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I think if Corey came out on Halloween (2018) and the writers left him survive throughout the 1st movie and also Halloween Kills, then the events for Halloween Ends would’ve been more satisfying because his character develop throughout the 3 movies and it would’ve come out as a huge shocker. It would’ve been more fulfilling that way tbh
hard agree. you wouldn't have had to focus so much on corey so much here and leave michael on the sidelines for most of the movie. kinda makes this trilogy feel very unbalanced, almost like these sequels weren't even planned when they started.
god, that would be so good and make so much more sense. I loved the first two movies, but this one disappointed me a lot. it was still super entertaining, though.
I totally agree about Allison. She’s supposed to be 4 years older in this movie, but she seemed less mature than the previous movies. She seemed smart and strong in the previous movies. In this movie, I was like huh?
I think the stuff with Corey would've been way better if he wasn't introduced in the last movie of a trilogy. As is, his whole storyline simultaneously feels like it was rushed but also incomplete Ends feels like it ignores a lot of the narrative and thematic setup of Kills, which just makes that second movie feel even more like it was just there to pad things out so they could actually have a trilogy.
I came out of the theater thinking he probably should’ve been introduced as Allison’s Ben Tramer in Halloween 2018. Like, have Allison crushing on him be a well known secret amongst her circle of friends and they tease her about it like with Laurie, which would then lead to things boiling over with Cameron cheating on her at the dance (and I guess give Oscar that much more to be envious about in his own pursuit of Allison). Then have Corey make a cameo appearance in Kills where he’s in costume and is almost hit by the inmate who jacked the couple’s car (a lil wink and nod to Ben’s fate in OG Halloween II), before finally going all in on his character in Ends. Hell, him just dressing up as Michael in this would be a whole ‘nother meta reference to Ben Tramer lol Idk, pre-existing connections like that would’ve helped me buy into Allison and Corey’s relationship more tbh.
He wasn’t just some kid at that point in the film, he was possessed by evil, which can jump from person to person changing shape along the way, once Laurie killed him the evil changed back into Michael. That’s how I saw it anyway..
That scene was so insulting, I almost left the theater last night. Michael looked weak,he was so disrespected in the film, also when Corey pushed him and told him show me how it’s done. Michael would have cut his arm off for that.
@@ratatataraxia actually it was just him, they’re trying to say that evil doesn’t go away it changes shape, he wasn’t possessed he was just evil like michael and michael saw that so he didn’t see him as another victim he can slaughter he saw himself, like how the town turned him into a monster and viceversa with Corey.
I think the reaction to this has so much to do with the marketing. THEY hyped it up to be all about / focus on Laurie and Michael. When as viewers we know that is just not the case so your expectations are dashed and you spend like 90% of the movie confused wanting what the marketing promised.
Honestly I didn’t watch any of the trailers and I thought it was good! I was kinda confused at all the hate🤣 I liked that it decided to go a different route to the typical formula with just Laurie and Michael. Ofc it’s either I have terrible taste or the marketing really misled it’s audience which tainted their view of the film. Maybe both 🤣
@@chezlolxo I think that is the issue. The marketing for the movie is not the movie people got. So you went in not knowing much and liked it. I have not seen it but like that they tried something different but failed in marketing what people were going to see.
That scene with Corey wrestling around with Mike and taking his mask off like Michael ain’t shit pissed me off. And then seeing Michael sitting there just like 😮 This can’t be the same Michael who survived a fire 4 years ago and destroyed an entire squad of firemen.
exactly, it was truly bizarre! i went for michael myers then ended up sitting through almost an hour of some weird version of twilight instead...like you i enjoyed the previous two movies, so i had expectations, but i really hated this one it didn't feel like a halloween movie at all
Yes! I kept looking at my boyfriend with frustration. We rewatched halloween 2018 to get hyped up, and then… i had to sat through the really bad and poorly written teenage romance of two mid-20yos and bad sequencing and ugh no
The whole movie was driven by Allyson's relationship with Corey but there was no explanation about why she was immediately in love with him aside from both having trauma? Like she just immediately took his side above her grandmother's even though they just met??? I literally couldn't get past that. Also the trilogy did not have a clear thread of if Michael Myers was a killable human or a supernatural force and this movie made that even less clear. Halloween 2018 was a perfect addition and I think it should have ended there
no fr ! like when she came home and laurie had the knife , literally if she looked down she would see the mask that laurie clearly would not own and see that he had the outfit on , it was so obvious that he attacked her 😭
I 100% agree with all of your points. I just finished watching it and my face hurts from physically cringing the entire time. I know that sounds harsh but it's the honest truth. SPOILERS AFTER THIS: I hated Corey as a character and i absolutely hated the whole "possession" angle. I couldn't stand the forced relationship between him and Allyson. And Allyson was so out of character, i was shocked. Also, what was with the dancing scene? it was so confusing and out of place. I'm glad Laurie was alive at the end, as she truly is one of the most iconic Final Girl. Man... I'm just overall bummed out. I think you were on point, the perfect word for this movie: Confusing.
Yep. Another word for this movie is disappointing. Mikey didn’t even show up until 25 minutes into it. It’s called Halloween Ends. I wanted Mikey going on a bloody, violent, and gory rampage! Not some rude, acne-ridden, and asshat twerp of a teenager trying to become The Shape. The Shape IS Michael Myers, NOT some acne-ridden, rude, and asshat twerp.
I mean how hard is it to write a Halloween movie!?? DGG started okay with 18’ and just threw away any storyline and plot development for this garbage 🙄 it’s kinda sad this is what we got for the epic finale 😢
I loved the concept of Corey as a character and his development, just not for a Halloween movie. I think the idea of someone accidentally killing a kid, getting let off and hated by the town until he snaps is so intriguing. I loved his character and it made me so sad when he became what the town thought he was anyways. But having that in a Halloween movie was odd and confusing and left way more questions than answers, especially for the final installment.
@@zant41 I just rewatched that scene like 10 times to see if Corey really does that (and because it's mixed with the scenes of him being pushed off the bridge it's even more hard to tell), but because there is this one frame of him seeing the door opened with the boy STANDING there and seeing the boy fall (which would've been hard if it was really the kick that pushed him off) I guess it could have been on purpose? Now I'm even more confused by the movie, because - is it a very sneaky reveal? is it just the guilt distorting the events? is it Micheal doing some brainwashing???? SOMEONE HELP?????
@@graycrovv I just interpreted it as Michael seeing Corey for his true-self, because he killed the kid and had the same "evil" as Michael. If Laurie could see it in his eyes, Michael probably could too and that's why he didn't kill him
I saw this in theater to get the full experience, and the entire time my head was tilted in confusion with “huh” and “what”. When Corey died I literally said, “so what was the point of his storyline????”
The point of his storyline was to show that Michael isn't unique, that he's not a Boogeyman. The evil that consumed him can also affect other people, like it affected Corey, whether it happened naturally or the town made him into a "boogeyman". It all helps with the demystifyication of Myers, which ties back with the end speech of Halloween Kills and, in my opinion, why he's so weak in the movie and can be killed
I went to the theater opening night to a horror movie hoping the audience reaction would enhance the experience. Crickets. I heard a knee pop a few rows back
People were laughing in my theater, it was not something I expected when I went to see a Halloween movie, just to add some salt to the wound it was my first Halloween movie in the theaters I was so Dissapointed
It was so weird. Like. Idk LMAO. The last 10 minutes with Laurie and Michael felt like it was from a different movie lol. It was like watching an old VHS tape that had one movie recorded over another half way through. So weird.
