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Halloween Ends finale in David Gordon Green's rebooted Halloween trilogy, Halloween Ends, promises to conclude the current incarnation of the story, bringing Michael Myers' decades-long reign of terror to an end. Shortly after the premiere of a new feature film of the franchise, the lenco that will be part of the plot was known.
“Halloween Ends” takes place four years after the events of “Halloween Kills,” and follows Laurie and her granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak), who is writing her memoir. Believing Michael Myers is no longer a threat, Laurie is ready to put the past behind her when a young man named Corey Cunningham (Rohan Campbell) is accused of killing a child he was babysitting.
News of the murder reignites a new spate of family violence, and Laurie realizes that Michael has not disappeared and has returned once again. She finally must face evil in her last battle. But, who are the characters in this new story? Next, the details.
The 2018 Halloween reboot reintroduced audiences to a Laurie who had spent four decades waiting for Michael to return, setting traps around her house with the intention of burning him alive from the inside if she ever returned. Jamie Lee Curtis reprized her role, and his gritty performance as a shotgun-wielding Laurie hell-bent on getting revenge on Michael was one of the film's highlights.
As expected, Laurie will be back in Halloween Ends. Due to injuries sustained in the 2018 film, Strode spent much of Halloween Kills incapacitated and trapped in a hospital bed. Hopefully, she'll be back in action at the end of the franchise.
The 2018 reboot didn't just bring Laurie back; introduced fans of the franchise to three generations of Strode women, each just as badass as the last. Fans met Laurie's estranged daughter Karen and Karen's daughter Allyson, both of whom had an affair with Michael over the course of the trilogy. In Halloween Kills, unfortunately, Karen was taken down in the brutal twist ending.
Ella's daughter Allyson, on the other hand, managed to come toe-to-toe with Michael and lived to tell the tale. Andi Matichak will return as Allyson in “Halloween Ends,” no doubt determined to avenge her late mother.
Will Patton will reprise his role from the previous two “Halloween” films as Deputy Frank Hawkins, the man who arrested Michael after his first murder spree in 1978. “Halloween Ends” will see Michael once again go on a murder spree. murders while the Haddonfield police try to stop him.
The reboot trilogy has revealed that Hawkins stopped Dr. Loomis from killing Michael, believing in his right to a fair trial. Halloween Ends was earlier scheduled to be released in October 2021. but has since regretted this decision, as The Shape is essentially inhuman. Perhaps the latest film will offer Hawkins a chance at redemption.
The two children Laurie cared for in the original Halloween movie, Tommy Doyle and Lindsey Wallace, returned in Halloween Kills. Tommy was played by Anthony Michael Hall, while Lindsey was played by Kyle Richards. Sadly, Tommy didn't make it to the end of the movie, but Lindsey was lucky to avoid Michael's wrath.
Lindsey is a really deep legacy character, especially since she is still played by the actress who stepped into her shoes as a child in 1978. Richards will reprise her role as Lindsey in Halloween Ends.
Omar Dorsey made his debut in 2018's Halloween, playing the role of Haddonfield's current sheriff, Barker. Like all of his predecessors, the bailiff couldn't stop Michael from committing a bunch of murders on Halloween night, and then couldn't stop him in Halloween Kills. Dorsey will reprise her role in the grand finale, where she could be the charm for Sheriff Barker.
With any luck, Barker will be given a much larger role in the new movie. Dorsey's talents are yet to be fully utilized, as the sheriff is more memorable for his big cowboy hat than the actual characterization of him.
Will it be the end of Michael Myers on the big screen? At least that's how it will be in the hands of director David Gordon Green, who culminates the trilogy of this murderer with Halloween Ends, the film that opens this October 14 in all movie theaters in Colombia. This intrepid story began in 1978, with three other films starring Jamie Lee Curtis. Now, 44 years later, the actress returns recharged to have one last battle with Myers, whom she sporadically faced on Halloween night (2018) and Halloween Kills (2021).
Universal Picture’s streaming service, Peacock is only Friday Oct 17 In the U.S available by subscription. A few days after its premiere, Gordon Green assured that he had to record alternative endings to satisfy the last dance of Jamie Lee Curtis in the skin of Laurie Strode, as the savior of Halloween night in the quiet county of Haddonfield.
Initially, the actress assured that the second and third films would be recorded in a row to be released year after year. However, with the arrival of the pandemic they had to postpone the project for 1 year, time that the director used to rewrite the script and deliver an anthology finale.
