'Halloween Kills' review: 'A bloody, violent, chaotic and cynical mess'

Sequels are a tough sell in the horror genre. While there are some great ones every once in a blue moon, most of them are pretty terrible, including the recently released “Halloween Kills.” So, in honor of the terrible sequel issue, this episode of The Playlist Podcast is devoted to talking about horror films that didn’t get a sequel (and didn’t need a sequel) because they’re perfect just how they are.

Halloween franchise. In Halloween Kills, Myers played by James Jude Courtney, in his usual blood thirsty fashion, butchers a gay couple living in his childhood home.The couple Big John and Little Joh,  after realising someone had broken into their home, search for the intruder.

Alec Baldwin, 63, was photographed giving his condolences to Halyna Hutchins‘ family just two days after a loaded prop gun he was holding accidentally went off on the set of his upcoming movie Rust and killed her. The actor embraced the late 42-year-old cinematographer’s husband Matt Hutchins as he arrived in New Mexico, the location the film was shooting in, with their son Andros, 9.

“Oh William!” by Elizabeth Strout (Random House)Elizabeth Strout has written another voice-driven novel, the third in a series of books about the fictional writer Lucy Barton and the people she grew up with in a small town in rural Illinois.“Oh William!” returns to the first-person perspective of 2016’s bestselling “My Name is Lucy Barton,” narrated by Lucy as she slowly recovers from what should have been a routine operation and her mother, from whom she’s been estranged, comes to see her in

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaUniversal and Blumhouse’s “Halloween Kills” topped the weekend box office with a $50.4 million debut. That’s a bloody good showing considering that the film is being release simultaneously in theaters and on-demand via Peacock, NBCUniversal’s in-house Netflix challenger.

Perez was going to see Halloween Kills and he thought J.R. would enjoy going to see the film too. He agreed! We give you a very honest reaction! And we’re dealing with major middle child syndrome now! Trying to triage that as best we can! Watch!

J. Kim Murphy administratorMore than 40 years after the first “Halloween,” Michael Myers and Laurie Strode are still box office gold.

If insanity is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting different results, who, then, in the Halloween franchise best fits that description?Is it unstoppable serial killer Michael Myers? Or the pitiable folks of Haddonfield, Illinois who try and fail to stop him year after deadly year? Firing rounds of bullets that just miss him, and shouting his name to distract him aren’t saving lives or slowing down his killing sprees.

Michael Myers is back! And this time, he’s going to…well, kill a bunch of people.

Keep telling yourself, “It’s just a movie.” That is, unless it’s David Gordon Green’s run on the Halloween franchise, according to Jamie Lee Curtis.

“Halloween Kills” knows what you’re here for.

Jamie Lee Curtis, one thing is acting in horror movies, and another is watching them. The iconic actress revealed ahead of the Halloween Kills premiere that, among other stuff, she is afraid of scary things, specifically The Exorcist and night shooting.

Halloween Kills premiere this week dressed as her late mother’s iconic character from 1960’s Psycho.The actor, best known for playing protagonist Laurie Strode in the Halloween franchise, channelled Janet Leigh’s Marion Crane at the costume party premiere at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on Tuesday (October 12).Along with the signature blue dress and blonde wig, Curtis also carried a bloodied shower curtain to emphasise the connection to Alfred Hitchcock’s horror classic.Leigh passed away

Fright night! Kyle Richards would rather try and outrun Halloween Kills’ villain Michael Myers than be stuck in a room with some of her Real Housewives of Beverly Hills costars.