Halloween Kills (2021)

[Chaotic]

Give it to me now!!!!

[Hoke Moseley]

If they come up with something good and don't rush it, I'm all for it.

Of course JLC has to be back too... one last hurrah where Michael is unquestionably dead at the end and I'll be happy.

[BladeRunner2007]

Originally Posted by Monterey Jack

I frickin' knew it. No closure, just Jamie Lee dragged out for another five-minute contractual obligation cameo before getting killed off AGAIN. And THIS one won't kill off Michael either.

LET. IT. DIE.

It's not like they are forcing you to watch any more movies...

[Rizor]

Gordon Green and McBride have said they originally wanted to shoot two movies back to back, but decided to just focus on making their first movie as good as it could be.

[jess1581]

Originally Posted by Hoke Moseley

If they come up with something good and don't rush it, I'm all for it.

Of course JLC has to be back too... one last hurrah where Michael is unquestionably dead at the end and I'll be happy.

They did that... twice already. H2 made a pretty definitive death for Michael before leaps in logic were made to bring him and Loomis back for 4 and so on instead of the initial plan to make Halloween an anthology movie series(thanks fans). Then H20, where his head was lopped off.... then Resurrection happened(christ on his throne ugh...)

For wanting Michael to be unquestionably dead, fans certainly can't take the hint.

[Himmel]

Originally Posted by Rizor

Gordon Green and McBride have said they originally wanted to shoot two movies back to back, but decided to just focus on making their first movie as good as it could be.

And that they did, now on to part 2.

[cheez avenger]

H40-2?

[BladeRunner2007]

They could pull a "H2" and set it in the same night. But not in a hospital.

[jayman3]

Originally Posted by CyberpunkCentral

Wait a minute, no! This one should be Halloween III (???). The timelines are all f***'d up.

First timeline: Halloween, Halloween II, Halloween III, Halloween 4, Halloween 5, and Halloween 6

Second timeline: Halloween, Halloween II, Halloween III, Halloween: H20, Halloween: Resurrection

Third timeline: Rob Zombie's Halloween and H2

Fourth timeline: Halloween 1978 and Halloween 2018.

And you thought the X-Men timeline was confusing lol

[s2mikey]

Originally Posted by jess1581

They did that... twice already. H2 made a pretty definitive death for Michael before leaps in logic were made to bring him and Loomis back for 4 and so on instead of the initial plan to make Halloween an anthology movie series(thanks fans). Then H20, where his head was lopped off.... then Resurrection happened(christ on his throne ugh...)

For wanting Michael to be unquestionably dead, fans certainly can't take the hint.

Yeah, shot 6 times in chest at ppoint blank range, long balcony fall, stabbed in side of neck with hanger & of course blown up and completely covered in flames for mutiple minutes. Id thuink its fair to say, even without a degree in medicine that he'd be deader than !@#$ without any question whatsoever!

[levcore]

Does Halloween 3 exist in any Michael Myers timeline? Surely that's its own thing.

[BladeRunner2007]

Originally Posted by levcore

Does Halloween 3 exist in any Michael Myers timeline? Surely that's its own thing.

No. If anything, they make MM and the events of every other Halloween movie just that: a movie, since the protagonist watches the trailer for the first Halloween movie on TV in a bar lol.

[Hoke Moseley]

Originally Posted by jess1581

They did that... twice already. H2 made a pretty definitive death for Michael before leaps in logic were made to bring him and Loomis back for 4 and so on instead of the initial plan to make Halloween an anthology movie series(thanks fans). Then H20, where his head was lopped off.... then Resurrection happened(christ on his throne ugh...)

For wanting Michael to be unquestionably dead, fans certainly can't take the hint.

Yes, but now it can happen in a great movie.

[brooks101189]

Didn't the filmmakers say it was originally conceived as a two movie arc and that they were originally shooting back to back?

https://ew.com/movies/2018/06/08/hal...e-two-sequels/


If so, makes PERFECT sense there's going to be another one. If the movie was supposed to be the ideal closure,

[Show spoiler]we would have seen Michael Myers on fire and not somehow disappear like a ghost from the trap.

[DMRI2006]

So ironic reading these people going "let it die!" when so many of these films have been total crap. Now they make a solid entry, it makes a bundle of money, and now it should end? What kind of business sense does that make?