This is how we come to Halloween Ends, which is set 4 years after the events of Halloween Kills with Laurie, a grandmother accompanied by her granddaughter Allyson in the role of Andi Matichak, who helps her write her memoirs of struggles and survivals with Myers. However, the old woman's peace is interrupted by teenager Corey Cunningham (Rohan Campbell) who is accused of killing a child in her care. After this aberrant event, chaos breaks out in Haddonfield, fueled by the spirit of Halloween.
44 years have passed since we met that remotely human being with an expressionless face, whose only adequate description -according to Dr. Loomis- was two words: pure evil. What has made that Michael Myers evil immortal and virtually unstoppable? With Halloween: The Final Night, it is not only time to close the trilogy that director David Gordon Green began with Halloween (2018) and Halloween Kills: The Night Is Not Over (2021), but also to give a definitive answer to that question.
There is no doubt that with this trio of films, David Gordon Green has made very risky decisions around the mythology that John Carpenter began. The boos and praises have been a constant in sync. The shadow of that bitter ending (as well as the plot and the wave of negative criticism) surrounding Halloween Kills: The Night Is Not Over, made us wonder what direction this third installment would take.
Halloween: The Final Night does try to amend, to a certain extent, the mistakes of its predecessor. And, of course, the strongest course to achieve this is a final battle as violent as it is brutal between Laurie Strode and Michael Myers. The execution, of course, is extremely epic, but the result leaves a lukewarm feeling. And it is that both the filmmaker and the screenwriters do not stop tripping over the same stones: implausibility, absurdity and incoherence.
Contradictorily, those three elements are something that an inveterate fan of the franchise would not take so seriously, would they? In fact, they would know that they are intrinsic elements of the masked killer and that they are blurred by their classic status and by the unparalleled presence of Jamie Lee Curtis.
Yes, you can stream Halloween Ends as long as you live in America. The film takes place four years after the events of Halloween Kills: The Night Is Not Over Yet. Laurie now lives an ordinary, peaceful life with her granddaughter Allyson, while she writes her memoir. Nobody knows the whereabouts of Michael Myers. But after a manslaughter, a cascade of violence erupts in Haddonfield. Laurie knows that evil is perpetual and cannot be controlled. Michael Myers is undoubtedly back and it's something she can't help.
When we talked about the filmmaker's risky decisions, we meant that the fearsome and inevitable return of the masked man is not as overwhelming as we imagined. For Halloween: The Final Night, the filmmaker (along with the three accompanying screenwriters) take the risk of exploring the concept of evil as a kind of infection that transmutes and never ends.
Hence, the late appearance on the screen of Michael Myers shows that the years have taken their toll. A fact that we could describe as laughable and unconnected with the unstoppable nature of the murderous monster. Instead, the film tries to make its point with the introduction of Corey Cunningham (Rohan Campbell), who not only breaks into Allyson's heart, but revives Laurie's deepest fears.
Truth be told, Corey Cunningham's appearance is deceptively attractive. Above all because of that opening sequence of the film, whose technical and narrative manufacturing make it the most remarkable part of the film. It's not for nothing that Jamie Lee Curtis described her as every parent's worst nightmare. But in reality, it only serves as a late trigger for the long-awaited final confrontation (Michael vs. Laurie) and ends up slowing down the pace of the film.
Strangely, Halloween: The Final Night also feels devoid of violence, blood, and gore (elements that have characterized the franchise). It is only towards the end of the film that the director and screenwriters let their creativity explode with sequences where graphic violence shines in the darkness of the night.
Of course, one of the strongest points of Halloween: The final night is its staging. The tribute starting that David Gordon Green has paid to the unmistakable style of John Carpenter throughout these three feature films is undeniable. Here, in particular, a tribute to Halloween (1978) is breathed deeply. A farewell tribute that navigates between flashbacks, but also in winks and references to costumes, framing and camera movements and, of course, to synthesizer music and one or another musical and film classic.
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The queen of scream Jamie Lee Curtis says goodbye to the character to whom she owes her career, Laurie Strode, in Halloween Ends, the closing of one of the most popular horror sagas in cinema, started by John Carpenter in 1978.
This third installment directed by David Gordon Green, which broke the box office with Halloween (2018) and Halloween Kills (2021), takes place four years after the latter, Laurie lives with her granddaughter and believes she has definitely left behind the terrifying Michael Myers.
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It is a rural thriller set in a town in Extremadura where a murderous psychopath is on the loose and the protagonist is a misunderstood teenager in her family who suffers harassment and fatphobia from her classmates.
Four years have passed, but it is as if nothing had happened. Michael Myers is still behind Laurie Straude, as in the first Halloween -which was perhaps not the best, because the second, directed like the original by John Carpenter also had its own-, but luckily this will be the last.
