the original HALLOWEEN and its sequels

[Ian Jane]

UK UHD steelbook edition coming 9/25/23.

[Anthony A]

When I purchased the box set from Amazon last month I also ordered parts 3-5. Part 4 came in a flimsy slip cover typical of most releases instead of the nice slip box the other movies in the series came in. I suppose the slip boxes are limited editions but the movie still cost as much as the others.

I returned part 4 to Amazon and ordered directly from Shout! This time it came with the slip box.

Just putting that out there in case anyone else is thinking of upgrading their Halloween collection to 4K

[agent999]

For its 25th anniversary, Halloween H2O is getting a new 4k steelbook release from Paramount!

And, as luck would have it, I purchased The Halloween 4K Collection (1995-2002) on 25 July and the only movie in the set that I was genuinely interested in owning was H2O

I have the original on UHD, but have resisted upgrading the others as I don't want to have to get them all. This is one of the better ones I think, I like the way that they incorporated some of JLC's real life problems into the character. Then they really fucked it up with the next one.

I think I'll get the third one at some point as I can justify that without then having to get all of the rest.

[Anthony A]

For its 25th anniversary, Halloween H2O is getting a new 4k steelbook release from Paramount!

And, as luck would have it, I purchased The Halloween 4K Collection (1995-2002) on 25 July and the only movie in the set that I was genuinely interested in owning was H2O

[Ian Jane]

Coming 6/21/23 from ViaVision, theatrical and director's cut versions of each movie. Extras TBD.

https://viavision.com.au/shop/rob-zo...ition-blu-ray/

[Matt H.]

This is a nice short video of the brief uncut footage that Shout found for the UHD release of part 5 (now you don't have to buy the piece of shit):

[Matt H.]

I watched KILLS for the second time last night..... it's much worse than I initially thought. It really is a badly-constructed mess of a movie. It's even a bit pretentious. I think one of the major problems is Anthony Michael Hall - he seems to be going for an Oscar and just chews the scenery any time he's on screen. It's really annoying. I'm going to watch ENDS again this weekend and see how it holds up.

[Ian Jane]

George P. Wilbuer has passed away.

https://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3...s-passed-away/

[Mark Tolch]

tolch pretty much nailed it months ago!

And that is NEVER a good sign.

[killer must kill again]

It's even worse when you consider the Bad Peter stuff in Spider-Man 3 was mainly bad due to Sony forcing Sam Raimi to compress a planned trilogy into one single movie. The clownshoes who did the new Halloween movies hard carte blanche to do as they pleased, and Ends was how they decided to wrap things up!

ha you're right! this dude had carte blanche to direct three movies as he pleased and somehow got the idea to introduce a completely new character arc that goes pretty much nowhere in the final installment. it would have made sense if he introduced him earlier, did some kind of foreshadowing etc.

tolch pretty much nailed it months ago!

Halloween Ends is a "Well, last one didn't work, so let's try all of those other ideas."

"oh man, they hated halloween kills what should we do?!" -"you know that old geezer who did the original made other horror flicks too ... you ever heard of a movie called christine?"

[Anthony A]

While admittedly not an installment in the Halloween franchise, I enjoyed this short (Halloween Stalks) way more than the last two movies

https://youtu.be/W0JFvkJokMo

[Darcy Parker]

finally had the balls to watch ends, and while it's clearly better than kills it's still a turd...

the first scene and the title credits are really good but it goes downhill pretty fast after that. I don't know why they even bothered to tell us this new story about unknown loser kid becoming the next michael myers, when they didn't have the balls to pull it through and kill him off. it's like "ehh wait a sec. ... wasn't this supposed to be the grand finale with laurie and old michael?! okay, let's forget about this prick and wrap this shit up". Am I really expected to applaud them because they tried something different first but got cold feet? the premise wasn't even new or original in the first place and I got strong bad peter parker vibes (spider man 3) when the dude started his bad guy transformation

THANK GOD blumhouse is done raping the halloween-franchise for now!

It's even worse when you consider the Bad Peter stuff in Spider-Man 3 was mainly bad due to Sony forcing Sam Raimi to compress a planned trilogy into one single movie. The clownshoes who did the new Halloween movies hard carte blanche to do as they pleased, and Ends was how they decided to wrap things up!

[Mark Tolch]

finally had the balls to watch ends, and while it's clearly better than kills it's still a turd...

the first scene and the title credits are really good but it goes downhill pretty fast after that. I don't know why they even bothered to tell us this new story about unknown loser kid becoming the next michael myers, when they didn't have the balls to pull it through and kill him off. it's like "ehh wait a sec. ... wasn't this supposed to be the grand finale with laurie and old michael?! okay, let's forget about this prick and wrap this shit up". Am I really expected to applaud them because they tried something different first but got cold feet? the premise wasn't even new or original in the first place and I got strong bad peter parker vibes (spider man 3) when the dude started his bad guy transformation

THANK GOD blumhouse is done raping the halloween-franchise for now!

Ha! That comparison is perfect.

[killer must kill again]

finally had the balls to watch ends, and while it's clearly better than kills it's still a turd...

the first scene and the title credits are really good but it goes downhill pretty fast after that. I don't know why they even bothered to tell us this new story about unknown loser kid becoming the next michael myers, when they didn't have the balls to pull it through and kill him off. it's like "ehh wait a sec. ... wasn't this supposed to be the grand finale with laurie and old michael?! okay, let's forget about this prick and wrap this shit up". Am I really expected to applaud them because they tried something different first but got cold feet? the premise wasn't even new or original in the first place and I got strong bad peter parker vibes (spider man 3) when the dude started his bad guy transformation

THANK GOD blumhouse is done raping the halloween-franchise for now!

[Mark Tolch]

That's allowed.

Hell, I'm one of the (very) few who thought KILLS was decent. The first half wasn't bad at all, it's just the silly, annoying second half ("Evil dies tonight") that derailed it for me.

A bunch of us were yelling that for the next few weeks after having seen it, haha. In response to EVERYTHING.

Need to buy mustard? EVIL DIES TONIGHT!!!