Halloween Ends — How to Ruin Horror | Anatomy Of A Failure

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oh yeah also... I guess this dude wasn't aware but the director specifically said this wasn't meant to be a horror but a love story infused w/horror..... and THIS is Why it FAILED

Let's also not forget the part where Corey out-wrestles Michael, you know, the freakishly strong, bulletproof psycho, and takes his mask. I got a good belly laugh out of that one.

So Lory was paranoid for 40 years for the small chance Michael escaped but the moment Michael escaped and killed Lorys family she finally stops being paranoid?

I’m actually disappointed that Laurie and Allison just completely forgotten about Karen. Like as if there was no grief for her.

My BIGGEST problem with the movie is that the trailers lied to us. They implied that Michael and Lowry would be the center of this movie, culminating in a final showdown but what we GOT was a weird RomCom movie where this sad kid goes on a killing spree, beats Michael myers up with little effort, and then Michael and Lowry have a glorified cameo with a showdown at the end.

"The memory of him will fade" she wrote in her book about the story of Michael Myers. Man, imagine 44 years ago you'd see Michael Myers overpowered by a guy who gets bullied by band geeks.

Halloween Ends is indefinite proof that usually the first installment of a franchise is always going to be the best.

I find it baffling how Halloween Ends had four writers and this was the best they could come up with.

Jamie Lee Curtis wasn’t kidding when she said this movie was going to piss a lot of people off. This movie had So much potential, only for it to be squandered. Such a shame

You're totally right about the kid falling over the railing making no sense. There's an episode of an American reality t.v. crime show called "Forensic Files" where a killer tried to make it look like his mother-in-law fell over a railing while carrying a vcr up some stairs but the experts showed that she was too short to go up and over the railing with the vcr without breaking the railing.

Michael Myers is a great case study. The ratio of how paper thin his premise is to how many lousy cash grab sequels they got from him is truly impressive, even compared to a lot of more modern dumpster fire franchises.

What bothered me about this film was that basically every character was just unreasonably awful or stupid. The townspeople's hatred of Laurie didn't make a lick of sense; it could've worked but it was always on such flimsy premises that they essentially blamed him for Michael Myers, because she... teased him? What? And how stupid was Allyson to believe the child killing murderer over her mother? The guy even told her he'd killed someone, clearly referring to someone OTHER than the child he'd already accidentally killed, and she doesn't even ask about it and it's not brought up again. I find it impossible to sympathize with this characters or the stakes that the movie is trying to build when everyone acts like an alien.

14:02 "You could argue that I'm just nitpicking. But I could also argue that you're just inhaling copium." LOOOOOL

Ends is giving fan fiction energy. It's a dead on arrival concept. The franchise takes a lot of time trying to rationalize Michael, to uncover the sources of his power and evil, and within this trilogy, there are multiple answers. Demystifying a supernatural being robs them not only of their power within the story, but their power over the audience. By the end of the movie, both Michael and Corey are reduced just being some dudes, the legacy of this franchise nerfed to "it's just the mask bro". I always thought that Michael needed the mask in a figurative, self-image sense, not in the literal, it gives him power sense. At the core of horror is mystery, when it's gone, the story loses its appeal. The director said that he always envisioned Michael as being nothing more than a man, and on top of that not aligning with everything he's survived, I just don't understand why he'd want to do that. You start asking questions like "wait, does Michael eat, what kind of things does he eat, does Michael sleep", things that take you out of the world because instead of fearing the unknown, you're analyzing and trying to connect that world to yours. And yeah, ordinary people can be scary, but before this movie, Michael was never an ordinary person. I guess what I'm saying is that instead of being some guy, possessed by evil in some way, I think Michael is at his most interesting when he is simply the evil itself. We don't know how it happened, we don't how to stop it, we don't know if there are more like him out there. There are a few cool scenes in this, but overall, this is easily the most disappointing movie in the series. Yes, more than Resurrection. We knew that was gonna be bad lol.

After suffering through “Kills,” and “Ends,” I am terrified of how they’ll handle the new “Exorcist” trilogy that’s coming.

Dude I can't belive Halloween ended today, I was so looking forward to getting candy.

What people don’t understand about Halloween is that the main thing that makes the series so good isn’t the scares but the suspense, you don’t need to scare the audience every 15 minutes in a Halloween movie, you just need to make them feel uneasy, that why Halloween opens with Micheal Myers escaping the asylum, why H2 opens with us seeing that Micheal survived and that Laurie got sedated and why the opening scene in H4 shows us that Micheal is still alive and that when he finds out that he has a living niece his first response is to start murdering people. Halloween is always at best when the audience knows as soon as the movie starts everyone is in danger

I think the issue for me with this film was that when that child got yeeted down the stairs and cracked like a ice cream cone, it had me dying laughing and the film had just started.

What I hate the most about Ends is just the missed opportunity to make this whole trilogy take place one a single night.