HalloweenKills wants to be a gonzo send-up and a social-message movie at the same time. It winds up being neither
Halloween Kills. Photo: Ryan Green/Universal Studios High on its own supply, David Gordon Green’s Halloween Kills wants to reimagine the humble slasher flick as both gonzo send-up and social-message movie. Others have certainly done it before him, but rarely with such brazen ambition. You have to admire the effort — even as you survey, mouth agape, the calamitous results.
Eleven dead and decapitated firemen later, the Shape is back on the loose. Laurie, meanwhile, lies in a hospital bed alongside Officer Frank Hawkins , a local cop who was supposedly killed in the previous film. Turns out Hawkins is not only still alive, he has a long-standing vendetta against Michael because as a rookie cop back in 1978, he botched numerous opportunities to shoot the wacko dead.
Sadly, it doesn’t really deliver on either score. As a director, Green isn’t particularly proficient at orchestrating chaos, and his efforts to capture the pandemonium of an unhinged crowd never really feel convincing.
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