31 Days of Spooky Movies: Halloween Kills (2021)

I think the Blumhouse Halloween trilogy is an underrated gem compared to a lot of the other Halloween movies. I feel like I've heard all of these are really bad... but honestly I liked them more than I thought I would like them. My first impression of this movie was that I liked it more than the first of the Blumhouse Halloween movies... but thinking more on it I think the first one is the best of the Blumhouse Halloween movies... but this movie ties the three movies in this trilogy together really really well.

I should preface this by also saying this is the last movie that I saw of the three movies. When Halloween Ends first came out- the reviews of it were so terrible and so funny that my boyfriend and I had to watch it. It was also when brand new movies were releasing to streaming right away- so that's kind of why we watched it... we weren't really going to movie theaters a lot and we love going to movie theaters... so we watched Halloween Ends and it was insane. So after watching Halloween 2018- I was like "huh... how do these two movies fit together" and I think Halloween Kills was perfect at doing that. It's definitely what these 2 very random movies needed.

This movie is kind of about what happened to Haddonfield because of Michael Myers. Because this evil is in the town- what happened to this town. Did it make the rest of the town more evil? Did this change how things go around the town? Yes... yes it did.

Halloween Kills is a fitting name for this movie too because it has the best kills of the entire Halloween franchise. H20 might kind of compare- but this one I think they tried to do differently. I watched a special feature that came up after the extended version of this dvd and it played some special features right after- and I couldn't find the dvd case so I was watching while looking for the case... and they said they were trying to make the kills like "art installation" so... that was kind of what they were going for and why it was different.

This movie is also a lot like Halloween 2- they had the mistaken identity bit- they had Laurie at the Hospital... The Angry Mob kind of set it apart- but overall I thought this was a great retelling of Halloween 2... and it was the perfect bridge between the two other movies and overall I liked it. I liked the angry mob around Haddonfield even though it got to be too much... I liked all the other characters... and overall I just liked it a lot.

My favorite parts: The gay couple in the Myers house, the couple that was a doctor and a nurse, Anthony Michael Hall as the kid Laurie babysat for... This was not the best Halloween sequel- but it wasn't the worst!

Bye!

-Shannon