Halloween Ends

Awesome. The previous film had the most brutal killings.

Why are they bastardising the original film with all these terrible sequels? Halloween 2018 was nothing poor than a piss poor remake. The only redeeming feature was the Carpenter score. Didn't even bother watching Halloween Kills and have no intention of seeing this.

Yep and seemingly this is the end for this story to speak....but the rights will be going back to Akkad (well the controller's of his estate)..there will be more.

I really enjoyed the 2018 remake and while Kills was flawed (especially the hospital scenes and "Evil Dies Tonight!"), it had some very memorable bits in it. It was also hamstrung by being the middle part of a trilogy, but it did give us the most brutal Michael Myers yet (in this timeline: I don't count that Rob Zombie garbage). I'm looking forward to Ends because they have taken a few chances with it, jumping ahead four years after Kills, and introducing a copycat killer. Hopefully it'll be more like the 2018 movie than Kills. Again it's directed by David Gordon Green and written by him and Danny McBride; they were responsible for one of my favourite tv shows, Eastbound and Down, so I'm hopeful they can pull it out of the bag with this (although they both have made their share of clunkers). DGG is also doing a new Exorcist trilogy and Hellraiser TV show. He seems to he the new king of horror, at Blumhouse anyways.

Halloween 2018, Halloween 4 and Halloween 2 are the best of the sequels, probably in that order. H20 is alright too when it isn't weighted down by it's late 90's horror vibe, at least the 2nd half which delivers a reasonably solid Michael/Laurie showdown.

Kills was an absolute abomination. And so bad that it completely destroyed my hope for the series after H2018, and I went ahead and read the full plot for Ends a few weeks ago. Awful in a different way. Very clear that there was absolutely no plan set out for these because Ends tries to walk back the supernatural, unkillable, undefeatable element quite hard. They walked themselves into a complete narrative dead end with the end of Kills. Ends is clearly poised to have Laurie and Michael having their 'final' 1v1 showdown - but in the previous movie have him take on 40 people with literal ease, it kind of destroys the immersion in the 1v1.

I liked Kills. Sure, it had ridiculous and annoying moments (as one would expect from a slasher sequel), but I think they at least tried a few new things, plus it gave us a great Michael and lots of memorable scenes/kills (the '78 flashback being a highlight). Scariest moments for me were when Michael pursued Lindsay - a well-executed, stalking scene - plus when a maskless, but out of focus, Michael walked after Karen. Chilling :)

Can't wait for Ends but I won't get to see it until next week, so have to avoid reviews/spoilers until then. I'm glad they are doing something new with this sequel - jumping forward 4 years, introducing a copycat kill -so I don't really know what to expect, which is pretty good going for a slasher sequel.

...f#ck me....that is awful...genuinely...terrible I am struggling to find any positives...the intro is quite good...bar that...

Somehow I doubt it's over.

An absolutely horrific joke of a movie. Falls apart on even the most basic aspects of filmmaking - retroactively makes Kills better because at that point you didn't think it could possibly get any worse. Literally none of this movie makes any sense. The lore makes no sense, the characters make no sense, the plot makes no sense.

Gone is the stalking, the suspense, the tension, the atmosphere, the orange hues, the autumnal tone. The score is the worst of the three by an absolute country mile. Absolute stink.

I feel sorry for people that waste money going to see this....i havent been to cinema in years....muck churned out constantly

I see this was released on Peacock and in theatres, is this only in the States?

I tried watching Kills on sky movies recently and I couldn’t sit through it, it was just awful. But I liked the 2 Rob Zombie films from 10 or more years ago, they were very vicious and disturbing.

Aye, I'm in this camp too. I know I shouldn't, I really know I shouldn't, but the Mrs. Doyle part of my brain is going "go wan..."

Who's the twat that plays the moron, is it the same guy all along in that plays him?

Dont do it. Read the plot on Wikipedia and save yourself the time and money. It's insane that this is the story they chose to tell to end the trilogy. Michael Myers barely had a cameo in this. It would have been better if Michael had actually died in the sewers and this new guy finds his mask and assumes his identity. That would have been truly brave and would have made sense but having Michael working with a copycat when he has always killed anybody standing in front of him cheats the character and the audience.