Plus, nobody is forcing you to see it. Stay home, don't post -- there are ways to express your indifference, but so long as people go and pay to see it, there are always going to be sequels in this genre. It's how it has always worked.

[steev210]

I'm all for a sequel. As much as I loved Halloween 2018, I didn't feel there was any definitive closure to Laurie's story arc. That may be due to Green and McBride proposing to wrap up Laurie and The Shape's story with the second film that they were going to shoot back to back with Halloween 2018.

I think there's still a decent amount of material there for Laurie and The Shape that can be expanded upon. But I think the story needs to be strictly Laurie and Michael centric. Jettison the teen drama and needless supporting characters. Have Laurie operate under the assumption that The Shape is dead. Have her move on with the help of Karen and Allyson, reclaim her life and start to enjoy it after 40 years of emotional and mental suffering.

Rebuild her home, free of traps, fire power, weapons and safe rooms, as there is no need for them. Lower her defenses to the point she is completely unprepared for The Shape's return. Make her even more vulnerable than she was in '78. Stack the odds against her so monumentally she and the audience feel so has no chance of survival.

Of course I would have some returning characters from Halloween '78 offer her support. Sheriff Brackett, Tommy and Lindsey. Maybe even have a scenario where nurse Marion was working along Dr. Sartain at Smith's Grove feel remorse for not alerting Laurie about her suspicions regarding his obsession with Michael's evil.

There's so many possibilities. Taper the humor, keep Michael more in the shadows and more "stalker mode" since he's "dead", pepper the score frequently with the classic "Laurie's Theme" and ratchet up Laurie's false sense of security.

And James Jude Courtney must return as The Shape, Carpenter exec producing and composing the score.

OK, I rambled enough with my two cents.

[jayman3]

Originally Posted by levcore

Does Halloween 3 exist in any Michael Myers timeline? Surely that's its own thing.

It's weird. From what I was reading from the Wikipedia page it only mentioned that H20 retconned Halloween 4-6. No mention of having Season of the Witch non-canon even though as BladeRunner2007 says, it features an in movie trailer for Halloween.

[hamchuck1]

Originally Posted by steev210

I'm all for a sequel. As much as I loved Halloween 2018, I didn't feel there was any definitive closure to Laurie's story arc. That may be due to Green and McBride proposing to wrap up Laurie and The Shape's story with the second film that they were going to shoot back to back with Halloween 2018.

I think there's still a decent amount of material there for Laurie and The Shape that can be expanded upon. But I think the story needs to be strictly Laurie and Michael centric. Jettison the teen drama and needless supporting characters. Have Laurie operate under the assumption that The Shape is dead. Have her move on with the help of Karen and Allyson, reclaim her life and start to enjoy it after 40 years of emotional and mental suffering.

Rebuild her home, free of traps, fire power, weapons and safe rooms, as there is no need for them. Lower her defenses to the point she is completely unprepared for The Shape's return. Make her even more vulnerable than she was in '78. Stack the odds against her so monumentally she and the audience feel so has no chance of survival.

Of course I would have some returning characters from Halloween '78 offer her support. Sheriff Brackett, Tommy and Lindsey. Maybe even have a scenario where nurse Marion was working along Dr. Sartain at Smith's Grove feel remorse for not alerting Laurie about her suspicions regarding his obsession with Michael's evil.

There's so many possibilities. Taper the humor, keep Michael more in the shadows and more "stalker mode" since he's "dead", pepper the score frequently with the classic "Laurie's Theme" and ratchet up Laurie's false sense of security.

And James Jude Courtney must return as The Shape, Carpenter exec producing and composing the score.

OK, I rambled enough with my two cents.

Do you think she would need to see the burnt body to move on? It would be weird if the cops couldn't find a body.

[jess1581]

Originally Posted by Hoke Moseley

Yes, but now it can happen in a great movie.

Or another "eh ok" movie that still doesn't justify the further conplicating of this already disjointed franchise that has 4 different timelines now.

[Batman1980]

Originally Posted by jess1581

Or another "eh ok" movie that still doesn't justify the further conplicating of this already disjointed franchise that has 4 different timelines now.

Thought it was 5