Solomon's turn back with a review for Halloween Kills. This is one that we had to wait an extra

year for because of the pandemic. The sequel to the 2018 Halloween, which was a direct follow-up

to John Carpenter's original from 1978, ignoring all of the sequels that came after it.

I love the 2018 movie. I thought it did as good of a job as any of the sequels trying to recapture

the spirit of the original, and the fact that it ignored all of the sequels was a plus.

I think it's scarier not knowing why he killed his sister when he was six years old and then

went on this killing spree years later instead of Laurie Strode being revealed to be his sister and

here he is now going to kill off what's left of his bloodline. I think it's scarier the other way.

It also had that great John Carpenter score to it. I really enjoyed it and I had ranked it

number three all time behind the original and season of the witch as my personal favorite of

all the Halloween movies. I really wanted to love this one too and sadly I did not.

Although I would still take it over the whole thorn story from part six or the heaping pile of

shit that was resurrection, it wasn't all bad, but this was just a more violent,

dumb down version of the 2018 film. I did like the fact that I was able to stream this on peacock.

Yeah, it didn't look like it hurt the movie much in theaters. It pulled in over $50 million this

weekend. Now look, people just love their slasher movies. It's why I have every expectation that

that new screen movie is going to do very well when it comes out in January. But if it keeps pulling

numbers like that 50 million in one weekend, I mean that's down from what the first movie did a

few years ago, but I think given the whole situation with the world and movie theaters right now,

that's still a hell of a number. So if it keeps pulling numbers like that, I think Halloween

ends is going to be followed by Halloween for just kidding and Halloween five. No, really we promise

this is the end. That's what that's what's coming up. There are some spoiler notes in here.

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