Halloween Ends

Halloween Ends has arrived to bring an ending to the epic Laurie Strode vs Michael Myers saga that started 44 years ago. The new movie also marks Jamie Lee ...

The offerings between the US and UK versions differ, and this is unfortunately the case here. If you're not signed up and you're in the US, it costs $4.99 a month to sign up. There's a chance it could be earlier as Beast was available to rent at home around a month after its cinema release, but we're only speculating for now. A similar timeline would mean Halloween Ends will be available to rent from Monday, November 28. [now available in the UK through Sky and NOW](https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a38254947/peacock-sky-nbcuniversal-uk-rollout/), Halloween Ends is not available to watch on Peacock in the UK. Like recent Universal offerings such as [simultaneous streaming release](https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a40977783/halloween-ends-streaming-us-same-day-cinemas/) and is available to watch right now for [Peacock Premium](https://go.redirectingat.com/?id=127X991730&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.peacocktv.com%2F&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.digitalspy.com%2Fmovies%2Fa41574991%2Fwatch-halloween-ends-online%2F) subscribers at no extra cost. How to watch Halloween Ends in the US Michael is never far from her mind though, so an inevitable showdown beckons... Halloween Ends is available to watch right now in cinemas, so if you want to see how the Laurie and Michael saga ends, head to your favourite cinema to see it play out. [Halloween Ends](https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a37948147/halloween-3-release-date-ends/) in the UK and US. How to watch Halloween Ends in the UK

The new film is the 13th entry in the long-running slasher franchise. Laurie Strode looking in the mirror. Universal.

And this is our last one and I think people will be very happy." [subscribe now](http://radiotimes.com/magazine-subscription?utm_term=evergreen-article) and get the next 12 issues for only £1. Check out our guides to the [ComicBook.com](https://comicbook.com/horror/news/halloween-ends-future-franchise-continued-john-carpenter-reaction-michael-myers/): "Let me explain the movie business to you: if you take a dollar sign and attach it to anything, there will be somebody who wants to do a sequel. David Gordon Green has been adamant that this will be the final film in his trilogy, while Jamie Lee Curtis has also appeared to confirm that it will be her last hurrah as Laurie Strode. "One day, he will find a new way to show up in some other shape." Looking for something else to watch? "I do feel confident that we are saying goodbye to Jamie playing Laurie in the universe," added Green. It's our last Halloween movie. "I don't know, man," he added. It will live. Read on for everything you need to know.

But don't expect him to check out Haddy the dinosaur statue between kills. Horror buffs already know that Myers' mayhem doesn't take place in the South Jersey ...

In 2005, the Producers Guild [created a fellowship in her name](https://producersguild.org/debra-hill-fellowship/) to help men and women “whose work, interests, professionalism and passion mirror that of Debra Hill.” [Hill told the Courier-Post in 1999](https://www.newspapers.com/image/legacy/183689166/?terms=%22debra%20hill%22&match=1). Hill would go on to [graduate from Haddonfield Memorial High School in 1968](https://www.newspapers.com/image/legacy/183689166/?terms=%22debra%20hill%22&match=1) and earned a degree in sociology [ from Temple University](https://www.newspapers.com/image/legacy/183574272/?terms=%22debra%20hill%22%20%22haddonfield%22&match=1). But it was named after the South Jersey town, [Hill told the Courier-Post in 1979](https://www.newspapers.com/image/legacy/183574272/?terms=%22debra%20hill%22%20%22haddonfield%22&match=1). She spent [a good chunk of time in Detroit](https://www.newspapers.com/image/legacy/98989855/?terms=%22debra%20hill%22%20%22temple%20university%22&match=1) before her family moved to Haddonfield in 1965, [according to a 1980 Courier-Post article](https://www.newspapers.com/image/legacy/183383781/?terms=%22debra%20hill%22%20%22temple%20university%22&match=1). With the release of Halloween Ends, Hill’s horror legacy continues to live on on the big screen. Hill and Carpenter worked together on that film, and Curtis felt obligated to be involved. Hill went on to write and produce a number of other Carpenter films, including The Fog, Escape from New York, Halloween II, and Escape from L.A. As [Hill told Entertainment Weekly in 1998](https://archive.org/details/cinefantastique_1970-2002/Cinefantastique%20Vol%2030%20No%205-6%20%28Sep%201998%29/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater), that casting choice, if nothing else, would be “great publicity” because Curtis’ mother, Janet Leigh, starred in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 thriller Psycho. “Many residents will be sad to see the end of the Michael Myers saga that has featured a fictional depiction of our county and the borough of Haddonfield for the last 43 years,” Keashen said. Halloween was revolutionary for the horror genre. In fact, they almost don’t want to see the series wrap up.

