Halloween Ends |
* * * * MA15+ 2022 - Horror/Thriller - 1h 51m
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 spectre 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; The Hardy Boys Virgin River) 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.
Director: David Gordon Green (Our Brand Is Crisis)
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis Rohan Campbell Andi Matichak Will Patton.
Release date: 13 October 2022
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46% TOMATOMETER
62% AUDIENCE SCORE
Review
HALLOW GOODBYE
FITTING FINALE TO ONE OF THE BIG SCREEN'S LONGEST DEATH SENTENCES
Review by Leigh PAATSCH | Herald Sun
All bad things must come to an end
As they say in the classics "it ain't over 'til it's over".
And if we are to take away anything from Halloween Ends "it" will finally be "over" - once and for all - for the most iconic star-crossed and blood-spattered couple in horror movie history.
The perpetually stressed-out and messed-up heroine of Halloween Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her stab-happy sad-sack nemesis Michael Myers have been dancing a tango of mutual torment dating all the way back to 1978.
Sure the music often stopped for lengthy periods across the Halloween franchise's long and twisted journey.
And yes there were times where both had been definitively killed off never to return.
Nevertheless Laurie and Michael have always been made for each other while making each other's lives a misery.
Four decades-plus of looking over her shoulder can't have been to the benefit of Laurie's mental health. As for Michael well all that time spent under that itchy-looking old mask can't have been good for his complexion.
So as we enter the familiarly forbidding Halloween universe and take our front-row seats for a showdown so many horror fans have been waiting for a vague sense of sadness descends. This will be the last time these best-of-frenemies will get to do what they have done so well.
Therefore the overall quality of the first two acts of Halloween Ends will be of little concern to longstanding devotees of the series.
While storytelling standards have decidedly slipped since 2018's surprisingly strong reactivation of the franchise they remain well above those displayed by last year's rather dreadful Halloween Kills (an instalment most people missed due to the last of the Covid lockdowns).
All you really need to know regarding the plot of Halloween Ends is that Laurie is almost at peace with her problematic past. Almost. Perhaps even to the point of becoming complacent about the ever-persistent threat of another unannounced visit from Mr Myers.
Then again how was Laurie to know that by finding a boyfriend for her granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak) she would be once again unlocking the gates of her own personal hell?
Corey (Rohan Campbell) is a nice enough lad but there is a personality defect in his make-up that could be all that Michael needs to re-enter Laurie's seemingly secure world.
As directed by David Gordon Green - who has been at the helm of the two previous episodes - Halloween Ends does a professional and focused job of justifying and then enacting its climactic confrontation between two veteran combatants.
While the final dramatic destination arrived at by the movie cannot be mentioned here be assured that Halloween Ends finds a fitting full stop to complete one of cinema's longest death sentences.
Herald Sun - HALLOW GOODBYE
Wednesday Oct 12 2022
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