Halloween Ends

The third Halloween movie from David Gordon Green in a subset trilogy within the franchise is set to make around $55M this weekend at 3,901 theaters. Halloween ...

The movie is expected to ease 55% in its third go-round. Green’s first Halloween movie back in 2018 which brought back an older and wiser Laurie Strode played by Jamie Lee Curtis is the best grossing of the trio with $7.7M in Thursday night previews, a $33M opening Friday and $76.2M first weekend, which was exclusively theatrical. [Halloween Ends](https://deadline.com/tag/halloween-ends/) cost $30M before P&A. Last year, Uni went theatrical day and date on Halloween Kills out of caution for moviegoers during the pandemic, and also to spike Peacock subs. That figure is +11% from last year’s [Halloween Kills](https://deadline.com/tag/halloween-kills/)‘ previews, which were $4.85M. Opening limited this weekend is United Artists Releasing/Eon’s Chinonye Chukwu directed drama Till at 16 locations in five markets. Again, it’s not that Universal doesn’t have any faith in theatrical, Peacock at [15M paid subscribers](https://deadline.com/2022/10/nbcuniversal-jeff-shell-peacock-million-subscribers-primetime-hour-affiliates-1235135158/) needs more subscribers. Critics largely liked Green’s 2018 Halloween at 79% on Rotten Tomatoes, audiences giving it a B+. [which is set to lose as much as $100M](https://deadline.com/2022/10/amsterdam-box-office-flop-david-o-russell-movie-1235140204/), ended its first week with $9M at 3,005 theaters. [Smile](https://deadline.com/tag/smile/) grossed an estimated $1.5M yesterday, -8% from Wednesday at 3,659 putting its two week running total at $58.6M after a $26.4M second week. Till will expand to additional markets and theaters in coming weeks. [Universal](https://deadline.com/tag/universal/)’s release of [Blumhouse](https://deadline.com/tag/blumhouse/), [Miramax](https://deadline.com/tag/miramax/) and Trancas’ [Halloween](https://deadline.com/tag/halloween/) Ends saw a Thursday night of $5.4M from 3,200 theaters with showtimes beginning at 5 p.m.

I wrote in my review of the 2018 reboot of “Halloween” that the team behind the film didn't “really understand what made the first film a masterpiece.

A shocking amount of “Halloween Ends” is poorly executed with clunkier editing, framing, and writing than the other two films, as if the team were hired to make this one as a contractual requirement and were trying to get through it as quickly as possible. To say the love story between Corey and Allyson is underwritten and unbelievable would be an understatement. When the kid decides to play a prank on Corey, it results in an accident that leaves the little scamp dead, turning Corey into a pariah. He’s babysitting for a kid in Haddonfield who’s a little scared by all the murder around town. [Halloween Kills](/reviews/halloween-kills-movie-review-2021)” didn’t prove me right then the baffling “Halloween Ends” certainly does. There will be another “Halloween” movie somewhere in the future, which will make this even more of an odd tangent in the history of a horror legend.

Movie Review: In Halloween Ends, director David Gordon Green and star Jamie Lee Curtis bring the classic slasher series to a surprisingly entertaining end.

