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Halloween Kills

Tagline: "Evil dies tonight."

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Director: David Gordon Green

Release Year: 2021

Runtime: 105 min

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Plot Summary: 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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On Halloween night in 2018, after being stabbed and left to die by Dr. Ranbir Sartain,[a] Hawkins is found by Cameron Elam, who calls an ambulance. Hawkins regrets allowing Michael to live and vows to kill him.
In a flashback to the same night 40 years ago, rookie police officer Frank Hawkins accidentally shoots his partner dead while trying to save him from Michael Myers. Hawkins also prevents Dr. Samuel Loomis from executing Michael who had surrendered to police outside of his home.
Meanwhile at a local bar 40 years later, Tommy Doyle commemorates the 40th anniversary of Michael's capture along with fellow survivors Marion Chambers, Lindsey Wallace, and Cameron's father Lonnie Elam, having each survived an encounter with Michael in 1978.[b] Meanwhile, Laurie Strode, her daughter Karen, and her granddaughter Allyson are taken to Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, where Laurie undergoes emergency surgery. Firefighters responding to Laurie's burning house encounter Michael, who slaughters them with their own equipment. Michael attacks and kills Laurie's neighbor Phil, and critically injures his wife Sondra before walking back to Haddonfield.
Tommy, Marion, Lindsey, and Lonnie learn of Michael's killing spree through an emergency alert. Tommy forms a mob of vengeful Haddonfield residents to hunt down and kill Michael. Karen is informed that Michael is still alive and withholds that information from Laurie to allow her to recover, while Allyson reconciles with Cameron, her ex-boyfriend and joins Tommy's mob to avenge her own father's death.
While warning the Haddonfield community to stay inside their houses, Marion and bar patrons Vanessa and Marcus are killed by Michael. Lindsey escapes and is found alive by Tommy, Lonnie, Allyson, and Cameron. The group map out Michael's path and his victims' location and deduce that he is heading towards his childhood home. Tommy takes Lindsey to the hospital and reunites with former Haddonfield sheriff Leigh Brackett, whose daughter Annie was killed in 1978,[b] and informs Laurie about Michael's survival. Across town, Michael murders the current owners of his home Big John and Little John as Laurie prepares to leave the hospital.
Lance Tivoli, a fugitive convict from Smith's Grove Psychiatric Hospital, who escaped alongside Michael when their bus crashed,[a] arrives and is mistaken for Michael. Tommy's mob pursue him through the hospital before Karen realizes that he is not Michael. Despite her attempts to calm the mob and help Lance, he jumps out of a window to his death. Laurie urges Karen to work with Tommy and Brackett to hunt Michael down. Elsewhere, Lonnie enters Michael's home alone and is killed. Allyson and Cameron rush inside and find his corpse before being attacked by Michael, who murders Cameron.
As Michael prepares to kill Allyson, Karen appears and stabs him in the back with a pitchfork, steals his mask, and taunts him to follow her. She leads Michael into Tommy's mob, who seemingly kill him. When the mob drops their guard, believing Michael dead, he awakens and massacres the entire mob, including Tommy and Brackett. Back at the Myers house, Karen sees a vision of a young Michael in Judith Myers's old bedroom and goes upstairs to investigate. Michael appears and stabs Karen to death as Laurie stares out of her hospital room.

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