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The Ones I Would Have Saved Part 3: Halloween Kills Edition

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  Literally Everyone Who Died in This Movie Every single death in this movie saddened me. Some of the characters are ones I'd been rooting for in the original movie or the previous Halloween. Others just put up a really good fight and didn't deserve to go down like they did. Halloween Kills is a really good movie, but it is a disheartening watch. I only hope that the third movie in the new trilogy brings about a satisfactory ending to Michael and rectifies some of the pain and sadness of this installment. This guy's death particularly broke me, as it was not Michael Myers related, and therefore seemed all too real. My heart went out to this guy, and I actually cried a little when he died.

Mini Reviews

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 Rush Week (1989) This film is delightful! I know that's an odd choice of word to describe a slasher film, but Rush Week , with its small body count and minimal blood spillage, is a fairly light, entertaining film that spends more time on its budding romance (which warmed even my cold, dead heart) than its murder sequences. Plus it features the inimitable Roy Thinnes, and who can say no to one of his horror movies? Tower of Evil (1972) A group of archeologists investigate a (supposedly) abandoned island in the wake of a massacre of some young tourists staying there. The archeologists are looking for ancient Phoenician treasure they believe is hidden in caves under the island's surface. But just like the island's previous victims, something is hunting our heroes. The answer to just what is a wonderfully gruesome surprise. Tower of Evil is an original film and features above average acting, a surprisingly sexy sex scene, and a legitimately creepy villain with a chilling, chi...