My theory: David Gordon Green had ONE idea for Halloween but was offered a three picture deal and had to pad out the other two movies. As for the review, don't tug on Superman's cape and don't steal Michael Myers mask or The Shape will crush your head. The line about why are people so horny cracked me up. 🤣
Completely agree with your takes! I was so confused the entire time and I left the theater very lost and unsure as to how I felt. I was also very excited to see a proper final fight of the girls (Laurie, Allyson and Lindsey) vs Michael and it never happened. So many strange decisions were made and I don't completely hate it but I wish it had been different.
I think the copycat killer idea could be interesting even though it's very Scream like but you gotta introduce that in the 1st film of this new trilogy. Suddenly bringing this Corey character to the forefront in what should be the epic finale showdown between Laurie & Michael sounds like a really bad idea
I am SO glad I didn’t spend money to go to the theater for this. I have literally grown up on the Halloween movies and this was just the weirdest, dumbest, awful way they could’ve “ended” it. How do you have a Halloween movie where Michael is literally on screen for maybe a whole 10 minutes?
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I think that if "evil" got ahold of Allyson, that would've been interesting. Like if the people in the town kept taunting her over her grandma being crazy and getting her parents killed, and then it was Laurie vs her own granddaughter? Idk how that would've ended, but making a random character the next Michael and then killing him? Idk that was just weird lol. Also, the kid in the beginning deserved it IMO lol he was a brat!
I feel like when they made this movie they were focused on this inexplicable romance plot line and, as they neared the end thought: “Oh fuck, we forgot about Michael! Let’s just throw the last scene in there and call it good!”
Blum meant for Blumhouse it was the end of the three picture deal his studio had with the Halloween franchise. End felt like a series of half measures and social commentary rather than a straight up horror movie which is the genre. Hopefully the next installment will get back on track with The Shape haunting Haddonfield on Halloween night. I agree with many points you made in your review.
I hope they put Michael on the shelf for a while, and bring the franchise back to the anthology idea that it was supposed to be. Gives us a sequel or remake of Season of the Witch. Give us new stories revolving around myths and legends of Halloween
@@kimberleymonroe1157 Not a bad idea! However it's not ever going to happen under the franchise Halloween! Even though I like Halloween 3 AKA Season of the Witch! The Anthology idea didn't work back in 1982! and unfortunately it doesn't work now! And this generation of upcoming Halloween fans don't need to learn reliving the past mistakes! They're not going to Market an anthology series under the name Halloween! The Producers told them back when they we're making Halloween 3 Season of the Witch you can have this one but this Is It Michael Myers makes too much money!
Hopefully a real writer and director can give us a real Halloween movie. Not this neutered Michael. This was a Hallmark movie, not a Halloween movie. By 2038 maybe.
I literally walked out of the film and I said to my friend, "I cannot wait to see what Sarah thinks of this!!!!" (and of course she says, "who's Sarah?!" and I have to explain...But moving on) I wasn't thrilled with ENDS after having been a fan since the original and after having loved 2018 & KILLS, which I felt were amazing. The final showdown was just disappointing watching Michael die that way, anti-climactic is what keeps flying around my brain. Anywho, have a great weekend.
All I can say is I'm happy the 2018 movie was so incredible. Didn't think the trilogy would nose-dive THIS hard though. I'm sad Jamie Lee Curtis' last Halloween has such poor reception, but I'm excited for more Halloween movies. Corey wasn't scary to me, it has to be Michael running around killing peeps, so I hope he somehow transfers his soul into another scary person. Imagine they take the anthology route like Halloween 3, or maybe the series will become a big WhoDunnit.
After I saw Michael had a sidekick helper had me disappointed and remember she said evil never dies it just changes shape, also with the mask still in her living room tells me they left the door open for another Halloween movie and the fact that Corey wasn't dead after stabbing himself and Michael had go break his neck to finish him off tells me a new mask killer is born or maybe not 🧹⚰️🗑
My mom and I went to go see it because we loved Halloween and Halloween Kills. We have a theory that Allyson will star in the next chapter and that it will start out with her being pregnant or having a child from when she slept with Corey, and that child will be the new evil.
I have the same idea! It's going to come out in 2028 (40 yrs later) and it will be called "Halloween Begins". The child discovers the mask and turns evil
I have watched many of your videos and we’ve had differing opinions, but I was nodding along and agreed with everything you said this time around. It was a very confusing movie and I was giggling to myself the entire time thinking, “wtf is this?” 😂
Same here. I really like Sarah and enjoy her videos, but I usually disagree with about 75% of her opinions. We just have different tastes/preferences when it comes to horror, and that's okay. With this one, however, I agreed with every single thing she said. lol
I'm liking the movie more after thinking about it. I was speechless and confused when the movie ended. I feel like I would've preferred them to go with the original plan which was to have all 3 movies take place on the same night. I think I'm just most confused as to why they decided to make this movie more complicated than it had to be. But I do think the ideas were all pretty interesting and I was entertained throughout. I'm gonna rewatch it over the weekend so I can see if my thoughts change
The more I saw how Allison and Corey’s relationship played out, I couldn’t help but think of the Mr. Sandman song from some of the older Halloween movies. Their relationship correlates a lot with the song, I feel. Allison in Ends is the most lonely she’s been since losing all her friends and both parents. Fate, Mr. Sandman, what have you, brings her a “dream” in the form (or shape) of Corey. He’s a kindred spirit for her, with a lonely heart like Pagliacci and lots of wavy hair like Liberace. Felt like the writers were trying hard to finally give the song proper significance or meaning to the franchise. I was honestly surprised it didn’t play during the credits or something.
You literally said everything that I thought about this movie. It didn't feel like I was watching a Halloween movie AT ALL. There was too much Alison and Kyle and not enough Michael..I think his official appearance was 45 minutes into the movie. As someone who's been a fan of this franchise since the late 80's, I'm so disappointed😞
For me it goes Halloween 1978 (first movie), Halloween 2018 (sequel), Halloween Kills (conclusion), Halloween Ends (epilogue). To me David Gordon Green's Halloween is about the victims and not MIchael. It's about Laurie, her family and the town. I never saw these new movies with Michael as the main character. I loved Ends. It is different and not another boring copy paste Halloween movie of Michael just killing a bunch of random people.
That's what I was thinking too that Corey would be the new Michael Myers but then they killed off Corey so I thought 'well what was the point?' and then Laurie taking out Michael was underwhelming because we had no chase or big fight. I was very disappointed ☹️😞
I loved Alison , and I felt for her … I think she could only relate to someone who was a social pariah just like her someone who she felt could understand her :( I felt really bad for her in this but didn’t understand why she was turning on her grandma
Unfortunately, you nailed it with your review - I agree on almost everything you said. I laughed when you said "teen angst even thought she's not a teen" - I said almost exactly those same words. Very unsatisfying conclusion - it felt like a completely different spin-off movie rather than a part of the franchise, and not a very strong story.
