Halloween Kills

"Evil dies tonight."

Director: David Gordon Green Year: 2021 Runtime: 105 min IMDb: ⭐ 6.4
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Synopsis

Michael manages to free himself from Laurie Strode's trap to resume his ritual bloodbath. As she fights for her life from injuries from their last encounter, she inspires her daughter Karen, her granddaughter Allyson, and all of Haddonfield to rise up against the unstoppable monster.

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Content Warnings

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a dog dies
spoiler Two police officers find a dead dog in Micheals old home, the same one Dr. Loomis found in the original movie. The body is shown and it’s pretty disturbing (to me at least). Skip the first minute or so after the officers enter the house to skip over it.
there's a dead animal
spoiler Dead dog. Time stamp is 8mins20secs - 8mins35secs
animals are abused
Yes
there are bugs
spoiler Crickets can be heard, but not seen.
a pet dies
Yes
there's dog fighting
spoiler This isn’t pertaining to the category per say but I thought it would be important to tell people that there is a scene with a dog barking. It’s after the kids run away from the gay couple.
an animal dies
spoiler Death is not shown. Dead dog in Michael Meyer’s house.
someone leaves without saying goodbye
Yes
there's child abuse
spoiler A couple of kids/teens are killed off screen, so not in the way you’re thinking of but there is technically harm to children
a woman is brutalized for spectacle
Yes
someone gets gaslighted
spoiler The main characters mom is very gaslight-y and guilt trippy.
someone is stalked
spoiler Michael’s whole vibe as the “boogeyman” is that he’s a stalker figure, and he follows people and lingers in the background throughout the movie
alcohol abuse
spoiler There are scenes of people drinking at a bar, somewhat irresponsibly
someone uses drugs
spoiler Two men briefly smoke weed, nothing extreme
someone is restrained
Yes
a woman gets slapped
Yes
someone is beaten up by a bully
spoiler A kid gets hit and restrained while they pried the kid’s hand open.
someone's mouth is covered
Yes
there's excessive gore
Yes
there's genital trauma/mutilation
Yes
there are hangings
spoiler Not while they’re still alive, but a corpse is hanged with chains (almost to present them)
there's shaving/cutting
spoiler Cutting/stabbing is Michael’s preferred method of killing and it occurs frequently
there's amputation
Yes
someone struggles to breathe
spoiler Many people are choked/strangled
someone asphyxiates
Yes
somebody is choked
Yes
someone is stabbed
Yes
someone falls down stairs
spoiler A character falls down a flight of stairs and breaks their leg.
someone falls to their death
spoiler Yes, onscreen and we see the aftermath of the body afterwards
Someone becomes unconscious
Yes
there's Achilles Tendon injury
spoiler In the extended edition, there’s a close-up shot of Michael slashing the Achilles’ tendon of an otherwise unseen member of the mob. It’s pretty graphic, but only lasts for a few seconds of screentime.
there's finger/toe mutilation
Yes
someone breaks a bone
spoiler A woman falls down the stairs and leg breaks. There are a few other scenes in which Michael breaks people’s bones (mostly hands, arms) when he is in the process of killing them.
there's decapitation
Yes
someone is burned alive
spoiler Two firefighters are killed inside a burning building and it is presumed that there bodies are left to burn. Before he’s killed, one of the firefighters falls through the floor and is clearly in distress.
teeth are damaged
spoiler There are a few shots of corpses from the previous movie in which mouths (and therefore teeth) are mutilated
someone dislocates something
Yes
there's eye mutilation
spoiler An abnormally large amount
there's body horror
Yes
there's torture
spoiler Both physical mutilation and mental anguish all invoked by Michael Myers
heads get squashed
spoiler One of the first big kills is Michael bashing a firefighters head in with a pick ax - very gruesome
hands are damaged
Yes
someone's throat is mutilated
Yes
someone is crushed to death
Yes
a kid dies
spoiler A child off-screen, and a teenager on-screen
a non-human character dies
Yes
a major character dies
Yes
someone dies
Yes
someone sacrifices themselves
Yes
someone overdoses
spoiler A character injects themselves with a syringe of an unknown painkiller without measuring it to “make the pain stop”. They don’t OD, but it could still be triggering.
someone cheats
spoiler Brief references in the beginning to a cheating storyline that occurred in the previous movie, but nothing in this film
a family member dies
