Director David Gordon Green’s third and final Halloween film, Halloween endsThe film, ” has finally been released in theaters as well as online. PeacockThe decades-long conflict between Laurie Strode, Michael Myers has been ended. At least, that’s the end of it. Like the second film in Green’s reboot trilogy, Halloween endsCritics and audiences are split. Despite this, the film still features an exciting finale between the Scream Queen (and the terrifying Shape). In case some readers are still curious about this film, here’s a breakdown of what may be the definitive conclusion to the Halloween saga.
One year after the events in 2018, the film will open on October 31st 2019. Halloween Kills. The townpeople have become increasingly paranoid and angry since Michael disappeared without trace. Corey Cunningham, a high school senior, babysits Jeremy, a young boy. The latter then traps him in an attic as a mean-spirited prank. Corey tries unsuccessfully to escape, but accidentally kicks the boy from a balcony. He falls to his death right as his parents return home.
The film jumps three years to 2023. Laurie tries to overcome her trauma with Michael by writing a book. She lives with Allyson and her granddaughter. Meanwhile, Corey has become a pariah in Haddonfield for Jeremy’s tragic accident, and he gets relentlessly picked on and scorned by almost everyone in town. This abuse is partially due to the townspeople not healing from Michael’s rampage, instead choosing to redirect their anger toward a new Boogeyman with the old one nowhere to be seen.
After meeting Corey at her hospital, Allyson develops a friendship and invites him to a party. Unfortunately, Corey gets driven out by Jeremy’s mother, who’s still grieving over her son’s death, and he is later tossed over a bridge by some teenage bullies. If that wasn’t enough for poor Corey, Michael Myers shows up and drags him into his sewer lair like Pennywise, the Dancing Clown. Though Corey wakes up and escapes Michael’s lair, he stabs a homeless man who tries to attack him with a knife outside. He walks down a darkened path from that point onwards.
Much like Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker, Corey becomes so consumed by his anger over how the townspeople have mistreated him that he, too, becomes evil. Michael joins him to take down the Haddonfield residents who had wronged him, Allyson, and their families. This begins with Corey luring Allyson’s ex-boyfriend into Michael’s lair to get back at him for bullying him. Eventually, Corey puts on a mask and commits murders. He is now the ruthless killer everyone has portrayed him to be.
Laurie is suspicious that Corey is becoming a troubled soul and tries to keep him away. Allyson then starts dating Laurie. Corey leaves Haddonfield, and Allyson accepts his offer to go along, as he has also become sick of the place. Laurie tries to stop Allyson from following him. She claims that Corey is like Michael. But Allyson denies her. She even goes as far as to blame Laurie for all of Michael’s deaths, as she failed to kill him in the past.
Corey then turns on Michael, and steals his mask in order to use it in his next murder spree. After killing many more people in town, including his the teenagers that bullied him, a radio DJ, and his own overbearing mother, Corey breaks into Laurie’s house and tries to kill her so he can be with Allyson. Laurie catches Corey by surprise and overpowers his attempt at suicide. Surprise twist: Corey stabs himself in his throat when Allyson arrives, making it appear that Laurie has killed him. Laurie leaves Laurie.
Laurie seems to be at her lowest point. Michael enters the home to steal Corey’s mask. He quickly kills him by breaking his neck. Laurie then engages in one final brawl with her mortal foe. After a long and brutal struggle, Laurie manages to impale Michael on the table. She then takes off his mask and cuts his throat. And though Michael tries to choke Laurie and take her down with him, Allyson returns and breaks his arm, and they both finish the job by slitting Michael’s wrist and letting him bleed out.
Michael Myers has died. But this isn’t enough for the people of Haddonfield. After the police arrive on the scene, they all decide to give everyone closure by having them all see Michael’s corpse as they drive it across town. And to really confirm that their Boogeyman is truly dead for once and for all, everyone watches as Laurie grinds up Michael’s body in a car crusher.
Laurie completes her memoir and Haddonfield is at peace. Allyson then leaves town to start her own life. Laurie has a conversation with Frank Hawkins, her crush and suggests that they will have a long-lasting relationship. The film closes with a shot of Laurie’s office, with Michael’s mask sitting on the table, revealing that she kept it as a memento of her victory. And as the credits roll, Blue Oyster Cult’s “(Don’t Fear) the Reaper” plays in the background as a callback to how the song was used in John Carpenter’s original film.
All in all Halloween endsThis film is about Haddonfield and their struggle to overcome the trauma and grief that Michael has left behind after taking so much innocent life. Michael isn’t seen that much throughout the film, but his evil has left a massive effect on the townsfolk that caused them to inadvertently turn Corey into another Boogeyman. This fact is cemented in the final line of Laurie’s memoir, which argues that evil can never die but instead take a new shape.
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