The long wait for ‘Halloween Kills’
Apart for family, friends and food, there are three other things that I can’t do without in life. Everton Football Club. Pontiac Trans Ams. And last but not least, Michael Myers. The latter, the unstoppable silent killer from the Halloween movies, is making his return to the big screen this week in Halloween Kills and I simply cannot wait, for this movie has been delayed by a whole year due to the pandemic.
Kills was tipped to slash box office records and it may make even more money now due to the extra wait fans have had to endure. The anticipation has been ‘killing’ us. To the studio’s credit, they have managed to keep most of the details of this sequel under wraps.
In the past year, we have only been given a trailer and a little teaser and if you have avoided all the behind-the-scenes footage on social media and the spoiler videos online like I have, then this movie should still feel fresh.
Myers, the fictional character created back in 1978 by legendary director John Carpenter, is loved by horror movie fans everywhere but I would say he isn’t as frightening as he once used to be. In previous sequels, the filmmakers have tried and failed miserably to explain the reason why he is a brutal force of nature who just doesn’t die no matter how many bullets you empty into his hulking six-foot frame. We don’t need to know. Not knowing adds to his mystique and makes him more interesting and scary.
I have a deeper concern however — and that is that this movie had better be good because director David Gordon Green really botched up his 2018 effort, Halloween.
Kills picks up where that one left off from — minutes after Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), her daughter Karen (Judy Greer) and granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak) leave the masked monster caged and burning in Laurie’s basement. They believe they have finally killed the ‘Boogeyman’ but Myers manages to escape.
Green is back behind the director’s chair and I just hope he’s read some of my messages on Instagram to make sure he treats the character of Myers with more respect. You’ve got to keep him hidden in the shadows, the camera must not linger on him and you must never show any clear close ups of him in broad daylight.