History Film / HalloweenKills

** [[spoiler:In a more minor case, Sondra, the woman who showed luckless podcasters Aaron and Dana to Judith Myers's grave in the 2018 film, returns briefly here. One of Laurie's neighbors, she and her husband become victims of Michael's renewed killing spree after he escapes the burning house. However, [[Film/HalloweenKills the following film]] reveals that Sondra survived her stabbing, although she is now unable to speak and in a wheelchair while her husband did not survive]].

** [[spoiler:In a more minor case, Sondra, the woman who showed luckless podcasters Aaron and Dana to Judith Myers's grave in the 2018 film, returns briefly here. One of Laurie's neighbors, she and her husband become victims of Michael's renewed killing spree after he escapes the burning house]].

** "Evil dies tonight!" starts off from a RousingSpeech by Tommy, and becomes a SurvivalMantra for the town. However, it soon ends up becoming a MadnessMantra from the townies.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Tommy has that reaction when he realizes he and the mob lead [[spoiler:an innocent mental patient to kill himself]]. The mob itself collectively has this too once they calm down.

** [[spoiler:One of Michael’s victims tries to strangle Michael ''with a stethoscope''.]] Michael even looks at him as if he’s thinking about how dumb that is. He rewards the man with [[EyeScream a knife through the eye.]]

* ToyotaTripwire: A variant, as Michael kicks an open car door on an assailant with a handgun, making her accidentally shoot herself dead.

* AndThisIsFor: Marion Chambers tells Michael "This is for Dr. Loomis" when she has Michael dead to rights with her gun. [[spoiler:Unfortunately she's out of bullets after firing at him earlier, and he swiftly stabs her to death.]]

* RazorApples: A group of trick-or-treaters shows Little John and Big John that one of the candies they provided contained a blade that cut through one of their mouths. It's only a WoundedGazelleGambit, so when the couple goes to check, another youngster enters the house behind them and steals all the confectionery they have left. Guess they decided on trick AND treat.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Michael is able to escape Laurie's burning compound thanks to the arrival of firefighters. It was even lampshaded by Laurie when she saw them on the road and yelling at them to let it burn.

A sequel (''Film/HalloweenEnds'') was released on October 14, 2022, and concludes the ''Halloween'' revival trilogy. According to the director, [[https://uproxx.com/movies/david-gordon-green-interview-halloween-kills-halloween-ends/ the story will be set a few years after the events of this film]].

A sequel (''Film/HalloweenEnds'') is set to release on October 14, 2022, and will conclude the ''Halloween'' revival trilogy. According to the director, [[https://uproxx.com/movies/david-gordon-green-interview-halloween-kills-halloween-ends/ the story will be set a few years after the events of this film]].

** Allyson lets out multiple as she watches [[spoiler:Michael brutally murder Cameron]].

** Allyson lets out one when she sees [[spoiler:Michael about to snap Cameron's neck]].

* BigNo: Laurie lets out one when she sees fire trucks heading in the direction of her house.
-->'''Laurie:''' NO! No, no! OH, LET IT BURN! '''''LET IT BURN!!!!!'''''

** When Loomis attempts to kill Michael in the flashback, he utters "purely and simply, evil" under his breath, as if to justify murder with his philosophy explained earlier that night.

* EyeScream: Three of them -- Michael shoving the halligan bar in a firefighter's eye (from the victim's point of view!), later a knife on someone who tries to strangle him, and finally, Big John having both his eyes brutally gouged out.

* ForcedToWatch: [[spoiler:Towards the end of the film, Michael makes Allyson watch as he kills her boyfriend Cameron. [[KickTheDog Violently. And slowly]]]].

* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: Oddly ''weaponized'' by Michael Myers. [[spoiler:While Vanessa seems to have a good understanding of how to handle a firearm, Michael manages to open the car door in a way that causes her gun to be bumped towards her while aiming and ready to fire, making it so that she shoots herself in the head by accident.]] Amusingly lampshaded in the novelisation where [[spoiler:the text notes Michael has no idea how astonishingly lucky the sequence of events that killed Vanessa were - nor does he care as he moves on to kill even more people]].

* PreAsskickingOneLiner: [[CallBack "Everyone's entitled to one good scare."]]

** After trapping Michael in the burning house in the previous film, the HappyEndingOverride occurs when the Strodes realize too late that ''setting a house on fire'' would naturally get a response from the Fire Department, thus providing Michael the opportunity to escape.

* InvincibleVillain: [[spoiler:While Michael's always had shades of this, compared to his DentedIron portrayal in the previous film, it's really played up in the last ten minutes or so here. He's stabbed repeatedly by Allyson and Karen (including getting a pitchfork in the back), shot several times at close range, and beaten extensively with fists, Tommy's baseball bat, and two-by-fours, looking utterly beaten for once...then he rises up and {{No Sell}}s all of it, not only killing virtually every last one of the mob that downed him, but ambushing and killing Karen too. It's speculated on in-universe, with Laurie wondering if he gets stronger and more inhuman the more he kills.]]

