Halloween Kills is a fucking travesty

I was not a fan of the 2018 Halloween. It got so hyped up as the "true" sequel, then just ended up doing all the same generic slasher movie shit as all the "bad" sequels it was supposedly replacing as canon.

But the 2018 movie is a masterpiece compared to the abomination that is Halloween Kills, a sequel so lazy, so stupid, so devoid of anything redeemable, that I feel it has my title of worst movie of 2021 on lock.

In general I find Michael Myers to be one of the least interesting horror villains. He is an unstoppable killing machine, with no personality, and no compelling backstory. He is just a big guy who kills people. That's incredibly uninteresting. 

So the good Halloween movies either have to generate tension and scares, or have some good writing and characters to hang on to.

Halloween Kills has none of this. No scares. No story. No characters. Not even any fun kills.

The last movie ended with Jamie Lee Curtis, daughter Judy Greer, and granddaughter having left Michael to burn to death inside Curtis's house. But we are barely 10 minutes in before Michael is ---surprise--- not dead and is back to eviscerating the townsfolk of Haddonfield.

A mob of citizens, including several characters who are survivors of the 1978 original, take to the streets to find and kill Michael. But these people are all complete fucking morons.

I have a limited tolerance for characters in horror movies doing stupid things, and this movie got on my nerves instantly. These people are ALL MORONS. I basically agreed with Michael when he was going on his murder spree.

A large section of the movie has the whole town enraged and going after one innocent man who they --- for NO reason whatsoever --- think is Michael, even though this guy is short and fat and Michael is like 7 feet tall and huge. See? These people really are too stupid to live. Wait til you see Judy Greer's "plan" to save this innocent guy.

Where is Curtis? Mostly confined to a hospital bed after her injuries from the last film. She gets out of bed for like 5 minutes to theoretically go after Michael but then winds up back in the bed almost immediately. Curtis is always good, but she is completely wasted here and probably shot all her scenes in 2 or 3 days. 

Most of the movie is about all these other characters, most of whom are there just to be butchered. None of whom make a positive impact. None of whom are written well, acted well, or who anyone watching will care about, therefore their deaths have absolutely zero impact.

The film is also weighed down by mythology. Along with these returning characters, there are new flashbacks to the events of the original film. They even bring back Donald Pleasance in one of those weird deep fakes. It's not at all compelling. 

On top of everything else this movie is just SO BORING. There is nothing to grab onto here. I mean, there is certainly a lot of gore. This movie is very brutally violent. But you can't enjoy any of it. I know the horror audience in general has low standards, but they deserve better than something as audience insulting as this.