Universal's Halloween Ends is now streaming on Netflix. The slasher horror sequel premiered at Beyond Fest on October 11, 2022, before being released in theaters and streaming on Peacock on October 14, 2022. It was later released on Blu-ray and DVD on December 27, 2022.
Halloween Ends (2022) is the sequel to Halloween Kills (2021), the thirteenth installment in the Halloween franchise, and the final film in David Gordon Green's trilogy, which began with Halloween (2018), a direct sequel to John Carpenter's Halloween (1978).
SYNOPSIS: "Four years after the events of last year's Halloween Kills, Laurie is living with her granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak) and is finishing writing her memoir. Michael Myers hasn't been seen since. Laurie, after allowing the specter of Michael to determine and drive her reality for decades, has decided to liberate herself from fear and rage and embrace life. But when a young man, Corey Cunningham (Rohan Campbell), 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."
Directed by David Gordon Green and written by Chris Bernier, Paul Brad Logan, David Gordon Green, and Danny McBride, the film stars Jamie Lee Curtis, Andi Matichak, Rohan Campbell, Will Patton, Kyle Richards, James Jude Courtney, and Nick Castle. It was produced by Jennifer Scudder Trent, Jason Blum, Malek Akkad, and Bill Block, with music by John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter, and Daniel Davies.
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Trailer from NBC Special - Halloween in Hollywood:
Halloween Ends | “A Final Word From The Final Girl” | NBC’s ‘Halloween in Hollywood’ TV Special:
Halloween Ends (Jamie Lee Curtis) | Recap of Halloween and Halloween Kills:
Everything You NEED to Know Before Watching Halloween Ends - Recap of first 3 Halloween (1978,2018,2021) films in this timeline:
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Making Of HALLOWEEN ENDS - Best Of Behind The Scenes, On Set Bloopers & Talk With Jamie Lee Curtis:
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Interview Jamie Lee Curtis talks Halloween Ends and Laurie Strode’s Final Scene | MTV Movies:
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Halloween Ends (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) by John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies | YouTube Playlist:
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Jack-O's Review: "I really enjoyed David Gordon Green's trilogy. I think they're the best films in the franchise after the 1978 original. I liked how they tried something different with Halloween Ends, and I love the homages and comparisons to Halloween III since both films have become the outcasts of the franchise.
I think the final Myers vs. Strode showdown was more minimal because we'd already seen Laurie defeat Michael in Halloween H20. I don't think they wanted to simply copy that film's final battle, so they went in a different direction.
Halloween Ends also has my favorite soundtrack in the franchise, with songs like "Midnight Monsters Hop," tracks by Dead Kennedys, The Cramps, and Johnny Goth. The entire trilogy also features the best score since the original, composed by John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter, and Daniel Davies.
Rohan Campbell was great as Corey, and I think he had the best kills in the film (the bullies, the DJ, and the doctor), while Myers also had three great kills. I do wish they'd kept Darcy the Mail Girl's death scene and Corey's mother's death scene in the final cut. I also wish they had kept the original Silver Shamrock Novelties factory ending, where they showed Michael Myers masks being manufactured alongside the pumpkin, witch, and skull masks." ★★★★ @trickhorrortreater
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” …Halloween Ends ends at the right point for this stage of Laurie and company’s life and also ends in a super cool way to close this arc that was presented there in 2018. So, in addition to closing this bloody arc, this third film honors the franchise and shows that some things live forever regardless of whether they are good or bad. ” ★★★, Arrobanerd.com.br [translated from Portuguese]
“The saga does reach a fitting yet contrived conclusion for the most part; the legacy characters make their final bow, yet the core themes fizzle out. Ends works best as a standalone feature, but its place in the trilogy and the Halloween canon overall is sure to be polarizing.” ★★, Bloody-Disgusting.com
“There’s no closure here, just a new beginning at the very last minute […] with Green coming to the last chapter of his trilogy with a completely different idea, and one that’s painfully half-baked for most of the picture. It’s certainly brave of Halloween Ends to redefine closure, but it does so in a very Star Wars sequels way, exposing how little planning went into this ultimately unsatisfying franchise revival.” ★★, Blu-ray.com
“Halloween Ends is the kind of left turn that a lot of people hate. This time, with good reason. Elements of horror are left out in favour of this new direction and not only the most obvious or generic but also all the others that made the previous two so interesting. Some ideas border on the ridiculous and even incoherent and out of character, making it difficult to accept the new direction proposed here.” CineGrandiose.com [translated from Portuguese]
