We said we wouldn’t do it. When we sat down and watched the entire “Halloween” franchise (12 films!) in a week to rank them before “Halloween Ends,” we said we didn’t need to discuss the finale because it was probably going to be just fine and exactly what we expected would happen. Laurie kills Michael. Evil dies tonight! You know the drill. Well, David Gordon Green zigged when we thought he would zag and turned in what we think might be one of the worst “Halloween” films of all time. This warrants a discussion.
“Halloween Ends” is finally in theaters, and regardless of your opinion of the film, you have to admit that David Gordon Green really did attempt a big swing. When everyone was expecting the final showdown between Jamie Lee Curtis’ Laurie Strode and evil personified, Michael Myers, the filmmaker decided to give us a character study about how trauma and evil could infect a young boy and turn him into a psychopath. Needless to say, this tangent has taken everyone by surprise and has already divided the fanbase.
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So, you can listen below to our whole discussion, where we put to bed the “Halloween” franchise once and for all by dissecting ‘Ends’ and trying to figure out where this new trilogy went wrong:
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