It is a tragedy born of Green’s newest thematic obsession: infection. It is an othering that leads her to sympathize with the young Corey Cunningham (Rohan Campbell), who accidentally killed a boy he was hired to babysit. There is misplaced blame from the people of Haddonfield, who (for some reason, 40 years on) continue to ostracize Laurie despite her attempts at normalcy. There are nods to the death of her daughter (played in the first two films by Judy Greer), as she and her granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak) now live together in quiet turmoil. It is reiterated to us many times that this freedom is a choice, a paradigm-shifting change of Laurie’s own thinking and feeling. She’s writing her memoir, baking pies, and even flirting in line at the grocery store checkout. She refuses to live in fear, trading in her kill rooms for attempts at the domestic. And thankfully, Green tightens the reigns on his almost compulsive need to phone home a thematic point.įour years after the horrific night of the first two films, Halloween Ends opens with Laurie having chosen peace. So Halloween Ends truly had nowhere else to go but up. Green’s second entry, 2021′s Halloween Kills (which picks up on the events of the same night of its predecessor), was even more heavy-handed, reaching a peak of shapeless metaphors on pandemic-era social relations in its far-too-often repeated refrain of, “Evil dies tonight!” Where 2018′s Halloween at least attempted to evoke elements of what made the original Carpenter film so enjoyable, Halloween Kills was a hodgepodge of horrible dialogue and so-called social commentary that felt almost AI-generated from breaking-news headlines. But it gave audiences a chance to reunite with one of the horror genre’s favourite Final Girls – even if Curtis’s long-endeared character had to be endowed with a weighty psychological back story in order to kick butt onscreen. In a timeline that picked up 40 years after Carpenter’s film, we were met with the image of Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) as a survivor above all else. The word du jour here was “trauma,” and we were reminded of it at every turn. With Green’s 2018 reboot of Halloween, the writer-director ushered in a new era for the creaky franchise, one that declared it was no longer enough just to play with the series’ regular bag of tricks.
When asked about the new slasher flick Halloween Ends in an interview with SyFy this summer, legendary horror director John Carpenter was customarily blunt and playful in his answer: “Well, it’s Halloween, and it ends.” With its consistent box office numbers, it’s unlikely that the Halloween franchise will ever truly be finished frightening audiences, but Halloween Ends – the final installment in David Gordon Green’s Halloween trilogy, which more or less reboots Carpenter’s original 1978 film – is more than happy to finally put an end to Michael Myers’ decades-long reign of terror over Haddonfield, Ill. Starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Andi Matichak and Will Patton.
Written by Paul Brad Logan, Chris Bernier, Danny McBride and David Gordon Green.
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