3.0 out of 5 star rating<\/span> <\/span> <\/div> <\/div> After 44 years and more than a dozen movies, you\u2019d be forgiven for thinking Michael Myers should be picking up his pension any day now. For how much longer can the mute murderer realistically prey on the good people of Haddonfield, Illinois? What is there to fear from a knife-wielding maniac when he needs help cutting up his food?<\/p>\n
It makes sense, therefore, to give him an acolyte to take care of the heavy lifting \u2013 the slaughterer\u2019s apprentice, if you will. Enter Corey Cunningham (Rohan Campbell), former engineering student and hapless novice babysitter fresh from serving a three-year aggravated manslaughter prison sentence after a Halloween prank went awry.<\/p>\n
Corey\u2019s back home and facing \u201cchild killer\u201d taunts from townsfolk, a state of affairs that indirectly brings him into the orbit of Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis). Now in her sixties, she\u2019s become an unwelcome Myers magnet whose continued presence endangers others. As one angry citizen tells her: \u201cYou teased a man with brain damage and then he snapped.\u201d<\/p>
Not long after beginning a relationship with Laurie\u2019s granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak), a brush with bullies results in Corey unwittingly committing another awful crime and coming into contact with Myers, who\u2019s hiding in the tunnels under a major thoroughfare. A switch is flicked in Corey\u2019s brain, and the drain dwellers form a bizarre alliance, prompting the body count to start to rise again.<\/p>\n
A sequel to 2021\u2019s Halloween Kills, itself the second entry in director David Gordon Green\u2019s \u201cH40\u201d trilogy, the film embraces sundry slasher conventions while attempting to examine the aftermath and societal impact of those initial atrocities. Haddonfield\u2019s collective grief paints both Laurie and Corey as villains; perhaps not quite on a par with the masked Michael, but nonetheless a life-threatening hazard.<\/p>\n
Green avoids delving deeper into the frayed psyches of the victims\u2019 loved ones, though \u2013 instead, they largely serve as under-explored intermissions between a succession of (well-executed) traditional horror movie jump-cuts.<\/p>\n