Halloween Kills Review - Off The Shelf Reviews

This week Gary and Iain review and discuss, Halloween Kills (2021) by Director, David Gordon Green. Starring, Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer and Will Patton.
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[@nicolechampeau8432]

I love it when Ian goes on a long emotional rant, and Gary just quietly goes to his calm place.

[@UnCreativeDeconstructionism]

i love when they both go on rants cuz gary would be like 😶😲😅 and iain would be like 😏😆🤣

[@deshaunwatson4462]

I died laughing when tommy was in the mob and shouted “evil dies tonight” with his finger in the air then he starts running..instantly reminded me of something George Constanza would do😂

[@porkflaps4717]

Anthony Michael Hall is so damn tough. When the new kids on the block were hanging tough, he was doing his thing in the Breakfast Club and I'm surprised anyone lived to talk about it. I hope he doesn't hear about this, I'll be a dead man.

[@retros4am]

😂 the Summer of George

[@user-zh4vo1kw1z]

You just improved the movie for me

[@vonb2009]

This film always makes me think of Loomis' line in the first film: "No, if you do that they'll see him on every street corner. They'll look for him in every house."

[@UnCreativeDeconstructionism]

they never even got that far.

[@menorahdarkness4877]

Nobody's EVER managed to capture the coolness and creepiness of Carpenter's original !

[@JT_Grogan]

Halloween II came close but I agree! The franchise quickly became a parody of itself

[@sasahuzjak2249]

And nobody ever will

[@brianmeen2158]

It’s impossible. Halloween 2(1981) came the closest .. the first two Halloween’s are the only truly creepy ones.

[@morfiend2170]

I think the real meaning behind the title being "Kills", was to actually to kill the franchise. An evil dies tonight was them telling us to stop watching the series and let it die. "Did I just come up with a bunch of crap?", yes just like they did with this movie. Great video

[@justincenter4061]

What would be even better? It refers to killing the Michal Myers story and the next movie is a remake of Season of the Witch.

[@iamtrappedonanisland998]

What a TREAT!!!🎃🎃Thanks guys! I needed this after the day I have had...you are very appreciated for the hours of entertainment you have supplied over the years, Happy Halloween!

[@aleaanderson6600]

If they stuck with John Carpenter's original anthology idea, then Season of the Witch wouldn't feel out of place in the franchise, and we'd have whoknows how many different Halloween movies now. They had the perfect idea right there, but went with "more Michael Myers."

[@gnc623]

YES! I'm ready to sacrifice Halloween 4 and on for the anthology series. I am morbidly curious what types of films we would've gotten.

[@behindthescenesphotos5133]

There was nothing to stop them from doing both, making an anthology series apart from the Michael Myers movies. Having the "Halloween III" in the title makes it sound like a continuation. They could have just released it as "Halloween Tales: Season of the Witch," and still made money with direct sequels.

[@cooperbourke7717]

I can't wait to see you guys rip 'Halloween Ends' to shreds.

[@rawbones4117]

Ian holding that face of befuddled dissapointment at 25:20 got me good

[@haitch2676]

Time for a confession - Halloween 3 Season of the Witch is my favourite in the entire series

[@GamerGuysReviews]

You're not the only one. It's mine as well.

[@haitch2676]

@@GamerGuysReviews you’re a good man, I can tell

[@aydenvavra2153]

Same 😊

[@haitch2676]

@@aydenvavra2153 such a good movie

[@allamaraine8066]

Nothing wrong with that! Carpenter’s original will always be my favorite, but anyone telling you that your favorite is invalid is an idiot.

[@JD.78]

If you hate Halloween Kills you'll definitely hate Halloween Ends.

[@dench2695]

Fans are such fickle bitches.

[@JD.78]

@@dench2695 Lol, indeed we are, though we deserved better for our loyalty to the franchise.

[@brianmeen2158]

Halloween kills and Ends are so bland and shorty that I can’t rewatch either of them.. I can watch Halloween 4 & 6 any time but Halloween Kills and Ends are terrible

[@JD.78]

@@brianmeen2158 Not since the original Halloween II (in my opinion) has there been a decent sequel worthy of the name. Halloween III was an interesting film but should really have been it's own thing.

[@cadecollier7746]

Shooting advice from Brits is like getting advice from fish on flying lmao love y’all

[@M85619]

flying fish

[@AngelCruz-pd1hc]

Can't wait for your next review on Halloween Ends. Is going to be one heck of a review because how bad it is and how it ends the trilogy of Laurie vs Michael.

[@torquetheprisoner]

we need Michael Myers innnnnnnn SPAAAAAACEEEEE

[@gnc623]

I liked Halloween Ends. I do think the third act was weak, but I appreciated they tried to do something different.

