Halloween tue

Halloween Kills est un film problématique, car il souffre du syndrome du milieu de trilogie (il n’a ni début ni fin), sans parler du fait que le récit est dilué par l’intermédiaire de nombreux personnages secondaires, lesquels n'ont malheureusement pas été présentés dans le film précédent. Ajoutons encore à ça une légère impression de « rembourrage », un fan service agressif et les innombrables – et inutiles – flashbacks. En gros, les créateurs en ont fait trop et le résultat est quelque peu chaotique. Loin de moi l’idée de médire, surtout que j’ai passé un excellent moment, mais je me demande simplement si l’équipe créative entourant David Gordon Green n’a pas perdu de vue la raison d’être de la trilogie (à part bien sûr le profit). (19/10/2021)

Un départ si prometteur et une « conclusion » si imbécile ! Le potentiel de redémarrage de la série, intelligemment conçu pour satisfaire les fans, a été jeté aux ordures ! (17/10/2021)

Michael Myers escapes a fiery inferno and goes back to mowing people down. This time, however, he is confronted not by Jamie Lee Curtis, but by a town full of people who have suddenly remembered that this serial killer exists and has somehow hurt them all. And so Myers mows down one anonymous person after another, only to have it all come to an end. And the film leaves a rather uncomfortable feeling that David Gordon Green and Danny McBride may have meant well, but unfortunately in execution they negated the entirety of the previous installment and made a mediocre at best murder mystery built on an ambitious but completely misguided idea. This franchise can do better than that. And so do these filmmakers. (19/10/2021)

A film as pointless as Mynář's press conference. It doesn't bring anything new to the genre, a soup reheated so many times that it’s inedible, and when it does come up with something unusual, which I consider to be the "popular uprising" of Haddonfield residents, it's as silly as Ovčáček's tweets. And Michael Myers here strikes me as an immortal cyber version of the T-1000 from Terminator and not a flesh-and-blood creature. (19/10/2021)

I was looking forward to the new Halloween even after the mixed reviews from Venice. I thought the attendees of that festival just couldn't appreciate a simple, blunt, but fun, brutal and atmospheric slasher ride. The whole campaign, after all, had been hyping that Halloween Kills would be mean and evil; the biggest Halloween ever with a massive body count. And that’s what dominates even in the responses here: that it's decent carnage and that the main problem is the illogical behaviour of the characters. That, for me, it’s just the bullshit that the campaign has drilled into our heads. Halloween Kills is awfully boring and very poorly constructed conceptually. It tries to psychologise the collective trauma of Haddonfield and spends an incredible amount of time with annoying characters that no one has ever cared about or can care about. And Laurie is stuck in the hospital the whole time, doing nothing. The kills are fine, but they don't take up much screen time, and I certainly don't think Myers is on screen more than in other instalments of the series. If only! At the expense of Tommy, Lonnie and those other annoyances. With each successive "Evil dies tonight!" I wanted to throw the monitor out the window more and more. (16/10/2021)