Yes
A child's dear toy is destroyed
spoiler Children’s Halloween masks are stolen and put on the faces of corpses
a parent dies
spoiler At least two known parents die onscreen.
there are jump scares
Yes
there are razors
Yes
there are clowns
spoiler A brief shot of a child character in a clown costume, but nothing else.
there's ghosts
spoiler It’s implied that Michael is not entirely “human,” but whether we’re meant to assume he’s a ghost or a demon or just an otherworldly entity is kind of ambiguous
someone vomits
spoiler Fake, but may still be hard to look at. Turn away when the girl comes to the door and screams that her friend’s candy had a razor blade in it.
There's audio gore
spoiler Mostly “squelching” sounds and bones crunching. Be advised if you’re squeamish.
there's spitting
spoiler Someone spits very briefly towards the beginning of the film.
there is copaganda
spoiler There is actually a very strong sense of people being fed up with the police not doing anything
there's incarceration
Yes
needles/syringes are used
spoiler There are two scenes with needles. One with a nurse administering something to a hospital patient and another with a character forcibly jabbing themselves with what they assume is morphine. There is also a brief replay from the 2018 movie of Dr. Sartain stabbing Frank with his pen knife. It’s not a needle but it bothered my partner so I felt I should put it for others.
there's a mental institution scene
spoiler There is mention of Michael and another patient escaping a mental institution (basically recap of the last movie), and a very brief flashback from the 1978 movie that took place on the grounds of a mental institution but otherwise theres no direct scene in this movie.
there's a hospital scene
spoiler A good portion of the movie takes place in a hospital
someone dies by suicide
spoiler Man jumps out window at about one hour 17 min mark - very graphic death
Someone attempts suicide
spoiler Idk why people are saying no because there is a very graphic scene where a man commits suicide by jumping out of a high window
someone self harms
Yes
a mentally ill person is violent
spoiler A mentally ill man is vilified by the townspeople and forced to defend himself, and it’s incredibly heartbreaking
there's misophonia
spoiler Some minor squishing sounds and hospital beeps/clinking that may trigger those with misophonia
someone suffers from PTSD
spoiler Literally All of the old crew.
someone says "I'll kill myself"
spoiler The phrase itself is never used, but there is a very graphic on-screen suicide.
there's a claustrophobic scene
spoiler Some scenes of people hiding crawling in tight spaces
someone has an anxiety attack
spoiler Many characters go into states of panic and/or shock during and after their encounters with Michael
someone has a mental illness
Yes
someone has a meltdown
Yes
shaky cam is used
spoiler Quite a few scenes with handheld cameras that are a little bit shaky
there's flashing lights or images
spoiler Frequent use of police, firetruck, and ambulance lights
there are sudden loud noises
Yes
there's screaming
Yes
someone is watched without knowing
Yes
there are homophobic slurs
spoiler Yes and no? In the bar scene with the stand up ventriloquist, the ventriloquist guy says the word “queer”. It’s ambiguous with meaning but i thought people would want to know.
there are "Man in a dress" jokes
spoiler There is a man who wears a skirt as a Halloween costume, but the movies doesn’t go depict this as a joke in regards to this.
there's ableist language or behavior
spoiler A mentally ill man is the victim of a mob and is forced to kill himself to escape them, and he was only looking for help
an LGBT person dies
spoiler It should be noted that the relationship is handled respectfully and casually, and the characters are not killed because they’re gay
the black guy dies first
spoiler The first characters killed are wearing helmets/masks so it’s hard to say what race they were (but I’m almost certain they were white)
a male character is ridiculed for crying
Yes
someone is homeless
spoiler Laurie is technically homeless since her house burned down, but it’s no one really mentions it.
the ending is sad
spoiler Sad and brutal, but open-ended for the final film
a car crashes
spoiler Though there is a car crash, there was only one person involved and were not severely injured.
a person is hit by a car
spoiler No one is hit on screen, but there are a few near misses
a car honks or tires screech
Yes
there's blood/gore
spoiler If you’re sensitive to blood and/or gore in any way, this is not the movie for you
there's gun violence
Yes

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