mr_bickle_the_pickle Review of Halloween Ends

Halloween Ends (2022)

I actually liked it - It does something DIFFERENT and to me thats good

[9/10 · 17 October 2022]

I went in with not a lot of expectation. Particularly because I didnt really like Halloween Kills and I had heard a lot of negative reviews for this.....but I actually really liked it. For starters, I liked that they actually did something different. It would have been so easy to just have Michael Myers go on a rampage, kill a bunch of people and surprise surprise is someone alive at the end. I dont know if Michael somehow transferred a part of his soul or if he just sensed the darkness already in, but I was totally on board for exploring the idea of evil never dying because anybody can become it. Im not syhaing the film was perfect. I did roll my eyes a bit at the romance sub plot. But I always find so unbelievable in any genre when someone knows someone for like 3 days and is like "Ermagerd, you're the love of my life. Lets run away together". They could have done more to expand that relationship. I also don t get why the town was against Laurie. I mean, to a certain extent I get the town needed a scapegoat. But, I just dont get the sentiment that its her fault because she taunted him and invited him in. Like sure, she was paranoid and built a death trap house. But its not like she was visiting him at the criminal hospital going "Ha ha sucker, you didnt get me" or something. Like, he came back and started killing people on his volition. Also, I dont get the criticism of the film being messy. I think it had a very clear idea in mind of where it wanted to go, whereas Halloween Kills seemed a lot more random and trying to cash in nostalgia rather than plot. And I also wanted to add that I really liked that they brought back the whole " Michael is just a man" mythos. Whereas again Halloween Kills seemed to ignore that and just went straight into "No hes a supernatural, unstoppable killer". And I thought Rohan Campbell was a good addition to the cast. He did a great job of conveying both creepy as well as sympathetic.