I'm going to pirate stream it now. It is funny how the general population hate on sequels like Home Alone 2 and 3 calling them "unoriginal" yet the same people would be getting excited about the 11th Halloween movie. All the movies had more or less the same plot. Another example is people complaining about Disney live action reboots. You complain about that yet you enjoy the countless Halloween movies?

🚨Spoilers ahead🚨if you haven't seen it, skip my comment!

That just left me...I don't know how to describe it. empty, I guess. I've seen them all, original H obviously was the bomb, suspense and that feeling of dread, That scene in H4 with the ambulance lights flashing in the rain, was etched in my psyche for years, H2018 was fresh and in my opinion one of the better ones of recent times, point is each one over the years had a little something different, like unique kill methods, that the others didn't, and if this was a stand alone and not a finale, then it would've been ok, but this was the FINAL outing for Laurie, it needed to be nail squeezing grand fear, a sheer terrifying, epic, that would make people re-fear michael, he needed one last plod around Haddonfield, peeking in windows, hiding in shadows, general mikey stuff from H1, not hiding like a common rat in the sewers, and, finally, and perhaps not to everyone's liking, it needed michael to speak, in his final moments, to address Laurie before he died. Sorry, rant over

Yeah something to really define the legacy of Michael, it really was a missed opportunity in my opinion, it also really left the whole 4 years aspect very much up to the viewers interpretation, it received no explanation at all, was he playing solitare the whole time?🤣

So, sat through this last night and it's very poor indeed. Some terrible, terrible, writing going on, but the series has suffered from that for nearly 40 years so we shouldn't be at all surprised really. I appreciate that they tried something different with the basic set up, but the character of Corey doesn't work. He's such an unlikeable person that it's impossible to see Laurie Strode's granddaughter going for him, as if he's some sort of misunderstood nice guy. Which is, I suppose, sort of the point. But it just isn't ever convincing and the film feels like it's been mashed together from two separate and distinct stories.

Michael Myers is almost the side character too, which comes off as a bizarre choice even if, again, I can sort of see what the film makers were trying to do. But the basic set up here is very weak. Mickey has been dossing around in a sewer for 4 years doing what exactly? I know that 'Halloween IV' (or one of the movies anyway) had Michael re-appear after an extended period away and that didn't work either. But it just doesn't make any sense here at all.

Laurie Strode is confusing too, and I'll echo the point above about her nonchalant attitude to Myers in 'Halloween Ends', whereas in the 2018 reboot, she's all hung ho and has been prepping for Mike's return for decades. That simply doesn't add up.

'Halloween Ends' comes off as yet another movie that is only meant to be enjoyed in the moment. Like the vast, vast, majority of so called "content" these days, it isn't meant to be loved forever or even remembered beyond walking out of the cinema or changing the channel. It's just another bit of "stuff" that's instantly forgettable. But after the merely ok 'Halloween (2018)' and the atrocious 'Evil Dies Tonight' 'Halloween Kills', I can't say that I am that shocked.

OK, let's discuss, how should this movie have gone? I believe a back to basics approach like the original Halloween, more skulking and stalking, as he makes his way through Haddonfield, (sorry Corey but I'd delete your story)

I woulve seen him escaping after killing Karen, away from the place, taking a Doctor/nurse hiostage in he opening credits and forcing his healing through pure fear and intimidation, before killing them when ready, (no 4 years and Laurie all relaxed bullcrap)

I would have continued with the flashback scenes (I thought they were the best bits of H-kills), and in these I would have established how an unknown man had raped Michael's mother in her home in a drunken rage at knifepoint, how the town covered it up, we see the woman visiting a gypsy woman type setting where she'd have a curse put on the town for their complicitness and asking the gypsy to curse her son to enact his revenge, using THE knife used in her rape as a sort of conduit. (this would give us the Michael being somewhat supernatural aspect, horror movie aftetall) then seeing how the child was bullied and beaten relentlessly all this leading up to his initial murders. (Hence his absolute rage)

My final scene would've had Laurie and Michael fighting in a graveyard, unmaksed and defeated, he would simply utter the word 'sister" before being finished off, THE knife straight through his forehead, his final resting place being in a grave with the Judith myers headstone above him. Cut to credits which would be every victim picture and name with carpenters original theme playing

I'd need more time to iron out the details but I'm at work 🤣 what y'all think?

I'd keep a similar scene that scene where Laurie has Michael's mask in her house at the end, I liked that.