Halloween Ends

This is the finale of David Gordon Green's trilogy and apparently to the entire franchise that started with John Carpenter.

Releasing’s “Till” biopic, starring Danielle Deadwyler as the mother of the murdered Emmett Till (played by Jalyn Hall), as she tries to get justice. Even more worrying is that Universal has taken its sweet time showing “Halloween Ends” to most critics, waiting until Wednesday night with reviews embargoed until Thursday afternoon – most true fans will have already bought tickets to see the movie on Thursday night or Friday to avoid any spoilers. That slump from one movie to the next could either have been due to the pandemic or to the movie being so relatively available on streaming, both giving horror enthusiasts a good excuse not to see “Halloween Kills” in theaters. Or they could just hit “play” on Peacock on Thursday night and not even have to worry about parking, babysitters, etc. “Halloween” has had a long history of ups and downs at the box office leading up til 2018, when Green’s “requel” was generally well-received, It also did fantastic at the box office, opening with $76.2 million, which is greater than every single other entry had grossed IN TOTAL up until that point. Maybe it was no surprise when it opened under $50 million (more than the original 1978 movie made in total) and wound up with only $92 million, domestically, compared to the predecessor’s $159 domestic gross and $255.4 million worldwide.

The final installment in the Michael Myers story is almost here. Meet the cast and characters of Halloween Ends with this handy guide.

[James Jude Courtney](https://collider.com/halloween-kills-james-jude-courtney-stunt-video/) and [Nick Castle](https://collider.com/tag/nick-castle) as Michael Myers / The Shape 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. He is a Haddonfield resident and is accused of killing the child he was babysitting. [Son](https://collider.com/son-movie-trailer-shudder/), and popular television series like 666 Park Avenue, Orange Is The New Black, and Blue Bloods. He first appeared in the 2018 film and reprised his role in the sequel. [Andi Matichak](https://collider.com/andi-matichak-halloween-interview/) as Allyson Nelson [reprising their roles from the previous installments](https://collider.com/halloween-ends-characters-returning-characters-who-arent/), the new movie will see a couple of new characters as well. Curtis has reprised her role in seven (including Halloween Ends) of the 13 movies in the franchise. The plot takes off where the events of [Halloween Kills](https://collider.com/tag/halloween-kills/) end. [Halloween Ends](https://collider.com/tag/halloween-ends) marks the last sequel to the 2018 series and the 13th installment in the overall franchise. [David Gordon Green](https://collider.com/tag/david-gordon-green) directing and co-writing along with [Danny McBride](https://collider.com/tag/danny-mcbride/), Paul Brad Logan, and Chris Bernier also serving as writers on the project. [John Carpenter](https://collider.com/tag/john-carpenter) started a film franchise that would go on to become a cult classic in the slasher genre.

Michael Myers, the crazed killer in the Halloween films, is sometimes referred to as The Shape, which more or less says it all. He's menace in its purest form, ...

Halloween Ends is no more coherent than its predecessors, but at least adds some new elements to the formula. There appears to be no real centre to these films, just an invitation to relish the tonal lurches for their own sake, as if Green and co-writer Danny McBride were privately giggling all the way through – which is sufficiently unnerving in itself. He’s menace in its purest form, a silent, masked figure who lumbers out of the darkness on Halloween night to carve up young women along with anyone else within reach.

Danielle Harris finally met Jamie Lee Curtis for the first time as the stars of A Nightmare on Elm Street and Halloween united for an epic photo.

Perhaps he can go to battle with another major star from the Halloween series by having Danielle Harris return as an older Jamie Lloyd in a Halloween movie that only acknowledges parts 4 and 5, as Harris' character was recast and killed off in the sixth film. The pair did manage to meet Curtis that night, and as it turns out, they weren't the only classic horror stars in attendance, as A Nightmare on Elm Street stars [Heather Langenkamp](https://movieweb.com/person/heather-langenkamp/) and Amanda Wyss were also present. I LOVE the horror community and the forever friends I’ve been making along the way! [Scout Taylor-Compton](https://movieweb.com/person/scout-taylor-compton/), who played Laurie Strode alongside Harris' Annie Brackett in Rob Zombie's Halloween movies; the two also co-host the Talk Scary to Me podcast. I'm gonna corner her and tell her how much I appreciate her for setting the bar so high for all of us women in horror, because she really did start it for us, so we're very appreciative." While Harris played Laurie Strode's daughter in one of the Halloween timelines, she had never crossed paths with Curtis on a film set or elsewhere.

Jamie Lee Curtis battles Michael Myers one more time in Halloween Ends, which brings this particular trilogy to an end on Peacock and in theaters on.

With this, I believe the idea was present in David Goyer’s original treatment and was a way to motivate the back half of Voight’s journey, to keep it a little vague. “With this, we wanted to find the beauty and the horror together in a more overt fashion. Hopefully, you’re pulled into the corners of the frame, looking at and considering how that might come into play in the future. “I didn’t know what it would mean to go back to something that I would define as the ’80s, necessarily, but a lot of that was in the way Ben [Lovett] and I approached the score. I think for me, Hellraiser was about this line between the abhorrent and the gorgeous, the glamorous and the repulsive, and feeling that irony present in the Cenobites. Part of it is just delivering what we’re excited about, where Hellraiser is concerned on a larger palette, and wanting to find that in both the Cenobite designs and the design. I think I was just too young the first time I saw it to really pick all that up. Not just the old Chris Young themes, but also some of the new ones that Ben used that will often go for something melodic and reflective of a character’s emotional state and indicative of what we’re looking at or what theme that the beat is on necessarily.” It needed to be a love letter to an audience, to a fanbase,” Gordon Green tells The Boo Crew. It was creating a new character that conveniently got to weave itself into the love story, that got to explore the manifesting of evil as it relates to Haddonfield, and also open up a side of intuition and instinct in Laurie that we haven’t seen before.” 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.” Jamie says a beautiful goodbye to Laurie Strode and an exciting look at what’s to come, David talks about the emotional journey designed for you in this incredibly unique Halloween film, crafting an all new vision for Haddonfield and so much more!”

Halloween Ends is not only the best film of the new trilogy, but might also be one of the best Halloween sequels in general.

The rest of the cast is good, with Andi Matichak and Rohan Campbell offering strong support. And once the second act takes hold, Halloween Ends becomes a relentless and kinetic slasher movie that plays out like the ones of old. Opening with a shocking sequence depicting the accidental death of a child under the watch of his babysitter, Corey (Rohan Campbell), Halloween Ends kicks off with a bang that steers the trilogy in a new and fresh direction. This is a fundamental shift, to which fans owe a debt of gratitude. Far be it for us to spoil things, but we can say that Corey’s notoriety, regardless of innocence, sparks a new wave of fear amongst a community still coming to terms with their grief. Halloween Ends is the end of the road for Jamie Lee Curtis as the world’s most beloved final girl, Laurie Strode.