Halloween Ends

Bloody Disgusting reviews Halloween Ends, which makes some very strange choices as it finishes out Laurie Strode's epic saga.

That and the desire to subvert the idea of a Halloween film. Here’s the official plot synopsis for Halloween Ends: “Four years after the events of last year’s Halloween Kills, Laurie is living with her granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak) and is finishing writing her memoir. But when a young man, Corey Cunningham (Rohan Campbell), is accused of killing a boy he was babysitting, it ignites a cascade of violence and terror that will force Laurie to finally confront the evil she can’t control, once and for all.” There’s admiration to be found in his defiant storytelling and using the final entry to swing for the fences, but the significant tonal and character shifts are jarring from the outset. Ends works best as a standalone feature, but its place in the trilogy and the Halloween canon overall is sure to be polarizing. [on track to smash $50 million](https://deadline.com/2022/10/box-office-halloween-ends-opening-1235141320/) in theaters this weekend. Save for Laurie Strode, the trilogy relies on the tiresome concept of trauma and its toll on a community as the sole connective tissue. In his bid to explore the psychological toll of cruelty and trauma, Green forgets some of the tension and menace from previous entries. In its place is an audacious storytelling swing regarding the handling of Michael Myers. The trauma lingering beneath the surface in Haddonfield comes boiling forth, igniting a new chain of violence when Corey crosses paths with Laurie and Allyson. Laurie may be the town’s freak show, but Haddonfield has a new target of scorn in young Corey ( Since 2018, Michael Myers has disappeared, and his house has been bulldozed to the ground.

'Halloween Ends' thrives as a grounded, slice-of-life character drama before eventually becoming a Michael Myers sequel.

It’s almost a dare to folks complaining that Halloween and Halloween Kills were just the same old thing and/or just Michael killing people for 100 minutes, offering up a Halloween sequel that works (at least initially) as a drama first and a slasher second. Yes, Michael Myers does eventually play a role in this story, and (as shown in the previews) the film eventually gives in and gives the fans what they came for. Halloween Ends works as a mournful and somber epilogue for the Michael Myers/Laurie Strode franchise. Grandma is writing her memoirs (cue the usual naval-gazing voiceover) and really ought to go on a date with Deputy Frank Hawkins (Will Patton). Halloween Kills wanted to play ‘hold my bear’ with the nihilism of Rob Zombie’s Halloween remake while also being a loose remake of Halloween II and The Return of Michael Myers. Meanwhile, Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) has bought a (normal) home and is trying desperately to offer a normal, non-traumatic existence for her granddaughter (Andi Matichak).

"Halloween Ends," the last of David Gordon Green's trilogy about Michael Myers and Laurie Strode, comes to an end. Review.

And who better than Jamie Lee Curtis — daughter of [Psycho’s Janet Leigh](https://www.looper.com/182476/why-janet-leigh-was-never-the-same-after-psycho/) and Tony Curtis, who struggled with [addiction](https://people.com/movies/jamie-lee-curtis-celebrates-22-years-of-sobriety/) — to speak out about the intergenerational traumas of Hollywood? Allyson breaks the cycle of living and dying in Haddonfield. There's a pleasure in the messiness of discovering the meaning on our own. The resilience of Laurie Strode and Curtis's pontificating on her plight was not yet a thing of morning television-made In the end, Halloween Ends has some silly plot developments that I won’t reveal for the sheer pleasure of letting the reader find out on their own. On one hand, you have Laurie and Frank doing the work to heal themselves in the hopes of enjoying their later years, despite the frisson of melancholy that follows them both like the Muzak rendition of "Don’t Fear the Reaper" that plays over their supermarket conversation. It recalls the ending of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, when Meanwhile, Laurie is writing her memoir, and she also enjoys the occasional flirt with Officer Frank Hawkins (Will Patton), who is learning Japanese and hoping to visit the cherry blossoms now that he’s retired. Her chaotically healing trauma queen is a crone icon for the ages. Laurie may be a Final Girl par excellence, but she’s also a grandmother who’s concerned with the love life of her one remaining blood relative, Allyson (Andi Matichak). “Are you the psycho or the freak?” she says, offering him a hand up. Green and his team step away from John Carpenter’s relatively bloodless 1978 vision for multiplex-friendly gouts of gore and a plot stuffed with a weird love story, and more heavy-handed messaging about trauma and healing and second chances.

