“He’s not the legendary slasher with the high body count.” Michael coming out of the burning house and staring at the firefighters: “Alright guys, I got some catching up to do.”

I like that his motivation isn't to only kill his bloodline. I like that he's just pure "evil" and his immortality comes from being Soulless

“He’s not the legendary slasher with a high body count” this aged poorly 😭

This Laurie got the Ash Willaims treatment. How Ash started off as a scared person in the first evil dead movie and then evolved into the ultimate badass.

John Carpenter later on regretted having Michael and Laurie being siblings

Sad that Allison wants so badly to repair Karen's relationship with Laurie, given what happened at the end of "Halloween Kills". RIP the (former) survivors of the Haddonfield Boogeyman. Awesome video, brotha. Proud to be Veetarded.

Just finished Halloween Kills and really enjoyed it. The whole evil doctor thing in the last one really soured the whole thing for me, but ultimately agree with everything you stated. This is definitely my favorite timeline for the franchise.

At this point I’d be more surprised if someone said Halloween ended by the time I’m 50

I love this movie because it feels like they actually had a plan going in and that they actually cared about telling a good story and not coasting on the title.

That bit about them being siblings was never directly stated in the first film. The sequels made that happen and it was never most beloved part of the franchise. I never liked the reveal myself and prefer Michael Myers being an unknowable force of nature.

It should have been called Halloween Returns. It’s simple and straightforward to what the story is about, the return of the Shape, Michael Myers

the 78 film is the greatest

Sartain is one of my favorite things about the movie. Hear me out. John Carpenter made the original Hallloween having been inspired by classic expressionist horror films like The Cabinet of Dr Caligari and Nosferatu, stating that he wanted to take the monster out of Transylvania, and putting him into suburbia. So Dracula is in its DNA. You can see this most obviously with Dr Loomis, who is absolutely an Ahab, or perhaps more specifically, Van Helsing. A man of science and medicine turned hunter. But if Loomis is Van Helsing, and he IS, then Sartain is Renfield. Redfield was a man seduced by Draculas evil, hoping that if he did his bidding, he would be given true power, and made eternal, turned into a vampire. But that's not how Renfields story works out. He is used, and discarded, left a rambling lunatic, locked in an Asylum insisting that some day Dracula would set him free. On some level, Sartain desired that same power, but instead of getting locked up, gets obliterated. Pennywise and Henry Bowers is another take on this same relationship.

I think they purposely made michael kill the podcasters for that reason. I love the mask in this movie! Can’t wait to see kills.

💀The 78 film gave birth to many films. I Love MMyers. HKills did exactly that with a bloody pulp that would make Rob Zombie blush. 🎃

With regards to everyone being dismissive of Laurie's PTSD, you have to understand that it's actually a common thing. People know, on the surface, that PTSD is a bitch. That said, unless they've experienced it themselves, they could never truly understand it. Especially if they weren't around to witness or experience the events. Especially if those events were 40 years ago. They just want it to go away and not think about it. Just look at how war veterans were treated when coming home from Vietnam. Sadly, it's something that still happens in 2021. So that part of the movie read as pretty true for me. That said, I didn't really like retconning Michael and Laurie being siblings. I felt as if that added a sense of further trauma to Laurie, as it is her own brother trying to kill her. Giving Michael that motivation doesn't diminish his mystique nor make him any less scary. In fact, it makes him even more of a monster. Especially so, when we still don't know why he wants to kill his family members. Taking that away just makes it ridiculous that he'd still be stalking the same woman and her family. Like now it's like, why does he care so much about this one woman? It's ridiculous to think that he wouldn't just move on to a new victim or a new town to stalk, when he has no personal connection keeping him in Haddonfield.

7:46 - reminds somewhat of Sarah Connor in T1 and T2. When in the first movie she was a victim, but in T2 she became a straight up badass

Is it just me or does this franchise hit its stride when it's refreshed but relatively bombs with the direct sequel?

