More than half of this film is devoted to a storyline that involves the survivors of the original 1978 film and that was easily my favourite portion of the film, even though most of their dialogue was very clunky and overwritten. The logical conclusion is that the thief was Michael Myers, presumably right after he got back to Haddonfield. Halloween Kills has freed itself from the burning basement of pandemic delays to tease the further rebooted rampages of masked maniac Michael Myers. Halloween III: Season of the Witch received largely negative reviews and the lowest box office take of the franchise so far, and thereafter the Halloween movies stuck to stories about Michael Myers.

If you can get past the repetitiveness as I did, Halloween Kills is a solid sequel and if the ending of this film says anything about next year's Halloween Ends, I"m very excited to see how this all comes to an end. It leads to tragedy and mistakes as the Haddonfield mob sweeps up, gathers more momentum, and doesn't stop to think who it may trample upon next. Secondly, Halloween III ends with its main character failing to stop Silver Shamrock's commercial from playing, with the implication that millions of children across the United States are killed by the masks. The movie just feels far too much like it's on autopilot, trying to provide enough filler material until its eventual concluding chapter, 2022's Halloween Ends (yeah, we'll see about that, title).After the endless number of mostly poor sequels and even a remake by Rob Zombie with another sequel (which I very much disliked), I slowly started not caring about the franchise as a whole. It's definitely the second part of a trilogy, and a key component is lost, but Halloween Kills still mostly works. However, after two movies featuring Michael Myers as the main villain, it was somewhat confusing for fans to see a third Halloween movie that had nothing to do with the previous entries. While Jamie Lee Curtis is stellar as ever, she's restricted to a hospital bed for most of the film and given almost nothing to do. The scene in question focuses on a television playing in a bar, at which point the bartender changes the channel only to stumble upon a television spot for—you guessed it—1978’s original Halloween, thereby providing Michael Myers a brief, fourth-wall-detached presence in the film.

The events of Halloween III: Season of the Witch can't be completely canon in the Michael Myers timeline for a couple of reasons.

While Halloween Kills may be far from perfect, it was clearly made by people who love Carpenter's creation. Maybe it's the less cinematic approach, but it's something new and different and looking at a more human perspective for a sub-genre better known as serving as a relentless conveyor belt for wanton vivisection. What I'm saying is that these standard genre slasher movies bore me unless they have some exhilarating style, fresh ideas, or clever perspective shifts. I especially liked Anthony Michael Hall as grown-up Tommy from the original film, but again, some of his dialogue is atrocious.

Yet, in hindsight, it seemed necessary after it became clear that fans were starting to get bored with Michael Meyers butchering hapless teens after 1981 sequel Halloween II. million domestic,) black sheep of the Halloween film franchise—even as its continuity eventually underwent reboots, creating a confusing confluence of cinematic canons. Picking up immediately after the events of the previous film, Laurie Strode (played once again by Jamie Lee Curtis) is being rushed to the hospital. Again though, it's hard to pick this film apart when it's very clearly just trying to be one thing and it does exactly that. The fraught relationship between three generations of Strodes was deserving of far more attention than it ultimately received in the 2018 film, although at least the filmmakers were smart enough to realize having them join their multi-generational talents would be a natural payoff.

Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. S. Capital insurrection, watching a sea of angry, misinformed citizens run wild in misplaced fear and loathing. While some assume Michael used the stolen rope to rig up the moment where Bob Simms - not to be confused with Halloween Kills cameo actor Bob Odenkirk - body comes swinging out of a closet, that's not confirmed in the movie and the rope is never seen onscreen. However, unlike Michael’s blunt approach to killing, Silver Shamrock’s scheme involves implanting the back of each mask with a hidden microchip—each containing a dark-magic-imbued fragment from Stonehenge—that becomes activated by the broadcast, causing the young wearers to absorb evil energy that kills them, leaving a swarm of insects and snakes to break out from what’s left of their brains—a clear allegory for what older generations always said would happen if you watch too much TV.

The other divide when it comes to the response to Halloween Kills is between the longtime fans themselves. But are Silver Shamrock's spooky Halloween masks just an Easter egg to delight fans of the franchise, or is there something more to them? Directed by Tommy Lee Wallace and released in 1982, Season of the Witch is an oddity nestled within the Halloween movie franchise. This size guide is for anyone looking to purchase one of the Halloween series Michael Myers masks from Trick or Treat Studios for wearing comfortably during Halloween events or cosplays.pretty snug fit like the H18 mask my only complaint is that it's pretty difficult to take it off as I feel like it could rip. Michael Kennedy is an avid movie and TV fan that's been working for Screen Rant in various capacities since 2014.