Halloween Ends - The scoop and digest

David Gordon Green's trilogy comes to a close.

Jamie Lee Curtis - Laurie Strode

Andi Matichak - Allyson

James Jude Courtney - The Shape

Rohan Campbell - Corey Cunningham

Will Patton - Frank Hawkins

Summary

Halloween Night 2019.

21-year-old Corey Cunningham is hired to babysit Jeremy who locks him in the attic and won't let him out.  Enraged, Corey kicks the door in, accidentally causing wee lad to fall over the balcony to his death.

Three years later.

Laurie lives with Allyson, writing her memoirs and trying to lead a normal life.

Corey, who was released without charge, is hated by Haddonfield.

One night, he's taunted by kids and knocked sparko when thrown over a bridge.

We discover that Michael has been living in a sewer for the past four years and attacks randomers for shits and gigs.

Unfortunately, he doesn't wear a coloured headband or seen eating pizza.

Corey is dragged inside adoptive home and forced to look into the devil's eyes.

There's a new boogeyman in town.

Dark path

Apart from the opening 10 minutes, boring teenage romance was absolute DOGSHIT.

In The Return of Michael Myers, Jamie Lloyd (Michael's niece in that timeline), was influenced by uncle after touching his hand.

On a grander scale, that's basically the plot.

We came to watch Michael, not the Corey fucking Cunningham show.

Lots of stupid things happen in disjointed mess, but Corey overpowering Michael and taking mask by force was hilarious.

Horror icon cuts a very pathetic figure and has very little screen time until the much hyped showdown.

At Laurie's house, Michael snaps accomplice's neck and retrieves his mask.

After a brief struggle, Laurie pins Michael to a table with a knife in each hand.  She removes mask and slits his throat.  In a final act of defiance, he tries to strangle her, but Allyson's convenient intervention allows Laurie to slash his wrist.

Body is fed to scrapyard's industrial shredder in a midnight procession.

Really?

A more satisfying climax would be Michael and Laurie dying fighting each other, then we'd have ultimate closure.

Unfortunately, I'm not in charge.

A few things of note.

The only other time Laurie (really Angel Myers) kills Michael is in the theatrical version of Rob Zombie's Halloween II.

Resurrection is collectively also set four years after H20.

Finally, Michael bows out aged 65.  James Jude Courtney is currently the same age.

Coincidence?