In opting to jettison all but the original film as canon, director David Gordon Green made an early choice to focus down his Halloween trilogy on the essentials ...

Matichak gets the short end of the stick here, having to serve as a foil to both Cory and Laurie leaves Allyson without much room of her own in the story. After spending much of Halloween Kills laid up in a hospital bed, Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) has a more active role in Ends, which picks up with her coping with everything that’s led to this point in admirable fashion. Cory and Laurie’s granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak) develop a bond through a mutual sense of unbelonging that’s meant to contextualize his place in the larger morality play, but the more time goes on, the more their connection feels designed to set up the confrontation between Laurie and Michael that Green knows we’re expecting. To this point, Green’s trilogy has used Laurie and the entire population of Haddonfield as a counterpoint to that evil, but in each of those cases, we, the audience, had a lot of prior history with those parties. Of course, you don’t introduce a roaming gang of dastardly band geeks in a slasher movie without a very bloody end in sight for them, and their increasingly creative demises later on serve as the backbone for one of Halloween Ends’ standout sequences of classical slasher mayhem. Halloween Ends furthers Green’s exploration of whether evil and its effects can truly be overcome in ways that are intriguing in their larger implications, but sometimes at odds with its more grounded goal of bringing Laurie Strode’s story to a satisfying close.

David Gordon Green wraps up his reboot trilogy for a horror franchise that never stays dead for long.

This time, the townspeople — after virtually hijacking the previous installment — have dwindled to a few familiar faces, and there’s a touching reunion between Laurie and a flirty Officer Frank Hawkins (nice to see you, Will Patton, however briefly). As if attempting to honor that, Green has made a movie that’s less frantic and more intimate than its predecessor, one that unfolds with a mourning finality. Changing shape, though, is something that exhausted movie properties struggle to do, and Green and his three co-writers soon revert to the comforting beats of the body count. By pumping up Corey’s psychological damage, Green could have made a passing-the-torch movie, giving Corey a clear framework for his capitulation to the allure of slaughter. But as proximity to evil causes Corey to change — being an acolyte apparently does wonders for the libido — his too-rapid transformation constitutes a missed opportunity for the franchise. Also shunned by the locals is Corey Cunningham (Rohan Campbell), a geeky lad whose disastrous babysitting exploits three years earlier resulted in a dead child, a murder trial and an acquittal.

Halloween Ends star Andi Matichak explains what inspired her to take a chance on acting and pass on her hard-earned soccer scholarship.

What was very, very weird and very cool and made me feel like we were really making something special and we're all meant to be doing it is one of our writers, Paul Logan, he's actually doing the novel for Halloween Ends this time around, and so he was there writing the novel the whole time, and we started talking about the journaling and he and I made up multiple key moments in this woman's life that were exactly the same. Eager to hear more from Matichak on her journey in the industry thus far and her experience working on the Halloween franchise? That was very helpful to understand her, and there was a lot of day-to-day things and mundane things that kind of come up and then depending on the scene, I would go back and read those journal entries on set. [Laughs] But one of the things that I did that was very helpful is I got a journal and I just started journaling as Allyson. “We had a lot of time to just kind of sit and marinate on the script before we started filming, which can go one of two ways. During our conversation, Matichak recalled how, due to the pandemic, the release of Halloween Kills and the start of production on Halloween Ends were delayed. After making appearances on a handful of shows, including 666 Park Avenue, Matichak scored the opportunity to join the Halloween family and learn from one of the best of the best, Jamie Lee Curtis. “You have the ability as number one to really dictate how the day’s gonna go and your energy says a lot about you and about the space that's gonna be created to create in. A lot of a lot of my exploration of self kind of started to make sense. But I also had a lot of respect for my coaches and the program that I had signed on to play for down in Florida, and so it was important to me to not try to do both things and do them mediocrely, but to pick one and really go for it.” While the main focus was soccer, Matichak did eventually make the decision to carve out some time for a special modeling opportunity — the chance to work in Greece. Initially, Laurie is eager to help Corey when he’s bullied and is in favor of the budding romance brewing between him and Allyson, but then something changes.

