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This update/reboot of the Hellraiser saga is a lot better than many of the later sequels in the franchise, but it's missing the sexuality and sense of naughtiness of the first two films. Because of this, it can't be considered as a complete return to form. Characters are also poorly drawn giving the actors very little work with. Jamie Clayton does make Pinhead her own, but even she isn't given as many delicious zingers to deliver as Doug Bradley was throughout the original series. She does what she can, but the material doesn't rise to the occasion very often.

A lot of the cinematography is also incredibly dark, making it tough to see a lot of the beautiful makeup and production design.

Michael Myers survives the fire set for him by revenge-minded Laurie Strode in the last film and continues his reign of terror throughout Haddonfield as he dispatches one personality-free victim after another.

Fans of gore will probably find a lot to love about Halloween Kills considering it has some of the best effects and most cringe-worthy death scenes of the entire series, but that's about all it has to offer. Characters are poorly developed, leaving us to root more for Michael Myers than any of the victims. Jamie Lee Curtis' Laurie is given nothing to do and sits in a hospital bed lecturing everyone about the nature of evil the entire time.

The Ghostface killer returns to Woodsboro to carve up a fresh group of young victims, but can the surviving characters from the first four films help them unmask the killer before the town's population dwindles down to zero?

There's not much of a need for this sequel and, for every fresh and interesting sequel, there are five that feel like rehashes of better scenes from the other sequels. At the very least, the film does know what to do with it's legacy characters more than the recent Halloween Kills and Texas Chainsaw Massacre.