A year has passed since David Gordon Green completed his Halloween trilogy, which culminated with Halloween Kills and 2022's Halloween Ends.
trilogy, which began with 2018’s Halloween and culminated with 2021’s Halloween Kills and 2022’s Halloween Ends. The last time I watched the series was last October, and I was eager to give it another go to see if my opinion might have changed after the long hiatus.Serving as a proper sequel to John Carpenter’s original Halloween, Green’s Halloween picks up some 40 years later and finds Laurie Strode neglecting life to prepare for a final brawl with Michael Myers. Naturally, things go to pot.
Halloween Kills muddies the waters and needlessly expands the story, rendering much of Halloween 2018 moot. Of all three films, Ends is the only one that feels like a John Carpenter production down to the synth-heavy score. Here, Green goes for something different, diverging from his safe space and traversing into the psychological terror Rob Zombie tackled in his iterations. I applaud the effort and felt compelled by Corey’s strange transformation from a downtrodden victim to a full-on serial killer. It was fascinating to watch and left me strangely excited for more.
Laurie Strode is also a problem. I like Jamie Lee Curtis, for the most part, but bringing her back for another round with Michael was a mistake. Their confrontation only illustrates the production’s lack of creative spark, mainly since we already saw this song and dance in 1998’s Halloween H20. Moreover, since Laurie is no longer related to Michael, her struggle feels less personal and more self-inflicted. He’s not after her or her family.
We meet a handful of protagonists led by Anthony Michael Hall’s Tommy Doyle and basically watch them die, but only after they proclaim, “Evil dies tonight” a dozen or so times. By the time Michael kills a woman by using a car door to make her blow her own head off with a gun, I realized Halloween Kills wasn’t interested in anything beyond simple thrills.
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