Watched Halloween Kills last night and goddamn they’ve could cut the scenes in the hospital shorter tbh or just not spend half the movie there. Other then that the movie was enjoyable! Can’t wait for the 3rd entry.

I was so happy you saved the "Gotcha" scene as the best scene.

I love this movie too. It's my second favorite after the original. The only thing I don't like is the random heel turn.

You know, the idea that Laurie isn't Michael's sister didn't really bother me in the context in which it was presented. It's been a while since I watched Halloween 2, but I don't remember Laurie ever actually being told she was his sister for one thing, and if she was told, I can see the events of that night being so traumatizing already that she just completely refuses to accept that she's related to the guy who murdered all her friends and almost killed her. Like after everything she went through that night, that's the line. She won't even entertain the idea. If you look at it that way, you can still have the events of Halloween 2 as canon, and still accept that Halloween 2018 recontextualizes it as "just some dumb rumor that got spread around" as far as Laurie and her family are concerned. Of course, there is still the fact that Michael and Loomis got blown up at the end of H-2, which doesn't really line up with 2018 either, but they've come back from worse.

After seeing Halloween Kills, I wonder whether you could argue that Dr Sartain was supernaturally influenced by Michael Myers in the same way that he turned the town into a monster.

Haloween 2018 is a very great film, definitely one of the strongest slasher films

People going on about how Michael should have died in halloween kills, No he shouldn’t have, in nearly every halloween he gets shot 6-10 times in the forehead and blown up, he got beaten up and stabbed and it builds up to halloween ends

Oh boy, Halloween Kills totally makes up for low kill count in the previous two movies, that I can say

One and two are my favorite but I will watch all of them every year and of course hocus pocus, love Halloween

Great video! Yes,continue the Hallowe’en series !

The part about the kill count aged like milk

Despite a few problems I have with this film, I still consider this to be my second favorite Halloween movie. Also, am I the only one who thinks they should've brought back Jamie Lloyd instead of creating a new kid for Laurie?

There’s only one boogeyman. John Wick

Hate to be that “Actually” guy, and yes there is a but that follows, the retcon of Michael and Laurie’s relationship is more comparable to Luke and Vader rather then Luke and Leia. Mostly seeing how Carpenter included that dynamic in the second film after he watched the Empire Strikes Back and thought that plot twist would be cool to include. Soooo, yeah this retcon is a HUGE thing as its one of the iconic moments from the franchise

Micheal Myers is the embodiment of Black air force energy

I agree. This is my new favorite. I watched it 2 nights in a row, I'm considering watching it tonight too lol

I've seen all the movies and 2018 is my favorite. It does have it's flaws but not enough for me to ever dislike it in any way.

I think Not Loomis' arc and death was a rag on the cult from Curse. It basically said worshipping the guy shouldn't save you from his body count.

Best video I seen on this subject

Well let's just say his kill count Is way up after Halloween kills

On the note about Michael and Laurie being siblings, Laurie probably wanted to distance herself from Michael and started denying to her daughter and granddaughter that she and Michael were siblings.

Going to have to disagree with this being the best sequel. Is it a well-crafted movie with some excellent scenes and sequences, absolutely. But it's also weighed down by some of the new terrible trends in modern horror. For instance everything to do with Allyson's friends and high school I couldn't stand. That Laurie Strode who is obsessed with Michael Myers doesn't follow the transfer bus. And of course the abrupt heel turn of the psychiatrist. I feel like the movie lacks a certain natural progressive flow to it, if that makes any sense. At least to me it feels like characters aren't making natural decisions based on their situations. They're making decisions because the script is telling them to make the decisions. It seems like those scenes and sequences were written before the actual script. Therefore we have a movie that's just jumping from set-piece to set-piece. Just to clarify though I did enjoy the movie I just thought the above held it back.

