Halloween Ends

Halloween Ends

Four years after the events of Halloween in 2018, Laurie has decided to liberate herself from fear and rage and embrace life. But when a young man is accused of killing a boy he was babysitting, it ignites a cascade of violence and terror that will force Laurie to finally confront the evil she can’t control, once and for all.

  • Released: 2022-10-13
  • Runtime: 120 minutes
  • Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thrillers
  • Stars: Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, Kyle Richards, Will Patton, James Jude Courtney, Nick Castle, Michael O'Leary, Emily Brinks, Nick Lawrence, Ben Manning, Sierra Stoliar, Will Baker, McKenna Edwards, Rohan Campbell, Omar J. Dorsey, Stephanie McIntyre, Emily Brinks, William Brooks Perez, Derrick Lemmon, Nick Lawrence, Dawn Lasusky, Joseph D. Webb, Nick Castle, Michele Dawson, Dillon Belisle, Keraun Harris, Russel Bryan Winstead, Jesse C. Boyd, Joanne Baron, Rick Moose, Michael Barbieri, Destiny Mone, Joey Harris, Marteen, Jaxon Goldenberg, Candice Rose, Jack William Marshall, Diana Prince, Turcotte Nancy, Diva Tyler, Leila Wilson, Blaque Fowler, Tony DeMil, Holli Saperstein, Matt Meece, Jimmie Cummings, Montarius Dailey, Steven Williby, Jibrail Nantambu, Javanna Rogers, Jon Bruce, Dave Brown, Joey Brinkley, Nicky Lawrence, Judy Greer, Drew Scheid, Dylan Arnold, Michael Smallwood, Carmela McNeal, Nedim Jahić
  • Director: David Gordon Green
 Comments
  • rabbi-75135 - 26 June 2024
    It's not that much interesting movie for me
    It's not that much interesting movie for me! VFX nice and the performance nice. Some of the part i enjoyed. Action moments was nice. But the storyline is not that much interesting as i see.

    I hate the part of relg song lyrics!!!

    Although i would give it more star! All action and performance was so realistic. And compared to the date of released i can it is best for that time. Movie story isn't make good time for me. Some of scene was so dark which should not be that way, it could be little light. Basically I'm not interested in this type of movie but for the action moments and story I'm interested.
  • A_Llama_Drama - 29 March 2024
    Halloween ends, so far from where it began
    After Laurie trapped Michael in her home and set it ablaze, I didn't understand how they could make another movie, let alone a second sequel. But after Laurie's daughter was murdered at Michael's sister's window in "Kills," I was interested to see how Laurie would take revenge on the shape.

    Ends, however, is so much more interested in other things. And in those novel ideas and characters, are the most exciting and frustrating points.

    We open with Corey, a young man who's babysitting a little terror, one year following the 2018 massacre. The direction leads you to believe history is repeating itself, and the little terror Jeremy is about to be found by his parents with a bloodstained knife standing outside his house.. instead, a terrible accident occurs and Corey finds his fate tied to the monster, Michael. The town, too traumatised from what Michael did (and let's remember Michael murdered A LOT of people over that one night), and with a missing boogeyman, takes their terror, PTSD and hatred out on Corey. Is evil innate or nurtured? Are mercy and forgiveness the cure?

    What follows is so far from any Halloween movie, it's even less Halloween than Halloween 3. In the two hour runtime, we spend a lot of time with Corey and his treatment at the hands of the town. We see Laurie ridiculed and ostracised as the survivors of that night find ways to blame her for Michaels rampage. Without a focus for their anger, they turn on anyone connected, and with gossipmongers, opportunists and rednecks who'd rather bury their head in the ground, Laurie and Alison find themselves isolated while Corey is shaped into the monster the neighbours fear.

    People will hate that Michael makes perhaps four appearances in total, and spends most of his time decrepit. But this is the story that the writers have been building to. Michael isn't supernatural. He's a man who like Laurie has aged. The legend and evil is what remains, and it moves from him through happenstance to the town and into Corey. The allegory to evil in our own world, the banality of it, and the morsels that continue to feed evil in the hearts of man, are really what the writers are interested in, and it means the horror kind of takes a back seat as naval gazing and young people drama takes over.

    It's not always successful, and the relationship between Laurie, Michael and Corey could have been explored with a lot more finesse. But when Corey finally dons the mask and takes to the town, 2018's horror comes roaring back and the trauma is delightfully relived (plenty of fantastic throwbacks, even to the original). And while Laurie may feel arbitrary in the first two acts, her story finally finishes with Michael and his evil as she processes all that trauma and finds a way through.

    A lot of fans will hate it. But for those who like to chew on imagery and allegory, there's so much for to pick up on. And gore fans will love the end of act 2.

    Overall, an ambitious movie, a not so good slasher, and a great send off to Laurie Strode.