Halloween Kills

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Halloween Kills

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Released Oct 15, 2021

1h 45m

Holiday

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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Minutes after Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), her daughter Karen (Judy Greer) and granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak) left masked monster Michael Myers caged and burning in Laurie's basement, Laurie is rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, believing she finally killed her lifelong tormentor. But when Michael manages to free himself from Laurie's trap, his ritual bloodbath resumes. As Laurie fights her pain and prepares to defend herself against him, she inspires all of Haddonfield to rise up against their unstoppable monster. The Strode women join a group of other survivors of Michael's first rampage who decide to take matters into their own hands, forming a vigilante mob that sets out to hunt Michael down, once and for all. Evil dies tonight.

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Critics Consensus

Halloween Kills should satisfy fans in search of brute slasher thrills, but in terms of advancing the franchise, it's a bit less than the sum of its bloody parts.

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Halloween Kills doesn't do much to move the Michael Myers saga forward, but viewers looking for hardcore horror violence won't be disappointed.

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Richard Whittaker

Austin Chronicle

As a sequel to the deliciously absurd 2018 resurrection, it's a ponderous bore, far-too-intermittently broken up by spurts of the franchise's signature gore.

Nov 3, 2021

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David Stratton

The Australian

Halloween Kills is an ugly, messy film. It's a little depressing to learn that yet another sequel is supposedly in the works.

Rated: 2/5

Oct 30, 2021

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Becca James

Chicago Reader

Halloween Kills fails to resurrect the franchise.

Oct 30, 2021

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Susanna Norbiato

Loud and Clear Reviews

To use Goya’s words, “the sleep of reason produces monsters,” and Michael Myers is the Fear that we all carry within us, and that we come face to face every day, when we look at ourselves in the mirror.

Rated: 3.5/5

Sep 17, 2024

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Sarah Vincent

Sarah G Vincent Views

John Carpenter had a sense of pacing which heightened the tension with judicious kills whereas “Halloween Kills” is all chaos cinema and Beauty and the Beast’s Mob Song without the music.

Jun 10, 2024

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Stephanie Bunbury

Deadline Hollywood Daily

Never was there a film truer to its name. They’re sliced up with kitchen knives, hollowed out with a fluorescent strip light, bisected with a chain saw and impaled on banisters. The body count is phenomenal. We love this stuff. You know we do.

Sep 16, 2023

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Mz. Ghostly

With the exception of a few notable murder scenes and dialogue too cheesy to belong in a movie this expensive, Halloween Kills is a forgettable entry in the franchise that'll have the viewer digging through their physical or digital archives to rewatch the original classic.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/16/25

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EVIALL

EVIL DIES TONIGHT !! A horror sequel done right. The Halloween movies aren’t as scary as they used to be but the kills were brutal this time around

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

12/19/24

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seth

there will never be no other.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

11/01/24

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KXF

3/5. Superb action and cinematography. Wastes way too much time, though, with ridiculous sub-plots and cringe dialogue from insufferable characters. The repeated phrase "EVIL DIES TONIGHT" now haunts me just as badly as the never-ending Silver Shamrock commercial.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

11/01/24

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PJ

Cool flashback to 78. Cool sequence coming out of the burning house. Weak evil dies tonight through line. Micheal killing

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

10/14/22

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Delfin

While the plot is not as great as 2018 and does not touch the original, Kills is very entertaining and delivers to its name. It also shows how The Shape affects people outside of the Strode family which was great to see and it sets up an exciting confrontation in Ends between Laurie and The Shape.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

10/13/22

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Jamie Lee Curtis

Laurie Strode

Judy Greer

Karen

Anthony Michael Hall

Tommy Doyle

Andi Matichak

Allyson

Will Patton

Deputy Frank Hawkins

Movieclips: The Halloween Trilogy's Bloodiest Kills

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Halloween Kills: Official Clip - Stealing Michael's Mask

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Halloween Kills: Official Clip - The Staircase Kill

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Halloween Kills: Official Clip - Michael vs. the Mob

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Halloween Kills: Official Clip - Michael Myers vs. Firefighters

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Halloween Kills: Official Clip - Michael's Revenge

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Halloween Kills: Official Clip - Killing the Old Couple

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Halloween Kills: Official Clip - Van Massacre

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Halloween Kills: Official Clip - He Needs to Die

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Halloween Kills: Official Clip - Brutal Lynch Mob

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Halloween Kills: Featurette - On the Set Part 2

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Halloween Kills: Featurette - On the Set Part 1

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Halloween Kills: Featurette - Kyle Richards

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Halloween Kills: Featurette - A Look Inside

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Halloween Kills: Featurette - Warriors

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Halloween Kills: Featurette - Return to Haddonfield

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Jamie Lee Curtis & Judy Greer Talk Final Girls and ‘Halloween Kills’

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Halloween Kills: Final Trailer

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Synopsis

Minutes after Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), her daughter Karen (Judy Greer) and granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak) left masked monster Michael Myers caged and burning in Laurie's basement, Laurie is rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, believing she finally killed her lifelong tormentor. But when Michael manages to free himself from Laurie's trap, his ritual bloodbath resumes. As Laurie fights her pain and prepares to defend herself against him, she inspires all of Haddonfield to rise up against their unstoppable monster. The Strode women join a group of other survivors of Michael's first rampage who decide to take matters into their own hands, forming a vigilante mob that sets out to hunt Michael down, once and for all. Evil dies tonight.

Director: David Gordon Green
Producer: Jason Blum
Screenwriter: Danny McBride
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Production Co: Home Again Productions, Rough House Pictures, Miramax, Trancas International Films Inc., Universal Pictures, Blumhouse Productions
Rating: R (Language|Grisly Images|Some Drug Use|Strong Bloody Violence)
Genre: Holiday, Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 15, 2021, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 15, 2021
Box Office (Gross USA): $92.0M
Runtime: 1h 45m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital, Dolby Atmos
Aspect Ratio: Digital 2.39:1

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