Halloween Kills (2021)

Disclaimer: Halloween Kills review was originally posted October 24, 2021 and updated June 25th, 2025.

The Halloween franchise strikes again with the next installment, Halloween Kills 2021 directed by David Gordon Green, featuring the Halloween queen herself, Jamie Lee Curtis returning as Laurie Strode. More than one time during this slasher flick I found myself screaming at the screen “WHY?!” when characters made decisions that led to Michael Myers adding another victim to his list of kills. Halloween Kills captured some gruesome scenes and even played on mob mentality when the whole town chases an escaped prisoner they believe to be the killer to his death. We also pose the idea that rather than Michael Myers standing at his window looking out that possibly he was looking in, at his reflection which relates to one of the possible themes-self introspection when looking for evil, looking at one's own reflection.

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Intense moments fluidly fed from one to another as different groups tried and failed to escape or defend themselves against Michael Myers slow but powerful advances. Not only that but we got a glimpse into the past where it's revealed on one fateful Halloween night in the seventies Michael Meyers almost met his end before being saved by Officer Hawkins. Hawkins also reveals he killed a fellow officer during an attempt to shoot Meyers, that life lost in the pursuit of taking Myers down. Halloween Kills also features different characters seeing what Meyers looks like under his mask, new face burns and all.

To the viewers horror Meyers manages to survive an attack at the end by a group of townspeople, including Anthony Michael Hall as Tommy Doyle. Over this scene of Michael yet again escaping death we hear Jamie Lee Curtis talk about Michael’s inhuman ability to survive and that each kill makes him only stronger. The film closes out with the shocking but mirrored death of Karen, played by Judy Greer, Laurie Strode's daughter. Leading us to believe that there will be more installments to come, especially when this final death is revealed and vengeance is sought.

Halloween Kills (2021) has garnered criticism from viewers in particular about a scene in which Meyers kills an entire fire squad outside of the Laurie's burning house, picking up where the previous film, Halloween (2018) left off. Personally, I don’t see anything wrong with this scene, not only because they don’t show most of the massacre but also because that’s what he does. He has killed countless nurses, doctors, citizens, police, and children who tried to defeat him or stood in his way and for some reason this is the final straw.

People are slashed in a slasher film and going into it it’s to be expected that if you’re fictionally called to the fictional scene where fucking Michael Meyers is fictionally strolling around then you’re more than likely to be fictionally slashed. I enjoyed Halloween Kills and found myself screaming at the TV when Michael Myers claimed victims in utterly gruesome, nonsensical ways that are only found in slashers. I'm excited about future installments to see Laurie carry out revenge on Meyers or see that she succumbs to her own pursuit, blinded by the chase. The film is available now on Peacock with a subscription as of updating this post on June 25, 2025 or available in DVD version of Halloween Kills by clicking here. or the Halloween 2020s revival trilogy by clicking here.