[@ateam404]

@@gnc623I liked it too. Allyson’s consistent bad choices in men could have been explained thou lol

[@wopjohn]

If Iain hated this he'll absolutely Loath halloween ends

[@JML1985]

Haven't seen it yet. It's that bad?

[@gnc623]

I thought Halloween Ends was considerably better than Kills. Granted, I do think the ending was weak, but I appreciated that they tried to do something a little different.

[@promnightdumpsterbaby9553]

@@gnc623 a little?!

[@deckarobinson7675]

I cant wait to hear your review of Halloween Ends HAHAHAHA

[@catspaw3092]

So while Laurie was the only one traumatized 40 years later by Michael but Lindsey, Tommy, Lonny & Nurse Chambers aren't affected in the least that they still live in Haddonfield.

[@sumthingwikked4257]

Realistically, those former three don't know Michael was a force of evil. The nurse has some idea from Loomis but do you expect Haddonfield to be THAT smart to go "call the military".

[@cnferguson5]

Who here thought that Michael was gonna dress in the fire fighter outfit and escape? That would've been great.

[@AarenJable]

EVIL DIES TONIG- oh wait, no it doesn't. Silly me.

[@brianubben3074]

Loved both Kills and Ends. I hope that doesn’t make me a bad person.

[@cinemaspire7258]

It makes you a more sound minded person than most

[@sumthingwikked4257]

Yeah, on the internet, you're a target with that.

[@promnightdumpsterbaby9553]

Jesus....

[@UnCreativeDeconstructionism]

I love that "The Warriors" Reference. also *Turn Up*

[@jonahjones1702]

I'm also a massive John Carpenter fan and to think he put his name on these films 😭

[@oskar_oskarewicz]

I am also a massive Carepnter fan, and I am super greatful he got invloved, gave Green his insight, and made 3 amazing scores that eleveated this new series big time!

[@alanford3359]

Looks like the rubber bat has also completely given up on Halloween 😂

[@Nikujaga4649]

Best quote of this movie: "I got this knife" "And I got this knife"

[@JWUniverse]

Boy I can’t wait to see both of your reactions to Halloween Ends. You think this was Shit… Just wait guys!

[@user-zh4vo1kw1z]

I will only accept this movie as the delirium of Mickey as his brain starts to boil in his skull and he remembers an alternate timeline where he suddenly had always had a weird cheap tattoo on his wrist

[@iyona14granturismogt6gtspo7]

When the guy in morgue says "You can't be in here!" Watch ...the CORPSE MOVES HIS MOUTH😂😅😊!!!! I AM THE ONLY PERSON WHO HAS NOTICED THIS!!

[@byrontownsel7274]

This movie and "Ends" blew salty monkey nuts. So does the new Friday the 13th being a prequel tv series on Peacock.

[@andrewblanchard2398]

TOMMY in 1978 barely saw MICHAEL MYERS

[@jamessiddle7389]

That's the problem with these film's, they fail to write character's you really care about just poor character development. Cutting back to Gary laughing after the nurse kill is priceless 🤣🎃

[@jashraf255]

Michael had time to 'kill' to make that pumpkin in the cupboard that gets fired at

[@andrewblanchard2398]

I was cheering for MICHAEL MYERS in this movie

[@imScottIronmonger]

Loved the ending of this review from you guys! Gary's face when Ian says "this film is a sespool of sh**" 🤣🤣🤣 And Ian when he says "I wash my hands of it" with the dusting his hands off motion. Class from both of you!! 🤣😍👏 Scott 🤓🤓

[@hatchetryda219]

you guys are going to lose it over halloween ends. i love you guys so much!

[@wopjohn]

39:00 I doubt any hospital would have the morgue on the first floor with giant windows and the bodies laying there uncovered

[@victorguzman723]

I feel both your emotions Gary and Ian. thanks for all your great videos.... LOVE HURTS... LOVE KILLS.. and LOVE ENDS..... HAPPY HALLOWEEN !

[@NickElliott-dv8vn]

This really is a legendary review 🙌 , thanks for the many laughs over the years 👊.

[@Nader89806]

always happy to watch you guys!

[@Welovehorrormovies]

The only good thing about this movie was when Jamie shouted in the hospital “Move you F$$king sheep!!!” 😂😂 Other than that, it was horrible. It broke my heart too. Halloween was my first horror movie I ever watched when I was about six years old so I feel your pain!

[@MrDman21]

Evil dies tonight? More like stupid dies tonight...as in the characters in this movie 😆

[@retroworld8090]

Iain! Don't watch ends. If kills upsets you this much ends will end your soul!

