Halloween Kills 4K UHD (2021)

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I just watched this last night. The dialogue is horrible. Anthony Michael Hall’s performance just wasn’t convincingly delivered for me. The mob idea makes sense, but it was poorly executed to me. For all that was happening, I never really felt the tension or angst of the town or the individual encounters. The hospital mob scenes lacked a rawness that I would have wanted to see.I’m also a fan of the less graphic kill style. I like letting the audience imagine what must have happened more so than witnessing it. I generally think that modern movies reveal too much and miss out on the power of tapping into the audiences ability to imagine certain events. The humor was definitely better, and they did establish the 1/2 scene victims better. I enjoyed Big John and Little John by far the most out of the new characters. The music was also great.

I’m not a horror film or slasher buff, so I’m not the target audience. However, I do enjoy the original Halloween and other more psychological horror type movies. As a result, this movie was ok to watch for me, but I’m glad it came free with my Xfinity subscription because I probably wouldn’t buy it. I’ll look forward to seeing what Halloween Ends has in store, but I didn’t enjoy the execution of this movie. I think the premise could have worked, but like a lot of the movies I’ve watched streamed in the past year, WW84, Reminiscence, and Malignant, it was poorly executed and failed to get me engrossed in the world I was watching.