Quartile rating: 6/10 · 1 rating
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.
Halloween Ends is widely regarded as a disappointing and divisive conclusion to the David Gordon Green trilogy. The plot is its most glaring weakness — the decision to sideline Michael Myers for much of the film in favor of a new character, Corey Cunningham, and a quasi-romantic subplot feels like a bizarre misdirection that alienated the franchise's fanbase. The concept of 'evil as a transferable social contagion' was ambitious but executed poorly, feeling muddled and half-baked. Acting is serviceable, with Jamie Lee Curtis giving her usual committed performance and Rohan Campbell holding his own as Corey. Cinematography is competent, with some atmospheric night photography, but unremarkable for the genre. Novelty scores low — while the Corey angle was unexpected, it felt less like bold reinvention and more like an unearned detour; the film's core ideas feel borrowed from better horror films. The ending, meant to be a definitive farewell to both Laurie and Michael, lands with a thud — the final confrontation feels anticlimactic and rushed, failing to deliver the cathartic closure the trilogy needed.