Maybe not a great movie, but far better than the previous two. "Fans" who just want to see MM carve up people will hate it the way they hate Halloween III. People interested in seeing a sequel attempt something new will be pleasantly surprised.
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Season of the Witch is just a dumb movie that people pretend is great in order to feel like they are in an esoteric highbrow horror niche.
I watched SOTW because these asshats have been raving about it for years and I thought maybe audiences really just don't like new things, but nope it was dumb. The concept of having Halloween movies on different subjects besides Myers is great, but season of the witch sucked.
I love it. And I don't feel esoteric or highbrow. 🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️
sharepretty sure nobody on planet earth holds Season of the Witch as "high art" with "an esoteric highbrow". in fact it's still in quite the minority opinion to call it as a good movie. it's a fun atmospheric horror film fulll of 80's charm, and that's what most people seem to think of it. sounds like you simply cannot handle the opinions of others.
shareSorry SandyR but you're way off the mark here.
Season of the Witch has gotten a reappraisal and cult following because it can firmly stand on it's own two feet. It's removed from the Michael Myers continuity and the slasher sub-genre as a whole.
This film here is a finale in a 'trilogy' and is still a Michael Myers and slasher film. It's forever bound to the David Gordon Green films and to the Michael Myers lore/canon.
This film isn't getting rescued from the 'haters', it will forever sit alongside the likes of Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995), Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (1985) and Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday (1993). That's what we're dealing with here. Of course this film will always have it's fans but it's not gonna become universally beloved or held in very high esteem.
Sorry, Saskia, but you're wrong.
First of all: Friday the 13th pt. 5 is one of the finest movies ever made.
Second: I'm tired of this, "Oh, it's supposed to be part of a trilogy..." The first two movies in this "trilogy" were garbage. They were nothing like the original Halloween despite promises from the studio and filmmakers otherwise. This last movie in the "trilogy" saves the whole damn thing. Sequels that just do the same thing over and over again are stupid. The masses may love them, but let's not forget how many millions of fans the show Friends has. The masses are often wrong. This movie went in an oddball direction and that's clearly thrown people who are comfortable seeing the same thing over and over again. I don't know if this movie is really any good, I just know that it's different, and that makes it a hell of a lot more interesting than the Friday the 13th clones the first two movies in this "trilogy" were.
F13 V is a lot better than this film, I agree. In part due to it's embracing of the sleaze factor. Ample amounts of nudity, high bodycount, it's a tad goofy but owns it and runs with it. It's a pureblood slasher film, no pretensions. It had an idea of what it wanted to do and executed it well. The only issues with it is the copycat killer which bothers some and the sleazy vibe and humor which puts some people off.
DGG makes goofy films whilst trying to hamfist some deeper message. The narrative in these films is so melodramatic and over the top that it's ridiculous. The man has no subtlety. He has an idea and can't correctly execute it because he's a woeful writer and director. The whole trauma and passing on evil thing in this film was pathetically executed.
Doing something different isn't inherently great or worth commending. Any idiot could walk into a slasher franchise, tear up the lore and framework and make whatever the fuck they want. Jason Goes To Hell is such a brilliant comparison to this film, with the Jason body swapping and Michael passing something onto Corey in this, which plays like some sort of psuedo-possession. Both cases of a creative team doing whatever they please with the IP.
This film is like a F13 clone itself. Like F13 5 & Jason Goes To Hell mashed together. Without the charm, whilst taking itself way too seriously and trying to be smarter and something more than it actually is. DGG deserves no credit. What he done here isn't something bold or new, it's been done in other slasher films. Even in the Halloween franchise we've had the curse of the thorn plotline. These are the films that Halloween Ends will be considered akin too.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. DGG had an easy path to walk to please fans and he purposely went against the grain because he probably thinks he's some sort of auteur or because as I suspect, he didn't have a clue what to do so said fuck it and purposely went of on some weird tangent.
The only issues with it is the copycat killer
Friday the 13th Part V is awesome and I still quote it to this day. It's my favorite of the sequels.
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shareAny and all installments of Friday the 13th after Part V are illegitimate and non-canon in my book. I refused to even watch that dreck.
shareYour book doesn't count in my book. I only watch Friday the 13th films that come after part 5
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sharePeople keep wanting to bring up Halloween 3 and Friday the 13th part 5 as some defense mechanism but you have to remember Halloween 3 and Friday the 13th part 5 were awesome 80's movies in their own right as these new Halloween movies are shitty 21st Century movies in their own right. Tom Atkins and Thom Matthews are awesome, Corey Cunningham eats Avocado Toast and wears skinny jeans. See the difference?
shareHalloween Ends is bad entry into a series.
The Corey Cunningham story should have been it's own movie without the Michael Meyers aspect.
I don't think people will care for this movie though. Season of the witch was so different that people can separate it from the original Halloween. This one, not so much.