For being the end of the saga, they disregarded a lot that was mentioned in the previous movies, like why did Michael kill his sister, why he keeps going back to his family house and what is he looking at through the window. Like, those seemed very important questions at the time, and then he was just living at a sewer like just hiding and basically co existing with that other old man, but since when Michael just doesn't kill somebody? He kills everyone on his way to well, basically go to that room and stare through that window, and also it would be also meaningful to know why was he after Laurie, but also allegedly wasn't but then he was? Yes, definitely the trilogy had a lot of things that started and then were completely forgotten and left behind and felt more like a new beginning with a rushed ending that was very inconclusive, but I did enjoyed watching it; I also felt very confused and even cringed in some parts, but I liked it. Also, I was kind of let down by the fact that Michael's presence was kind of meaningless even in the way it was cinematographically portrayed, if that makes sense.
i just saw this tonight and i was confused as well. the beginning scene and the last like 20 minutes were good. the middle had me confused and wondering why they would make the "last" movie so character based and focused on some completely random guy that they bring in during the final movie out of all 3 movies they could have done it with. just felt like so many ideas in one but i liked it.
Warning on spoilers: So I’m going to go out on a limb as someone who watches this franchise multiple times a year. I actually loved this movie. I wish Corey would’ve been the new Michael and not killed but the point is that anyone can be inspired by evil and be the new Michael. That is why it will never end. I also liked that it wasn’t predictable and it have Michael more reality…he’s freaking old by now and has to die at some point lol
I agree 100%. I understand why people were disappointed, but personally, I feel that Halloween Ends was the most low key and grounded film in the franchise since the original. Maybe because I am an old fart and prefer "slower" films over lots of action, but I like that the film took its time and didn't give us an hour of Laurie and Michael duking it out Terminator/Marvel style. The call backs were more subtle this go around, too. Loved the "Halloween 3" font for the credits and now I know why DGG said the film would have a "Christine" vibe. The cinematography was the most "Cundey-esque" of the trilogy imo. And come on, who hasn't been aching for a 'muzac' version of Don't Fear the Reaper? Wish my grocery store played tracks like that. 🤪PS: This is coming from somebody whose parents put them in therapy when they were 10 (35 years ago) because I was so obsessed with the series that they feared it might have turned me into a psychopath.
Hot take from me, I love everything they wanted to do in this movie just not how they executed. It’s flawed but I did love the finale and the “ending” for Michael and Laurie.
Typing this before I watch this review: was unsatisfied. Michael had little to no screen time, an extremely low kill count. (Probably his lowest in any movie. I think he killed what, 2 people?) and the final showdown between he and Laurie was extremely anticlimactic and lasted like 3 minutes. I expected bodies dropping everywhere and a fight between Laurie and Michael that was more than a quick hide and seek game for a minute and killing Michael too easily. Edit: finished the review and it was all my same thoughts. Great review. I 100% agree.
I HATED Halloween Kills (despite loving Halloween 2018) and felt this movie changed my mind on the trilogy, enjoying it more. I felt the movie was kind of loose and showed the trilogy wasn't really planned from the get-go. The dialogues and acting were terrible, but yet I did enjoyed when it picked up the rythm and the message as a whole (evil changes form, etc).
To clarify a little more, I thought the "mob" was too on the nose on Halloween Kills and got annoyed with mostly the whole movie being about minorities being killed by Michael. And as they progressed to this whole "he doesn't die", I felt it got too "supernatural" and just couldn't be finalized. So I liked this sub-plot in Halloween 2022 that evil is made through hate, and that it is being transferred, with Michael actually being killed. So I left the movie more satisfied, eventhough Halloween Kills has cooler deaths, better dialogue and better characters and horror overall.
I liked Corey a lot and I thought he was a really interesting character, but I definitely think his story would have had more impact/place in the trilogy if they had introduced him as Alison’s friend or even boyfriend in 2018!
thought this entry was very cool and entertaining. we are clearly being set up for a new trilogy which i am open to. this one was def different but i enjoyed tf out of it!
You know the meme of the lady drinking kombucha? That was my series of facial reactions. I really thought it'd be a town manifesting evil. Like, it was fun because my husband's favorite killer is Michael, so we were happy to see nods to his mannerisms but we were dragging it the rest of the time. If we had actually been in a theater and couldn't talk, it would have been really disappointing.
I'm really divided with this one. I wasn't going in expecting much. I had quite low expectations. I was more nervous than anything else. And after about an hour I sort of felt my leg start tapping, and the urge to check my phone to see how long was left. The first act was just drawn out. The Corey storyline was fine for me, it just took way too long to happen and then didn't amount to much in the end. The third act should've been much longer. And Michael should've actually felt like a threat. I feel like I could've fought this version of Michael. Overall, not the worst Halloween movie, it'll probably gain a huge cult following in the next few years, like the Rob Zombie movies have. In a ranking of the Halloween movies it'll probably place around the middle for me Edit: I rewatched it, and I have to say. I fucking love it now. It still places around the same in my ranking, around 5th or 6th out of 12. But I just really really like it.
Firstly I actually kind of liked Halloween Ends. I think personally the problem doesn't lie with this film more so with the whole franchise. What I'm referring to is the very simple premise of the first film, and turning this very simple idea into a franchise, with an idea about a killer stalking babysitters the only way to make more films is to do something different, I feel Ends does have these different ideas. I really can't think of a way that this film would be more satisfying without it turning into the 2018 film again. Like you can't have Michael just going after Laurie again without new ideas attached to it, otherwise it's just the rinse repeat stalk, kill big fight finish that we have been getting for 40 years. To move this franchise forward 13 films in you can't keep using that same structure. I'm not saying this film is perfect by any means, I think the ideas could have been more fleshed out and explained but overall I like how it tried to do something different. Just my thoughts anyway.
I was hoping they'd play on the idea that killing makes michiale stronger and have Corey bring him victims till he became strong enough to not need him then betray him and go on a rampage
Corey should have been introduced in Halloween 2018 as maybe a survivor of Michael or someone who saw people killed by him. Then he should have been in Kills again, but he now has more problems, the "darkness inside" should have been starting to come out. Then he could be the full dark young man in Ends. I did like the thought that the town has basically made its identity as "the home of the boogieman" and now that Michael is gone, they tried to turn another person, Corey into the new boogieman.
i honestly thought the same thing!! was very confused while watching it , wish they didnt go with the corey storyline ! & wish they just showed more of Michael! but i loved it honestly & the first two movies were def better imo!
This movie had SO MUCH potential. When Corey died the movie ESCALATED and became beautiful. It almost brought tears to my eyes seeing Alison and Laurie fight and that was what they should have focused on. They didn’t even care ONE bit about Karen. Personally, I would have followed Laurie and Alison as Alison falls into depression, shutting off. She constantly argues with Laurie and soon we see she is haunted by her mother’s memory (Karen makes psychological cameos throughout the movie talking to Alison). Murders start to happen which throws Laurie away from her peace. She and Hawkins investigate and their relationship builds. Alison meets a new toxic guy who is obsessed with Michael, turning into a copycat, similar to Corey. Then the conflict between Laurie and Alison about Laurie hunting down and killing Corey comes in and Alison also blames Laurie for letting her mom die. Alison leaves like she did. And I guess I like the idea of a rundown Michael but I feel like they could have played on Michael being creepy and actually a shadowy figure in sewer. I could see a scene where Laurie chases Corey into the skewer and ends up fighting against Corey and Michael. Michael ends up killing Corey and stalks Laurie. Meanwhile Alison is still upset so she is driving away. And basically the end of the film could still play the same way it did (Just ending the film with a funeral for Karen and showing how Alison accepts her trauma and goes out to finish Michael with Laurie). I also like a finale showdown in a sewer between Laurie and Michael and I think they could even include the humorous kid from 2018 and do a dynamic with Lindsey and him and they talk about being hunted as a kid with Michael and the audiences could have got laughs from that. But Corey gets to them and to raise stakes he kills them both because he is trying to honor Michael. Basically the message is that even though Michael has gone missing the trauma he left behind destroyed everyone’s lives. Michael was more than a night time story but a curse of haddonfield. He left a mark on Laurie for years and years, even taking her daughter. He took Alison’s innocence from her and his evil infected Corey’s mind even if he was lurking in the dark. Lindsey could have fallen into drugs which is why she decided to open a public. Michael isn’t ‘t powerful because he can snap your arm in one go. He is powerful because he could haunt you from just the memory of his evil haunting eyes.
