Many of the criticisms of Halloween Ends have to do with the film concluding the franchise by focusing on an original character rather than Laurie or Michael Myers. If more Halloween movies and TV shows are made, then Halloween Ends won't have ended the franchise on this note, fixing this problem.
And, honestly, this movie might actually be worse than the atrocious predecessor Halloween Kills! It's that bad. Looking very cheap and less cinematic than the prior 2 entries, Halloween Ends tells what feels like an incredibly random story that could have been any throwaway sequel from the 80s.
During the four years between Kills and Ends, Michael's untreated wounds caught up with him, he became diseased and frail as a result. Because he can get wounded and stay wounded. His eye was taken out by Laurie in the first Halloween and stayed taken out by 2018.
While the content of Halloween Ends' more intimate ending is a mystery, the reason it was changed is known. In the same interview, Green explains that test audiences didn't receive the original ending well, causing him to want something a bit grander.
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Why did Halloween Ends get bad reviews?
Many of the criticisms of Halloween Ends have to do with the film concluding the franchise by focusing on an original character rather than Laurie or Michael Myers. If more Halloween movies and TV shows are made, then Halloween Ends won't have ended the franchise on this note, fixing this problem.
One viewer who caught up with the movie on Amazon was legendary author Stephen King – and he was so impressed with it, he took to social media to say he wished he had been the one who wrote it! King tweeted, “Fall: Tight, terrific, and very, very scary. Reminded me a bit of Duel. Wish I'd written it.”
Either way, the evil in Michael "transfers" itself to Corey, its power waking up the buried hate inside him. A bond has been formed, and Michael does something he has never done before. He releases Corey and lets him live.
Some possible reasons why Michael Myers hasn't talked again since the murder of his sister is that it's part of the catatonia he tricked everyone into thinking he had, while others, based on the events of Halloween Kills, suggest he is still in shock after what happened in 1963, and he's still that little boy who ...
In Halloween Ends, an injured bullied Corey ends up meeting Michael in the sewers. But just when the slasher's about to kill him, their minds interlock. This psychic link shows how both endured trauma their whole lives, allowing Michael's essence to corrupt Corey.
At the beginning of the film, Michael is weak. As the film progresses, and he kills more people, he becomes stronger. If he can genuinely transcend after every kill, this would explain how he has survived after being jumped and attacked by various citizens of Haddonfield in the previous films.
When he was hospitalized, Dr Loomis explained that Michael convinced other Doctors that he was in a catatonic state when he was only pretending for too many years. If he is capable of doing that, then he can patiently wait hiding anywhere he wants where no one can see him, eating rats and dogs to survive.
Post-production. In June 2022, Blum confirmed that the film had test screened internally the month prior and that it would be the last Halloween film from Blumhouse. The following month, Carpenter described the film as a "departure" from the previous entries in Green's trilogy.
Forget the discourse. David Gordon Green's Halloween Ends is so good that it doesn't just deliver a great finale; it even makes prior films better. HALLOWEEN ENDS is a successful end to the David Gordon Green Halloween trilogy that puts the focus squarely where it belongs – on Laurie Strode and her surviving family.
Dr. Tobia believes that Myers suffers from Conversion Disorder, a mental illness “characterized by loss of sensory and/or motor function,” which explains why Myers never says “I'm back, bozos!,” or utters anything else for that matter.
Trauma. Jason was rendered mute after barely surviving his near drowning at the age of 11. He was slightly mentally challenged before then and the fact that he was abused by the other campers made it worse.
Michael however is not without his fears as it indicated that he wears his mask to hide his face and emotions due to the fact Michael's face is seen to be normal looking and rather handsome, and since one of the sources of Michael's power is through the fear he inflicts on others, Michael could be afraid of losing that ...
Corey soon becomes a conduit for Michael, going so far as to wear the iconic mask to get revenge on those who have tormented him in the years since the child died under his care.
The new movie did not outright confirm anything, but it seemed to show a weakened Michael transferring his evil into new serial killer Corey Cunningham, a troubled young man who the Shape spared, for some reason.
Contrary to popular belief, Michael Myers' face has been revealed before Halloween Kills. The slasher villain has been unmasked a couple of times before, and he looks mildly different each time. The first time audiences caught a glimpse of Michael Myers unmasked was none other than John Carpenter's original Halloween.
King was also an avid reader of EC horror comics, and in his memoir On Writing, he shared that from an early age, he was scared of many things, so one of the reasons he started writing horror stories was to drown that scariness of his mind.
The purpose of horror, according to King, seems to be a sort of catharsis – an externalization of our deepest fears into something fictional and, thus, more manageable. What this fails to explain is why the macabre realism of horror is often one of its most fascinating elements.