I save money for parking: nothing happens in the end credits. So when the credits roll, unless you want to hear Carpenter's tune for the umpteenth time, don't wait for Michael to (re)appear.
We were saying that four years had passed since the end of Halloween Kills: The Night Is Not Over Yet, the second of the new trilogy due to David Gordon Green (the new Exorcist is filming), and that he had no need to exist other than the need to continue billing and benefiting from Laurie, Michael and the memory - and nothing else - of fans around the world.
Not bad start Halloween: The final night. No, there's no Michael (Nick Castle, who plays him again in this trilogy, and hadn't since the original). Corey (Rohan Campbell) is the babysitter of a boy who is left in Haddonfield's care by his parents. Corey doesn't seem to be afraid of anything, but the guy in question is, how to say, a little dense. Something will not end well that night, and from there we will have to pay attention to Corey more than to the boy.
No. Halloween Ends will not be on Amazon Prime. It takes more than half an hour for Halloween: The Final Night to resemble the other films in the saga. This is good or bad? For slasher lovers, those who only want slashes, gushing blood and jumps for sound effects, surely not. For those who trust that the closure of the saga -if it really ends; seems so- leave them more than just corpses, probably yes.
But it's just a mirage. Because the development of the 111 minutes will end up disappointing one and the other. For the time lost for the first - those more than 30 minutes from the beginning - and for all the projection for the seconds.
Because as the story progresses -it's a way of saying-, one from the audience can imagine why Corey acts the way he does, wonder why Mike's mask is old, why Laurie hardly screams and why we pay a ticket to see this movie.
By then, everything is anyone. There is no explanation for the behavior of the new characters. We already know that the young people who bully Corey will end up like the ones who had sex behind their parents in the horror movies of the '70s and '80s.
But let's talk about Jamie Lee Curtis. She appears as executive producer of the film. Was it necessary to make this movie? Wasn't it better for her, and her fan, to wait for someone to write a script, not better, but at least good, to close the saga that began 44 years ago?.
Once upon a time there was a babysitter named Laurie Strode. She should have been the candid albeit strong-willed protagonist of a brutal knife-movie that she overflows into an anxious survival. A revised and corrected epigone of films such as “Black Christmas” or “The eyes of the night”.
But John Carpenter, Debra Hill, born in Haddonfield and Jamie Lee Curtis watch Halloween Ends. Daughter of Janet Leigh, or the Marion Crane of Psycho (Hitchcock always puts a hand) are revealed. So on October 31, 1978, against a paltry budget of three hundred thousand dollars and two weeks of shooting, Halloween arrives in theaters and changes the history of horror cinema. Forty-four years later, the final battle arrives on the screen (starting from October 13th.
Halloween Ends is the last waltz for Michael Myers, the terminal macabre dance of bogey-man, orchestrated by David Gordon Green who, for the third time , signs the deadly deeds of The Shape. And in the end, between the Scream Queen and the bogeyman, only one of them will survive.
If Halloween Kills was a cinematic tribute to the god of carnage, the apotheosis of Croque-Mitaine, Halloween Ends is a twilight funeral march that starts quietly.
However, Here's the full official trailer the initial slow pace is good for the film. We are four years after the mournful events that occurred in the penultimate feature film of the saga. Laurie Strode is busy writing her memoirs and shares an apartment with her granddaughter Allyson Allyson (Andi Matichak). Michael Myers seems to have lost track.
The shadow has vanished. But death has a fondness for Haddonfield, especially the night of the witches. So when young Corey Cunningham (the Rohan Campbell of The Hardy Boys and Virgin River) is accused of killing a boy he babysat, violence and terror return to infect the community of the small town in Illinois. And the character played by Jamie Lee Curtis is forced, in spite of himself, to face for the last time the threat he thought he could forget.
Some wounds never heal. Some traumas remain unsurpassable. The past always comes back in any case. That's what happened in Halloween Ends. As Marlon Brando said in Ultimo Tango. in Paris: When something ends, then it starts again.
This can already be seen from the opening credits of the film. The evil carved pumpkin regenerates and grows bigger and bigger on the screen. The malevolent Jack o 'lantern gives birth to himself. There is no peace for Laurie Stroode and her fellow citizens, even if the monster sleeps the sleep of the unjust.
Carl Gustav Jung was right when he wrote The greatest danger for man is not famine, earthquakes, microbes or carcinomas, but man himself, and precisely because there is still no effective defense against psychic epidemics, which have a infinitely more devastating action than the worst natural disasters »In short, Homo homini lupus. And if not all the victims turn into executioners, but all the executioners have been victims. So among bullies, nerds and fancy dress parties, while the Cramps sing I was a teenage werewolf even love dies.
