Is it over for masked boogeyman Michael Myers? Not by a long shot. “Halloween Ends,” now in theaters and streaming on Peacock, makes promises it has no intention of keeping.
It also makes the huge mistake of sidelining our killer (James Jude Courtney with help from original Michael, Nick Castle) for the movie’s slow-burning first hour and then saddling him with an accomplice we never heard of before. You call that an ending? Blood-lusting “Halloween” fans may just lose it over this divisive scam of a sequel.
There are compensations that can be summed up in three words: Jamie Lee Curtis. “Halloween Ends” really is the end of the Michael road for this Scream Queen supreme. Curtis has been playing Laurie Strode, the babysitter turned avenging grandma since 1978 when John Carpenter’s “Halloween,” with its jangly, jolting score, began its road to cult immortality.
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“I need to now cut her loose and let her live in the minds and hearts of the fans that have supported her,” Curtis said of Laurie. Thanks for the scary memories, Jamie, and for acting the hell out of the role that made you at star at 19.
“Halloween Ends” does at least cap the trilogy from director David Gordon Green, who wisely pretended that 10 lame redos and sequels to Carpenter’s classic never existed. Green’s 2018 “Halloween” came up aces, almost matching Carpenter’s slithery original. 2021’s “Halloween…
