David Gordon Green’s reenvisioning of John Carpenter’s classic Halloween has come to a close with Halloween Ends, and it does, in fact, end. Whether that ending is the right ending depends on your relationship with the franchise.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY Fast-forward to 2022. Laurie Strode is a changed woman. She has bought a house and is living a quiet–but unarmed–life with her granddaughter, Allyson , who is now a nurse. Laurie is working on a memoir, and has returned to some of the activities she enjoyed doing in the original 1978 Halloween: knitting and baking. She even celebrates Halloween now. Luckily, though, Laurie is still a badass underneath it all.
It is difficult to go into much more about the film without getting into spoiler territory, but from the reactions in my screening, anyone who has a deep love and affection for the Halloween franchise did not like this movie. However, those who enjoy the Halloween films casually seemed to love this installment. The theme of Halloween Ends seems to be, like with all Halloween films, the essence of good versus evil, with Michael Myers representing evil and Laurie Strode representing good.