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In Halloween Kills, the Strodes get displaced when the film offers up the most complicated protagonist in the franchise.
WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Halloween Kills, now playing in theaters and available through Peacock.
In the Halloween franchise, it’s safe to say Michael Myers’ greatest adversary has been Laurie Strode. Even in the 2018 film, the heroine has been a thorn in the slasher’s side, with her family — Karen and Allyson — also pulling their weight, hellbent on ending Michael’s life. However, the Strodes are displaced with Halloween Kills as the film offers up the franchise’s most complicated protagonist to date.
This is the mob that Tommy, a survivor from the ’78 massacre, rounds up because he wants to protect Laurie and others from another rampage in Haddonfield, Illinois. They take matters into their own hands, becoming an army of dozens that equip themselves with a vast array of weapons to hunt Michael down.
This direction was better than having a couple of people take on the killer, and it worked wonders in the final act when the mob corners Michael near his home. Tommy’s got his bat, bruising the slasher, while others shoot, stab and crack him with planks of wood, emphasizing strength in numbers is what was needed all along. However, just when it looks like they’ve won, Tommy’s incongruent behavior warps their thinking. Their rage powers Michael with a new vengeance, and he rises and slaughters them all. Just like the firefighters in the opening sequence, they attack one at a time, rather than ganging up, and this lack of teamwork allows Michael to easily crush them.
It’s an eerily supernatural sequence, with Michael becoming something more than a mortal man. But in reality, the mob deserves this for what they did to another escaped prisoner earlier in the film. They convinced themselves that he was Michael and hunted him down at the hospital, which ended with him killing himself to escape their wrath.
Sadly, there’s accountability in this case of mistaken identity, with the mob moving and focusing on finding the real Michael without taking time to consider their actions. At first, it was great seeing them take justice into their own hands, but as they become the same monster they are trying to destroy, their cause becomes less relatable. Ultimately, the residents lacking compassion, empathy, heart and soul lead to the audience rooting for Michael. And that’s an unfortunate outcome because Laurie will need help to finish the masked murderer once and for all come Halloween Ends.
To see Haddonfield’s mob be both the best and worst protagonist, Halloween Kills is now in theaters and streaming on Peacock.
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