Halloween Ends
Four years after the events of Halloween in 2018, Laurie has decided to liberate herself from fear and rage and embrace life. But when a young man 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.
- Released: 2022-10-13
- Runtime: 120 minutes
- Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thrillers
- Stars: Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, Kyle Richards, Will Patton, James Jude Courtney, Nick Castle, Michael O'Leary, Emily Brinks, Nick Lawrence, Ben Manning, Sierra Stoliar, Will Baker, McKenna Edwards, Rohan Campbell, Omar J. Dorsey, Stephanie McIntyre, Emily Brinks, William Brooks Perez, Derrick Lemmon, Nick Lawrence, Dawn Lasusky, Joseph D. Webb, Nick Castle, Michele Dawson, Dillon Belisle, Keraun Harris, Russel Bryan Winstead, Jesse C. Boyd, Joanne Baron, Rick Moose, Michael Barbieri, Destiny Mone, Joey Harris, Marteen, Jaxon Goldenberg, Candice Rose, Jack William Marshall, Diana Prince, Turcotte Nancy, Diva Tyler, Leila Wilson, Blaque Fowler, Tony DeMil, Holli Saperstein, Matt Meece, Jimmie Cummings, Montarius Dailey, Steven Williby, Jibrail Nantambu, Javanna Rogers, Jon Bruce, Dave Brown, Joey Brinkley, Nicky Lawrence, Judy Greer, Drew Scheid, Dylan Arnold, Michael Smallwood, Carmela McNeal, Nedim Jahić
- Director: David Gordon Green
Comments
- tonosov-51238 - 3 June 2024
Someone here is a third wheel, and it's not Corey
They had a good thing going. It's not even that innovative for the Halloween franchise to do the passing of the 'evil' torch act. Rohan Campbell did his best, and I was genuinely excited to see the transformation when I realized where it was going. I'll be honest, I don't care about Michael Myers as a supposed icon. From 2018 on, we can basically ascertain that his motivation is now revenge. So he isn't, by all means, a motiveless representation of evil anymore, which made him interesting back then. Conversely, Haddonfield residents act so overweeningly that you might conclude that they deserve Michael if they are unironically blaming Laurie for "provoking" him. I'm not and never was excited for Michael to do the same killing routine he has been doing for 11 movies. What excited me was to see how they were going to use him to develop Corey.
For a little while, I kind of thought that he was in his head, and Corey was just internalizing and deflecting his urges, and I mean, that scene with Curtis really seemed like the guy was hallucinating at this point. Such a great theme they were spelling out for all of us. Evil never goes away. It just reshapes itself somewhere else. Oh, David, you have done it! But then someone, either an executive or Curtis, or maybe David second-guessing himself, said, "I mean, we've got to have Curtis and Michael fight." No, you really didn't need to. It already happened in 2018, so why do we need this again? Why couldn't you let Corey have it? Trying to please both sides of the spectrum, you disappointed everyone by half-assing it.
And for what? That tumble of geriatrics in the kitchen was atrocious. I swear, Busta Rhymes did it better than Laurie. I am not even going to compare it to 2018.
At least it's adeptly shot. The score is remarkable, as usual, and aside from those very convincing marching band bullies, the acting was on par, at least compared to something like Halloween Kills with that entire circus. - fernandoschiavi - 2 February 2024
"Halloween Ends" is a slasher, with an irregular rhythm in its first part, that forgets characters for almost the whole film and follows to a very divisive path
The problem here is that "Halloween Ends (2022)" is, above all, a pretentious film, bordering on arrogance in treating the original material with contempt. The time jump is completely out of place. The script chooses to abandon the classic characters and focus on a new figure, Corey Cunningham (Rohan Campbell), who was involved in a terrible accident a year after the events of the previous films, which take place in sequence. You couldn't care less about Corey. Fans were eager for the conflict between Laurie and Michael, since our final girl was locked up in the hospital throughout the entire second film. The trailers promised us the final meeting between the two, but the film takes an unexpected path. Newness is not necessarily a bad thing, the problem with "Halloween Ends" is that the new element comes with disregard for the old. Michael barely has any screen time, he participates more in the third act, the best of the film. The film forgets about the killer for more than half an hour, with just a few mentions and Green's camera occasionally being pointed at a pipe, or at an insane homeless man who calls himself Michael Myers. The intention is to show a sick city, capable of creating monsters, as if trying to justify the psychopath's actions or relate him to local destruction.