The new movie is maybe not quite as goofy, but it has a similarly irreverent spirit, a refusal to fit into the demands of the broader slasher genre and a cavalier attitude toward this specific slasher’s so-called lore. Luckily, with Halloween Ends, he’s found a way to make one of these movies his own, sans scares but with tons of atmosphere and a sense of queasy, gathering dread. Watching the slow-building romance of Corey and Allyson against the backdrop of this dead-end small town, it feels at times like director Green has finally brought to the series some of the charm of his earlier independent films. (Relax — it’s not a spoiler if it’s the first thing that happens in the movie.) Although he ultimately gets off, Corey’s life is ruined. We might know where the story is going generally, but individual scenes retain the element of surprise, as the story takes unexpected emotional detours. (“As he was locked away in his prison, I disappeared into mine.”) Her new attempts at a soft-focus life notwithstanding, Laurie secretly wants to mix it up. He’s an outcast in the town of Haddonfield, Illinois, a place that knows a thing or two about child murders. Eventually, the movie does begin to indulge in gore and other typical genre kicks, which can feel like a bit of a letdown, in part because Green, despite having co-written and directed all of the entries in this most recent crop of Halloween sequels, isn’t really a horror guy. Indeed, the craziest thing in Halloween Ends might be its opening scene, which takes place on Halloween night 2019 and features a teenage babysitter, Corey Cunningham (Rohan Campbell), taking care of a young boy who’s a little too fond of pranks. There’s no desperation to escalate, no tiresome fetishization of the gruesome. The only person who seems to show Corey any kind of grace is longtime franchise survivor Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), who after the events of the previous film appears to be trying to shed much of her gun-toting, survivalist persona. After the carnival-belly inanity of the previous movie,

The new horror movie, now in theaters and streaming on Peacock, brings Michael Myers back from the grave after Halloween Kills, but can't find a logical ...

The Halloween saga started by John Carpenter and Debra Hill in 1978 ends in this film, but the end can’t vindicate the existence of this continuation of the story. Where Halloween Kills was a brutal slasher that seemed to place us in the shoes of the Shape, David Gordon Green tries everything he can to subvert the primal origins of the premise. He discards the modernized John Carpenter visuals and camera work that became essential to his first Halloween sequel for a less creative or energetic film where the camera barely moves. Halloween Ends continues the thread from Kills of asking whether Michael Myers is a 70-something-year-old mentally ill man or evil incarnate, a supernatural being that heals himself through the act of killing and can almost pass on his essence to others. The tonal shift borders on victim-shaming, and a complete betrayal to what was supposed to be the core of this movie. That’s because most of the 111-minute run time is spent on Corey, who becomes a social pariah after a deadly incident one Halloween night and gets strangely obsessed with Michael Myers.

Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Christy Lemire and Justin Chang review this weekend's new movie releases in theaters, streaming, and on demand platforms.

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Does 'Halloween Ends' uses a credit scene to tease the future of the beloved slasher franchise?

But Green is right, and we should probably wait a few years before even returning to the Halloween universe. There’s just no way Michael can ever come back from this death, and by eviscerating the boogeyman in front of the whole town, Laurie allows Haddonfield to move past its gruesome history. There’s no longer an evil monster lurking in the shadows, and everyone can see that their lives must not be controlled by fear. Laurie reflects on how Michael is just a human in a mask, after all, and decides to take extreme measures to help heal Haddonfield by destroying the myth and not just the man. However, before the Marvel Cinematic Universe made them a rule, end credits scenes were primarily used in horror movies to tease the return of a villain we thought was dead. For a few years now, every major Hollywood production seems to have an end credits scene, frequently pointing to future installments of a beloved franchise.

Now that we've reached the end of this particular trilogy with Halloween Ends, we have questions - and some answers. Is this it for Laurie Strode for real ...

The holiday's also central to the plot of Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers. The song plays on the radio in Halloween '78 as Laurie and Annie are driving around Haddonfield. - There are several homages and straight-up recreations to and of the original Halloween movie here. [The Rings of Power: Sauron Actor Responds to the Finale Reveal5h ago - The actor behind the Dark Lord gives their first comments on the surprise.](/articles/lord-of-the-rings-rings-of-power-sauron-actor-responds-to-the-finale-reveal) [Pokémon Sword and Shield Won't Be Supported Past November9h ago - Online trading and friendly battles will remain.](/articles/pokmon-sword-and-shield-wont-be-supported-past-november) [The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Finale Explained9h ago - Well... - The main title font is the same used in the first third Halloween movie, Season of the Witch. This is a bit of a visual callback to the posters for Halloween 5, Halloween 6, and Halloween: Resurrection. But not dead enough apparently, as they strap his body to the top of a car and drive to the scrapyard as the townspeople follow. We see that Michael’s mask sits on a table in Laurie’s home, and the film end. He and Laurie get into a huge fight in the kitchen and she manages to pin his hands down to the table with knives, stab him in the chest and through the armpit, and slice his throat. Meanwhile, Corey is getting closer to Allyson and resolves with her to “burn it to the ground” and leave Haddonfield. But that night, he gets jumped by a group of – yes – marching band bullies, and finds himself in a sewer drain that is also Michael Myers’ hideaway. Halloween Ends starts on Halloween 2019, one year after the events of the previous two movies.