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 ...

There are some memorable kills and reverence for the franchise at large, but it stumbles as it brings it to a close. 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. 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.

This review discusses a handful of plot points from Halloween Ends, all of them from the first 40 minutes or so of the picture. Spoilers, they have been ...

Yes, fear is a cancer that infects a community, but there’s good reason to fear the raving lunatic murderer who cannot be killed and who kills again and again. *Not to be confused with Halloween (1978), to which Halloween (2018) is a direct sequel. Sure, unfocused mobs are bad, but not as bad as the raving lunatic murderer who cannot be killed and who kills and kills again. Except Corey can’t always get the job done, so Myers has to shadow him around, filling in some of the murder gaps. It would be one thing if Myers straight-up infected Corey with his evil and turned him into a killing machine, Corey in turn infecting Allyson and turning her against Laurie. She lives with granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak), whose parents were murdered by Myers in the previous two films in the series, Halloween (2018)* and Halloween Kills.

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.

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.

The story so far: 1978: In suburban Haddonfield, Illinois, teenage babysitter Laurie Strode meets suburban man of mystery Michael Myers for the first time. She ...

His Pádraic is a man who's beginning to suspect that people are ridiculing him as a dullard behind his back, and he hasn't the first idea what to do about it. And Barry Keoghan as Dominic, the village simpleton, manages the difficult feat of giving a full account of his seemingly uncomplicated character without condescending to him. "I'm not putting the donkey outside when I'm sad," he says.) The stars, Brendan Gleeson and (especially) Colin Farrell, mine their seemingly simple characters—two men paying out their days on a rustic island off the western coast of Ireland—for every nugget of human complexity they can gather, and at the end we behold them, if not transformed, at least reconstituted. This is not a very good movie, but at least the dialogue is overdone in an amusing way. ) Allyson is the granddaughter of the aging Laurie Strode, whose house burned down in the last movie with Michael inside. He lives in a small cottage with his sister, Siobhan (Kerry Condon), and tends a clutter of sheep and cows whose milk he sells. The movie's writer-director, Anglo-Irish playwright Martin McDonagh, last guided Gleeson and Farrell through his wonderful 2008 film In Bruges, which followed two expatriate Irish hitmen from London, where they made their violent living, to the twinkling medieval city of Bruges, Belgium. Unlike Colm, who thinks only of spiritual expansion, Pádraic is entirely content with his lot in life. The movie feels longer than it is (a little under two hours) because of a serious Michael Myers deficit in the early innings. There are only so many variations on a knife in the eye or a bone-crunching tumble from a high bannister that can hold up against endless repetition, and only so many shameless jump-scares that even the least discerning viewer will tolerate. Which, in what will become a tradition, is very bad.

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/).

As she was in Green's previous two movies, Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), the series' original heroine, is once again at center stage. Currently, she's ...

Look for: A tentative exploration of morality. Is he a put-upon victim or a potential killer or, perhaps, both? As she was in Green’s previous two movies, Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), the series’ original heroine, is once again at center stage.

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.

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,

For fans of the previous two films in the trilogy, the final battle offers a decent payoff, but overall, the movie is a flimsy finale.

Green could have stopped with the first movie in this trilogy and accomplished as much if not more by continuing on with two more bad to mediocre efforts. Carpenter paid his respects to director Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece “Psycho” with the movie, but Myers, while less realistic than Hitchcock’s Norman Bates, is a more intimidating predator because Carpenter reveals less about him than Hitchcock did Bates. Laurie, who is somewhat of a town pariah as she is blamed for Jason’s last two rampages, befriends the ostracized Corey, although she is a bit leery of him as she gets to know him. Laurie now has physically recovered and is living with her granddaughter Allyson (And Matichak), but she is struggling over Myers’ murder of her daughter in the previous film. Carpenter wisely made her the audience’s on-screen surrogate. It’s brutal and gnarly and perhaps offers seeds for the future of “Halloween,” but overall, the movie is a flimsy finale that’s not worth the price of admission. Now, this movie is the third part of a sequel trilogy to the original 1978 movie. Thankfully it’s not the kind of movie that will haunt me. The child died from a gruesome fall. This film takes place four years after the middle picture which saw the townspeople of Haddonfield, Ill. The trilogy, directed by David Gordon Green, erases all the other Halloween sequels from continuity. I would have skipped this one, too, if there had been another new film opening in our area this week to review.