The horror film franchise star & executive producer opens up about saying goodbye to her beloved Laurie Strode character, as Jamie Lee Curtis's cast & crew ...

Even though I know there’s a little bit of that disappointment going in because [fans] don’t want it to end, I think they’re going to really love it and be very satisfied.” I hope they look at this one and look at the issues, the social issues that David Gordon Green, [writer] Danny McBride have addressed and how they brought this into the social fabric of the world we’re living in right now. Richards responds next with the loyal Halloween fans in mind, “That even though they didn’t want it to end, this is the best possible way it could because David Gordon Green did an incredible job with the movie and everybody in it was fantastic. “I hope they process the journey that Jamie went through,” expresses Courtney. Go get some friends and see it in the theater with some popcorn because that’s really how these things should be seen.” You have to have the legacy of the films, particularly the originals, what [John] Carpenter established in the ‘78 film. “The fans - the people that love her,” says Curtis. Green, who has directed all three of the final Halloween films, went on to share his feelings about closing this elaborate chapter on Strode and Myers with Halloween Ends, saying, “It’s nice. Now 44 years since the original Halloween arrived in movie theaters, I first commented to Curtis at her Halloween Ends premiere about this being a legacy that she has built over nearly half a century. Tuesday night marked the world premiere of Halloween Ends in Hollywood, concluding this modern trilogy of films, including its two predecessors, Halloween (2018) and Halloween Kills (2021). The charisma she has, the relatability, the resourcefulness of that character, Laurie Strode - something that everybody sees a little bit of themselves in or their next-door neighbor. Even though this cinematic storytelling is coming to a close, moviegoers can take a sigh of relief, knowing that both Curtis and Strode are not leaving without a memorable fight for the ages.

Halloween Ends is scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis's final outing as final girl Laurie Strode, taking on masked murderer Michael Myers one last time.

And then I looked in the mirror and I went, 'Oh, it's because I'm smiling.' Laurie Strode hasn't smiled in 44 years, seriously, I don't think she smiled a real smile in 44 years, and there I was, smiling!" "I was excited about this film, I knew it was going to be very different than the other two - the first two happened on the same night, they pick up immediately, it's one long thrill ride... "It felt fresh to me, also something that happens in this film... "And it's because John Landis made a short film about horror film trailers, and he needed somebody to narrate it, who would that be? She said, 'Oh, yeah, he's an actor I tried to put him in a movie - he's with your agents'," Curtis explained. No more, two years before the social uprisings of George Floyd and January Sixth [the US Capitol attack], we made a movie about mob violence, about groups of people saying the system is broken, we're taking back the system.

The legendary actress said she has had her last encounter with the masked killer Michael Myers.

With her character’s apparent death in 2002′s “Halloween: Resurrection,” it seemed like Curtis’ time in the series was over. The 2018 movie also kickstarted a new trilogy which made Curtis’ role as Laurie Strode once again a lead character. It would be almost 20 years before she was brought back to the role in 1998′s “Halloween H20: 20 Years Later.”

It ends the conflict between Laurie Strode and Michael Myers once and for all. But it is the thematically-rich storytelling that makes 'Halloween Ends' truly ...

