Review: ‘Halloween Ends Is Surprising, Satisfying Epilogue To Michael Myers Saga
© Forbes Michael Myers (aka The Shape) and Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode in HALLOWEEN'S SON, directed by David Gordon Green © Universal Studios. All rights reserved.Halloween (2022)
Blumhouse / R / 111 menit minute evaluation
Directed by David Gordon Green
Written by Paul Bra Logan, Chris Bernier, Danny McBride and David Gordon Green.
Producers: Malek Akkad, Jason Blum and Bill Block
Starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Andi Maticak, James Jude Courtney, Will Patton, Rohan Campbell and Kyle Richards.
Photographer Michael Simmonds
Edited by Tim Alverson
Music by John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davis
It opens on October 14 in theaters and at Universal's Peacock.
In theaters and tomorrow at Peacock, Halloween Ends is the best film in Michael Myers Blumhouse's trilogy. Halloween 2018 boldly wants to play The Force Awakens on the playground, hoping audiences and pundits will ignore the cozy presence of Halloween: H20 . " Halloween Kills " wants to play the nihilistic free-to-play Rob Zombie "Get My Bear" from Halloween II and Michael Myers Returns. Halloween Ends takes a different approach, making an original horror drama set in a dying industrial city, usually a sequel to the movie " Halloween ". More than the first two films, Halloween Ends , especially in the first half, looks and feels like the film the man directed George Washington and the snow angels .
Picking up a year after Halloween Kills , the picture is a hilarious and seemingly rambling prologue about a boy who abuses his nanny on Halloween night. Minor spoilers, but the night ends badly and we jump to the present day, where a promising young man (Rohan Campbell) finds himself on the sidelines as a lone mechanic. Meanwhile, Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) has bought a (normal) house and is trying to give her nephew (Andi Maticaka) a normal life without trauma. Grandma is writing her memoir (after the usual voiceover watching the ship) and has to go to a meeting with Deputy Frank Hawkins (Will Patton). However, the last thing he tries to do is trap his lonely grandson (following Edward Scissorhands) with a beautiful stranger. Will these two wounded souls be able to find young love in a haunted city?
The first half serves as a gripping and gripping drama. He has the best idea in The Curse of Michael Myers, which is that Haddonfield was so devastated by Michael Myers' damage that the surviving residents have been turned into glorified zombies. However, the horrors of the previous two Halloween films (in which Michael kills 45 people in one night) have exacerbated corruption in former industrial cities and/or previously prosperous suburbs, instilling fear and prejudice in residents. and they expect the worst from their neighbors. Given the nostalgia for the stereotypical, wholesome cities that embodied the first Halloween , it's almost crushing to show how magical such places are today. Sure, you get deja vu from Stephen King's It , but the slice of life does the trick.
Even a casual romance, Allison meets Cory, who is broken and visibly disturbed. They both love to find ordinary happiness in a city with little prospect and little to wake up to. Yes, Cory berates Allison for treating her like an "I can fix it and save her" project, and there must be times when she has to back off, but what else do they have to do now? Yes, Michael Myers finally had a role in this story and (as shown in the preview) the film finally gave in and gave fans what they wanted. Like Jurassic World Dominion , Halloween Ends has become less interesting due to being a traditional part of the franchise. However, I think it's a "tick that box or we'll let you do what you want" compromise.
Director David Gordon Green is enjoying himself this time around, having made two successful sequels, and is now able and willing to play in this sandbox and create something that feels closer to his early minor character drama. While his overall filmography ( Our Brand Is Crisis, Your Majesty, Stronger, Pineapple Express, etc.) challenges Ang Lee, the man behind All the Real Girls is closer to what I expected when he signed up to shoot the Halloween movie. . random "blind to throw darts". The scale is massive in terms of on-screen location variety and massive characters, horror sequels, and over/under $30 million (IMAX) budgets. The tone and focus is such that there is almost no bloody murder and how Michael Myers will accept it or not.
The end of Halloween serves as a sad and dark ending for the Michael Myers and Laurie Strode franchise. It almost matters if people think " Halloween " and " Halloween Murder " are the same thing, and/or just Michael killing people for 100 minutes. drama and the second as a slasher. We still have more traditional horror tropes. Laurie finally succumbs to her paranoia, even as she deals at least one hard hit to our character. The second half has some violent deaths that play out like a cross between It and Hellraiser . But this film is refreshing because it gives audiences what they need (in theory) before giving them what they want. It's a pretty good movie and good for Halloween 13 in general.
