When you’re on the twentieth installment (slight exaggeration) of a movie franchise, I’m not exactly expecting a masterpiece. I expect the movie to be cheesy and formulaic, but I don’t expect it to be a complete and utter trainwreck, yet Halloween Kills was just that. Cheesy and stupid doesn’t begin to describe this movie. It was at a whole another level of idiocy.
All of the survivors of the previous Halloween movies (besides the one that didn’t actually involve Michael Meyers) have banded together in Michael’s home town of Haddonfield. The lust to kill Michael Meyers has spread through Haddonfield like wildfire. Now, I would think that you might want to flee this unstoppable maniacal killer, but not Haddonfield. Instead they are driven into this insane frenzy to the point where they kill an innocent person. I’m not even sure what the point of this movie was. The most ridiculous part of a silly, pointless movie is near the end when Laurie Strode and Deputy Frank Hawkins reflect on how unstoppable Michael Meyers before he escapes an impossible situation and unleashes seven kinds of hell on his opposition. Perhaps even more ridiculous is that they rewrote the ending of the original Halloween in this movie.
If you are tempted to watch this movie, please don’t. It’s just not worth it.
