Obnoxious brat Jeremy (Jaxon Goldenberg) locks his babysitter Corey Cunningham (Rohan Campbell) in the attic. Corey gets flustered and kicks the attic door open, accidentally knocking Jeremy over the bannisters to land in a bloody heap at the feet of his parents, who have just arrived home.
Corey is released but becomes a local pariah, someone for the people of Haddonfield to demonise now that Michael Myers isn't around. Except that Michael is around. He's been living in the sewers like a ninja turtle, presumably feeding on rats and poo. Or rat poo. After Corey is pushed off a bridge by local bullies, he is dragged underground by Michael, but Myers doesn't kill him: instead, they become best buds and go on a killing spree, which is bad news for Laurie Strode's granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak) who has just started dating Corey. Fortunately, Laurie (Jamie Lee Curtis) has seen something in Corey's eyes that makes her believe that he is going down a dark path, but can she convince Allyson that her boyfriend is evil before it is too late?
I went into Halloween Ends with the mindset 'How can director David Gordon Green possibly make a worse movie than Halloween Kills?'. I've just found out.
The film kicks things off with a pre-credits sequence that made me wonder whether this was going to be a comedy, and it just gets worse. And worse. And worse. Each time I thought the film couldn't be any more insulting to horror fans, Green does the seemingly impossible.
From the moment they show the metal crusher in the junkyard where Corey works, it's obvious that Michael will be reduced to mincemeat at the end. Less predictable is just how little Michael actually features in the film: this is a Halloween movie, so one might reasonably expect Myers to play a big part, but the series' iconic killer only makes brief appearances, the bulk of the film revolving around Corey. This is not what fans want!
But it's not just the lack of Myers that makes this film a total failure: there's the awful script, which offers up more groan-worthy dialogue and godawful moments than its predecessor, something that I didn't think was even possible. Michael and Corey becoming pals is dreadful (I half expected to see Michael riding pillion on Corey's motorcycle), but for me the worst bits are when Corey tells Allyson that he has killed someone and she doesn't bat an eyelid, or when Laurie decides to pull the knife out of Corey's neck after he has stabbed himself, just as Allyson walks in through the door, leading the girl to believe that her gran has killed her boyfriend. Doh!
After the inevitable and risible showdown between Laurie and Michael, and the disposing of the maniac's body in that grinder, the film finally ends, leaving David Gordon Green to focus on destroying another horror classic, The Exorcist (why does he hate horror fans so much? What have we ever done to him?).
Corey is released but becomes a local pariah, someone for the people of Haddonfield to demonise now that Michael Myers isn't around. Except that Michael is around. He's been living in the sewers like a ninja turtle, presumably feeding on rats and poo. Or rat poo. After Corey is pushed off a bridge by local bullies, he is dragged underground by Michael, but Myers doesn't kill him: instead, they become best buds and go on a killing spree, which is bad news for Laurie Strode's granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak) who has just started dating Corey. Fortunately, Laurie (Jamie Lee Curtis) has seen something in Corey's eyes that makes her believe that he is going down a dark path, but can she convince Allyson that her boyfriend is evil before it is too late?
I went into Halloween Ends with the mindset 'How can director David Gordon Green possibly make a worse movie than Halloween Kills?'. I've just found out.
The film kicks things off with a pre-credits sequence that made me wonder whether this was going to be a comedy, and it just gets worse. And worse. And worse. Each time I thought the film couldn't be any more insulting to horror fans, Green does the seemingly impossible.
From the moment they show the metal crusher in the junkyard where Corey works, it's obvious that Michael will be reduced to mincemeat at the end. Less predictable is just how little Michael actually features in the film: this is a Halloween movie, so one might reasonably expect Myers to play a big part, but the series' iconic killer only makes brief appearances, the bulk of the film revolving around Corey. This is not what fans want!
But it's not just the lack of Myers that makes this film a total failure: there's the awful script, which offers up more groan-worthy dialogue and godawful moments than its predecessor, something that I didn't think was even possible. Michael and Corey becoming pals is dreadful (I half expected to see Michael riding pillion on Corey's motorcycle), but for me the worst bits are when Corey tells Allyson that he has killed someone and she doesn't bat an eyelid, or when Laurie decides to pull the knife out of Corey's neck after he has stabbed himself, just as Allyson walks in through the door, leading the girl to believe that her gran has killed her boyfriend. Doh!
After the inevitable and risible showdown between Laurie and Michael, and the disposing of the maniac's body in that grinder, the film finally ends, leaving David Gordon Green to focus on destroying another horror classic, The Exorcist (why does he hate horror fans so much? What have we ever done to him?).