The problem is that "Halloween" is a slasher, a film involving a killer who invades homes and haunts children's nightmares. Turning him into a kind of Stephen King's "It", placing him on the edge of civilization as an evil entity didn't work very well, leaving the film boring, dragging, where little happens in its first half. And it is also difficult to conceive that Alysson's behavior, which should have been more mature after the events of the previous episodes, ends up being strange. Matichack does what he can to sell the character, but seeing her disown Laurie at one point in the story because of a teenage romance feels forced. It's embarrassing to see the girl's passionate face when she sees Corey for the first time in the waiting room of a hospital where she works, or when she offers herself to the boy and asks him to teach her how to ride a motorcycle a few minutes later. It's all so rushed and forced that it's difficult to accept. O
Only in the last part does Gordon Green show, again, that he knows how to direct a feature film in the "Halloween" saga. Unfortunately, in the first two he seems to have forgotten that. Apparently, the script wanted to follow the line of community trauma that Myers' two appearances caused - three if we count when he killed his sister as a child. But the community as a whole also only participates in the last scene - in somewhat dubious taste. The connection between the new story and the concept presented in "Halloween Kills" is only at the level of phrases, such as "the town needed a new bogeyman", or when the inhabitants of Haddonfield blame Laurie for provoking Michael and causing the murders. Laurie's blaming of the city's citizens is an interesting element, but like many others, it is out of place in this script. But if the film didn't opt for the slasher basics like Halloween (2018) and didn't stick to collective trauma like Halloween Kills (2021), what does it do? The Ends script opts for a path that no one had imagined, placing a completely new character as the protagonist of the plot, precisely in the last chapter of the saga, to work on the issue of Evil beyond Michael Myers. In the end, everything seems out of place, dragged, only getting better in this third act, when the long-awaited final confrontation finally takes place.
As commendable as the arrival of good ideas is, "Halloween Ends" suffers from the planning and execution of several of them. The film's high points are tied together loosely, to the point of having to constantly resort to facilitations and even inconsistencies to get where they need to be. It's as if the film relied on a large dose of goodwill on the part of the public to accept certain choices. A problem that affects several aspects of the story, but especially harms the characterization of its main core, who takes inexplicable or stupid actions, merely to reach the next stage. The script, written by the quartet formed by director David Gordon Green in partnership with Danny McBride, Chris Bernier and Paul Brad Logan, falls into different traps that occasionally affect the film's cohesion. A conduct that makes little effort to justify choices and actions, undermining public engagement with the emergence of doubts that should not even exist at this point in the championship.
However, it's easy to see that part of this bitter taste comes from the need to deal with the damage done by "Halloween Kills". The choices made in the 2021 feature raised several questions that the final chapter was unable to answer satisfactorily. Which becomes especially frustrating considering that "Kills" and "Ends" don't feel like a planned one-two punch. The feeling is that there was an idea for just one film, which ended up divided to profit from the release of a trilogy. An example of this, unfortunately, is Michael Myers himself. With the void left by the material saved for the big finale, "Kills" turned it into an overtly supernatural killing machine to fill its story with long, grandiose killing scenes. Without the aura of mystery about the killer's limitations, "Ends" was in a delicate position in how to properly approach him. The solution found was one of the new ideas, mentioned above, which cannot be better explained to avoid spoilers.
To make matters worse, "Halloween Ends" also brings other less inspired ideas, such as Laurie's entire performance in the last act, the final scene with the participation of all the residents, like a kind of small-town ritual. The film also doesn't work like the previous one in terms of violence: some deaths are offscreen - the person screams and the scene cuts, or they simply find the body - and those that aren't bring any surprises. If the previous one had the piercing of the throat, the couple whose bodies are arranged as in the painting in which they appear in a good moment, the confrontation in the park and at Laurie's house, in this one there are even those who die without having any importance. And what about the scene where a victim has his tongue cut out by a pair of scissors? It seems creative and funny, but it's just there for pure gore graphics.
