Halloween Kills
Universal Pictures | Release Date: October 15, 2021 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 45 Critic Reviews
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10
Mixed:
22
Negative:
13
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Total FilmLeila LatifSep 9, 2021
Green delivers a smart, sturdy second chapter. Low consequence, perhaps, but still highly entertaining. Read full review
78
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzOct 14, 2021
There is something entertaining, or maybe just enjoyably puzzling, about what Gordon Green and McBride think a Michael Myers movie could or ought to be. If it ain’t dead, don’t kill it. Read full review
75
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliOct 15, 2021
Halloween Kills is one of the better sequels (put it alongside Halloween 4 and H20 and a shade below the 2018 production) and contains all the elements to make it popular among horror film lovers regardless of their ages. Read full review
75
SlashfilmMarshall ShafferSep 8, 2021
There's good reason to be excited for how Green will bring this all to a head in his grand finale. Halloween Kills manages to put a playful but petrifying spin on mythology without resorting to cheap self-referentiality. Read full review
75
TheWrapAsher LubertoSep 8, 2021
Green seems less interested in rewriting the “Halloween” playbook than in giving audiences what they came for, from ghastly scares to a ghoulish score. It’s a strategy that promises to make the series as immortal as Michael Myers himself. Read full review
70
IGNRafael MotamayorSep 8, 2021
Halloween Kills suffers from being the second chapter in a trilogy, but it still delivers gory fun, fantastic performances, and an electrifying score from John Carpenter. There are enough callbacks to the original film to satisfy Carpenter fans while also expanding the mythology around Michael Myers and the town of Haddonfield in meaningful ways. Read full review
67
Original-CinThom ErnstOct 15, 2021
Halloween is still a Michael Myers slasher film. People meet horrible ends in extreme ways, and the plot rarely goes beyond the idea that someone really should put an end to all this nonsense. The difference in Green's film is that he gives us a taste of the emotional aftermath; and that can be more horrifying than the kill itself. Read full review
63
New York PostSara StewartOct 14, 2021
Second films in trilogies are often the toughest to pull off. Maybe Green’s final chapter, Halloween Ends, will redeem what he’s done here, which ultimately feels like very little progress at all. Read full review
63
USA TodayBrian TruittOct 12, 2021
In picking up exactly where the last one left off three years ago, Kills separates its two key main characters, and not for the better. It just seems like a filler chapter before another main event, albeit with nasty kills, mythos building and cool references. Read full review
61
Paste MagazineJim VorelOct 15, 2021
Like Green’s first 2018 Halloween reboot, this is a badly overstuffed film that largely ignores the inherent strength of what should be its central story—three generations of Strode women, facing down The Boogeyman—in favor of random, gratuitous action scenes and endless subplots. Read full review
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