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- 75SlashfilmMarshall ShafferSlashfilmMarshall ShafferThere'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.
- 60The GuardianJonathan RomneyThe GuardianJonathan RomneyForty years after John Carpenter made the defining slasher movie, director David Gordon Green has made a creditable stab, as it were, at reanimating the title.
- 58IndieWireBen CrollIndieWireBen CrollIf this bloody entr’acte, whose title addition works as both noun and verb, has little to offer but a jacked up body count on a bed of fan service, it serves both with panache, charging forward as an almost elemental slasher outing unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality.
- 50The PlaylistJessica KiangThe PlaylistJessica KiangAfter a genuinely promising beginning, Halloween Kills, already somewhat robbed of potential suspense by the fact we all know that another go-round, “Halloween Ends,” is on its way, seemingly doubles the body count of the previous installment while roughly halving its IQ.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyGreen has made exactly the kind of witless, worthless sequel that bled the franchise dry in the 1980s and ’90s.
- 40VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanHalloween night may be Michael Myers’ masterpiece, but Halloween Kills is no masterpiece. It’s a mess — a slasher movie that‘s almost never scary, slathered with “topical” pablum and with too many parallel plot strands that don’t go anywhere.
- 40The TelegraphRobbie CollinThe TelegraphRobbie CollinWhat Halloween Kills lacks in ideas it partially makes up for in gruesomely authentic slasher texture. From cinematography to editing, casting to oozy prosthetic gore, Green and his crew have recreated the feel of the Carpenter original with an almost academic diligence, particularly in an extended 1970s-set opening flashback.
- 20Time OutPhil de SemlyenTime OutPhil de SemlyenIt 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.