Halloween Ends - A Movie Review

Let this be the last Halloween Michael Myers ever lives.

Halloween Ends is a 2022 film. Four years after Michael Myers’ deadly return to Haddonfield, the town is still on alert. Facing her fear one last time, Laurie Strode battles Michael Myers on Halloween night.

Is this really how they’re going to end the Halloween films? Driving the film with a useless subplot and only using the major characters by the climax, Halloween Ends is such a waste of time to what it was building up to.

Laurie Strode is the main character, right? You think that she’d have the leading role to end off Michael Myers once and for all. That film exists somewhere. Laurie is confronting the evils of her past... but not without this random character stealing her thunder. Jamie Leigh Curtis is absolutely fantastic, proving that she is a fighter.

Corey’s story belonged to a different movie. It was an interesting premise that was acted wonderfully by Rohan Campbell but it was so sloppily put together. Who thought up this scenario and thought it was a good idea to include it in Halloween Ends?

Michael Myers is the main villain. And yet the villain of the franchise is sidelined. For the last four years, Michael has been squatting in the sewers of Haddonfield. What has he been doing this whole time? The inhuman strength that he harbored in Halloween Kills has now vanished rendering him a weak old man who can barely follow through with murders.

Side characters have never been strong in the Halloween sequels. In fact, why have so many, (or a better word to use) repetitive characters? We have the bullies, townfolk making the stupidest decisions, and people blaming Laurie for events that have transpired in Haddonfield.

Halloween Ends is about Laurie’s redemption. That’s what it should be about, alone! It should not focus on other characters who have nothing to do with the story whatsoever.

Andi Matichak reprises her role as Allyson. Even she has a subplot that takes up part of the movie. Becoming friendly with Corey, she ignores warnings from Laurie and the town. It was going somewhere until resolving itself out of the blue in the climax.

Oh yeah, Allyson also has a separate storyline involving work. Since Allyson has endured far more traumas than Corey, why couldn’t she have had his storyline? It would have offered a more compatible storyline, especially since she is related to Laurie Strode.

Sitting forward, the suspenseful climax is what Halloween Ends is all about. The fight between Laurie and Michael Myers is a well-choreographed fight sequence with very graphic violence. Honestly, Halloween Ends could have been a thirty-minute film. Fans would have been satisfied.

Hardly any kills transpire across the film. Most kills are repeated storylines from the original. The writing is so lazy in this film that it feels like it was written by a first-time script writer's circle. The idea for the story was creative, but it merited to be in a different movie entirely. This is not the closure that the Halloween franchise deserves.

Albeit, Halloween Ends is a better film than Halloween Kills which was just a filler film. I agree with other fans deeming that the franchise should have ended with Halloween (2018).

I will tell you that it is worth seeing Halloween Ends while it is still in theaters. With the audience I saw the film with, their terrified reactions to the horror made the film worth it. The film is streaming on Peacock so watch it this October.