I thought the end should’ve Michael and Laurie burning together in the Meyers house like they clearly where setting that up with Kills but just decided to do something completely different in the worst ways
there wasn't enough jamie lee curtis for my liking. i was there FOR laurie, and allyson and corey are thrown in our faces for no reason. the ending was too easy. i really thought we were gonna get a tag team michael meyers murder spree based off the scene with the doctor and nurse, but that went no where.
In all honesty this movie reminded me of Halloween 4 with the whole thing with Corey. Like Corey's whole thing with Michael was the samething that happened with Michael and Jaimie. It felt like they were trying to do that again but this time actually follow through with the story even though it was rushed and didn't exactly pay off towards the end.
I wish they combined characters with Corey and her Allyson’s love interest or his friend in the first film or at least originally introduced Corey earlier in the trilogy. He seems so misplaced and the whole movie feels like Corey is Peter in og Spider-Man 3’s Venom plot with no redemption arc and then Laurie and Michael fighting at the end for 10 minutes. What happened to the whole plot of “Michael not caring about Laurie”?
I'm definitely in the minority, but I have to admit: despite some of its storytelling problems, I really loved this one. The ambiguity, the sense that The Shape is ever-present and just waiting for an opportunity to enter someone new, since it's being held back by its aging host. I'm sure the series will continue, probably under a new studio and a new continuity, but I'm glad they experimented with this trilogy. Great review, and even though I landed on it a bit differently, I really appreciate your insights on all things horror.
I’m glad people liked it. I’m a hardcore Halloween fan and I hated it. I would watch Kills a million times before watching Ends again 😂 Just throw away established characters and storyline for a new guy named Corey. Allyson still doesn’t believe grandmother and trusts a weird guy she just met?. Would’ve been a great spinoff or anthology movie. Not as the FINALE of the Michael and Laurie storyline!!
You’re not more hardcore than me because I’ve been watching Halloween since I was like 6 years old and I’m in my thirties right now so can kick rocks, byeee 👋💯
Very accurate review! I think you pretty much nailed exactly how I felt. I would have liked to see more with Michael. It's unique, but does not fit well with the trilogy at all. I also felt that they threw Lindsay, a survivor from the original in the movie without a real story....odd.
I'm not seven months pregnant and haven't decorated and will not be taking anything down in two weeks. That ship has sailed I'll try to do better for the holidays 🤣 Congrats on your baby!!!!!
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I’m in the minority who didn’t hate this movie but my expectations were low going in because everyone said we would hate it. I appreciated they went for something bold and new and paid some homage to the anthology concept established in the franchise earlier wiry H3. But I think it’s better to view this as a standalone movie that happens to be made by DGG, whereas H18 and HK are part 1 and 2 of a different MM story
I will never read comments on TH-cam right now because I want to be surprised. I plan on seeing Halloween ends this Sunday. hopefully it's better than the last one
Halloween (2018) 4/5 Pumpkins Halloween Kills 1/5 Pumpkins Halloween Ends 2.5/ 5 Pumpkins Ends was better than Kills but 2018 was the best of the 3. The Original can never be topped.
I personally loved it, the undertones of victim blaming and being viewed as evil eventually turning you evil deeply resonated with me. The way they killed michael felt very sudden and i wish there was more meat to the story.
broadly, I'm a fan. I grew up with these movies, and I like what this trilogy has contributed. it's not perfect, but nothing is, then I'm appreciative of the work that went into bringing these three movies to us.
I completely agree with pretty much everything you said!! I didn't really enjoy Halloween Kills when I first saw it, but now I can appreciate that movie for what it was. Halloween Ends just wasnt a Halloween movie.... the best part was the last 10 minutes. All I wanted was a good old fashioned Halloween movie to end Laurie's story but that's not at all what this is. Kinda disappointing!!
I didn’t like the lack of Michael Myers. I could see passing the torch if it was a build up. It was instant as soon as Michael touched him. He murdered the homeless guy immediately. Also, Michael has came across so many bad people but he senses darkness in Corey who accidentally killed a kid?!? It wasn’t on purpose. He would sense darkness similar as him in someone. Michael being bullied was laughable. Reminds me of resurrection when Busta Rhymes was yelling at Michael. I did like that Laurie got a happy ending.
I call it the Palpatine plan. When you run out of ideas to do for your final film in a trilogy, just pull a random character out of your ass and make them the key focus of the film.
They could have added the end of it to 'Kills' and it would have made a great duologu. Now...I did enjoy 'Ends' but it felt far removed from the original, and have my own theory about C and Myers in this version. Both of their initial murders happened on Halloween and there is the entire 'spirits of the dead' / samhain lore on that night. But anyhow part of me wanted something more traditional.
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I think if Corey came out on Halloween (2018) and the writers left him survive throughout the 1st movie and also Halloween Kills, then the events for Halloween Ends would’ve been more satisfying because his character develop throughout the 3 movies and it would’ve come out as a huge shocker. It would’ve been more fulfilling that way tbh
hard agree.
you wouldn't have had to focus so much on corey so much here and leave michael on the sidelines for most of the movie.
kinda makes this trilogy feel very unbalanced, almost like these sequels weren't even planned when they started.
god, that would be so good and make so much more sense. I loved the first two movies, but this one disappointed me a lot. it was still super entertaining, though.
Right
I literally was thinking the same like Ends could had been the first movie 😐. The first one out of the Trio could had been the finale…..
What happened to Corey should have happened to Alyson, because in first film after she stabbed Michael, the camera lingered on her holding knife.
I totally agree about Allison. She’s supposed to be 4 years older in this movie, but she seemed less mature than the previous movies. She seemed smart and strong in the previous movies. In this movie, I was like huh?
She told her grandma it was her fault. I was like “did you forget that your family was wrong and your grandma was right?”
I think the stuff with Corey would've been way better if he wasn't introduced in the last movie of a trilogy. As is, his whole storyline simultaneously feels like it was rushed but also incomplete
Ends feels like it ignores a lot of the narrative and thematic setup of Kills, which just makes that second movie feel even more like it was just there to pad things out so they could actually have a trilogy.
Exactly my thoughts
You hit the nail on the head. Could not agree more.
I came out of the theater thinking he probably should’ve been introduced as Allison’s Ben Tramer in Halloween 2018. Like, have Allison crushing on him be a well known secret amongst her circle of friends and they tease her about it like with Laurie, which would then lead to things boiling over with Cameron cheating on her at the dance (and I guess give Oscar that much more to be envious about in his own pursuit of Allison). Then have Corey make a cameo appearance in Kills where he’s in costume and is almost hit by the inmate who jacked the couple’s car (a lil wink and nod to Ben’s fate in OG Halloween II), before finally going all in on his character in Ends. Hell, him just dressing up as Michael in this would be a whole ‘nother meta reference to Ben Tramer lol Idk, pre-existing connections like that would’ve helped me buy into Allison and Corey’s relationship more tbh.
@@Beatnu3000 goddamn i wish they would’ve done this…
It's like star Wars 7 8 9
They really want us to believe that Michael freaking Myers would let some kid beat him up and take his mask?