That shit was so clean when she faked like she couldn’t shoot him 😂

Personally I love Halloween 2 way too much to say this was a better sequel but I did enjoy it a lot

Ngl I was interested in the Halloween franchise because it felt like one of the few slasher villains that has motivation. He wanted to end his bloodline while taking out others along the way with a psychiatrist trying to stop him. Now he’s no different than Jason. It’s basically “here’s a group of people now kill them all while slowly walking”. Let’s be real these aren’t horror movies, these are killfest movies with jump scares. Then again all slasher villains suffer the same fate eventually. Jason’s movies had a twist in the first one and a continuation in the second one but then it turned into telekinesis battles, zombies and space shenanigans. To be fair Jason was never compelling (or scary) to begin with, he’s just a man child that’s pissed off about something from decades ago so of course they tried making the story interesting instead of making Jason interesting. Even Freddy who was already a dream demon but then you get kids with powers (didn’t mind it much because lucid dreaming can do this) but also introducing a daughter out of nowhere, future kids/unborn demon babies and somehow being absorbed and reborn from a ghost. His witty remarks and comedy is why I continued watching though and they did expand his backstory as the series went on but it felt like they tried making him a sympathetic character (especially the remake) because he had a horrible life. We all know that pinhead became an afterthought in his movies (that weren’t even originally hell raiser movies). But they changed his character throughout the years. There were clearly rules, codes and distinctions regarding the summoning and summoners, Cenobites aren’t evil or atleast they weren’t and they definitely weren’t demons but now they are demonic ruthless killing machines that has no rules. It’s just inevitable.

I think the only reason the twist with the doctor happened was because they needed a way to get Michael to the Laurie's house for the third act. They should have named the new trilogy Halloween: The Return of Laurie Strode Halloween: The Revenge of Laurie Strode Halloween: The Curse of Laurie Strode

Laurie and Michael *were not* siblings in the original movie. So technically it's not "part of the basic lore", and the new films just carried on with the original premise.

Weird how your Halloween videos were what brought me to this channel in the first place, but I somehow forgot about them. It's been a minute, is what I'm saying.

17:53 The heel turn of new Dr. Loomis. B class as it is, it is the only way that they, the writers, could get Michael Myers to Laurie’s house. They deleted the idea of Michael and Laurie being family, thereby deleting the idea of him specifically stalking her. In the 2018 movie, Michael is a force of nature, and nothing more. So narratively, there are only three options for having Michael show up to a specific house. Either it was complete happenstance, the doctor took him to her house, or the bus crashed in front of her driveway. The doctor going bad is not great, but it was the least cheesy option.

A quick summary of Halloween Kills. Everything 2018 did right, Kills did wrong.

John said the slibings connection Michael and Laurie had was a result of writers block

I loved this one.

Looking at this now, it really bothers me that Laurie rocks a Henry repeater rather than an AR

Michael’s been rebooted more times than Spider-Man

I think him being her brother just made Jamie lee Curtis make sense.. so he’s just escapes one day and decides to kill . Jamie acts like he’s coming after her. He’s a senior citizen

Looking forward to your thoughts on Kills. I’ve seen it twice now, and couldn’t be more excited for Ends.

After watching a Halloween film with Judy Greer in it, I just really want an Archer episode where Pam and Cheryl go to town on Michael Meyers. Pam beats his ass into the ground and then Cheryl molotovs him for the finisher.

Like the vid and your perspective. Only caveate is the two weren't sibling until Halloween 2, after NBC wanted a few minutes to flesh out the run time and requested/forced it in. Carpenter has said he hated the idea. So while I agree that them being siblings is very well known, I'm actually ok with the change.

Best Halloween movie huh. Clearly they didn’t watch the first one.

I heard nothing but bad things about H2018 so didn’t bother. Think I’ll watch it before the new movie coming out, now. Still love that intro, btw, still the best on YT for me.

Yo I just stumbled upon your channel from the no way home video, I can say I will gladly be binging your channel tonight. Keep up the good work 👍

I’m extremely disappointed in Halloween Kills. It felt more like an action movie instead of a horror movie, especially after the first half.

The original Halloween ll stated Lori was Michaels sister. The first Halloween was a, by pure chance, kinda thing. That's what I loved about the first Halloween, was that it was a random event, a crossing of two completely different paths. Imagine if Michael had driven down another road? Or, if Annie didn't scream speed kills, at Micheal. What if Micheal was caught before even getting back to Haddonfeild?

