Another of Allen's male characters, in a draft of a 1977 New Yorker story called " The Kugelmass Episode," is a 45-year-old fascinated by "coeds" at City College of New York.
There's the female college student in "Rainy Day" who "should not be 20 or 21, sounds more like 18 - or even 17 - but 18 seems better." That script includes a male college student but gives no description of his age. There's the 16-year-old in an unmade television pitch described as "a flashy sexy blonde in a flaming red low cut evening gown with a long slit up the side." There's the 17-year-old girl in another short story, "Consider Kaplan," whose 53-year-old neighbor falls in love with her as the two share a silent, one-floor-long elevator ride in their Park Avenue co-op. First, Allen's revisions reduce her to 18, then double down, literally, and turn her into two 18-year-olds. Running through all of the boxes is an insistent, vivid obsession with young women and girls: There's the "wealthy, educated, respected" male character in one short story ("By Destiny Denied: Incident at Entwhistle's") who lives with a 21-year-old "Indian" woman. Watch it: “Halloween Kills” in in theaters and also streaming on Peacock.Allen's work is flatly boorish. “Halloween Kills” also gives a cool shout-out to the much-maligned “Halloween III: Season of the Witch,” which I have to respect considering I have a “Halloween III” tattoo. For example, a number of actors return from the original film, including Kyle Richards, who played the little girl Jamie Lee Curtis babysits in Carpenter’s original.
There is plenty of subtext if you look for it, which will be interesting to revisit in a few years (and the film seems to have a better understanding of what it wants to say than “The Purge” movies), but “Halloween Kills” works best when it’s taken as dumb fun.Įaster eggs: Fans of the series will be stoked about all the callbacks to past films. Wait, so is this a recommendation? If you’re fatigued by “prestige horror,” and just want to watch something that’ll tingle your spine and churn your stomach, “Halloween Kills” uh.
In terms of movie monsters, you’re not going to find a better one this year. However, behind it all is The Shape, Michael Myers, who has never looked scarier in a “Halloween” movie. They also take bold liberties that mess with Carpenter’s original timeline.
Horror is as horror does: Critics are slaughtering “Halloween Kills,” and the movie definitely has many faults: characters make laughably stupid decisions, the filmmakers try to shove in too many social commentaries (“Michael Myers is COVID!”). The viscera he leaves in his path can be difficult to watch (even by seasoned horror buff standards), but it’s the fear he instills in the town- which quickly erupts into vigilante violence - that makes “Halloween Kills” a little too close to comfort. “Halloween Kills” begins with a crew of unfortunate firefighters releasing him from that inferno and, oh boy, is he pissed. Tell me more: The movie picks up right after the events in 2018’s “Halloween,” which (spoiler!) found Michael Myers trapped inside a burning house. Green’s recently-released sequel, “Halloween Kills,” ups the scariness, body count and nastiness, with some death scenes that I haven’t been able to shake from my head. However, in 2018 director David Gordon Green rebooted the series with “Halloween,” a movie that successfully made Michael Myers scary again.
Unfortunately, that can’t be said about the rest of the Halloween franchise, which is full of bizarre backstory and increasingly silly variations on killer Michael Myers’ iconic mask. Why? Sorry “Citizen Kane.” John Carpenter’s 1978 horror classic “Halloween” is actually the greatest movie ever made. What I’m obsessed with: “Halloween Kills,” the latest installment of the Halloween franchise. San Diego Union-Tribune editors and writers share what they’re currently obsessing over.