Halloween Ends is the third and final entry in this rebooted Halloween series once again directed and co-written by David Gordon Green and 4 years have passed since the events of Halloween Kills and Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) is writing a book about her experiences with the Shape Michael Myers but Evil never really truly dies tonight or any other night and Myers soon resurfaces and Strode must now confront him once and for all.
Halloween Ends was not a movie I had overly high hopes for mainly because Halloween Kills last year was an awful movie that at times was laughable with its endless quoting of Evil Dies Tonight, EVIL DIES TONIGHT over and over and over again as well as Anthony Michael Hall playing Kyle Reese from the Terminator and Michael Myers essentially being invincible and killing anything and everything in his path but hey the only way is up right I mean when your moving on up nothing can stop you yeah.
Well who did you think you were movie because this movie while not awful is not very good for these reasons:
- Firstly so much of this movie is focused not on Laurie but on a new character named Corey Cunningham played by Rohan Campbell and right from the opening moments he’s introduced you do not give one single fuck about him and you just sit there waiting for him to get skewered by Michael Myers and not only that I just kept thinking of Corey from the Simpsons especially the Corey Hotline and School of Hard Knockers from Homer goes to College and this is not the actors fault he does what he can but it wasn’t enough I’m afraid.
- Secondly the film is not all that scary nor does it really have any creative kills, you sit there seeing this movie being projected in front of you in a dark cinema and I never really felt all that scared or thrilled with what I was watching it just hits with the usual DA DUM! You often hear on a Horror movie sound mix and the kills aren’t creative or make you want to lick your lips seeing the blood flow on screen (the Blood is the Life after all.)
And lastly I felt this after Halloween Kills last year but I feel it so much more now but I really found myself missing that guiding hand of Debra Hill or someone like her on these new film, Hill and John Carpenter co-wrote the 1978 original film and were a couple at that time and that partnership along with Curtis’s Laurie were the trinity that made it the classic horror film it is today and yes its great that Carpenter and Curtis have returned for these new film but with only 2 out of 3 here it feels like a hole is missing and it needed to be filled and it wasn’t.
And that is to this new series’s detriment because it feels like there was a plan for only the one film from 2018 and then that hit really big and made a lot more money than anticipated and then everyone involved went “Shit we’ve got a hit let’s do 2 more films” and they were just thrown together with little care or precision when the ending of the 2018 film which was a good ending should’ve been it.
And so that was Halloween Ends and its not awful or laughable but its just plain bad and I wouldn’t bother this time around, 1 out of 5.
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