“Halloween Kills” Is Creatively Dead on Arrival: Movie Review
Last week, the 12th film in the Halloween horror film franchise debuted in theaters. It instantly became a box office smash and manages to provide a few laughs and jump scares for Halloween season, but ultimately it disappoints even more than its predecessor.
Click here for my review of Halloween (2018)
Click here for my review of Halloween Ends (2022)
When the 2018 version of Halloween was released, I was somewhere between intrigued and excited. I had recently seen the 1978 original for the first time and thought it was a masterpiece. I loved the idea that I could ignore the 10 (!) sequels, spin-offs, remakes, and reboots that came in between the 1978 and 2018 versions and watch a high-quality follow-up with the criminally underrated Jamie Lee Curtis front and center.
Unfortunately, when I finally watched it I was profoundly disappointed. It received very strong reviews for a horror sequel (it has a 79% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 67/100 average rating on MetaCritic) and was a huge hit at the box office (grossing $255 million worldwide on a $10 million budget), but I found that it paled in comparison to the original. To my surprise, the article I wrote comparing the original to the 2018 sequel became one of my most popular articles ever. (Click here…