The character-driven storytelling in a film that is supposed to end a horror-thriller franchise? For those who came for the gory thrills, you will get the gory thrills. The kid is something of a prankster. She is blamed by some for reawakening the dormant evil of Michael Myers that inflicted such violence and misery on the town. Cut back to 2022, it has been four years since Michael Myers killed dozens on Halloween night and escaped, but not before unmasking the true nature of humanity. Jeremy, standing just beyond, is knocked off the staircase, and falls to a gruesome death. But it is the thematically-rich storytelling that makes 'Halloween Ends' truly special. It did not always stick the mark, but it painted a bleakly compelling picture of modern society and the nature of evil, whether Michael Myers' or not. He is evil personified, "pure evil" as Carpenter called him, a literal boogeyman emerging from our nightmares into the real world. 'Halloween Kills', the last installment, was a divisive film, but this scribe deemed it one of the best the entire franchise had to offer. A young man Corey Cunningham (Rohan Campbell) is looking for cash and is babysitting a kid called Jeremy. For those who came for the gory thrills, 'Halloween Ends' will give the gory thrills.

David Gordon Green's Halloween ends. There has never been a Halloween film that ends quite like this one.

In such a definitive act of destruction, Halloween Ends boldly goes where no other film has gone before in terms of how it dispatched the killer at the center of the story. The longer they go, the more people join them as they head to the local scrapyard with the intent of disposing of the killer once and for all. Laurie has used a knife to pin each of his hands to the kitchen table and pushed the fridge down on him for good measure. The two take part in a battle to the death that ends with Michael trapped. Taking no chances, they all arrive at the scrapyard with the intent of putting Michael straight into a crushing machine typically used for metal. The film opens a year after the events of Halloween Kills with Corey (Rohan Campbell) who is going to babysit for a local family just as Laurie did all those years ago. This is followed by Corey splitting away from Michael and stealing his mask to go on a rampage throughout Haddonfield. Eventually, Laurie starts to pick up on what is happening and tries to get her granddaughter away from Corey who wants to run away with her. However, instead of Michael coming into the situation, it is Corey who accidentally kills the young boy that he is meant to be watching. The moment is shocking and, when the film flashes forward to four years after Halloween Kills, we see how it has inexorably altered the lives of all who were involved. He ended up brutally killing her daughter Karen ( [Judy Greer](https://collider.com/tag/judy-greer/)) in the film’s closing moments. Laurie Strode ( [Jamie Lee Curtis](https://collider.com/tag/jamie-lee-curtis/)) had spent years waiting for his return after he initially attacked her decades prior, but spent the majority of the previous film in a hospital while Michael roamed the streets.

As Jamie Lee Curtis faces the boogeyman one last time in Halloween Ends, Empire ranks all of their slasher face-offs.

[Carpenter’s original film](https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/halloween-review/) is an all-timer from front to back, you can trace the enduring appeal of Halloween and Michael Myers to one precise chilling moment: Laurie thinks she’s taken out her masked attacker, puncturing his eye with a coat-hanger and plunging a kitchen knife into his chest – but as she sits in the doorway catching her breath, Myers silently sits bolt upright behind her. The real legend of Myers is born in this brawl, an apparently mortal man whose imperviousness to knife wounds or gunshots suggests (but never confirms) something more supernatural – and after tumbling over the balcony, he swiftly disappears into the ether. Now, they’re about to finally face off once and for all in [Halloween Ends](https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/halloween-ends/), the final instalment in [David Gordon Green](https://www.empireonline.com/people/david-gordon-green/)’s recent trilogy. With surprising accuracy, Laurie shoots Michael in each of his eyes (a move as gleefully metal as it is implausible) in the operating room, before Dr. And since he vanished at the end of the first film, the sequel is at least able to provide a greater sense of finality with a second showdown (until Halloween 4 flipped the script and brought Myers back, while also killing Strode off-screen). There’s a real dread to seeing Myers somehow stagger out of the room while flaming from head-to-toe – before finally collapsing in the corridor. [Halloween II](https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/halloween-ii-review/) feels a bit unnecessary – but it’s a perfectly solid sequel that continues Myers’ rampage in the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital. It’s masterfully done – and in the tussle that follows, Laurie actually, for once, succeeds at unmasking the man behind her misery. So as Halloween Ends prepares to finally end Halloween, Empire presents a dive into the endings of all the Halloween finales and put an end to the Halloween debate: which Michael vs. Loomis floods the room with gas and takes Myers out in a massive fireball. It’s just, the rest of the film doesn’t set it up in a particularly satisfying way – so, like a rusty knife, it gets the job done but with a bit of a dulled impact. [Jamie Lee Curtis](https://www.empireonline.com/people/jamie-lee-curtis/)’ Laurie Strode, and masked madman murderer Michael Myers – an unstoppable (or is he?) knife-wielding stalker who refuses to stay down.

