This week we offer a Halloween treat, a piece of candy with a razor blade in it, or the cinematic equivalent. “Halloween Kills” is the 12th installment in the franchise started in 1978 by director/writer John Carpenter with his never-ending horror masterpiece, “Halloween”
However, not all of those 12 films stuck to the story.
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