Halloween Kills
Universal Pictures | Release Date: October 15, 2021 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
42
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 45 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
22
Negative:
13
Watch Now
Stream On
Stream On
Stream On

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
The Seattle TimesKatie WalshOct 15, 2021
In trying to do too much, Halloween Kills ends up doing nothing at all, other than tarnishing this franchise’s good name. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsOct 13, 2021
Green has made so many interesting movies, from “George Washington” to “Snow Angels” to the best bits in “Pineapple Express” and more recent genre exercises. Halloween Kills settles for the reductive, distressingly anonymous hackwork of its title. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineDerek SmithOct 13, 2021
As far as improvements go, Michael Myers’s revitalized brutality is arguably the only successful one that Halloween Kills makes. Read full review
38
The Associated PressLindsey BahrOct 13, 2021
The big problem is that Halloween Kills is less of a sequel than a half-baked interlude before the finale. It is a bloody, violent, chaotic and cynical mess and not even in a good or particularly scary or insightful way. Read full review
37
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanOct 13, 2021
There’s a lot of baloney — along with bodies — sliced up by the end, with Laurie bloviating about how Michael has come to “transcend” something or other. But there’s nothing transcendent, let alone new in Halloween Kills. Read full review
33
The Film StageMatt CipollaOct 16, 2021
Every kill on display here is to someone superfluous, immediately forgettable, or both. The special effects are decent at points, but at what cost? To bridge the gap to next year’s final entry? There’s just no impact here. Read full review
30
Film ThreatRob RectorOct 15, 2021
For a film that asks its audience to erase so much of the series’ lore, it certainly enjoys feeding them “memberberries” throughout its runtime. Read full review
30
CNNBrian LowryOct 14, 2021
If the previous movie conjured a bit of excitement by eradicating everything that had transpired after the original, that sense of novelty has quickly worn off. Read full review
30
ScreenCrushMatt SingerOct 13, 2021
Halloween Kills is a mess. Read full review
25
ConsequenceClint WorthingtonOct 4, 2021
A sloppy, blinkered epilogue that wastes everyone's time. Read full review
20
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisOct 14, 2021
An indolent, narratively impoverished mess that substitutes corpses for characters and slogans for dialogue. Read full review
20
Time OutPhil de SemlyenSep 8, 2021
It all feels so rote and old-school, especially during such an exciting era for the genre (thanks to Jennifer Kent, Ari Aster, Jordan Peele, Rose Glass and co). Never mind the fact its once-sturdy beats have been spoofed, homaged and riffed a thousand times. In the era of Netflix’s Fear Street and The Haunting of Hill House, big-screen horror surely has to work harder than this. Read full review
12
ObserverOliver JonesOct 15, 2021
Rarely will you see a more soul-numbingly empty product of this tragic operation than Halloween Kills, a film that so completely sucks the vitality out of John Carpenter’s and Debra Hill’s original vision that one would be tempted to call it a desecration if that didn’t make it sound like more fun than it actually is. Read full review
More From This Movie

42 Critic Reviews

5.6 User Reviews

Details & Credits|Trailers

Current Movie Releases
By MetascoreBy User Score
1 77 Project Hail Mary
2 75 Send Help
3 73 Hoppers
4 71 The Sheep Detectives
5 68 Crime 101
SEE ALL
Essential Links
New on Amazon Prime Video
New on Netflix
Coming Soon to DVD/Blu-ray
SEE ALL