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I am so happy.

I'd far rather this get the Halloween Ends treatment than the Halloween 2018 treatment.

More slashers treated like blockbusters.

Thrilled it's doing so well. It's a real good time. The only thing nagging me is how Spyglass will be feeling so vindicated about short-changing Neve.

Brian Tyler's scores for these are so limp. Beltrami dropped the ball with Scream 4 (he had two weeks to write it to be fair), but I really miss him here.

This was Scream 2 all over again: lots of excellent set pieces overcompensating for quite a lame plot. Like with Scream 2, you have lots of padding with the main characters, which is great because they all have chemistry; unlike Scream 2, you don't have Laurie Metcalf working overtime to sell a really rushed and underdeveloped motive. The killer reveal in this is by far the lamest in the series. I have really mixed views to be honest. I hope I like it more on repeat viewings.

This was Scream 2 all over again: lots of excellent set pieces overcompensating for quite a lame plot. Like with Scream 2, you have lots of padding with the main characters, which is great because they all have chemistry; unlike Scream 2, you don't have Laurie Metcalf working overtime to sell a really rushed and underdeveloped motive. The killer reveal in this is by far the lamest in the series. I have really mixed views to be honest. I hope I like it more on repeat viewings.

Has anyone ever carried a movie more than Parker Posey carries Scream 3?

I just saw this and Pfeiffermania indeed. She was selling the shit out of stuff that had no right to be sold. Such a talent. She's also the most beautiful human being ever but we all already knew that. Movie was kinda fun, kinda lame. I liked all the weird Saturday morning cartoon stuff, but everyone bar Pfeiffer gets lost here. I know Majors was good and everyone is willing Kang to be great, but that was a really confusing and weird introduction. Also, has anyone ever been more visibly bored in one of these than Douglas is here? I never stopped laughing at Modok. Definitely a better time than the second which is sinfully boring.

Looks visually rancid.

Michelle Pfeiffer.

I'm gonna see this for Pfeiffer only. Ant-Man and the Wasp was stinky, stinky poo so there was no reason to think this would be any better.

Looks goofy but you know they're gonna get Keaton in on the dead mum drama and he's gonna absolutely kill it.

Well I'm in that age bracket and think Batman Returns is the greatest anything ever.

I love how I have no idea what's going on. Gonna bail on the TV spots now. Scared for Gale, but I don't know if they'd go there while Neve's future in the franchise is still unclear.

Scream 4 actively feels like a Kevin Williamson script one line and then an Ethren Kruger script the next. It has high highs but the lows are the lowest of the series. Scream 3 is kinda awful but it commits to the Scooby Doo camp and is better for it. Parker Posey and Courteney Cox together is dynamite.

Thinking about how Courteney has great chemistry with all her scene partners in these movies: Dewey, Sidney, Kenny, Debbie, Joel, Jennifer, Judy...she's so great.

Fey is definitely Ariadne Oliver. That should he fun. I'm wondering if the whole thing isn't just a big ode to Don't Look Now. A whodunnit set in Venice centred around with supernatural undertones.

That was kinda great? Chad was lowkey the best of the new characters and I hope he has a big part.

I kinda hated Williams in this. Movie is...good.

I was halfway through this at a showing yesterday when someone in the row behind me tried to recreate the opening of He Knows You're Alone with someone who had apparently slept with his girlfriend. I was really into the movie before having to leave to provide a police statement.

I saw this again today. It's definitely my favourite sequel in the franchise. I loved seeing Laurie get a chance to be the person she never got to be. I get that people think it's jarring coming after 2018 and HK, but in the latter movie she learned that Michael wasn't after her at all. Her hysteria ultimately did put people in harm's way. She knows that, so she's trying her best to move on - not always successfully. I loved her first scene with Corey and her scene in the supermarket with Hawkins. This is the first time we've seen who that seventeen-year-old could have grown up to be. The Corey stuff works for me. Halloween Kills was all about angry, cartoon townsfolk looking for their big cathartic 'gotcha' moment. They didn't get it. They've been deprived closure and so they needed to project their hate onto someone - Corey and the survivors. Thematically it works. The difference in the silly crowd at the end of this movie and the silly buffoons at the end of Halloween Kills drives it home. It helps that Rohan Campbell is really talented. Michael being MIA doesn't bother me because the movie isn't about him. It's about a town being unable to process the grief that he caused. I lowkey love his levelling up/jizzing when he kills for the first time. Also, today I noticed how Michael panics every time someone takes off his mask except for when Corey does. He lets him take it. The scene was shot in a very goofy way, though. The score is fantastic. Corey's theme is terrific and its interplay with the main theme is quite clever. Carpenter and sons normally just seem to play what's on screen (nothing wrong with that!), but there's far more thought here. Great stuff. I love Laurie's ending. She couldn't kill him until she got over him. As the final 'final girl', she had to survive. The last few shots, mimicking the original, but without the incessant score, were perfect. I found it quite moving. This is the ending she deserved. There's some absolutely horrific ADR in there. There's still some really portentous dialogue. Laurie's monologues are... a lot. You can feel the reshuffling/recontextualising of scenes before Corey comes for Laurie. Corey's mum is straight from Friday the 13th Part V (which I mean as an insult and a compliment), but there's just so much I love here. I've spent a year trying to convince myself that I like Halloween Kills, but I'm instantly smitten with this.

Grand, she still feels like JLC and not Laurie Strode to me.

H20 Laurie has always just felt like JLC to me. This one was the first time she's felt like Laurie since 1978 (bar that brief Honour's Society mention in the 2018 movie). Her scene with Hawkins in the supermarket had me grinning stupidly. She was still struggling and still hardened, but she had that warmth back. I really loved that - especially after she was really quite annoying in Kills.

I've woken up now convinced this is my favourite sequel in the franchise.