Halloween Ends (2022) or, Halloween Snores

4/13/2024

Halloween Ends (2022) or, Halloween Snores

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The central two characters of the decades-long franchise stand back-to-back in a fiery darkness on this poster for David Gordon Green's Halloween Ends

Michael Myers and Laurie Strode' decades-long bloody battle in Haddonfield, Illinois finally reaches its conclusion.

Halloween Ends is written by Chris Bernier (The House: A Hulu Halloween Anthology (2017, miniseries)), Paul Brad Logan (Manglehorn (2014)), Danny McBride (Your Highness (2011)) and Arkansan master filmmaker, co-writer/director David Gordon Green (George Washington (2000)), whose 15th feature it is. It is the 3rd and last in Green's Halloween trilogy (2018; 2021) and the 13th in the Halloween franchise overall.

The film opens strongly with a pre-title sequence about a young engineer student, who accidentally kills the boy that he is babysitting. The title animation, credits and accompanying, exploding jack-o-lanterns are rad. But the film that follows is an immovable, deeply uninteresting turkey:

It turns out that the guy from the pre-title sequence is to be followed throughout Halloween Ends, despite his being extremely uninteresting. No other characters spark interest or tension, and that leaves one mentally snoring all the way to the picture's overly brutal ending. SPOILER Who wants to see an aging woman get beaten up and then stabbing the perp, her also senior citizen-aged brother, again and again?

Halloween franchise: Halloween (2018) - Great-looking mayhem

Halloween (2007) - Zombie's remake is a bloody stinker

Halloween: Resurrection (2002) - Myers returns to turkeyville

Halloween H20/Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998) - Myers spreads fresh terror in Miner's fine sequel

Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989) - Precious few cuts from rock bottom

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) - Myers returns for dull slasher

Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) - Evil masks ravage in Wallace's under-appreciated horror

Halloween (1978) - Carpenter's haunting slasher classic

David Gordon Green: Halloween (2018) - Great-looking mayhem

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The Sitter (2011) - Green and Hill's inappropriate babysitter movie is a crude hoot

Your Highness (2011) - Green's dismissed, golden stoner/raunch adventure comedy

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George Washington (2000) - Green's evocative North Carolina youth debut masterpiece

Watch a trailer for the movie here

Cost: 33 mil. $

Box office: 104.3 mil. $

= Box office success (returned 3.16 times its cost)

[Halloween Ends premiered 6 October (Sitges Film Festival, Spain) and runs 111 minutes. Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween (1978)) was paid 3.5 mil. $ for her performance in the film. Shooting took place from January - June 2022 in Georgia and Utah. The film opened #1 to a 40 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it spent 2 more weekends in the top 5 (#4-#5), grossing 64 mil. $ (61.4 % of the total gross). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were the UK with 5.4 mil. $ (5.2 %) and Mexico with 5.3 mil. $ (5.1 %). Green returned with The Righteous Gemstones (2019-22) and theatrically with The Exorcist: Believer (2023). Curtis returned in The Bear (2023, TV-series) and theatrically in Haunted Mansion (2023). Halloween Ends is rotten at 40 % with a 5.10/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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