Michael Myers has defied death many times before, but he may have finally met his match in Laurie Strode.

The only potential wiggle room would be if the film takes a more subversive understanding of the ending and establishes that there could be a new Michael who takes up the mantle by putting on the mask. For all the ways that Michael has managed to evade his demise time and time again, there is just no way that he is getting out of this one in the current timeline that this most recent trilogy is taking place in. She then goes to the fridge and for one magnificent moment it almost seems as though she is going to leap atop it to jump down on Michael like she was in a wrestling match. The only way that Michael is going to be coming back is if there is some sort of magical resurrection or a new timeline is created. For the first time in any of the films in the franchise, Michael Myers has met a permanent end from which there is no coming back. In the middle of this, he manages to free one of his arms and lunge at her. For those new to this, that rascal Michael does this type of thing a lot and isn't particularly considerate of others' personal space when he gets his mind set on murdering. In triumphant fashion, Laurie stands up on top of the machine and gives the final push that sends him down into the hungrily awaiting blades. Michael is removed from the roof and put on the edge of a giant crushing machine. Laurie then proceeds to start cutting into Michael as this isn’t her first rodeo, and she knows that he will keep coming back unless you are absolutely sure that he is dead. When he was awoken from his semi-slumber, he began making a comeback and getting back on his usual grind of murder. [Michael Myers](https://collider.com/tag/michael-myers/) has endured a lot over [several decades of films across multiple timelines](https://collider.com/halloween-timelines-explained-what-order-to-watch/).

The bloody saga of Michael Myers vs Laurie Strode comes to a close in Halloween Ends… And against all odds, it's actually pleasant surprise.

It clears the low bar set by the trilogy's middle episode, and while that may be damning it with the faintest of praise, Green’s closer to his wobbly trilogy remains a broadly effective swansong for horror's original “final girl”. Unlike the promising but squandered themes in Halloween Kills about the guilt inherent to intergenerational trauma and the timely winks to collective hysteria – all of which were handled by writers barely operating above the level of a full nappy – _Halloween Ends_’ motifs are actually handled with care. And even when Halloween Ends sacrifices character arcs for silliness and spells things out far too much, there’s enough here to keep slasher fans and gorehounds entertained. There’s also little-to-no doubt that for all of its ambition, the film singularly loses its nerve during the rushed final act, which unfortunately doesn’t quite deliver the showdown catharsis one would have hoped for. Safe to say, however, that Laurie, who was bafflingly sidelined in the previous instalment in favour of a nosebleedingly annoying bunch of vigilantes with the collective IQ of a sock, gets far more screen time this time around. However, the past comes back to taint this new chapter for the Strode family…

Universal and Blumhouse's Halloween Ends earned $5.4 million in Thursday preview showings. That compares to the $4.9 million earned by Halloween Kills via ...

