Earlier today, I went to the local AMC theater to watch Halloween Kills...the sequel to 2018's Halloween.
Clearly, this installment was supposed to be The Empire Strikes Back of this trilogy—with Michael Myers prevailing at the end of this flick and Jamie Lee Curtis being the Jedi who returns in next year's Halloween Ends, which I didn't know was already in production before I started working on this review!
As far as Halloween Kills is concerned, this movie was not scary but definitely gory. I felt bad for those firefighters who were the first ones to confront Myers as he remained trapped in that burning house [which is where Laurie Strode (Curtis), her daughter Karen Nelson (Judy Greer) and granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak) left him to die at the end of the 2018 film].
Well, I felt bad for all the characters who became Myers' hapless victims in this sequel. Myers came up with the most thorough and violent ways to dispatch each of the poor souls who dared confront him... One example being Allyson's ex-boyfriend Cameron (Dylan Arnold), whose noggin received a brutal thrashing against those stair banisters in Myers' childhood home before finally getting his neck snapped!
I look forward to Halloween Ends. Halloween Kills made it appear that Michael Myers got his supernatural strength and immortality through his mask (like Jim Carrey's character Stanley Ipkiss did in 1994's The Mask, shown below)—which I think will be his undoing.
I reckon that Myers' fate will hitch on Laurie Strode or Deputy Frank Hawkins (Will Patton) removing his mask in Halloween End's climax before finally ending his reign of terror...or simply beheading Myers with the mask still on.
We'll find out on October 14, 2022: Halloween End's nationwide release date!
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