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.

Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Christy Lemire and Justin Chang review this weekend's new movie releases in theaters, streaming, and on demand platforms.

[Christy Lemire](http://christylemire.com/) and [Justin Chang](http://www.latimes.com/la-bio-justin-chang-staff.html) review this weekend’s new movie releases in theaters, streaming, and on demand platforms. Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Christy Lemire and Justin Chang review this weekend’s new movie releases in theaters, streaming, and on demand platforms. FilmWeek: ‘Decision To Leave,’ ‘Till,’ ‘Stars At Noon,’ ‘Halloween Ends’ And More

Laurie Strode and Michael Myers have (supposedly) one last standoff in David Gordon Green's uneven and dull Halloween Ends.

These grand ideas of generational trauma added a nice layer of substance to the hyper violent outside of Kills. In Kills, Laurie spent most of the film in a hospital bed, recovering from injuries from the first film. Allyson, who was definitely painted as the new scream queen, a new Laurie so to speak, is once again left with shallow characterisation. Any attempts to explore what makes a killer and how they are shaped by hate and people’s perception of them is ruined by bad pacing, insufferable characters and the sidelining of your biggest stars. You have to admire the absolutely insane narrative twists Green and his team of screenwriters go for. Shame that 2021’s Halloween Kills was a laughable effort, despite some interesting themes, and now, Halloween Ends tries to pull this trilogy to a neat, violent close.

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.

The last movie in director David Gordon Greene Halloween saga marks Jamie Lee Curtis' last appearance in the franchise.

She then stabs him with a knitting needle, only to have him stab her in the side of the face with it. Laurie seems to sense that Michael is somewhere in the house and hides in a kitchen closet. By not destroying the mask with Michael Myers, Green might have created a symbolic passing of the torch for anyone who might be bold enough to revive the Boogeyman again. In the daylight, it’s not quite as menacing as it once appeared to be. [“The Shape,”](https://screenrant.com/halloween-movie-michael-myers-name-shape-reason/) in fact.) For now, she’s looking to live a more peaceful life. She has Frank strap Michael to the top of her car as if he’s a beast like King Kong so she can drive him to the auto body shop where they plan to throw him in the car crusher. She goes to her office, lights the jack-o-lantern on her mantle, and grabs a gun from a locked drawer in her desk. She brings the gun to her head and just as she pulls the trigger, the camera peers in from beyond the door. He becomes stuck to the butcher block table, unable to move, and in his vulnerable state, Laurie gets on top of him and stakes a knife through his other hand. She appears to be spiraling and calls the police to report a suicide at her home. It’s more dangerous because we may not know we’re infected.” She alludes that Corey is in the latter category, that he has chosen to let evil take hold of him, to let it infect him figuratively and literally. Laurie is trying to move forward with her life, unpacking her trauma by writing a memoir and making a happy home with her granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak) in Haddonfield.

Set four years after the events of David Gordon Green's "Halloween Kills," "Halloween Ends" follows Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) as she is recovering ...

When the police arrive, instead of letting them take him to the mortuary, Laurie and Allyson (accompanied by the entirety of Haddonfield) carry Michael to the car-crusher and reduce him to a pile of flesh and bones. And most importantly, they’ve got to come down from their high horses and learn from the past instead of bringing it back to taunt each other. They’ve got a long way to go, and they’ve got to learn to work on themselves by introspecting or by going to therapy. He personified the issue because the evils of that town had been distilled into him, and he was starting to branch out by nurturing a similar rot inside Corey. Given the circumstances, it seems that Laurie made that fake suicide call well in advance so that the police could converge on her house by the time Corey or Michael got to her. Despite all the negativity in the air, Corey and Allyson go to the party. I think he even asks Laurie to try and kill him by referring to her instinct to do the same to Michael because he’s not going to stop. The issue, though, is that his parasitic relationship with Michael Myers has started a process that won’t allow him to leave until he resumes the position of the boogeyman again. But then things get difficult again when Laurie confronts Corey to tell him that she’s not going to let him “infect” Allyson’s mind because he is as evil as they come. Luckily (or unluckily), Allyson and Corey instantly forge a connection and decide to accompany each other to the party. Whereas the truth of the matter is that Corey was being pranked by the kid, and he accidentally shoved him down a flight of stairs. [Halloween Kills](https://dmtalkies.com/halloween-kills-ending-explained-2021-film-michael-myers/),” “Halloween Ends” follows Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) as she is recovering from the death of her daughter Karen (Judy Greer) and her latest altercation with Michael Myers/The Shape (James Jude Courtney).