The script unfortunately makes Laurie a normal character, far from the spotlight, while time is wasted with characters that shouldn't even be there. Jamie Lee Curtis does what she can with her charisma, but it is clear how much in this third film the character has become just a supporting role. The same is said of Allyson, who in the first feature ends up holding Myers' knife as if the director was preparing us for something - which never came. There still doesn't seem to be an explanation for that entire final sequence of the girl alongside her mother and grandmother. The shocking death of Karen (Judy Greer) at the end of the second film, after Michael Myers survived all that, is left aside. For "Halloween Ends", what happened to the protagonist's daughter had the weight of a feather. Myers, in fact, as already said, was forgotten in this new film. He ended up transformed into a pathetic sewer dweller who serves as an evil instructor. He is robbed by his pupil, who is visibly weaker. Another point of weakness is that the script forces the idea that society corrupted an innocent person and turned him into an evil person. The question remains: why hasn't this been done before, since the first film, or perhaps with other characters that didn't appear out of nowhere? Nothing that happened in the previous two features has any weight in this third.
On the other hand, it is remarkable how "Halloween Ends" overcomes all these difficulties in a conclusion so powerful that it becomes difficult not to forgive the stumbles along the way. The long-awaited final meeting between Laurie Strode and Michael Myers, the killer who has tormented her since Halloween 1978, honors the responsibility she bears. Challenged in previous features, David Gordon Green commands the moment with the expected brutality, which gives up tricks to focus on the emotional charge of the clash between the two great forces of this franchise. It's an outcome that stands out among the great moments of the new trilogy, especially because it causes genuine distress in the viewer as everything unfolds. A valuable resource that is justified in the catharsis it seeks to provoke on and off the screen. In this way, the production that supposedly closes "Halloween" becomes a perfect representation of what the franchise became after the unparalleled first film. With more than a dozen releases, this saga has remained relevant between extremely high points and unbelievable rock bottoms (yes, you also thought about "Halloween: Resurrection").
In general terms, we see here a slasher, with an irregular rhythm in its first part, a production that ends what was started in 2018, returning to the heir Malek Akkad the rights to a franchise that, now, we don't know what new directions it will take, after all, as narrated by Laurie Strode in the ending, evil itself never ends, it just changes form. However, Halloween Ends still delivers a very satisfying conclusion to a classic. And, most importantly, it reminds us why these great horror monsters are so iconic. Beings like Michael Myers are not scary because of their appearance or the deaths they cause, but because of how much they are capable of mirroring our own evil. Deep down, they are the abyss that stares back at us. - claszdsburrogato - 6 November 2023
Halloween Ends (2022) The worst way to end a trilogy
The second film in this new trilogy seemed completely useless and what really mattered was in the third. Maybe that's the biggest problem with this film. A story was developed in the previous two not to be directly continued. What we watch here is a completely different plot that deviates from Halloween. We follow a new character that had never even been mentioned before and we need to watch this lame development that the writers made. Additionally, Michael Myers is completely tossed aside for this new character to shine. But he will never shine, because the actor cannot deliver a good character, especially with such bad writing that was written for him. The big clash that everyone was waiting for happens in a short time, after a huge amount of time following something unbearable with crude scenes that don't even seem to come out of a film in the Halloween franchise. - jacobjohntaylor1 - 4 January 2023
very scary
This is scarier then. Halloween kills. Not has scary has Halloween 2018. Not has scary has Halloween resurrection. Not has scary has Halloween H20. Very well written. Very good acting. Very scary. Halloween III season of the witch is not scary but this is very scary. Not has scary has Halloween the cures of Micheal Myers. Not has scary has Halloween 5 the revenage of Micheal Myers. Not has scary has Halloween 4 the return of Micheal Myers. Not has scary has Halloween II (1981). Not has scary has Halloween (1978). Not has scary has Halloween II (2009) Not has scary has Halloween (2007). One good horror movie see it. - cklhaynes - 29 December 2022
Swing & a miss.
