3 Thoughts After Watching ‘Halloween Ends’:

1. You’re tasked with creating a franchise-ending chapter of a legendary horror series with the iconic star/character that started it all, and _this_ is what you put together? A “final” Halloween film that’s barely about Michael Myers. GTFO. Missed opportunities GALORE.

2. The relationship with Laurie and her granddaughter starts out healthy and promising. A nice setup for chaos to ensue. Two seconds later, Allyson is ready to ditch her family for a random dude. So many out-of-character moments that made zero sense.

3. This wasn’t the film to introduce _(and focus on!)_ a character like Corey. Maybe mid-franchise this could have been done to mix things up a bit. _Friday the 13th_ kinda sorta did that, where the killer wasn’t always Jason. But NOT this time, not when you’re touting a final face-off between Michael and his Final Girl. You’re setting your fans up for disappointment.

Bonus Thought: I’m officially pretending that this new trilogy never existed, back to when Laurie Strode was Michael’s sister and everything made sense.

Rumor has it that Michael Myers and Jamie Lee will have a dance off. Once and for all.

I think I made some similar remarks with the last one, but what the hell is going on with the dialogue and acting here?
The way most scenes are constructed is downright bizarre to me.
Is it aiming for camp, or Shyamalan weirdness, and just flying over my head? I don’t get it.
Regardless, it’s once again very vanilla and mostly free of any genuine tension. Boring camerawork, very bad editing, tame, uninteresting characters, it’s atrocious and highly forgettable by every account.
The only remotely interesting part is the prologue.

3/10

Look at how they massacred my boy (and this franchise). :pensive:

Michael Myers pulled a Luke Skywalker.

What a disaster. Nothing works in this movie. Although on paper the characters are the same as in 'Kills', they have nothing in common. The screenplay is full of incomprehensible nonsense. You really sit there for 111 minutes and wonder: What were they thinking? While "Kills" at least had creative Slasher moments, "Ends" has nothing - really nothing at all.

'Halloween dies tonight', I guess. At least until the inevitable next one.

They replaced Jason with a worm in Friday the 13th Part 8 and even that was a better idea than whatever they did in Halloween Ends

Wow very disappointing I am glad that I did not pay to see this this is the worst Halloween movie ever

Worst. Buddy. Movie. Ever.

I refuse to pay this mess more attention than it deserves, so I'll just say it's a ludicrous story filmed atrociously. (The party scene alone is literally unwatchable: POV You're the vomit.)

I never thought I'd see a Halloween movie I hated more than Halloween 3, but Halloween Ends takes the cake and then shits all over it.

Halloween Ends indeed, but not soon enough and it never should've even started.