Anyway, a straight 10% Thursday-to-weekend split (like the last two) gets Halloween Ends to a terrific $54 million, while a split like It Chapter Two ($91 million from a $10.5 million Thursday) gets it to $47 million for the Fri-Sun weekend. I appreciated its left-field turns and (especially for the first act) its existence as very much a Halloween film from the guy who directed All the Real Girls and Snow Angels. The reviews are slightly better than this installment (45% and 5.3/10 on Rotten Tomatoes versus 38% and 5/10 for Halloween Kills). That compares to the $4.9 million earned by Halloween Kills via previews this time last year and the $7.7 million Thursday preview gross for Halloween in 2018. Universal and Blumhouse’s Halloween Ends earned $5.4 million in Thursday preview showings. Zero more days till Halloween Ends, Halloween Ends, Halloween Ends.

From Universal, Blumhouse and Miramax, it opened in 3,200 theaters and will expand to 3,901 locations on Friday, in addition to launching on NBC's streaming ...

There have been a handful of other “Halloween” sequels and two rebooted films directed by Rob Zombie, but the new trilogy retcons those and catches up with Laurie and her family 40 years later. The “Halloween” timeline is as full of holes as one of Michael’s victims, but the latest movie caps off a trilogy of modern-day sequels that began with 2018’s “Halloween” and its 2021 sequel “Halloween Kills.” The three movies follow the events of John Carpenter’s original 1978 horror, which introduced audiences to Curtis in her film debut and the soon-to-be slasher icon Michael Myers. “Halloween Kills” had a $4.9 million Thursday opening.

The third Halloween movie from David Gordon Green in a subset trilogy within the franchise is set to make around $55M this weekend at 3,901 theaters. Halloween ...

The movie is expected to ease 55% in its third go-round. Green’s first Halloween movie back in 2018 which brought back an older and wiser Laurie Strode played by Jamie Lee Curtis is the best grossing of the trio with $7.7M in Thursday night previews, a $33M opening Friday and $76.2M first weekend, which was exclusively theatrical. [Halloween Ends](https://deadline.com/tag/halloween-ends/) cost $30M before P&A. Last year, Uni went theatrical day and date on Halloween Kills out of caution for moviegoers during the pandemic, and also to spike Peacock subs. That figure is +11% from last year’s [Halloween Kills](https://deadline.com/tag/halloween-kills/)‘ previews, which were $4.85M. Opening limited this weekend is United Artists Releasing/Eon’s Chinonye Chukwu directed drama Till at 16 locations in five markets. Again, it’s not that Universal doesn’t have any faith in theatrical, Peacock at [15M paid subscribers](https://deadline.com/2022/10/nbcuniversal-jeff-shell-peacock-million-subscribers-primetime-hour-affiliates-1235135158/) needs more subscribers. Critics largely liked Green’s 2018 Halloween at 79% on Rotten Tomatoes, audiences giving it a B+. [which is set to lose as much as $100M](https://deadline.com/2022/10/amsterdam-box-office-flop-david-o-russell-movie-1235140204/), ended its first week with $9M at 3,005 theaters. [Smile](https://deadline.com/tag/smile/) grossed an estimated $1.5M yesterday, -8% from Wednesday at 3,659 putting its two week running total at $58.6M after a $26.4M second week. Till will expand to additional markets and theaters in coming weeks. [Universal](https://deadline.com/tag/universal/)’s release of [Blumhouse](https://deadline.com/tag/blumhouse/), [Miramax](https://deadline.com/tag/miramax/) and Trancas’ [Halloween](https://deadline.com/tag/halloween/) Ends saw a Thursday night of $5.4M from 3,200 theaters with showtimes beginning at 5 p.m.

I wrote in my review of the 2018 reboot of “Halloween” that the team behind the film didn't “really understand what made the first film a masterpiece.