A sequel, ''Film/HalloweenEnds'', is set to release on October 14, 2022, and will conclude the ''Halloween'' revival trilogy. According to the director, [[https://uproxx.com/movies/david-gordon-green-interview-halloween-kills-halloween-ends/ the story will be set a few years after the events of this film]].

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Not as prominent as the prior film, but still present as the motivation behind the Shape's actions continue to be a source of speculation. Allyson and Hawkins confirm he wasn't after Laurie in the last film until Sartain forced the issue, the latter speculates that Michael wishes to return home once more, and Laurie believes that all the death he inflicts has helped him transcend whatever humanity he had left; again, however, only Michael knows for sure, and he's still not talking.

A sequel, ''Halloween Ends'', is set to release on October 14, 2022, and will conclude the ''Halloween'' revival trilogy. According to the director, [[https://uproxx.com/movies/david-gordon-green-interview-halloween-kills-halloween-ends/ the story will be set a few years after the events of this film]].

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Not only do the surviving characters from the previous film return, but also the legacy characters from the original movie of 1978 are brought back to face Michael alongside a large horde of angered Haddonfield civilians.

* AdultFear:
** Oscar's mother comes to the hospital, unsure of what's happened to her missing son, desperately seeking information. She's not being told by an overworked staff as they try and deal with a slew of more dead and wounded coming in, and is clearly left to contemplate the worst as she sees the aftereffects right in front of her. Later, she catches a glimpse through the back as the mob bursts into the hospital's private areas - and there's her son's mutilated corpse. It's a sobering sequence for any parent watching.
** After losing her husband in the previous film, Karen is horrified to learn that Allyson joined the mob to hunt Michael down.

** We're also treated to a brief scene of Oscar's mother mourning over her son's body at the morgue.

->''[[ShoutOut Though my memories are faded]], [[Music/{{Ghost}} they\\

* OffscreenTeleportation: Michael does this two times in the 1978 {{Flashback}}.

** Big John and Little John decide to hunt down a bleeding home intruder by arming themselves with cheese knives and splitting up rather than outright fleeing, calling the cops, or at least sticking together. It goes about as well as you'd expect.

** After his encounter with Michael, Lonnie also became fixated on Michael, other famous murderers and the supernatural, researching everything to do with The Shape and penning the definitive account of the 1978 killings. However, it came at the cost of his reputation in Haddonfield and marriage, possibly explaining why Cameron thinks Michael's infected his family as well.

* AscendedExtra: A couple wearing a doctor and nurse costume appear briefly in the previous film. Here, Marcus and Vanessa play larger roles in helping to hunt down Michael, [[spoiler:[[SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome though neither of them survives when they actually encounter him]]]].

* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: Not only do [[spoiler:Karen and Cameron]] from the previous film bite it, but original film characters [[spoiler:Leigh Brackett, Tommy Doyle, Marion Chambers, and Lonnie Elam]] all die as well. [[spoiler:{{Ascended Extra}}s Vanessa and Marcus (the doctor and nurse duo from the previous film)]] are also killed.

* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: Oddly ''weaponized'' by Michael Myers. [[spoiler:While Vanessa seems to have a good understanding of how to handle a firearm, Michael manages to open the car door in a way that causes her gun to be bumped towards her while aiming and ready to fire, making it so that she shoots herself in the head by accident.]] Amusingly lampshaded in the novelisation where [[spoiler:the text notes Michael has no idea how astonishingly lucky the sequence of events that killed Vanessa were - and completely doesn't care as he goes on to kill more people]].

* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: Oddly ''weaponized'' by Michael Myers. [[spoiler:While Vanessa seems to have a good understanding of how to handle a firearm, Michael manages to open the car door in a way that causes her gun to be bumped towards her while aiming and ready to fire, making it so that she shoots herself in the head by accident.]]

** After his encounter with Michael, Lonnie also became fixated on Michael, other famous murderers and the supernatural, researching everything to do with The Shape and penning the definitive account of the 1978 killings. However, it came at the cost of his reputation in Haddonfield andmarriage, possibly explaining why Cameron thinks Michael's infected his family as well.

** The second patient is called Anthony Tivoli, and he was institutionalized for killing his parents after they abused him with a rope as a child. He's only in Vanessa's car because he'd stolen a pizza, was looking for a quiet place to eat and rest, found it open then fell asleep in it.

** After his encounter with Michael, Lonnie also became fixated on Michael (though not as strongly as Tommy), researching everything to do with him and penning the definitive account of the 1978 killings. However, it came at the cost of his marriage, possibly explaining why Cameron thinks Michael's infected his family as well.