Halloween Ends

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

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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.

Jamie Lee Curtis reprises her iconic “final girl” role as Laurie Strode in the 13th and last installment in one of the longest-running horror franchises of all ...

Instead, we are left with a case of “let’s throw everything at the story but the kitchen sink and see what sticks”. In the absence of a coherent premise, director David Gordon Green and his co-writers resort to the worst type of slasher tropes and nothing more. But when a young man, Corey Cunningham (Rohan Campbell), is accused of killing a boy he was babysitting, it ignites a wave of violence and terror that will force Laurie to finally confront the evil that has made her life a living hell.

In the third film in the series from director David Gordon Green, who helmed Halloween and Halloween Kills, and the 13th overall, the legendary “final girl” and ...

Gordon Green’s other two films took an interest in the kind of PTSD and long-term effects that living through a massacre of this magnitude might cause a person. And while Halloween Ends does provide something close to the catharsis that long-time fans of the franchise may be seeking, it does it in a manner that still feels a tiny bit lacking. Whether there is supernatural transference with Myers, or whether it is simply an inexplicable inability to die, we are left guessing.

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.

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.

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,

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.

Jamie Lee Curtis stars in the final chapter of the Halloween franchise. Who will win between Laurie Strode and the infamous Michael Myers?

Halloween Ends will be his final performance as the antagonist. As expected, the film is packed with scary scenes and a great deal of violence. In the US, Halloween Ends is being streamed on Peacock, but there are no details of when the film might come to a UK streaming service yet. As mentioned above, Jamie Lee Curtis returns for the final time as legendary protagonist Laurie Strode. Halloween is one of the most iconic horror film franchises ever. Now, there's a new instalment to enjoy and, if star Jamie Lee Curtis is to be believed, it'll be the final time we see our main hero take on Myers.

While the resolution of Halloween Ends and David Gordon Green's Michael Myers trilogy is straight forward, the implications it has for Michael and ...

Corey seems to mean it that Allyson gives him hope he can live a better life, but like a werewolf (or a junkie) he cannot resist the thrall of the full moon, or the high of going killin’ with Uncle Mike. This is exactly what the movie is going for after Corey slowly succumbs to the evil that the town insists he represents. The supernatural quality of Halloween Ends is also what makes such a mess of the unexpectedly central relationship of the movie: Corey and Allyson. He was a decent kid who grew up in a community that became a little meaner, a little more cynical—a little more EVIL!—after the night Michael Myers came back to town (and perhaps after the invention of Twitter). Still, this is a Halloween movie, and there is something vaguely supernatural afoot about Michael Myers, and how the evil of “the Shape” passes from Old Man Mike to Young Corey. Yet it is that duality of “the survivor” and “the killer” that Halloween Ends is so excited to explore. The fabled Boogeyman finds Corey at a low point and instead of killing him, he lets Corey go. According to the movie, it’s also why the town of Haddonfield refused to accept that this tragic incident was an accident (although the movie glosses over that it was still manslaughter as well). Michael Myers killed a lot of people in the last movie. That cry becomes the question of the movie: Was Corey’s action evil, and if it was, does that mean Corey is himself evil? But this really is Corey’s story, and the story of how the rot of a scarred community can nurture wounds that never heal—passing trauma and violence from one generation to the next. When Corey, terrified that he’d been locked in an attic on Halloween night in Haddonfield, kicks down a door, it is a complete accident that the little boy taunting him on the other side is knocked over a railing—tumbling to his death in front of his parents.

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.

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.

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.

Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Michael Myers (aka The Shape) in. Credit: Ryan Greene / Universal Pictures. When bullying old biddy Bunny (Jayne Houdyshell) ...

[Only Murders in the Building is now streaming on Hulu. On the other hand, OMITB boasts a bold fashion sense for every character, bringing color and pizzazz to the Upper West Side-set tale of murder and conspiracy. Who wore it best: Literally Only Murders in the Building wore their fall fashion best. It's a ploy to lure in the slasher she knows is lurking in the hall, and it works. But when she tries to sweet-talk Corey's mother for information, she shows a softer side with an incredibly stylish color-block cardigan in orange and blue. Rather than using clothes to paint a whimsical vision of crime in the Big Apple, this costume designer must create a small Illinois town that feels achingly authentic. It wasn't just Charles' (and Martin's) convincing performance, but also that this faked death hit right before the commercial break. In the somber grief that follows, the true killer cracks, unleashing a torrid confession, and revealing how they'd faked their own death before! Among the stories that skip about the town like a candy-fueled trick-or-treaters is an anecdote about Laurie skewering Michael with her knitting needles In Ends, turnabout is fair play; this time around, when Laurie tries to get stabby with her knitting gear, Michael turns the makeshift weapon back on our heroine. With the third installment of David Gordon Green's trilogy now on [Peacock](https://mashable.com/deals/oct-14-peacock-premium) and in theaters, there's no better time to reflect on how these two very different productions are surprisingly squaring off in twists, kills, and even fall-flavored fashion. Facing down her flittering memories and past trauma, Mabel herself wasn't even sure of her innocence, especially after using her needles as a self-defense tool on the subway.