October 1st. 1- The Cat and the Canary (1927). 2- Vampyr (1932)
October 2nd. 3- Young Frankenstein (1974)
October 3rd. 4- The Return of the Vampire (1943)
October 4th. 5- Viy (1967)
October 5th. 6- Escape the Undertaker (2021) 7- Terror Train (1980)
October 6th. 7- The Company of Wolves (1984)
October 7th. 8- Gretel & Hansel (2020). 9- Babylon 5: Thirdspace (1998)
October 8th. 10- My Best Friend is a Vampire (1987). 11- The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977)
October 9th. 12- The War of the Worlds (1953). 13- 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)
October 10th. 14- Kiss of the Vampire (1963)
October 11th. 15- Pale Blood (1990)
October 12th. 16- Apostle (2018). 17- Dracula (Spanish version, 1931)
October 13th. 18- Ghostwatch (1992) 19- Late Phases (2014)
October 14th. 20- Ghostbusters (1984) 21- Savageland (2017) 22- House of Black Death (1965)
October 15th. 23- It Waits (2005). 24- Within the Woods (1978)
October 16th. 25- Beetlejuice (1988)
October 17th. 26-
Halloween (2018). 27-
Halloween Kills (2021)
A very good reboot/sequel. Rebootquel? This was my second time seeing it since 2018, it's still mostly works. I think the actress playing Laurie's grandaughter and the one who played her blonde friend should have switched roles, the latter is much more charming. Alyson is less interesting on screen than her mom or grandma. John Carpenter's score is great. It's very well shot. Some of the humor feels out of place. All in all, this is still probably the second best movie in the entire franchise. In hindsight, they probably should have just made this like it was going to be a single movie with a definitive end...
WTF happened here?! This is the most disappointing movie of the year for me. It's hard to believe this is the same director and two of same writers as the previous one. Tonally it's all wrong. I can enjoy shlock slashers when that's what I'm going in for. But that's not what 2018 was and it damn sure isn't what the original movie was.
There's an endless parade of too-stupid-to-live characters that Michael slaughters in improbable ways. Laurie Strode spends the whole movie in the hospital with nothing to actually do, which is exactly the thing people didn't like about the original Halloween 2. There's an overwrought subplot about mob mentality that doesn't mesh with the action splatterfest or the borderline parody that other scenes seem to going for. I remember David Gordon Green saying he didn't like how earlier sequels went more and more overt in making Michael an overtly supernatural monster...he lied.
This movie is already retconning the previous movie! The officer who was stabbed in the neck and then run over...forget the run over part. Laurie is a recluse...except she has a tight circle of friends all bonded by that night in 1978...including the nurse who drove to the sanitarium with Loomis and didn't live in Haddonfield. In 2018 we were told that Myers killed 5 people in '78...flashbacks (which look good, at least) add another kill that he would surely have been blamed for. People freak out about how Michael Myers "has haunted this town for 40 years!"....as if they're in the original series continuity. But they're not, according to these movies he killed his sister when he was a kid, killed some people in 78, and that was it. Most people didn't even know much about it anymore.
As its own thing, this is an OK slasher, probably still in the upper half when ranked against the entire franchise. But it's a terrible sequel to 2018 and doesn't give high hopes for
Halloween Ends.
I would bet money that within a few years we'll see Jamie Lee Curtis in interviews joking around about how freaking stupid this one was. She probably doesn't know WTF happened either.