“Halloween Kills” (**1/2 out of four) was a respectable sequel which picks up the night the previous entry left off in which the unstoppable Michael Meyers (played by Nick Castle who played him in the original- a nice touch) is still alive and killing and chasing after a hospitalized Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis); meanwhile an angry mob in town led by Tommy Doyle (Anthony Michael Hall) vow to take him down at any and all cost. Lots of stylistic homages to the original (love the casting of Charles Cyphers and Nancy Stephens from the 1978 original and the amazing CGI work recreating Donald Pleasance) and some scares but film gets over-the-top and bizarre in its second half with lots of pretentious mythology about Meyers’ evil and origins and its ending is a letdown. Still overall worthwhile for “Halloween” fanatics and a definite improvement over previous sequels.