The aspect of innocence lost is sometimes based in the context of ignorance. The original "Exorcist" painted in the lines of the proponent of purity versus the conservative nature possibly of the church. With "The Exorcist: Believer", the filmmakers try to take a similar approach but with not enough narrative backbone and delivery to create the stakes.

The climactic element of the last film raised the stakes to the point where it needed to be. There was only one way it truly needed to go in: an all out war (within a Blumhouse confine). "Halloween Ends" doesn't quite do that or deliver on that promise. It goes a different way which is its prerogative but sort of a let down.

There are some moments of textured brilliance in "Kills" but it does have to play to a certain denominator and set up which is does adequately despite some shoddy structure, questionable dialogue and barely flushed out characters save for the core.