“While the long-awaited final showdown between Michael Myers and Laurie Strode is moderately exciting, it’s too late for Halloween Ends to redeem itself. Worse, it proves that David Gordon Green had no affinity or understanding with the themes originally addressed by John Carpenter, turning his trilogy into a boring self-help book about overcoming trauma.” CineResenhas.com.br [translated from Portuguese]
“While the body count is substantially lower this time, it’s not to say the kills don’t lack brutality throughout when they occur. And yes there’s a showdown between Strode and the Shape that everyone could see coming, and in truth, which suffers from an inevitability of a conclusion that’s obvious a mile off. Perhaps that’s some of the problems of Halloween Ends – it can’t escape the inescapable…” Darrens-World-of-Entertainment.blogspot.com
“The combination of classic horror and a sometimes excruciatingly slowly building story does not work out very well. The filmmaker is to be commended for not only wanting to please the fans with predictable bloodshed, but the rhythm of his third Halloween film is erratic and choppy. Fortunately, he manages to make up for this in the final and to put a real end to it.” ★★★, FilmTotaal.nl [translated from Dutch]
“That an emotional core, concerning Laurie Strode’s personal journey to inner redemption, seems to indicate the “present” makes it clear that there is an amount of soul to the whole endeavour. But this is certainly not enough for a sequel that makes almost all the mistakes of its predecessors, as well as some in addition.” ★½, Filmy.gr [translated from Greek]
“Halloween Ends is exactly halfway between the first and the second chapter of the new trilogy: a step back, as far as I’m concerned, compared to the virulent catharsis of Halloween Kills, but a shy past forward for the themes it carries forward. He tries to create a more intimate reflection on Evil and at the same time close a thirty-year saga with dignity.” ★★★, FilmyHype.com
“Halloween Ends is a film solid enough to end Green’s trilogy. Is it the best horror movie to catch this Halloween? We’d argue Smile is still spookier. But we’re just glad that Curtis can finally rest and that yet another average reboot of an iconic franchise has reached its end. That is until another director takes it for a spin. Now, that’s a nightmare for another time.” 6.4/10, GeekCulture.co
“For all of its risk-taking, Halloween Ends disappoints on two levels: in trying to do something different, because it simply cannot by the end, and in doing exactly what we expect, because the movie so blatantly attempts to be something else.” ★★, MarkReviewsMovies.com
“With a different approach, Halloween Ends distances this franchise from its trademark brutal side. I can’t believe it; how could the script lead to such a complex thing? This is ridiculous if you expect a value or a moral message until whenever the dark side of man never disappears […] This film, which is intended as a finale, does not give a proper tribute to one of the best butchers in the film medium.” ★, MontaseFilm.com [translated from Indonesian]
“Halloween Ends is certainly not as bad as Halloween Kills, mostly because it has some sort of forward momentum and feels like it has a reason to exist, but it’s still not that great. This might be the most middle-of-the-road Halloween movie of the franchise, the one that just sits between the franchise at its best and the franchise at its worst.” MovieMeisterReviews.com
“Ends is a harrowing, slow-motion spiral of a damned soul circling the drain and pulling others into the void, a notion that ultimately speaks to the existential threat Myers posed in 1978 when he descended on heartland America, representing a latent, unspoken darkness that can’t be ignored. Green hasn’t painted the exact same portrait, but he’s retained the broad strokes, and, sure, it’s alienating at first blush…” Oh-the-Horror.com
“On the character level, the main focus of Halloween Ends is on the relationship between Laurie and Allison, as they both pretend they let go of the past and the growing row between them, leading them to the epic and extremely satisfying finale. Like every Halloween movie, this one is not perfect and will leave some fans unhappy with the chances and choices David Green took, but personally, this is the finale I was hoping for.” 8/10, @pashathewriter
” …even if Green rolled the dice (and lost) on an underwhelming central premise for Ends, a satisfying conclusion to Laurie’s story from Halloween 1978 to 2022 was worth any missteps that plague Kills and Ends. Still, in spite of this, it’s hard to ignore that Halloween 2018 set a high bar for Green’s revival trilogy – a bar that was undermined by the following chapter and is barely improved in Halloween Ends.” ScreenRant.com
“The third part was supposed to be what the second one was not, stretching the story for another sequel, meaning the culmination of the first film expanded to a full-length, that is, the mythical duel between the terminator killer Michael and Laurie as a kind of Sarah Connor Halloween who “only one of them will survive”. Ends becomes that in the end, just a little too late…” SlobodnadaDalmacija.hr [translated from Croation]
“The power of the ending here feels assumed because the icons on display are supposed to be meaningful, but as this nostalgia boom is proving, icons are empty without anything to provide context or purpose, and the ending of Halloween Ends has an unfortunate emptiness to it. That said, there was still something about this film I enjoyed.” MakeTheSwitch.com
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