Halloween Kills

While I'm extremely grateful to the Peacock streaming service for allowing me to watch Halloween Kills in the comfort of my home during these unseasonably warm October days, the relief of watching the film without worrying about a maskless person near me coughing incessantly without covering their mouth (which is almost as scary as facing Michael Myers in a dark alley), was tempered by the fact that Halloween Kills just isn't very good. I couldn't help but wonder if the real reason the studio released this on streaming was because it knew that it had a stinker on its hands.

Thanks to injuries that she suffered in Halloween 2018, Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) is largely sidelined in HK, confined to a hospital in a weirdly familiar storyline that almost resembles Halloween II (1981). But at least Laurie DID something in Halloween II; instead, HK reduces her to being a cranky old hospital patient who's complaining about everything when she's not giving sage-like Yoda speeches about the true nature of Michael's evil. She lacks the take-charge gutso behavior of the previous film.

Michael doesn't fare as well, either. He becomes a secondary character in his own movie once the film focuses on a band of former victims, and family members of victims, who swear revenge on him ("Evil Dies Tonight!") like the angry villagers of a Frankenstein movie. But they spend the better part of the film's running time chasing down and killing an innocent victim. Halloween Kills suffers from slow pacing, a confused and jumbled narrative, and lacks any suspense whatsoever--with stupid people doing stupid things just to make it easy for Michael to kill them. Skip this one and watch the 1978 original Halloween instead.

Note: there's nothing of interest to us in the film--no BF scenes nor any bondage.