I love the Halloween movies. The original is one of the best movies made and while all the sequels don’t reach that level, I watch them all.

Halloween Kills is weird.

It does offer a return of a lot of original characters from the first movie, Tommy, Lindsey, the nurse with Dr. Loomis.

But. Big But.

What a ripoff.

Jamie Lee Curtis is in the movie for about five minutes, mostly flat on her back in a hospital. I swear I saw a trailer that showed her confronting Michael. Hell, she doesn’t get within miles of Michael.

There is a huge mob scene of Haddonfield rising up against Michael only to make an innocent person by mistake. It is like something out of Young Frankenstein and almost as laughable. Not good for a horror movie.

If you get Peacock you can watch it without having to pay theater money.

As placeholders go in these never ending series, this one is a really shitty one.

Jamie Lee ought to be ashamed.