Review of Halloween Ends (2022) by Kuehnau — 23 Oct 2022

This is one of those films that if you manage to finish it, you're asking yourself, "What were they thinking?".

Halloween Ends is supposed to be the final in a new trilogy to the Halloween franchise. The first two films weren't terrible, but this last one goes completely off the road with what's expected from a Halloween flick.

They took the focus from Michelle Myers and instead decided to spend most of the movie on a relationship between two victims and the psychological effect Michelle had on the town of Haddonfield.

Myers finally makes his appearance, much later than he should have, to reveal that he is badly beaten and injured from his last encounter and I guess he now has the ability to psychically control people? How does that even work when most of the other films establish he is more of a force of nature than anything else? He always gets back up, that's what makes him dangerous.

Eventually the entire town gets together to basically funeral march Michelle down to the local dump to throw his body in a grinder. Even though the movie spent a majority of it's time reinforcing the idea that people either don't believe in Michelle or blame his family for what happened. It's weird and surreal, especially given the context the film provides. Seriously, this film is a mess. Hopefully some day someone will get their hands on the franchise and do it some justice.