme in every Halloween movie. The overall plot of the movie changes, but I believe Green wanted to focus on the blood and death of as many people humanly possible. As always, Laurie Strode is a target for Mr. Myers and he needs her dead. Possibly, Green could have touched on other topics in the movie and brought new characters into it. The kills are pretty unique to where it leaves you thinking about what if this is real but, the movie music corresponds to the kills.

The cast did phenomenal job feeling the emotion of the scenes and making the audience feel like they are at the scene as well. Michael makes the body count quite high and it is very consistent throughout the whole movie. You feel sorrowful for Mrs. Strode as she is battling a mental and physical state of dread. Anthony Michael Hall playing Tommy Doyle brings a type of bad boy in the sense of he will kill Myers. His role in the movie plays is tremendous because he hypes up Strode to make sure she gets her wish.

I feel as if newcomers to the scary movie scene would love this movie but Halloween vets would probably be done with the franchise and be happy.