Halloween Ends

I'm not sure who thought this script was a good idea because it's not. If there is a film in film school called "How to ruin a franchise" this would be it. As a lifelong die hard Halloween fan I have a love for the good ones and the bad but this along with Halloween Kills is just a no. So much potential was wasted and im not even going to mention the plot or any details. Halloween Ends is an insult to the characters, the ideas and the franchise. It borders offensive. While Halloween Kills has redeeming values Ends just screws it all to high heaven. The final insult is that Michael Myers has been reduced to a couple cameos in his own film. Watch it on a streaming service or somewhere else for free and give it a try just for nostalgias sake but you have been warned. I gave it a 5 because the Halloween franchise has a soft spot with me and I can't bear to give it a lower score.

First, this trylogy should have been only one movie with a better conclusion. The third movie is even worse than the second. And the second was weak.

Second, I don't understand how you can do a great Halloween (2018) comeback, but then two of the worst Hallowen movies from all time.

Last, Halloween Ends (2022) is poor as a movie. Sometimes embarrassing. The script is bad, pretty bad. Acting is horrendous, soap opera level. And the conclusion is a joke. A bad one.

To add, Michael deserved better than this. Hopefully in the future someone can fix it, and give it the conclusion that deserves as an horror icon.

John Carpenter and Debra Hill produced a very quirky and punky horror movie in 1978. It has its flaws but it remains one of the most effective slasher movies ever made.

It did not warrant a sequel let alone a franchise all of its own and with each and every sequel comes diminishing returns which comes as no surprise to me since there is no story left to tell.

Blumhouse are no longer a credible film studio they are simply eking out as much cash as possible and exploiting a gullible fan base who hang to the absurd notion that 'this one will be better than the last'. Dreadful uninspiring nonsense.

No spoilers here. But, as tradition, the third installment goes off on a tangent. It opens with undoubtably the best pumpkin title sequence, and a thudding mix of Carpenter's theme.

The attraction of the final three movies to me is Jamie Lee Curtis. And although I feel she's stretching it a little to claim in interviews this film is all about relatable trauma (it's still a modern horror with modern annoyances), there are elements of this and the roundup is somewhat satisfying. Not because it is classical Halloween as hoped, but because as producer and overseer she may have delivered the ultimate f-you to the anti-hero worshiping fanboys of this franchise. In a fashion: trauma dealt with.

Of the 1978 original, Richard Combs said it was "one of the cinema's most perfectly engineered devices for saying 'Boo!'". That's spot on, and nothing beyond the original really matches. The moment Myers steps beyong those first 91 minutes, with any attempted explaination, motivation or widening, the illusion evaporates. Today the suspense and atmosphere is replaced with an apparent need for seeing people stabbed many, many, many times. Weirdly this might be more to meet the limited appetites of an attention deprived modern audience, rather than anything to do with the original.

There was no blood shown in 1978, and the ghost story worked well in the first telling.

I don't know what this movie was but I am still waiting on the real final movie in the trilogy to be released. This was just a bad joke right? I kept watching hoping that it would get better and it just didn't I had heard the final act was good and I was lied to. Then I am not sure what message they were trying to send with their wacky symbolism they do but it went over my head. When it was over me and the girlfriend just felt crushed that it was such a bad movie. 2018 was great and kills was ok but this makes me angry and sad at how disappointing it was.

This wasn't a Halloween movie. It takes place on halloween and Michael and Laurie cameo in it but that's it. Every time I look at the rating I am giving it I lower the score because I feel I am being too generous.