Halloween Ends review
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. For those who know me you know about my love for horror films so once a month I’m going to review and discuss a scary flick. We’ll look at the classics, some new films, and I want your suggestions on what I should review. I’ll do my best to cover all the different genres within the genre – slashers, ghosts, monsters, etc.
SPOILER ALERT! – These will be reviews so if you haven’t seen the movie you’ll want to watch it first before you read this. Let’s do this.
HALLOWEEN ENDS
I really want to like this film because it wraps up the trilogy in this third Halloween universe. Now, I don’t hate it, but I certainly don’t love it. I really wanted a limb severing, house destroying final showdown between Laurie and Michael. We got a battle, but not what we fans deserved after these 3 movies. I’ve stated many times that Halloween is one of my favorite movies of all time, but I’ve been a bit indifferent to these three films. 2018’s Halloween was fun for fans with a good amount of homages to the previous films but Kills and Ends didn’t live up.
After Michael’s impressive body count to end Halloween Kills, we have now moved ahead a few years to see a young man named Corey who while babysitting accidentally kills his charge and becomes a town scapegoat. Laurie and granddaughter Allyson have decided to “choose life” after everything that has happened to them and still live in Haddonfield. Corey and Allyson hit it off while we find out Michael is still around living in the city’s sewers which isn’t very creative. Corey runs afoul of Myers, and they seem to have some strange sort of mental connection and Michael lets him go. Corey takes on Michael’s madness and begins killing folks in town complete with mask. Laurie does her best to keep Allyson away from him but he’s willing to off himself if he can’t have her. Michael and Laurie’s brawl was predictable but what we finally see here is him actually die. After she kills him, they take a sort of funeral procession with his body atop Allyson’s car through Haddonfield as the town comes out to see the boogeyman finally meet his demise. Then they crush his body in a trash compactor.
There are too many smaller stories in this film we just don’t need. The love story blossoming between Allyson and Corey is unnecessary and too much VO from Laurie discussing the story of the town and Michael Myers. Halloween Kills gave us insight into what the town feels like after something like this happened and it was nice to continue that here too. The kills weren’t great either save for a DJ who won’t shut his mouth, so he appropriately gets his tongue cut out. The entire time I was watching this I was thinking of Friday the 13th A New Beginning. Fans will remember that film had a copycat killer instead of Jason Voorhees and that how I felt here with the Corey character following in Myers footsteps. It was not well received with the Friday the 13th faithful, and it isn’t here either. This movie tries to do too much. Keep it simple. I did love simple little touches though like killing one victim in the same fashion as Bob from the original, characters watching John Carpenter’s The Thing, and loved hearing Don’t Fear the Reaper at the end of the film. If you saw the first two you might as well watch it end.
Enjoy the trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_mAWKyfj6c