Halloween Ends

This weekend, Halloween Ends, the conclusion to the Halloween franchise, released in theaters and on Peacock. Halloween Ends follows Laurie and her granddaughter Allyson four years after the events of Halloween Kills. When Laurie finally starts to move on, a young man, Corey Cunningham emerges and ignites a chain of violence that will force Laurie to confront Michael once and for all.

This film had some good moments in it and some good kills that you expect from a horror movie. However, overall, this was not a good movie. This movie fails to recognize what people actually want from a Halloween film and completely fails to produce any sort of good story. the whole movie is marketed around this film being the final showdown between Laurie and Michael but that is not what this movie is at all. The film sets Michael and Lori to the side to focus on newcomer Cory and his relationship with Allyson. It also has no Halloween horror action until the last 20 minutes of the film, causing the first 90 minutes to be quite boring. The film doesn't do justice to any of the characters or plot lines set up in the previous film. In the last film, Michael was set up as this unstoppable monster but then is given no action or anything to do in this film. The introduction of Corey was also a poor decision. Corey is very unlikable and isn't a good person to set the story around. The timeline of the film was also a poor decision. The film is set 4 years after the last film for no valid reason when in reality, all three films in the trilogy should have been set on the same night. The time job really does nothing for the story and essentially makes the events of the previous film irrelevant.

Overall, the film makes poor decision after poor decision, from putting Michael and Lori on the sidelines, to having a 4-year time jump. For being marketed as the end of an era, it fails to deliver in every possible way. If you are looking for the final showdown between Laurie and Michael just watch the trailer as that is pretty much all you get in the movie.

Score: 4/10 Grade: D Recommendation: Skip this one

R Rating Disclaimer: This film is rated R for violence, language, and frightening images. It is very much an R-rated horror film,. If you don't like language, or violence or get scared easily, you shouldn't watch this film.