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Halloween Kills is a 2021 American slasher film directed by David Gordon Green and written by Green, Danny McBride, and Scott Teems. The film is a sequel to 2018's Halloween and the twelfth installment in the Halloween franchise. The film stars Jamie Lee Curtis and James Jude Courtney, who reprise their roles as Laurie Strode and Michael Myers. Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, and Will Patton also reprise their roles from the previous film, with Anthony Michael Hall and Thomas Mann joining the cast. The film, which begins precisely where the previous film ended, sees Strode and her family continuing to fend off Myers, this time with the help of the Haddonfield community.

Jason Blum serves as a producer on the film through his Blumhouse Productions banner, alongside Malek Akkad and Bill Block. Before the release of the 2018 film, McBride in June 2018 confirmed that he and Green were originally intending to pitch two films that would be shot back-to-back, and then decided against it, waiting to see the reaction to the first film. Following the critical and commercial success of the 2018 film, development on the sequel promptly began as early as October 2018. By February 2019, Teems was hired to co-write the script. The film's title was officially announced in July 2019, along with its sequel. Principal photography commenced in September 2019 in Wilmington, North Carolina.

Halloween Kills had its world premiere at the 78th Venice International Film Festival on September 8, 2021. Following a year delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and was theatrically released in the United States on October 15, 2021, by Universal Pictures; it will also stream on paid tiers of Peacock for 60 days. The film has grossed $55 million worldwide and received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the creative kills and the performances of the cast, but criticized its screenplay and lack of innovation.

A direct sequel, Halloween Ends, is scheduled to be released on October 14, 2022.

On October 31, 2018, after being stabbed and left to die by psychiatrist Dr. Ranbir Sartain, allowing him to escape with spree killer Michael Myers, Deputy Frank Hawkins is found by passing teenager Cameron Elam, who tends to his wounds and calls him an ambulance. Awakening, Hawkins regrets accidentally shooting and killing his partner in pursuit of Michael 40 years earlier before preventing Michael's original psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis from executing him outside of Michael's childhood home in order to arrest him himself, before resolving to kill him himself in the present.

Later that night, Tommy Doyle celebrates the 40th anniversary of Michael's arrest and imprisonment with longtime friends Marion Chambers, Lindsey Wallace, and Cameron's father Lonnie, before toasting to the name of Laurie Strode. Elsewhere, after locking Michael in her basement and setting it on fire, Laurie, her daughter Karen, and her granddaughter Allyson are horrified when a group of firefighters arrive at the burning Strode residence, unwittingly freeing Michael from the basement, who singlehandedly kills them all before driving back to Haddonfield in their fire engine.

Karen and Allyson submit Laurie to emergency surgery while Michael kills an elderly man and his wife inside the mans home. An emergency alert informs Tommy, Marion, Lindsey, and Lonnie of Michael’s escape before bar patron Vanessa supposedly encounters Michael in the backseat of her car. Tommy and the others go outside to confront Michael as the car drives away and crashes; the driver leaves unnoticed by the crowd. En route to collect Cameron, Tommy forms a mob full of vengeful Haddonfield citizens to hunt down and kill Michael before he can kill anyone else.

Karen and Allyson are informed of Michael’s escape, information that Karen decides to withhold from Laurie so that she can recover. After reconciling with Cameron, Allyson accepts his invitation to join him and his father in hunting down Michael to avenge her own father, while Laurie and Hawkins awaken and reminisce about their former relationship – Hawkins is implied to be Karen's biological father. Elsewhere, Marion, Lindsey, Vanessa, and her husband Marcus are attacked by Michael while warning Haddonfield citizens to stay inside; all but Lindsey are killed as Tommy, Lonnie, Cameron, and Allyson subsequently find Lindsey alive.

While Tommy takes Lindsey to the hospital, Lonnie, Cameron, and Allyson map out Michael’s victims and deduce that he is heading towards his childhood home. Meanwhile, Tommy reunites with former Haddonfield sheriff Leigh Brackett, whose daughter Annie was killed by Michael in 1978. Tommy organizes a mob of hundreds of Haddonfield citizens, informing Laurie of Michael’s survival. Meanwhile, Michael murders the current homeowners of his childhood home, Big John and Little John, as Laurie prepares to kill Michael herself. Believed to be Michael, escaped Smith’s Grove inmate and the driver of Vanessa's car Lance Tovoli is chased throughout the hospital by Tommy's mob – although Karen attempts to help, Lance is forced to jump out of the hospital's window to his death, to Karen's dismay. Leigh Brackett fears that everyone is being turned into monsters and killing innocent people because of Michael Myers.

Laurie suffers an injury to her wound and, bedridden, urges Karen to help Tommy hunt down Michael. At Michael’s childhood home, Lonnie heads in alone, but Allyson and Cameron hear a gunshot and follow, Cameron finds Lonnie's body in the attic as Michael subsequently brutally attacks Cameron and throws Allyson down the stairs, breaking her leg. Michael breaks Cameron's neck and nearly murders Allyson before an arriving Karen stabs Michael with a pitchfork. She removes his mask and taunts him, allowing Allyson to escape.

Karen leads Michael to Tommy's mob at a nearby alley; after putting his mask back on, Michael is subsequently swarmed by the mob, and seemingly killed when Karen stabs him in the back. As the mob disperses, Michael slits Brackett's throat with Karen's knife and kills the mob one by one, ending with Tommy, whom he kills with his own baseball bat. Returning to Michael’s childhood home, Karen stares into the upstairs window, visualizing a story she heard earlier about Michael endlessly staring out of the same window, before Michael appears behind her and stabs her to death. Michael stares out of his window, while Laurie stares out of her hospital window.