“Doubles the body count of the previous installment while roughly halving its IQ… Maybe a town this dumb deserves Michael Myers.” – Jessica Kiang, The Playlist “The rhythms of the kills are just right.” – Robbie Collin, Daily Telegraph “Never was there a film truer to its name… The body count is phenomenal.” – Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline “It takes the slash in ‘slasher’ up to a thousand, and it’s all the better for it… Halloween Kills is a non-stop, blood-rushing blast.” – Ben Rolph, Discussing Film (Photo by © Universal) So it’s got an impressive kill count? “The scares barely register.” – Philip De Semlyen, Time Out
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“It’s a mess - a slasher movie that‘s almost never scary.” – Owen Gleiberman, Variety “Green amps up the violence and gore at the expense of actual scares or even a modicum of suspense.” – David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter It’s perhaps here that the real horror is to be found.” – Wendy Ide, Screen International “There’s something genuinely disconcerting about it - the dehumanizing effect of blood lust and the desire for retribution. Green successfully keeps the viewer on edge.” – Ben Rolph, Discussing Film “In terms of the film’s scare factor, audiences will be undoubtedly biting their nails in anxiety. “The film should connect with genre audiences but is unlikely to bring new fans to the franchise.” – Wendy Ide, Screen International “Finds itself torn between catering equally for the uninitiated and Halloween devotees.” – Philip De Semlyen, Time Out “As far as franchise installments go, Green and co-writers Danny McBride and Scott Teems show far less interest in checking off familiar signifiers for fan service.” – Marshall Shaffer, Slashfilm “Green seems less interested in rewriting the Halloween playbook than in giving audiences what they came for, from ghastly scares to a ghoulish score.” – Asher Luberto, The Wrap “There are enough callbacks to the original film to satisfy Carpenter fans while also expanding the mythology around Michael Myers and the town of Haddonfield in meaningful ways.” – Rafael Motamayor, IGN Movies “Far from a disappointment for the millions of genre fans for which the Halloween franchise has become canon.” – Adam Solomons, HeyUGuys (Photo by © Universal) Will fans enjoy it? But if it was just a bit more like the others, perversely, it might be better one.” – Adam Solomons, HeyUGuys “ Kills is a long-awaited entry to a franchise like no other.
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“As clever a job as he did on the first film, wastes no time cutting back to where the Halloween series ultimately landed: in a swamp of luridly repetitive and empty sequels.” – Owen Gleiberman, Variety “Green has made exactly the kind of witless, worthless sequel that bled the franchise dry in the 1980s and ’90s.” – David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter “Feels entirely at home within the series’ history and something that tries to journey down avenues unexplored in the previous 11 films.” – Marshall Shaffer, Slashfilm “For all the deep and troubling psychoanalysis of this film, it’s also a textbook Halloween movie.” – Asher Luberto, The Wrap
“Green and his crew have recreated the feel of the Carpenter original with an almost academic diligence… Halloween Kills certainly feels like more Halloween.” – Robbie Collin, Daily Telegraph “Stylistically, there’s a kinship with the film’s earliest incarnation.” – Wendy Ide, Screen International
How does it fit in the Halloween franchise? “The law of diminishing sequel returns applies here.” – Wendy Ide, Screen International “ hollow, water-treading follow-up.” – Robbie Collin, Daily Telegraph “Green more or less abandons the previous film’s enjoyable retro flavor.” – Owen Gleiberman, Variety “Green offers a functional but enjoyably efficient follow-up.” – Jonathan Romney, Guardian “ Halloween Kills is here and is just as good as its predecessor.” – Ben Rolph, Discussing Film Here’s what critics are saying about Halloween Kills: But if what you’re looking for is a lot of kills in your Halloween film, you’re apparently going to be satisfied. The bad news is that, overall, the reception is mixed, particularly on whether Halloween Kills lives up to its predecessor. The good news is that some of the first reviews of the sequel - filed after its premiere at the Venice Film Festival this week - are favorable. Now fans are hoping the next installment, Halloween Kills, also by Green, continues this new uptick in quality horror in the name of Michael Myers. Until the arrival of David Gordon Green’s 2018 sequel - simply titled Halloween - the franchise had not had a positive Rotten Tomatoes score since the 1978 original.
When it comes to Halloween movies, it’s easy to be skeptical.
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