A shocking amount of “Halloween Ends” is poorly executed with clunkier editing, framing, and writing than the other two films, as if the team were hired to make this one as a contractual requirement and were trying to get through it as quickly as possible. To say the love story between Corey and Allyson is underwritten and unbelievable would be an understatement. When the kid decides to play a prank on Corey, it results in an accident that leaves the little scamp dead, turning Corey into a pariah. He’s babysitting for a kid in Haddonfield who’s a little scared by all the murder around town. [Halloween Kills](/reviews/halloween-kills-movie-review-2021)” didn’t prove me right then the baffling “Halloween Ends” certainly does. There will be another “Halloween” movie somewhere in the future, which will make this even more of an odd tangent in the history of a horror legend.

The new horror movie, now in theaters and streaming on Peacock, brings Michael Myers back from the grave after Halloween Kills, but can't find a logical ...

The Halloween saga started by John Carpenter and Debra Hill in 1978 ends in this film, but the end can’t vindicate the existence of this continuation of the story. Where Halloween Kills was a brutal slasher that seemed to place us in the shoes of the Shape, David Gordon Green tries everything he can to subvert the primal origins of the premise. He discards the modernized John Carpenter visuals and camera work that became essential to his first Halloween sequel for a less creative or energetic film where the camera barely moves. Halloween Ends continues the thread from Kills of asking whether Michael Myers is a 70-something-year-old mentally ill man or evil incarnate, a supernatural being that heals himself through the act of killing and can almost pass on his essence to others. The tonal shift borders on victim-shaming, and a complete betrayal to what was supposed to be the core of this movie. That’s because most of the 111-minute run time is spent on Corey, who becomes a social pariah after a deadly incident one Halloween night and gets strangely obsessed with Michael Myers.

Movie Review: In Halloween Ends, director David Gordon Green and star Jamie Lee Curtis bring the classic slasher series to a surprisingly entertaining end.

The new movie is maybe not quite as goofy, but it has a similarly irreverent spirit, a refusal to fit into the demands of the broader slasher genre and a cavalier attitude toward this specific slasher’s so-called lore. Luckily, with Halloween Ends, he’s found a way to make one of these movies his own, sans scares but with tons of atmosphere and a sense of queasy, gathering dread. Watching the slow-building romance of Corey and Allyson against the backdrop of this dead-end small town, it feels at times like director Green has finally brought to the series some of the charm of his earlier independent films. (Relax — it’s not a spoiler if it’s the first thing that happens in the movie.) Although he ultimately gets off, Corey’s life is ruined. We might know where the story is going generally, but individual scenes retain the element of surprise, as the story takes unexpected emotional detours. (“As he was locked away in his prison, I disappeared into mine.”) Her new attempts at a soft-focus life notwithstanding, Laurie secretly wants to mix it up. He’s an outcast in the town of Haddonfield, Illinois, a place that knows a thing or two about child murders. Eventually, the movie does begin to indulge in gore and other typical genre kicks, which can feel like a bit of a letdown, in part because Green, despite having co-written and directed all of the entries in this most recent crop of Halloween sequels, isn’t really a horror guy. Indeed, the craziest thing in Halloween Ends might be its opening scene, which takes place on Halloween night 2019 and features a teenage babysitter, Corey Cunningham (Rohan Campbell), taking care of a young boy who’s a little too fond of pranks. There’s no desperation to escalate, no tiresome fetishization of the gruesome. The only person who seems to show Corey any kind of grace is longtime franchise survivor Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), who after the events of the previous film appears to be trying to shed much of her gun-toting, survivalist persona. After the carnival-belly inanity of the previous movie,

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Halloween Ends is the 13th and final installment of David Gordon Green's reboot trilogy. It previously consisted of 2018's Halloween and last year's ...

The views expressed here are that of the respective authors/ entities and do not represent the views of Economic Times (ET). David Gordon Green said this would be the final installment in his trilogy, and Is there going to be a sequel?

Now that we've reached the end of this particular trilogy with Halloween Ends, we have questions - and some answers. Is this it for Laurie Strode for real ...

