We owe the makers of the 2021 movie "Halloween Kills" a sincere apology

This will all make sense once you've read all the way to the end, I promise.

The most polarizing Halloween movie, not counting the one in which Michael Myers doesn’t appear at all and the plot is about druids plotting to kill children with cursed Halloween masks,¹ might be Halloween Kills, the middle film in Blumhouse’s soft-reboot trilogy of the venerable slasher-movie franchise.

The evil Michael Myers apparently burned to death at the end of 2018’s Halloween (which is not a remake of the 1978 original but a direct sequel which just happens to have the same title and yes, I am as confused as you are) but of course he survived and continues to wreak havoc on the unfortunate citizens of Haddonfield, Illinois. Instead of leaving Jamie Lee Curtis to fight Myers alone, in Halloween Kills the whole town forms a Springfield-style angry mob to take down “The Shape” once and for all.

Led by Anthony Freaking Michael Hall and chanting t…