He wasn’t just some kid at that point in the film, he was possessed by evil, which can jump from person to person changing shape along the way, once Laurie killed him the evil changed back into Michael. That’s how I saw it anyway..
That scene was so insulting, I almost left the theater last night. Michael looked weak,he was so disrespected in the film, also when Corey pushed him and told him show me how it’s done. Michael would have cut his arm off for that.
maybe bc he’s old and falling apart living off of god knows what in a sewer get some sense people
@@muteddeer exactly, ppl forget that Michael is in his damn 60’s and that brutal ass beating he got in Kills.
@@ratatataraxia actually it was just him, they’re trying to say that evil doesn’t go away it changes shape, he wasn’t possessed he was just evil like michael and michael saw that so he didn’t see him as another victim he can slaughter he saw himself, like how the town turned him into a monster and viceversa with Corey.
I think the reaction to this has so much to do with the marketing. THEY hyped it up to be all about / focus on Laurie and Michael. When as viewers we know that is just not the case so your expectations are dashed and you spend like 90% of the movie confused wanting what the marketing promised.
Honestly I didn’t watch any of the trailers and I thought it was good! I was kinda confused at all the hate🤣 I liked that it decided to go a different route to the typical formula with just Laurie and Michael.
Ofc it’s either I have terrible taste or the marketing really misled it’s audience which tainted their view of the film. Maybe both 🤣
@@chezlolxo I think that is the issue. The marketing for the movie is not the movie people got. So you went in not knowing much and liked it. I have not seen it but like that they tried something different but failed in marketing what people were going to see.
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@@ConnorStompanato oh not you…
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That scene with Corey wrestling around with Mike and taking his mask off like Michael ain’t shit pissed me off. And then seeing Michael sitting there just like 😮 This can’t be the same Michael who survived a fire 4 years ago and destroyed an entire squad of firemen.
exactly, it was truly bizarre! i went for michael myers then ended up sitting through almost an hour of some weird version of twilight instead...like you i enjoyed the previous two movies, so i had expectations, but i really hated this one it didn't feel like a halloween movie at all
Your review is spot on. This movie made me appreciate Halloween Kills more. I sat in the IMAX theater just bored,frustrated, and disappointed.🤦
I thought kills was just ok but compared to this it's phenomenal
Yes! I kept looking at my boyfriend with frustration. We rewatched halloween 2018 to get hyped up, and then… i had to sat through the really bad and poorly written teenage romance of two mid-20yos and bad sequencing and ugh no
The whole movie was driven by Allyson's relationship with Corey but there was no explanation about why she was immediately in love with him aside from both having trauma? Like she just immediately took his side above her grandmother's even though they just met??? I literally couldn't get past that.
Also the trilogy did not have a clear thread of if Michael Myers was a killable human or a supernatural force and this movie made that even less clear.
Halloween 2018 was a perfect addition and I think it should have ended there
no fr ! like when she came home and laurie had the knife , literally if she looked down she would see the mask that laurie clearly would not own and see that he had the outfit on , it was so obvious that he attacked her 😭
Never heard of love at first sight?
Everything with Corey didn’t matter once it got to the final confrontation in the kitchen. Like, what was even the point of that?
I 100% agree with all of your points. I just finished watching it and my face hurts from physically cringing the entire time. I know that sounds harsh but it's the honest truth.
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I hated Corey as a character and i absolutely hated the whole "possession" angle. I couldn't stand the forced relationship between him and Allyson. And Allyson was so out of character, i was shocked. Also, what was with the dancing scene? it was so confusing and out of place. I'm glad Laurie was alive at the end, as she truly is one of the most iconic Final Girl. Man... I'm just overall bummed out. I think you were on point, the perfect word for this movie: Confusing.
Yep. Another word for this movie is disappointing. Mikey didn’t even show up until 25 minutes into it. It’s called Halloween Ends. I wanted Mikey going on a bloody, violent, and gory rampage! Not some rude, acne-ridden, and asshat twerp of a teenager trying to become The Shape. The Shape IS Michael Myers, NOT some acne-ridden, rude, and asshat twerp.
I literally was so annoyed at this movie it was actually terrible. I'm so sad because I love halloween.
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I mean how hard is it to write a Halloween movie!?? DGG started okay with 18’ and just threw away any storyline and plot development for this garbage 🙄 it’s kinda sad this is what we got for the epic finale 😢
@@Rico401Prov Ends literally disrespects Michael Myers, they ruined his scary presence. He literally gets beaten by band club.
Micheal was probably only shown for like 10 Mins total during the whole movie just like Laurie in Halloween Kills.
Same
I loved the concept of Corey as a character and his development, just not for a Halloween movie. I think the idea of someone accidentally killing a kid, getting let off and hated by the town until he snaps is so intriguing. I loved his character and it made me so sad when he became what the town thought he was anyways. But having that in a Halloween movie was odd and confusing and left way more questions than answers, especially for the final installment.
Was it accidental though ? When he gets grabbed by Michael we see a quick flashback of him actually pushing the boy off the stairs
@@zant41 I just rewatched that scene like 10 times to see if Corey really does that (and because it's mixed with the scenes of him being pushed off the bridge it's even more hard to tell), but because there is this one frame of him seeing the door opened with the boy STANDING there and seeing the boy fall (which would've been hard if it was really the kick that pushed him off) I guess it could have been on purpose? Now I'm even more confused by the movie, because - is it a very sneaky reveal? is it just the guilt distorting the events? is it Micheal doing some brainwashing???? SOMEONE HELP?????
@@graycrovv I just interpreted it as Michael seeing Corey for his true-self, because he killed the kid and had the same "evil" as Michael. If Laurie could see it in his eyes, Michael probably could too and that's why he didn't kill him
I saw this in theater to get the full experience, and the entire time my head was tilted in confusion with “huh” and “what”. When Corey died I literally said, “so what was the point of his storyline????”
The point of his storyline was to show that Michael isn't unique, that he's not a Boogeyman. The evil that consumed him can also affect other people, like it affected Corey, whether it happened naturally or the town made him into a "boogeyman". It all helps with the demystifyication of Myers, which ties back with the end speech of Halloween Kills and, in my opinion, why he's so weak in the movie and can be killed
I went to the theater opening night to a horror movie hoping the audience reaction would enhance the experience. Crickets. I heard a knee pop a few rows back
Yeah that didn't happen 🤣
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Same and st the end everyone was silent and just looked really confused
People were laughing in my theater, it was not something I expected when I went to see a Halloween movie, just to add some salt to the wound it was my first Halloween movie in the theaters I was so Dissapointed
@@lukavojinovic7246 it was mine too! Such a let down
It was so weird. Like. Idk LMAO. The last 10 minutes with Laurie and Michael felt like it was from a different movie lol. It was like watching an old VHS tape that had one movie recorded over another half way through. So weird.
My theory: David Gordon Green had ONE idea for Halloween but was offered a three picture deal and had to pad out the other two movies. As for the review, don't tug on Superman's cape and don't steal Michael Myers mask or The Shape will crush your head. The line about why are people so horny cracked me up. 🤣
Completely agree with your takes! I was so confused the entire time and I left the theater very lost and unsure as to how I felt. I was also very excited to see a proper final fight of the girls (Laurie, Allyson and Lindsey) vs Michael and it never happened. So many strange decisions were made and I don't completely hate it but I wish it had been different.
I think the copycat killer idea could be interesting even though it's very Scream like but you gotta introduce that in the 1st film of this new trilogy.