Okay.
Well, i myself thoroughly enjoyed the 2007(?) remake of Friday the 13th-DESPITE there being a plotline that was COMPLETELY inconsistent with every other Jason movie we'd ever seen, ever. (I'm talking about the fact that Jason kidnapped that one girl & held her captive, bc she reminded him of his mother. Cuz Jason Voorhees totally has feelings & mommy issues, right? Who didn't know that??)
Anyway. Halloween Ends (just a movie title; i assure you, we have not seen the last of Michael Myers) seemed to test audience's willingness to continue to go see garbage films just because John Carpenter's Halloween is mentioned.
You want to try something new? Send the franchise in a new direction? Okay, great.
I mean, you waited until the "last" film of the new trilogy to do so. And you had The Shape doing things & acting in ways that are completely inconsistent with what we've been watching for FORTY YEARS.
And then, you undid everything you'd been setting up in the previous two films!!
The whole "evil dies tonight" tagline of the last Halloween movie, coupled with the fact that Michael has survived being shot dozens of times; being stabbed multiple times; being beaten with baseball bats & 2x4s; being burned alive; etc tells us (as was the filmmaker's intent) that he is not human. Laurie made a point to say "he transcends!" (Whatever the f**l< she meant by that.) That's why he can't die. That's why, instead of any of the above mentioned acts killing Michael or even injuring him enough to slightly slow him down, it seemed to give him fuel to keep killing in ever more creative & gruesome ways.
But all of that, every last word of what I've just mentioned-which all happened ONE MOVIE AGO-is abandoned!!
Imagine watching Empire Strikes Back, & enjoying that movie; then watching Return of the Jedi & having Yoda say "yeah, Darth Vader never had any children, so he can't be Luke's father" kinda dismissively. Like, that's not a small unimportant detail, bro. That's the underlying theme to the WHOLE PREVIOUS MOVIE.
So ONE MOVIE AGO we had an angry MOB of people beat Michael in the street; kick, punch, stab with a pitchfork, etc & after a brief pause he gets up, grabs his mask, & easily dispatches every single member of Said mob. (Bc he's not human; he's pure evil; he transcends; etc. Yadda yadda) but in THIS film, a nerdy ex babysitter (with zero discernible physical or athletic prowess, btw) is able to wrestle Michael & successfully steal his mask.
The f?@l< WHAT???!!?!
It Pretty much goes downhill from there.
If this had been the first or 2nd Halloween it might've actually been a decent movie. If the filmmakers hadn't so adamantly shoved the whole "Michael isn't human" idea down our throats in the last film, this one might've been enjoyable.
But they did, & the film suffered for it.
My rating: 4 out of 10 stars. Don't bother if you're anything more than a casual fan of Michael Myers/Halloween movies. - Quanfa - 20 December 2022
One Wishes For The End
So many series in this franchise:
1) 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 2) 3 3) 1, 2, H20, 8 4) 9, 10 (RZ) 5) 1, 11, 12, 13
I've pretty much liked them all except 8. As for this recent trilogy following the original, I thought there were elements of greatness, sometimes useless nostalgia, but ultimately I wanted to see it end with Jamie Lee Curtis, which is why I liked H20 and refused to accept #8. But back to this one, I liked what they did in Halloween Ends, even with the copycat/possessed new killer. I was kind of thinking it would be like Michael Myers who knows how to work on cars and use tools more efficiently to kill people.
It wasn't perfect. Halfway through I was getting a little bored, but I really enjoyed the ending. I wish it could be the end of the franchise, but like Godzilla, Frankenstein, and Dracula, there's too much money to be made.
