The new Halloween movie arrives in Irish cinemas this week, and it is NOT for the squeamish...
did bring back some of that old-school slasher fun, with Michael Myers once again laying waste to anyone unfortunate enough to cross his path, but the kills were usually the payoff of some well-built tension., which might arguably be the most violent high-profile Hollywood horror movie of the last decade.
The scare count is low, but if you're particularly squeamish, then this film is probably your worst nightmare.You'll need to have recently watched both the 1978 Halloween and the 2018 Halloween, as Halloween Kills kicks off in media res at the tail end of both of these movies.
That's without mentioning the return of Deputy Hawkins , or the five or six brand new characters this movie introduces, and it quickly becomes clear that this is all... well... a bit of a mess. With Laurie spending most of the movie on a hospital bed, Halloween Kills goes most of its runtime without a central protagonist, flitting from one soon-to-be-murder victim to the next. Townsfolk are givenscreen time to make their eventual ultra-violent demise a little more than totally meaningless, with the filmmakers clearly a lot more invested in the gooey prosthetics than, say, emotional arcs.
Which isn't to say that the film is entirely without merit or entertainment, but when the 20th or 30th innocent victim gets brutally murdered, it does become a bit blurry as to whose side the movie is actually on.There is also the sense that with the arrival of Halloween Ends in October 2022 – apparently, but we've been told that before – that this is a case of spinning wheels until all the pieces are in place for that finale.
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