Suddenly bringing this Corey character to the forefront in what should be the epic finale showdown between Laurie & Michael sounds like a really bad idea
Exactly. 😌I watch the Halloween movies for Mikey, not some rude acne ridden asshat twerp!🤬
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I am SO glad I didn’t spend money to go to the theater for this. I have literally grown up on the Halloween movies and this was just the weirdest, dumbest, awful way they could’ve “ended” it. How do you have a Halloween movie where Michael is literally on screen for maybe a whole 10 minutes?
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Corey and Allyson’s relationship just felt like I was watching Veronica and JD’a relationship in Heathers
Veronica at least had enough braincells to realize her boyfriend was a deranged killer. Allyson was acting like an idiot in this movie
@@supercalime SO TRUE!
Thank you. I agree with you 100%, especially about Allyson.
I think that if "evil" got ahold of Allyson, that would've been interesting. Like if the people in the town kept taunting her over her grandma being crazy and getting her parents killed, and then it was Laurie vs her own granddaughter? Idk how that would've ended, but making a random character the next Michael and then killing him? Idk that was just weird lol. Also, the kid in the beginning deserved it IMO lol he was a brat!
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I feel like when they made this movie they were focused on this inexplicable romance plot line and, as they neared the end thought: “Oh fuck, we forgot about Michael! Let’s just throw the last scene in there and call it good!”
Blum meant for Blumhouse it was the end of the three picture deal his studio had with the Halloween franchise. End felt like a series of half measures and social commentary rather than a straight up horror movie which is the genre. Hopefully the next installment will get back on track with The Shape haunting Haddonfield on Halloween night. I agree with many points you made in your review.
I hope they put Michael on the shelf for a while, and bring the franchise back to the anthology idea that it was supposed to be. Gives us a sequel or remake of Season of the Witch. Give us new stories revolving around myths and legends of Halloween
@@kimberleymonroe1157 Not a bad idea! However it's not ever going to happen under the franchise Halloween! Even though I like Halloween 3 AKA Season of the Witch! The Anthology idea didn't work back in 1982! and unfortunately it doesn't work now! And this generation of upcoming Halloween fans don't need to learn reliving the past mistakes! They're not going to Market an anthology series under the name Halloween! The Producers told them back when they we're making Halloween 3 Season of the Witch you can have this one but this Is It Michael Myers makes too much money!
Hopefully a real writer and director can give us a real Halloween movie. Not this neutered Michael. This was a Hallmark movie, not a Halloween movie. By 2038 maybe.
I literally walked out of the film and I said to my friend, "I cannot wait to see what Sarah thinks of this!!!!" (and of course she says, "who's Sarah?!" and I have to explain...But moving on) I wasn't thrilled with ENDS after having been a fan since the original and after having loved 2018 & KILLS, which I felt were amazing. The final showdown was just disappointing watching Michael die that way, anti-climactic is what keeps flying around my brain. Anywho, have a great weekend.
All I can say is I'm happy the 2018 movie was so incredible. Didn't think the trilogy would nose-dive THIS hard though. I'm sad Jamie Lee Curtis' last Halloween has such poor reception, but I'm excited for more Halloween movies. Corey wasn't scary to me, it has to be Michael running around killing peeps, so I hope he somehow transfers his soul into another scary person. Imagine they take the anthology route like Halloween 3, or maybe the series will become a big WhoDunnit.
After I saw Michael had a sidekick helper had me disappointed and remember she said evil never dies it just changes shape, also with the mask still in her living room tells me they left the door open for another Halloween movie and the fact that Corey wasn't dead after stabbing himself and Michael had go break his neck to finish him off tells me a new mask killer is born or maybe not 🧹⚰️🗑
My mom and I went to go see it because we loved Halloween and Halloween Kills. We have a theory that Allyson will star in the next chapter and that it will start out with her being pregnant or having a child from when she slept with Corey, and that child will be the new evil.
I have the same idea! It's going to come out in 2028 (40 yrs later) and it will be called "Halloween Begins". The child discovers the mask and turns evil
The milk of human kindness must flow through you for awarding this film 2.5.
I completely agree with your review. I've also been using the word bizarre to describe this film. Glad to see I'm not the only one.
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I have watched many of your videos and we’ve had differing opinions, but I was nodding along and agreed with everything you said this time around. It was a very confusing movie and I was giggling to myself the entire time thinking, “wtf is this?” 😂
SAME haha
Same here. I really like Sarah and enjoy her videos, but I usually disagree with about 75% of her opinions. We just have different tastes/preferences when it comes to horror, and that's okay. With this one, however, I agreed with every single thing she said. lol
I'm liking the movie more after thinking about it. I was speechless and confused when the movie ended. I feel like I would've preferred them to go with the original plan which was to have all 3 movies take place on the same night. I think I'm just most confused as to why they decided to make this movie more complicated than it had to be. But I do think the ideas were all pretty interesting and I was entertained throughout. I'm gonna rewatch it over the weekend so I can see if my thoughts change
I agree ppl need to understand that no one lives forever at some point in time he has to die this Laurie's ending not Michaels
@@perezynkrs1 but that’s not what the majority of complaints are about.
@@oneaboveall4203 I know it's how they killed him it's bullshit if you ask me
I liked it better than Kills. But the 2018 version was the best.
The more I saw how Allison and Corey’s relationship played out, I couldn’t help but think of the Mr. Sandman song from some of the older Halloween movies. Their relationship correlates a lot with the song, I feel. Allison in Ends is the most lonely she’s been since losing all her friends and both parents. Fate, Mr. Sandman, what have you, brings her a “dream” in the form (or shape) of Corey. He’s a kindred spirit for her, with a lonely heart like Pagliacci and lots of wavy hair like Liberace. Felt like the writers were trying hard to finally give the song proper significance or meaning to the franchise. I was honestly surprised it didn’t play during the credits or something.
Thats a Unique way to look at this!! Well it should have SAILED AWAY
If I could love this comment, I would. You're actually engaging with the material, as opposed to just wishing it was something else.
Idk if it’s just me but … Halloween Ends seems to be channeling some serious Scream energy.
You summed my thoughts up PERFECTLY oh my god
You literally said everything that I thought about this movie. It didn't feel like I was watching a Halloween movie AT ALL. There was too much Alison and Kyle and not enough Michael..I think his official appearance was 45 minutes into the movie. As someone who's been a fan of this franchise since the late 80's, I'm so disappointed😞
I've loved this franchise ever since I was little and honestly I loved this movie so much. Michael not being here doesn't really bother me
Ditto.
For me it goes Halloween 1978 (first movie), Halloween 2018 (sequel), Halloween Kills (conclusion), Halloween Ends (epilogue). To me David Gordon Green's Halloween is about the victims and not MIchael. It's about Laurie, her family and the town. I never saw these new movies with Michael as the main character. I loved Ends. It is different and not another boring copy paste Halloween movie of Michael just killing a bunch of random people.
That's what I was thinking too that Corey would be the new Michael Myers but then they killed off Corey so I thought 'well what was the point?' and then Laurie taking out Michael was underwhelming because we had no chase or big fight. I was very disappointed ☹️😞
I loved Alison , and I felt for her … I think she could only relate to someone who was a social pariah just like her someone who she felt could understand her :( I felt really bad for her in this but didn’t understand why she was turning on her grandma
Unfortunately, you nailed it with your review - I agree on almost everything you said. I laughed when you said "teen angst even thought she's not a teen" - I said almost exactly those same words. Very unsatisfying conclusion - it felt like a completely different spin-off movie rather than a part of the franchise, and not a very strong story.