It's been four years since Laurie Strode, aka Jamie Lee Curtis, has seen “my monster” — her masked nemesis with a bloody knife, Michael Myers.

(Wait, is that the reason the film is called “Halloween Ends” – as in ends, plural?) There does seem to be some pretty incontrovertible evidence here that someone, and we won’t tell who, would have a hard time returning. Allyson also yearns to move on from tragedy (but not from Haddonfield!) and when she meets Corey, something in the troubled young man strikes a chord. As the pair grows closer, though, Strode is becoming increasingly concerned by a dark side of Corey that reminds her of … Strode, whom we see typing out her thoughts a la Carrie Bradshaw, spouts a bunch of psycho-babble about individual responsibility to resist evil, which coming from anyone but Curtis would sound utterly absurd — but her resourceful presence has been the main reason to watch this franchise since her first babysitting gigs in 1978. Strode, meanwhile, has bought a new home, is writing a memoir, and is aiming to move on (but not out, at least not out of Haddonfield.) “It’s been four years since I last saw my monster,” she tells us. Strode is now living with her granddaughter, Allyson (a lovely Andi Matichak), now a nurse, who tragically lost her parents to the Boogeyman, aka Myers.

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.

Halloween Ends again this weekend with the final film of Jamie Lee Curtis battling Michael Myers. But where does that movie rank with all the other times ...

[Halloween (2018)](https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/halloween-review/) ignored all its predecessors, including H20, and took the concept of a wounded and haunted Laurie to an even further extreme. Back in 1998, it was a pretty novel idea to make a sequel that nuked most of the series entries that preceded it, but H20 went there 20 years after the original movie (hence the title) by only acknowledging the original movie and its 1981 follow-up as being in continuity. Green’s revival ignores the popular twist in Halloween II (both of them) where Laurie is revealed to be Michael’s sister. The last we see of this Michael Myers, he’s covered head-to-toe in flames and still taking steps toward Laurie before succumbing to the fire. The ending at least finds a way to reinforce the ending of the 2007 movie again by emphasizing even more that “love hurts” when Tyler Mane’s looming, seven-foot-tall Michael kills his opportunistic psychiatrist (Malcolm McDowell) again, and is then killed by his little sister Laurie Strode (Scout Taylor-Compton). The first time the Michael Myers story was intended to end still remains one of the better attempts at killing the character off. There are a few okay elements in the rote second half, including the return of Danielle Harris to the franchise, but ultimately the dregs of Halloween II are already visible. During the conclusion of the movie, Michael Myers is, to quote the good Dr. Ergo, Halloween II is largely an exercise in bleeding a stone dry, with little of merit beyond a pretty tense “Nights of White Satin” chase sequence at the beginning (which turns out to be a dream). As a consequence, Halloween 4 is the one where Michael begins to take on a supernatural bent, although the flick still attempts to walk a fine line—and potentially end it. In a sequence that feels about 20 years too early for the type of meme-culture it could inspire, rapper and “actor” Busta Rhymes (the quotation marks are mandatory) defeats Michael Myers with a sparking electrical wire to the nuts, and a handful of franchise-destroying one-liners. [John Carpenter](https://www.denofgeek.com/john-carpenter/)’s original 1978 movie is that Michael Myers is evil incarnate, yes, but he is still also a human: a body of flesh and blood that commits unspeakable horrors for no discernible reason.

"Halloween Ends," the conclusion to the horror saga starring Jamie Lee Curtis and directed by David Gordon Green, is opening on top of the box office.

Although the musical underwhelmed in its opening last weekend, it is looking to find some legs by benefitting from a theatrical landscape with little competition for families and young children. The film garnered a staggering $76 million — still the third-highest domestic debut ever for a horror film, after the two “It” entries. Directed by David Gordon Green, “Halloween Ends” sees Jamie Lee Curtis return as Laurie Strode to kill Michael Myers once and for all, though the town of Haddonfield, Ill. “Ends” is tracking below last year’s franchise entry, “Halloween Kills,” which earned a $49 million domestic opening in its own day-and-date release. “Kills” ended up with an extremely front-loaded box office performance, earning more than half of its total domestic gross in its first weekend. Though “Ends” will debut slightly beneath initial projections, it will earn more than enough to top weekend charts, sparking some life into what has largely been a muted season for moviegoing.