Eric Moore

As a big fan of the franchise, and even some of its worst installments, Halloween Ends takes every wrong turn in storytelling, world building, and concluding a trilogy/storyline. Halloween Ends focuses entirely too much on newly invented drama and subplot that wasn’t present in Halloween 78, Halloween (2018), and only play a minor role in Halloween Kills. This movie had two paths it could take - it could lean in on Laurie and Michael Myers to conclude their story, or it could lean in on the worst subplot of Halloween Kills (the story of the trauma Michael has caused the town of Haddonfield), and they chose to explore the latter. What we’re left with his a movie that feels disconnected to what its prequels lead us to, leaves no real message, and an incredibly disappointing final battle & conclusion to Laurie and Michael’s stories. The biggest offender, the Corey Cunningham story, could have been an interesting start to a new trilogy, exploring what could make a man evil (how evil changes “Shape”), slowly turning him from troubled youth and accidental murderer to full blown psychopath and the new Shape of evil for future movies. Instead what we got was a half baked story about a new character that took center stage for the majority of the trilogy’s third act, only for him to be mostly inconsequential to the final act of the movie - he only served to bring Michael to Laurie one last time. It’s truly hard to believe the same writers who made Halloween 2018 made this movie and the direction this movie took has made its controversial predecessor (Halloween Kills) worse by now forcing viewers to focus on the worst plot points of Kills to better understand where the trilogy’s direction was headed. It is an absolute travesty that this is likely the last Halloween movie/timeline Laurie Strode will be present in. They squandered an opportunity to create something great with the original cast before an inevitable future reboot where those actors will be too old to be included. We were left with so many unanswered questions that could put the series to rest. Instead we were given a trilogy that managed to make the Cult of Thorns storyline look great in comparison.