Definitely worth watching if you're a Halloween nerd. - acafassos - 3 December 2022
Halloween ends is the 2nd best out of this trilogy
Now to start this review..... Halloween (2018) is an amazing start to this trilogy I mean it feels just so much like the original except it really has a storyline for you to follow with the legendary Jamie Lee Curtis returning to play Laurie strode. Halloween (2018) is a film I can't stress enough but say it's the best out of this trilogy. The fight at the end was amazing with them locking Micheal in Laurie's secret basement badass. It also just had a really strong third act that carried the movie along with some good new characters like Allyson (fight me). Overall Halloween (2018) will always be the best introduction to this trilogy
Now Halloween kills (2021) disappointed my first watch but with subsequent rewatches i found it to be an okay sorta decent but pointless middle chapter in the trilogy. I felt like the movies story completely lost itself in the second half. It just felt so disjointed and it was just Micheal running Around killing people while a mob try's to hunt him down chanting EVIL DIES TONIGHT.
I liked the legacy characters returning but then they were killed off so that ruined it for me. Overall Halloween kills is just pointless middle chapter that had so much potential to be better but failed.
Finally we got Halloween Ends (2022) Now I believe this is way to underrated and I think it's a good conclusion to this trilogy.
I actually liked the character of Corey (fight me) I felt for him and wanted him to get better but I knew it wasn't going to happen.
Now Micheal barely appears in this one but if I had to be Frank it did not bother me, I liked how David Gordon green wanted to do something different and I do wish some ideas were executed better but what can we do. Overall Halloween ends (2022) is pretty good final chapter for the most part that I enjoyed
So in concluding I deem Halloween kills the weakest entry in this trilogy with Halloween ends in 2nd place. - Pigeon_down - 22 November 2022
Outside of 1 & 2, this is the best Halloween they've done.
I've read the naysayers reviews and I disagree. I watched the first Halloween as a teenager and was terrified and entertained and amazed all at once. It was a spectacular horror for the time. Part 2 was good and added, but after that we drifted in the slasher rinse repeat. Since this, the movies have become more ridiculous with Michael surviving because every other human is so incredibly dumb - and when the plot depends on how dumb every other character is for it to carry on, then the story is done.
This, however, was a really refreshing end. They were brave to do this, but, despite the mess in the interim years with all the movies that occurred in-between, this movie reversed that. It was in some respects a great tribute to Jamie-Lee Curtis who was the star alongside Michael in these films, and it marked the passage of a lifetime fighting 'the evil inside' and finally putting it to rest.
I loved this ending. It is a complete break from the never ending need to milk a story to death. It is a brave ending and a pleasing one. Really enjoyed it. Well done. - theredsky - 17 November 2022
Halloween Ends Review
This film has some really interesting and thought provoking ideas and concepts here. Shame that all of those ideas and concepts are used in the "final" film of this franchise and not a different one. Having someone else start to become Michael Myers because of how the town treated them is great but really shouldn't have been the idea for the final film as Michael Myers just feels sidelined here. He has his moments in the middle and end of the movie but for a "final" film it's definitely disappointing to not see him as much as I wanted to. That being said, this film is hilarious just like the other 2. There are some really funny moments here that aren't supposed to be funny but it made me enjoy the film so much that I can't hate it. The opening scene is genuinely great though. It plays with the concept of Michael Myers always being around and twists it on its head in an interesting and surprisingly hilarious which definitely wasn't supposed to be intentional. The characters here are definitely more developed here than they were in Kills but their development definitely feels shallow. It's strange seeing Andi Matichak and Rohan Campbell's characters team up because they don't really work together very well in my opinion. The deaths here are once again great. They are all really well done and sometimes really funny as well. Michael Myers feels oddly nerfed here. I know he's been in hiding for 3 years but to come off of both Halloween and Halloween Kills like this, it definitely leaves a lot to be desired. The final confrontation between Laurie and Michael is also very anticlimactic in my opinion. None of them have a ton of energy in their fight and how it ends just feels boring unfortunately. The music from John Carpenter once again is great and while I definitely prefer the look and style of Kills, the look and style here was definitely better than the 2018 film. This film is definitely the weakest in the trilogy in my opinion but all 3 movies are movies I would watch every Halloween. If you want a laugh or like the Halloween movies then I would check this out.
