You know how James is pretty famously one of the shittiest parts of the Twin Peaks experience? God damn it I kissed the ground David Lynch walks on but James is always been nothing but an annoying distraction or otherwise damn near perfect TV show. Welcome to the annoying distraction movie
Halloween Ends is a 2022 American slasher film that is the sequel to Halloween Kills (2021), the thirteenth installment in the Halloween franchise, and the final film in the trilogy of sequels that started with the 2018 film, which directly follows the 1978 film.
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't been seen since, and Laurie finally decides to liberate herself from rage and fear and embrace life. However, when a young man stands accused of murdering a boy that he was babysitting, it ignites a cascade of violence and terror that forces Laurie to confront the evil she can't control.
Very bizarrely, Director David Gordon Green claims he set out to make each sequel different. For the second film, he wanted an action film and for the finale he wanted a love story. I was a big fan of HALLOWEEN 2018 being a blockbuster slasher movie, Halloween Kills there's never terribly enjoyable for me, In this movie is by far the worst of the trilogy.
I really wish this movie would have had the summer block-buster type feel of the 2018 film, instead of some episode of an edgy Riverdale bullshit love story. All this movie really had to do to keep me entertained is give me a satisfying conclusion with a few good kills thrown in, and this movie fails on both fronts. The conclusion here is a real limp dick, and the kills are very obviously CGI on the brief occasion that we actually get a kill.
Countless movies have done the whole "The original slasher is dead, put the town continue to be haunted by repeat violins in the name of Michael Myers" type shtick before, And I have no idea why they thought this would be anything close to satisfying. Every other death of Michael Myers I have seen is better than this one, and it's a real shame that they don't lean into the spectacle.
Everything about it is just mishandled and done in the worst way possible. Why the fuck are we trying to take things in a new direction for the series on the last movie, why can't you just keep doing what you've been doing and make this a badass big screen finale?
2/10
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