"Are you the psycho or the freakshow?"

Halloween Ends, the last installment of the Halloween reboot, premiered a couple of days ago and it got mostly, negative reviews from the core audience.  I watched it and decided to give it a couple days to gather my thoughts and in the end, I decided that this movie while not terrible, is an odd way to end the franchise.

Jamie Lee Curtis has said this would be the last time she would be playing Laurie Strode in a Halloween movie and the first two films set up a great rivalry that was to end the lives of one or a couple of the protagonists.   In the end, that did happen but the way the film got there seemed messy and forced.  The issue I and other nerds have with this film is that it is telling two separate stories, one of which has nothing to do with the previous films.  Not only that, but it seems the Michael Myers story, the story everyone has been excited to see, is sandwiched between the Cory Cunningham story and not even a good sandwich. Michael Myers and Laurie's story is the butt of the bread that was used to make this sandwich. 

Uptight nerds will argue that Halloween has always been about evil and how it affects people, not just a serial killer.  While that may be the case, I can assure you that most of the audience is there to see Michael off people.  It's unfair to bring back the series with the original actors, create two movies where they battle it out and then end it with a movie about a kid who through the evil of the town, becomes evil himself and by the way he's dating Laurie's granddaughter so that's his tie in to the whole thing.  The opening scene with Cory murdering a child was pretty good but his story could have better been told in his own movie, having it in this story feels forced and like it's trying too hard to preach that people are the evil ones and they create monsters.  

Another argument could be that the original Halloween III: Season of the Witch had nothing to do with the main storyline and was its own story and this movie is doing the same, right down to the title font and color. It is different than the main story but still reminds you at times that Michael Myers exists.  Corey also shoves and communicates with Michael Myers and he's perfectly ok… what? Michael senses Corey is like him and likes him? Whatever the reason, that seemed out of character.  Let's not forget that Season of the Witch is also the most controversial movie in the franchise with some fans loving it and others downright hating it.  If you have not seen it, you can go ahead and read a recap I wrote a couple years ago right here.

Overall, it was a disappointing end to a promising Blumhouse franchise, whatever the reasons for the choices that were made, they are lost on most fans as we expected an epic conclusion to the previous story we were watching. It's kind of like early Dragon Ball Z episodes where you're watching Gorhan train and the Z warriors battle the Ginyu force and then you get a random Bulma episode where she's walking around and complaining.   I am going to have to suggest the casual fan pass this movie.  I can't wait for a fan to make a YouTube cut of only the Michael Myers scenes; it's going to be an entertaining 13 minutes.