[@ChoccoSwan]

Can't wait for the Halloween Ends review :)

[@psymongodden]

That was an amazing review guys , it's now going to double bill on my play list as Red Letter Media pretty much summarised your same feelings. They said it was a mixture of Titanic and It's a mad mad mad world 🤣

[@thew0rdsmyth]

Ian is right. They got rid of Michael's background and motivation which makes it hard to keep making films. Unless Michael gets some depth and motivation (even as a silent killer), the movies will deteriorate.

[@sumthingwikked4257]

Then people will bitch that they explained too much. You can't continue the story anymore. Michael was shot six times in 1, then burnt to shit in II. That's the end. Everything after 3 is fanfic.

[@PondoSinatra680]

The Franchise Dies Tonight

[@lowrivera]

I can't wait to hear Iain on Halloween Ends!!! 🤣😂😆

[@michaelcoffey1991]

As a mindless slasher this is a fun movie for me, as the 2nd film of a new Halloween trilogy it really dropped the ball on what COULD of been and SHOULD of been the majority of the film which is Haddonfield vs Michael Myers. It is just the way it was handled and the lack of it being the total focus was meh at best to me. I think Ian was full of @hit in his rant, tho I will always be happy when people speak their minds whether I agree or not. Agree with Gary the flashback stuff to start the film was amazingly well done and shot.

[@jasonmorgan1543]

Another outstanding review guys and always keeping real.

[@mattmidgley4275]

Great review guys 👊👊…. Love hurts 😂

[@AubreyTheKing]

Wow...if you guys hated Halloween Kills, you guys better avoid Halloween Ends! Imao With that being said, as a diehard Halloween fan myself, I hate to admit it, but I actually enjoyed Halloween Kills. Especially after watching Halloween Ends. I'm starting to appreciate Kills a lot more. Yes, the characters are stupid. Yes, the pacing is horrible. Yes, the story is ridiculous. But what I personally love about Kills, is that it's actually Michael's movie. It's not about the victims or even Lorie herself. Which I think is why she was pushed aside in the film. It's all about Michael Myers going on a killing spree. And the kills ARE the best things about this movie. Also, the film recreating John Carpenter's 1978 Halloween and the guy looking extremely like Donald Pleasence was handle perfectly. Can't complain. But I can see why most fans would hate Kills, I can't even defend the movie much myself. But again, I personally enjoyed it. Happy Halloween Guys!

[@BrotherJP333SP]

Halloween 4, 5, 6, and 7 were all more fun for me even if they weren't great cinema.

[@jonnybaze7449]

357 magnum!!! Absolutely no recoil lol. She even held onto the gun one handed and dead after the last shot smh

[@jonahjones1702]

Iain it wasn't Lonnie who Michael grabbed in the original Lonnie ran the other way with his friend. The kid Michael grabbed had a blue jacket on

[@PipeRetrogamer]

Believe it or not, I lived in a house that had a bathroom with a window to the car entrance. So nothing seemed weird to me there 😂

[@Rammstein0963.]

Sometimes you'll also see weird things like that because at some point they built an extension on to the house and just never did away with things like existing windows.

[@TheBeird]

I love Danny McBride. Hand on heart, I believe he and his frequent collaborators - including David Gordon Green - are very capable storytellers. But their Halloween movies are awful. And awful from a writing perspective. Especially in this one, the dialogue is didactic and inhuman.

[@ACougarSwagnum]

>big john little john, is like a joke, they both are named john, the big one is called little john, the small one is called big john, which is the reverse of what you would think... >seeing as they are gay characters, the reversed descriptors of their nicknames probably references their johnson sizes

[@VenusHeadTrap2]

A cop accidentally shoots his friend in the throat in a flash back? That wouldn’t happen in the original Halloween, nobody in that movie was that stupid.

[@bujilou]

Hilarious review..can't wait till "Halloween ends" 😵‍💫

[@wopjohn]

The first time I watched HK and they cut to the guy singing and dancing in his bedroom. I was certain I accidentally changed the channel lol

[@john_blues]

I was mad at this movie at first. I thought they were shouting "Iain dies tonight!".

[@Phantasmlovecraft]

hope we get an END review soon

[@Boymanbeard]

great review, made me laugh quite a bit lol

[@Emulous79]

5:11 I thought that was Nancy Kyes for a second.

[@carlredbird3054]

Danny McBride and Gordon green must be simpletons, because the movie is a wet sneeze

[@GraySkull289]

Can't wait for the next one when they have to say that the original script was thrown out and they rewrote it and added the 4 year time up. It was original supposed to take place all on one night hence the ending of this film.

[@sumthingwikked4257]

I wished they stuck to that.

[@porkflaps4717]

Man I know y'all are about to roast this film I can't wait to watch this vid LOL

[@chrisdee1583]

Can't wait for the Ends review now guys 😂👍

[@91MoonKnight]

I've been waiting for this review for a very long time.