5:20 😂😂😂 Bro got me cryin 5 o Clock Shadow all fucked up 😭

Laurie being his sister just seems like it makes sense it’s weird that they aren’t connected on the 2018. Regardless I really love this mike the scene of him masking up was FIRE

Best timeline is Halloween, Halloween ll and Halloween 4, End of the Micheal Myers storyline and go somewhere else

The new one was even better

been missin your videos bro

Personally I find the original film is the best but I can’t deny I used to hate Halloween 2018 but after Halloween kills I’m starting to really love the new films

A movie I didn’t want or need to exist but ended up being glad it does Personally I was more then happy to see the brother and sister twist get retconned. I hated it.

I think some of the kills were gruesome which is great that’s what I want, but everything else was terrible. Laurie and Micheal didn’t even share screen time

Halloween Kills fucking rocked

Man in Black should have been Conal Cochran, cult of thorn should have been the cult in 3. Tom Atkins should have appeared at the end to help Jamie Lloyd, who should not have been killed, or pregnant.

I want to know the reason why he can't be killed. I mean Jason was killed. And Later he was a zombie, so that explains it. But how come Michael can't be killed. People imagined that he has regenerative tissues and what not. But from Halloween 2018 we can see he sustains injury (his eyes) . He had a bandage on his hands in Halloween kills. So how can he not be killed?

Halloween returns would have been a good name. Returns, Kills , Ends

Halloween 1978 = fantastic Halloween 2018 = Borderline bad Halloween Kills = awesome

Man Halloween Kills was just disappointing, really wanted to like it but it felt like kills just shouldn't have happened and instead we should've just gotten the last movie (Halloween Dies) now instead of forcing three movies out and giving us well rounded trilogy including the original.

My (sort of) defense for Sartain is that he was consumed by Michaels evil. Like Loomis said, he is pure evil, so when Sartain basically spent his entire life observing and studying Michael, that probably messed him up in the head.

Now surpassed by its sequel...

Shpuld have been called "Halloween Lives"

Look at our boy Vee recording from Venus, so proud :’)

Halloween Kills felt absolutely aimless !! Like they started shooting it with no script and winged it as they went. Danm you Mcbride !!!! On a side note, I did like how they added the 3 masks from Halloween 3. And the CGI Donald Pleasance was pretty good 👍

“ 2027” Halloween kills…. Again lol 😂

Cant believe they kill karen at the end of Halloween kills!!!!!!WOW !!!!

The greatest Halloween movie is The nightmare before Christmas can't change my mind

In Halloween kills he does just that he racks up a huge kill count

Let me finish that sentence: "...is the original. Followed by Part 3.".

Are you doing Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends?

Should've named it "THE DAY HALLOWEEN CAME BACK TO LIFE"

Part 2 also has to be included for the Canon to work

You get a good shot of his eye when the podcast dorks go to see him and in the same scene you can see the scar on his neck from where laurie stabbed him with the Bobby pin or whatever. The hole is still in the mask neck too.

I love re-writing history

That’s why he died he didn’t believe and Michael was like I’ll show the true definition of it lol

They should have named this film "The Halloween".

Nice job bro

Michael is a hunter

excited for your kills review. I loved most of it

I really liked halloween kills, but the pacing is fucked. I think they spent way too much time on big john and little john. I thought the trap at the end was awesome with how he slowly picks up and puts on his mask and the beat down, but when Laurie has that speech at the end, and the reveal happens, I didn't care for how they didn't show the kills, but I don't get why Karen was in the house and looking out the same window they set up in flashbacks. That kill was random due to the editing, and felt too fast . They gave big John AnD little John more run time than a major character's death.

You started out just as just a guy who I tolerate listening too because you made Batman content and are now someone I watch because I respect your opinion

I do really like Halloween 2018

*HALLOWEEN 2 (1981) IS THE BEST!*

Loved h2018, agree with a lot of your thoughts