I believe the next movie will be called Halloween: Midwest Monster or just Midwest Monster. Midwest Monster was in the original song towards the end.
For being the end of the saga, they disregarded a lot that was mentioned in the previous movies, like why did Michael kill his sister, why he keeps going back to his family house and what is he looking at through the window. Like, those seemed very important questions at the time, and then he was just living at a sewer like just hiding and basically co existing with that other old man, but since when Michael just doesn't kill somebody? He kills everyone on his way to well, basically go to that room and stare through that window, and also it would be also meaningful to know why was he after Laurie, but also allegedly wasn't but then he was? Yes, definitely the trilogy had a lot of things that started and then were completely forgotten and left behind and felt more like a new beginning with a rushed ending that was very inconclusive, but I did enjoyed watching it; I also felt very confused and even cringed in some parts, but I liked it.
Also, I was kind of let down by the fact that Michael's presence was kind of meaningless even in the way it was cinematographically portrayed, if that makes sense.
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i just saw this tonight and i was confused as well. the beginning scene and the last like 20 minutes were good. the middle had me confused and wondering why they would make the "last" movie so character based and focused on some completely random guy that they bring in during the final movie out of all 3 movies they could have done it with. just felt like so many ideas in one but i liked it.
Warning on spoilers: So I’m going to go out on a limb as someone who watches this franchise multiple times a year. I actually loved this movie. I wish Corey would’ve been the new Michael and not killed but the point is that anyone can be inspired by evil and be the new Michael. That is why it will never end. I also liked that it wasn’t predictable and it have Michael more reality…he’s freaking old by now and has to die at some point lol
I agree 100%. I understand why people were disappointed, but personally, I feel that Halloween Ends was the most low key and grounded film in the franchise since the original. Maybe because I am an old fart and prefer "slower" films over lots of action, but I like that the film took its time and didn't give us an hour of Laurie and Michael duking it out Terminator/Marvel style. The call backs were more subtle this go around, too. Loved the "Halloween 3" font for the credits and now I know why DGG said the film would have a "Christine" vibe. The cinematography was the most "Cundey-esque" of the trilogy imo. And come on, who hasn't been aching for a 'muzac' version of Don't Fear the Reaper? Wish my grocery store played tracks like that. 🤪PS: This is coming from somebody whose parents put them in therapy when they were 10 (35 years ago) because I was so obsessed with the series that they feared it might have turned me into a psychopath.
be the new Michael? no there is only one, this isn't Scream
the whole Corey storyline was beyond pointless
Just got back from the theater. I knew you would have a LOT to say about this one!
Hot take from me, I love everything they wanted to do in this movie just not how they executed. It’s flawed but I did love the finale and the “ending” for Michael and Laurie.
I honestly liked it besides the abrupt ending
Typing this before I watch this review: was unsatisfied. Michael had little to no screen time, an extremely low kill count. (Probably his lowest in any movie. I think he killed what, 2 people?) and the final showdown between he and Laurie was extremely anticlimactic and lasted like 3 minutes. I expected bodies dropping everywhere and a fight between Laurie and Michael that was more than a quick hide and seek game for a minute and killing Michael too easily.
Edit: finished the review and it was all my same thoughts. Great review. I 100% agree.
The horniest lol. That was a mess of a film, but an amazing theater experience. The audience was in sync at every critique and every cherry blossom. 😂
I HATED Halloween Kills (despite loving Halloween 2018) and felt this movie changed my mind on the trilogy, enjoying it more. I felt the movie was kind of loose and showed the trilogy wasn't really planned from the get-go. The dialogues and acting were terrible, but yet I did enjoyed when it picked up the rythm and the message as a whole (evil changes form, etc).
To clarify a little more, I thought the "mob" was too on the nose on Halloween Kills and got annoyed with mostly the whole movie being about minorities being killed by Michael. And as they progressed to this whole "he doesn't die", I felt it got too "supernatural" and just couldn't be finalized. So I liked this sub-plot in Halloween 2022 that evil is made through hate, and that it is being transferred, with Michael actually being killed.
So I left the movie more satisfied, eventhough Halloween Kills has cooler deaths, better dialogue and better characters and horror overall.
Yeah Kills was not great. It had really good themes that were explored but that's it
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I completely agree. Allyson seemed so different. Not a bad movie. But not a good Halloween movie.
I liked Corey a lot and I thought he was a really interesting character, but I definitely think his story would have had more impact/place in the trilogy if they had introduced him as Alison’s friend or even boyfriend in 2018!
thought this entry was very cool and entertaining. we are clearly being set up for a new trilogy which i am open to. this one was def different but i enjoyed tf out of it!
I love your reviews so much! You know how to articulate everything so well and connect everything.
Can’t wait to watch this after I watch the movie!!!
You know the meme of the lady drinking kombucha? That was my series of facial reactions. I really thought it'd be a town manifesting evil.
Like, it was fun because my husband's favorite killer is Michael, so we were happy to see nods to his mannerisms but we were dragging it the rest of the time. If we had actually been in a theater and couldn't talk, it would have been really disappointing.
I'm really divided with this one. I wasn't going in expecting much. I had quite low expectations. I was more nervous than anything else.
And after about an hour I sort of felt my leg start tapping, and the urge to check my phone to see how long was left. The first act was just drawn out. The Corey storyline was fine for me, it just took way too long to happen and then didn't amount to much in the end. The third act should've been much longer. And Michael should've actually felt like a threat. I feel like I could've fought this version of Michael.
Overall, not the worst Halloween movie, it'll probably gain a huge cult following in the next few years, like the Rob Zombie movies have. In a ranking of the Halloween movies it'll probably place around the middle for me
Edit: I rewatched it, and I have to say. I fucking love it now. It still places around the same in my ranking, around 5th or 6th out of 12. But I just really really like it.
I was also tapping my foot and confused, it was so draggy. I left sad and not in a good way. So much potential. Sigh!
Firstly I actually kind of liked Halloween Ends. I think personally the problem doesn't lie with this film more so with the whole franchise. What I'm referring to is the very simple premise of the first film, and turning this very simple idea into a franchise, with an idea about a killer stalking babysitters the only way to make more films is to do something different, I feel Ends does have these different ideas. I really can't think of a way that this film would be more satisfying without it turning into the 2018 film again. Like you can't have Michael just going after Laurie again without new ideas attached to it, otherwise it's just the rinse repeat stalk, kill big fight finish that we have been getting for 40 years. To move this franchise forward 13 films in you can't keep using that same structure. I'm not saying this film is perfect by any means, I think the ideas could have been more fleshed out and explained but overall I like how it tried to do something different. Just my thoughts anyway.
I was hoping they'd play on the idea that killing makes michiale stronger and have Corey bring him victims till he became strong enough to not need him then betray him and go on a rampage
I don’t think I’m gonna see it, the last one was not for me. Still wanted the spoilers ❤ lovely top, that grey is so cute.
Way cool outfit Sarah! 🙂🎃
Corey should have been introduced in Halloween 2018 as maybe a survivor of Michael or someone who saw people killed by him. Then he should have been in Kills again, but he now has more problems, the "darkness inside" should have been starting to come out.
Then he could be the full dark young man in Ends.
I did like the thought that the town has basically made its identity as "the home of the boogieman" and now that Michael is gone, they tried to turn another person, Corey into the new boogieman.
i honestly thought the same thing!! was very confused while watching it , wish they didnt go with the corey storyline ! & wish they just showed more of Michael! but i loved it honestly & the first two movies were def better imo!