[@davidmorris4391]

OH WOW A CLASSIC RANT! love this review for such a pants film. 'Evil dies tonight' spliced with Ian doing it was hilarious! Fantastic review fellas.

[@djmexicanodetx2195]

Happy Halloween Iain and Gary! 🎃

[@EonEsper-Kriz]

Evil didn't die that night, lol. 🤣

[@wopjohn]

Should have kept Halloween 2 in Canon. Up Mike's body count

[@herbertsherbert2142]

I liked the film to be honest. Much better than the most recent one, ends

[@adamhunt4462]

Evil dies tonight will be the most memorable thing from this trilogy. In the future it will be quoted by people who have no idea where it came from.

[@KingKenzo215]

I agree H1 and H2 is Halloween to me the rest of them were bad and unnecessary

[@lotrgirl275]

Just saw Halloween Ends and.. give me Hellraiser Judgment over that steaming pile of nonsense any day! Maybe not Revelations, but.. it's close. How in the money did Jamie Lee Curtis agree to this?

[@davidresellscollects6943]

Good evening guy's and Happy Halloween 🎃

[@SpeedBoost]

During that unnecessary "YOU CANT BE IN HERE!" scene the body on the slab can be seen obviously opening and closing his mouth and his eyes are moving behind his eyelids.

[@quarkbent9165]

I think there's an idiom that applies here; the film can look good, it's just not a good film. Thanks for the review :) There appears to be a small continuity error where the nurse shoots herself; the door is open while she's shooting until she gets close to the door when suddenly, it is closed enough to be opened into her. Must be more Myers magic.

[@ashleyevans9810]

happy Halloween guys!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Jay-mu4xl]

Happy Halloween, Shelfers! 🎃👊👊👊

[@jonnybaze7449]

The riot at the White House? The Capitol building. We had a year+ of riots. There were two at the Capitol but only one breached the building

[@DemonKingHiei]

I love this movie, even i recognize it’s bad But if they know Michael just wants to go home and vibe in his window, why not get a sniper to wait and blast him while he’s in the the window

[@JoeyMartz]

Sexual orientation... not preference.... I didnt choose to be gay... it just worked out that way... big fan, btw! J from nj / usa

[@BackyardPix]

This new trilogy managed to top the stupidity of the earlier sequels. An amazing feat, really. Kills and Ends are, truly, some of the worst movies I have ever seen. Not hyperbole - just the truth. I refuse to believe that actual human beings wrote the scripts. It had to have been a diabolical AI that generated them. A person couldn't come up with something this moronic.

[@AngelCruz-pd1hc]

Great reviews guys! An awesome video for Halloween. I wish you a very Happy Halloween! Also I enjoyed Michael killing people but also I didn't like the film because they keep saying evil dies tonight. Also good morning from California!

[@katyrye]

Are you guys going to do the new one?

[@capitalcitygoofball1987]

You wacky guys and your logic. This is a Blumhouse joint baby! Can't wait for The Exorcist reboot and Christine remake.

[@rosemaryfarell5264]

Happy Halloween Guys.

[@munishvarma3989]

Pretty cool film it would be much better although if it dropped the evil dies tonight crap

[@torquetheprisoner]

evil did die that night the mob mentaliy got killed by Michael Myers

[@hookybrickshooky9529]

I liked Halloween Kills for what it is despite it’s flaws and shortcommings. I feel that this movie was made by people who love John Carpenters original Halloween and I kind of wonder why this love gets so much hate. Anyway we all can agree to disagree on that one I guess.

[@KingKenny.]

Hysterical rant review 🤣 Omg can't wait until you do the utter abomination that is Halloween Ends !!!

[@heybrandon420]

This is my fav. Halloween.

[@brendanbell4732]

"Evil dies tonight" forever burned into Micheal Myers

[@rawbones4117]

The more time goes on the less angry I am with this movie. I think it will be a hilarious time piece several years later. It will be an enjoyable watch. Where as the one before it and the one after it will just be notches in the franchise.

[@stephenkissane4268]

Perhaps the other sequels were a dream in Micheal head or something

[@goodfellatim7018]

Do you all plan on doing Halloween Ends

[@G_Elektrik]

Halloween 2018 showed promise for a good return of the franchise, at that time many wanted a sequel, but writers wanted to do something different and instead started to turn it in the wrong direction. The concept of evil inside people, mob mentality, and all that is an interesting idea, but not well developed against the formula of Michael killing around. Is a shame because the production is good, as well as the cast, but the whole thing was damaged by the writing and concept of the movie.

[@AjfromtheG]

Iaaaaan please 😂😂😂 you are in rare form

[@JML1985]

Ends makes Kills look decent