This thirteenth (!) movie features favorites like Andi Matichak, Nick Castle, James Jude Courtney, Will Patton, Rohan Campbell and Kyle Richards (who's ...

[Annie O’Sullivan](/author/223968/annie-o-sullivan)Assistant Editor [Halloween Ends available to watch](https://imp.i305175.net/c/3006986/828265/11640?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.peacocktv.com%2Fstream-movies%2Fhalloween-ends&subId1={subid}&subId3=xid:{xid}) via its Premium subscription. At the moment, Peacock is the only streaming site that will have Halloween Ends available while it's in theaters. Fans of the previous film know that Laurie's daughter Karen (Judy Greer) was killed in the 2021 movie Halloween Kills. The movie takes place four years after Laurie Strode's ( This year, fans of the thriller franchise are more excited than ever for the newest and last installment, Halloween Ends.

Four years after her last encounter with masked killer Michael Myers, Laurie Strode is living with her granddaughter and trying to finish her memoir. Myers hasn ...

There's a well-earned catharsis in Ends that might make most horror fans doubtful of the filmmakers' choice in ending, but perhaps we need that reminder that not all is hopeless in the world and that good can still triumph over evil. However, the movie doesn't forget its roots and presents horror fans with a smorgasbord of inventive kills, gore set to the max, and just enough jump scares to keep you on your toes. Curtis, as always, truly loves her role as Laurie and has a little more fun with it this time around as a survivor on the path to healing. Another instalment with more mindless killing would have been a disservice to the franchise, and Laurie's evolving understanding of what evil is exactly and how it lives in all of us elevates Ends beyond mere slasher fare. However, when a young man is accused of murdering a boy he was babysitting, it ignites a cascade of violence and terror that forces Laurie to confront the evil she can't control. Four years later, in movie time, Halloween Ends takes us back to Haddonfield for one last bloody ride, offering potential closure for the trauma endured by its residents and Laurie's family.

Once again, it's time for Halloween to end. The Michael Myers saga has previously had endings in Halloween II (1981), Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, ...

It's this lack of Michael Myers which will divide fans. It's this character of Corey who is going to be the issue for a lot of fans, he is ostensibly passed the torch from Michael Myers in this film and a lot of the heebie-jeebies in the film are provided from him. Halloween Ends is the conclusion of the new trilogy which began in 2018 with the annoyingly titled Halloween and continued in 2021 with the annoyingly terrible Halloween Kills.

Halloween was rebooted (again) in 2018, promising a fitting end to Laurie Strode and Michael Myers' story that started way back in 1978. And now we've reached ...

The holiday's also central to the plot of Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers. The song plays on the radio in Halloween '78 as Laurie and Annie are driving around Haddonfield. - There are several homages and straight-up recreations to and of the original Halloween movie here. - The main title font is the same used in the first third Halloween movie, Season of the Witch. This is a bit of a visual callback to the posters for Halloween 5, Halloween 6, and Halloween: Resurrection. But not dead enough apparently, as they strap his body to the top of a car and drive to the scrapyard as the townspeople follow. We see that Michael’s mask sits on a table in Laurie’s home, and the film end. He and Laurie get into a huge fight in the kitchen and she manages to pin his hands down to the table with knives, stab him in the chest and through the armpit, and slice his throat. Meanwhile, Corey is getting closer to Allyson and resolves with her to “burn it to the ground” and leave Haddonfield. In the end, Laurie fakes a suicide attempt, but in reality she knew that Corey was coming for her and she shoots him. But that night, he gets jumped by a group of – yes – marching band bullies, and finds himself in a sewer drain that is also Michael Myers’ hideaway. Halloween Ends starts on Halloween 2019, one year after the events of the previous two movies.

Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Michael Myers (aka The Shape) in. Credit: Ryan Greene / Universal Pictures. When bullying old biddy Bunny (Jayne Houdyshell) ...

[Only Murders in the Building is now streaming on Hulu. On the other hand, OMITB boasts a bold fashion sense for every character, bringing color and pizzazz to the Upper West Side-set tale of murder and conspiracy. Who wore it best: Literally Only Murders in the Building wore their fall fashion best. It's a ploy to lure in the slasher she knows is lurking in the hall, and it works. But when she tries to sweet-talk Corey's mother for information, she shows a softer side with an incredibly stylish color-block cardigan in orange and blue. Rather than using clothes to paint a whimsical vision of crime in the Big Apple, this costume designer must create a small Illinois town that feels achingly authentic. It wasn't just Charles' (and Martin's) convincing performance, but also that this faked death hit right before the commercial break. In the somber grief that follows, the true killer cracks, unleashing a torrid confession, and revealing how they'd faked their own death before! Among the stories that skip about the town like a candy-fueled trick-or-treaters is an anecdote about Laurie skewering Michael with her knitting needles In Ends, turnabout is fair play; this time around, when Laurie tries to get stabby with her knitting gear, Michael turns the makeshift weapon back on our heroine. With the third installment of David Gordon Green's trilogy now on [Peacock](https://mashable.com/deals/oct-14-peacock-premium) and in theaters, there's no better time to reflect on how these two very different productions are surprisingly squaring off in twists, kills, and even fall-flavored fashion. Facing down her flittering memories and past trauma, Mabel herself wasn't even sure of her innocence, especially after using her needles as a self-defense tool on the subway.

It's Laurie Strode vs. Michael Myers one last time in 'Halloween Ends,' and Jamie Lee Curtis discusses what she wanted out of that brutal final brawl.

And then how we treat that becomes the conversation we have after we walk out of the film.” For the filmmaker, “Halloween Ends” is ultimately “an examination, in hopefully an entertaining way, of how evil manifests,” he adds. Cut to the final fight and a similar moment where Michael witnesses everything Laurie’s gone through, all the way back to their initial “meeting” in John Carpenter’s original 1978 “Halloween.” Ultimately, Green was struck by a line in the script from a scene where Laurie runs into old friend Frank Hawkins (Will Patton), and there’s a little spark between them as Frank talks to her about going to see the cherry blossoms. After Laurie puts a stop to Corey’s bloody reign of terror – and Allyson blames her grandma for his death – Michael (played by James Jude Courtney) shows his masked face for a brutal kitchen showdown with Laurie. Set after the events of 2018’s “Halloween” and 2021’s “Halloween Kills,” the new film finds Laurie being ostracized in her hometown of Haddonfield because she's blamed for its bloody history.

"Halloween Ends," the conclusion to the horror saga starring Jamie Lee Curtis and directed by David Gordon Green, is opening on top of the box office.

Although the musical underwhelmed in its opening last weekend, it is looking to find some legs by benefitting from a theatrical landscape with little competition for families and young children. The film garnered a staggering $76 million — still the third-highest domestic debut ever for a horror film, after the two “It” entries. Directed by David Gordon Green, “Halloween Ends” sees Jamie Lee Curtis return as Laurie Strode to kill Michael Myers once and for all, though the town of Haddonfield, Ill. “Ends” is tracking below last year’s franchise entry, “Halloween Kills,” which earned a $49 million domestic opening in its own day-and-date release. “Kills” ended up with an extremely front-loaded box office performance, earning more than half of its total domestic gross in its first weekend. Though “Ends” will debut slightly beneath initial projections, it will earn more than enough to top weekend charts, sparking some life into what has largely been a muted season for moviegoing.