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Sadly the last two movies kind of ruined Michael Myers for me. It was like watching someone slowly kill my childhood.
This movie had SO MUCH potential. When Corey died the movie ESCALATED and became beautiful. It almost brought tears to my eyes seeing Alison and Laurie fight and that was what they should have focused on. They didn’t even care ONE bit about Karen. Personally, I would have followed Laurie and Alison as Alison falls into depression, shutting off. She constantly argues with Laurie and soon we see she is haunted by her mother’s memory (Karen makes psychological cameos throughout the movie talking to Alison). Murders start to happen which throws Laurie away from her peace. She and Hawkins investigate and their relationship builds. Alison meets a new toxic guy who is obsessed with Michael, turning into a copycat, similar to Corey. Then the conflict between Laurie and Alison about Laurie hunting down and killing Corey comes in and Alison also blames Laurie for letting her mom die. Alison leaves like she did. And I guess I like the idea of a rundown Michael but I feel like they could have played on Michael being creepy and actually a shadowy figure in sewer. I could see a scene where Laurie chases Corey into the skewer and ends up fighting against Corey and Michael. Michael ends up killing Corey and stalks Laurie. Meanwhile Alison is still upset so she is driving away. And basically the end of the film could still play the same way it did (Just ending the film with a funeral for Karen and showing how Alison accepts her trauma and goes out to finish Michael with Laurie). I also like a finale showdown in a sewer between Laurie and Michael and I think they could even include the humorous kid from 2018 and do a dynamic with Lindsey and him and they talk about being hunted as a kid with Michael and the audiences could have got laughs from that. But Corey gets to them and to raise stakes he kills them both because he is trying to honor Michael. Basically the message is that even though Michael has gone missing the trauma he left behind destroyed everyone’s lives. Michael was more than a night time story but a curse of haddonfield. He left a mark on Laurie for years and years, even taking her daughter. He took Alison’s innocence from her and his evil infected Corey’s mind even if he was lurking in the dark. Lindsey could have fallen into drugs which is why she decided to open a public. Michael isn’t ‘t powerful because he can snap your arm in one go. He is powerful because he could haunt you from just the memory of his evil haunting eyes.
I thought the end should’ve Michael and Laurie burning together in the Meyers house like they clearly where setting that up with Kills but just decided to do something completely different in the worst ways
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I think they had Corey in there so there could be bullies. Bullies getting their comeuppance is always fun in a horror movie.
there wasn't enough jamie lee curtis for my liking. i was there FOR laurie, and allyson and corey are thrown in our faces for no reason.
the ending was too easy.
i really thought we were gonna get a tag team michael meyers murder spree based off the scene with the doctor and nurse, but that went no where.
Halloween Ends: A New Beginning "Roy dies tonight!"
In all honesty this movie reminded me of Halloween 4 with the whole thing with Corey. Like Corey's whole thing with Michael was the samething that happened with Michael and Jaimie. It felt like they were trying to do that again but this time actually follow through with the story even though it was rushed and didn't exactly pay off towards the end.
I wish they combined characters with Corey and her Allyson’s love interest or his friend in the first film or at least originally introduced Corey earlier in the trilogy. He seems so misplaced and the whole movie feels like Corey is Peter in og Spider-Man 3’s Venom plot with no redemption arc and then Laurie and Michael fighting at the end for 10 minutes. What happened to the whole plot of “Michael not caring about Laurie”?
I'm definitely in the minority, but I have to admit: despite some of its storytelling problems, I really loved this one. The ambiguity, the sense that The Shape is ever-present and just waiting for an opportunity to enter someone new, since it's being held back by its aging host. I'm sure the series will continue, probably under a new studio and a new continuity, but I'm glad they experimented with this trilogy. Great review, and even though I landed on it a bit differently, I really appreciate your insights on all things horror.
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Halloween (2018) 4 out of 5 pumpkins
Halloween Kills 3 out of 5 pumpkins
Halloween Ends 3 out of 5 pumpkins
I’m glad people liked it. I’m a hardcore Halloween fan and I hated it. I would watch Kills a million times before watching Ends again 😂 Just throw away established characters and storyline for a new guy named Corey. Allyson still doesn’t believe grandmother and trusts a weird guy she just met?. Would’ve been a great spinoff or anthology movie. Not as the FINALE of the Michael and Laurie storyline!!
You’re not more hardcore than me because I’ve been watching Halloween since I was like 6 years old and I’m in my thirties right now so can kick rocks, byeee 👋💯
@@Rico401Prov if you were a hardcore fan, you wouldn’t have tolerated the disrespectful portrayal of Michael Myers in this movie lmao.
@@oneaboveall4203 isn’t mans in his 70s and permanently disabled due to being jumped years ago??
Very accurate review! I think you pretty much nailed exactly how I felt. I would have liked to see more with Michael. It's unique, but does not fit well with the trilogy at all. I also felt that they threw Lindsay, a survivor from the original in the movie without a real story....odd.
I'm not seven months pregnant and haven't decorated and will not be taking anything down in two weeks. That ship has sailed I'll try to do better for the holidays 🤣
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I’m in the minority who didn’t hate this movie but my expectations were low going in because everyone said we would hate it.
I appreciated they went for something bold and new and paid some homage to the anthology concept established in the franchise earlier wiry H3. But I think it’s better to view this as a standalone movie that happens to be made by DGG, whereas H18 and HK are part 1 and 2 of a different MM story
I will never read comments on TH-cam right now because I want to be surprised. I plan on seeing Halloween ends this Sunday. hopefully it's better than the last one
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Halloween (2018) 4/5 Pumpkins
Halloween Kills 1/5 Pumpkins
Halloween Ends 2.5/ 5 Pumpkins
Ends was better than Kills but 2018 was the best of the 3. The Original can never be topped.
I personally loved it, the undertones of victim blaming and being viewed as evil eventually turning you evil deeply resonated with me. The way they killed michael felt very sudden and i wish there was more meat to the story.
I quite liked this movie. Corey was an interesting addition, and the ending was great.
broadly, I'm a fan. I grew up with these movies, and I like what this trilogy has contributed. it's not perfect, but nothing is, then I'm appreciative of the work that went into bringing these three movies to us.
I completely agree with pretty much everything you said!! I didn't really enjoy Halloween Kills when I first saw it, but now I can appreciate that movie for what it was. Halloween Ends just wasnt a Halloween movie.... the best part was the last 10 minutes. All I wanted was a good old fashioned Halloween movie to end Laurie's story but that's not at all what this is. Kinda disappointing!!
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I didn’t like the lack of Michael Myers. I could see passing the torch if it was a build up. It was instant as soon as Michael touched him. He murdered the homeless guy immediately. Also, Michael has came across so many bad people but he senses darkness in Corey who accidentally killed a kid?!? It wasn’t on purpose. He would sense darkness similar as him in someone. Michael being bullied was laughable. Reminds me of resurrection when Busta Rhymes was yelling at Michael. I did like that Laurie got a happy ending.
I call it the Palpatine plan. When you run out of ideas to do for your final film in a trilogy, just pull a random character out of your ass and make them the key focus of the film.
They could have added the end of it to 'Kills' and it would have made a great duologu. Now...I did enjoy 'Ends' but it felt far removed from the original, and have my own theory about C and Myers in this version. Both of their initial murders happened on Halloween and there is the entire 'spirits of the dead' / samhain lore on that night. But anyhow part of me wanted something more traditional.