The holiday's also central to the plot of Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers. The song plays on the radio in Halloween '78 as Laurie and Annie are driving around Haddonfield. - There are several homages and straight-up recreations to and of the original Halloween movie here. [The Rings of Power: Sauron Actor Responds to the Finale Reveal5h ago - The actor behind the Dark Lord gives their first comments on the surprise.](/articles/lord-of-the-rings-rings-of-power-sauron-actor-responds-to-the-finale-reveal) [Pokémon Sword and Shield Won't Be Supported Past November9h ago - Online trading and friendly battles will remain.](/articles/pokmon-sword-and-shield-wont-be-supported-past-november) [The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Finale Explained9h ago - Well... - The main title font is the same used in the first third Halloween movie, Season of the Witch. This is a bit of a visual callback to the posters for Halloween 5, Halloween 6, and Halloween: Resurrection. But not dead enough apparently, as they strap his body to the top of a car and drive to the scrapyard as the townspeople follow. We see that Michael’s mask sits on a table in Laurie’s home, and the film end. He and Laurie get into a huge fight in the kitchen and she manages to pin his hands down to the table with knives, stab him in the chest and through the armpit, and slice his throat. Meanwhile, Corey is getting closer to Allyson and resolves with her to “burn it to the ground” and leave Haddonfield. But that night, he gets jumped by a group of – yes – marching band bullies, and finds himself in a sewer drain that is also Michael Myers’ hideaway. Halloween Ends starts on Halloween 2019, one year after the events of the previous two movies.

While she seeks to leave her past behind her, Jamie Lee Curtis' Laurie Strode is a survivor who knows to fight when she has to. (Universal pic).

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This thirteenth (!) movie features favorites like Andi Matichak, Nick Castle, James Jude Courtney, Will Patton, Rohan Campbell and Kyle Richards (who's ...

[Annie O’Sullivan](/author/223968/annie-o-sullivan)Assistant Editor [Halloween Ends available to watch](https://imp.i305175.net/c/3006986/828265/11640?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.peacocktv.com%2Fstream-movies%2Fhalloween-ends&subId1={subid}&subId3=xid:{xid}) via its Premium subscription. At the moment, Peacock is the only streaming site that will have Halloween Ends available while it's in theaters. Fans of the previous film know that Laurie's daughter Karen (Judy Greer) was killed in the 2021 movie Halloween Kills. The movie takes place four years after Laurie Strode's ( This year, fans of the thriller franchise are more excited than ever for the newest and last installment, Halloween Ends.

The success of the 2018 film lifted the franchise — and Jamie Lee Curtis' iconic survivor Laurie Strode — to new heights, though last year's Halloween Kills ...

Naturally, all of this coincides with yet another Halloween in Haddonfield that turns extremely violent. In that vein, Halloween Ends deploys Curtis in ideal fashion. It's an unnerving, unexpected scene that revels in a sense of parental dread right from the get-go. Michael murdered her daughter four years prior (see: Halloween Kills) but hasn't been seen since. The fact that he's now falling down and impaling himself on his own blade (figuratively speaking) is both disappointing and head-scratching. The best part of Ends is its well-crafted cold open: On Halloween 2019, babysitter Corey (Rohan Campbell) — a callback of sorts to Laurie in John Carpenter's 1978 original film — watches a young boy while his parents attend a party down the street.

Once again, it's time for Halloween to end. The Michael Myers saga has previously had endings in Halloween II (1981), Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, ...

It's this lack of Michael Myers which will divide fans. It's this character of Corey who is going to be the issue for a lot of fans, he is ostensibly passed the torch from Michael Myers in this film and a lot of the heebie-jeebies in the film are provided from him. Halloween Ends is the conclusion of the new trilogy which began in 2018 with the annoyingly titled Halloween and continued in 2021 with the annoyingly terrible Halloween Kills.