Halloween Kills - Film Review - The Essence Of Evil

The Shape emerging from the fiery embers. Photo credit to the rightful owners. 

 He has come home again, it's another year in Haddonfield and The Boogeyman is on the prowl. 

Set just minutes after Halloween (2018) with introspective recreated flashbacks to the events of the original 1978. Halloween Kills follows our Laurie and her daughter Karen and her daughter Alison all return along with old familiars being old cast mates and returning characters from ye ol Halloween 78' as Haddonfield is gathered together by Tommy Doyle to kill evil because and I quote the angry mob; "Evil Dies Tonight!".  

It was believed by our heroic badass women that Michael was left for dead and presumed dead, HOW COULD ANYONE SURVIVE BEING BURNED ALIVE!? Well kids, no spoilers but firecrew came, in the nickers of time to put the blaze out and to help anyone stuck inside the building which ended up being their death trap because they allowed The Evil to live and to escape. 

Michael does some of the most brutal and creative kills of the series here in this film, The Shape, No, The Boogeyman is back to haunt Haddonfield and to infect it with his evil and fear. Laurie says it best in the film "I always thought Michael Myers was flesh and blood, just like you and me, but a mortal man could not have survived what he's lived through. The more he kills, the more he transcends into something else impossible to defeat. Fear. People are afraid. That is the true curse of Michael. You can't beat it with brute force. It is the essence of evil. The anchor that divides us. It is the terror that grows stronger when we try to hide."

What's funny about this Halloween film is it's the second in the now new canon trilogy of Halloween films and Laurie spends most of the film in a hospital, like in Halloween II (1981). Also Halloween (2018) was released forty years after Halloween (1978). Halloween Kills (2021) was released forty years after Halloween II (1981). Halloween Ends (2022) is set to be released forty years after Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982). The masks the three corpses are wearing on the merry-go-round are the Silver Shamrock masks from Halloween III: Season of the Witch and you might have seen this reference in the trailer. 

Overall, I loved and enjoyed this film and I cannot wait for the next instalment. I think everyone involved in this film did a good job and I loved the soundtrack too.