After facing such traumatic horror, she narrates from her journal, “Do we lock our doors or let the evil in?” That cry becomes the question of the movie: Was Corey’s action evil, and if it was, does that mean Corey is himself evil? With a heavy-handed and somewhat ungainly script, Halloween Ends articulates this thesis when Laurie Strode narrates in voiceover her own struggling insights into what her life has become after accepting the evil that was Michael Myers killed her daughter four years ago (the ending of Halloween Kills). The malevolent laughter died with the child, leaving the audience dead silent as the camera focused on the boy’s mother. We didn’t watch a slasher movie sequence it was the type of freak accident that represents the worst fear of any parent. When Corey, terrified that he’d been locked in an attic on Halloween night in Haddonfield, kicks down a door, it is a complete accident that the little boy taunting him on the other side is knocked over a railing-tumbling to his death in front of his parents. In fact, a murder didn’t even take place. With a quirky introduction to a male babysitter named Corey (which the screenplay’s natural comedy writers have a lot of fun with), the screening’s loudest horror movie talk-backers were gleeful while anticipating the first kill of the movie… But then Corey lived. It was a curious thing listening to my audience’s reaction to Halloween Ends’ opening scene. Why Did Corey Cunningham Become Another Michael Myers? But this really is Corey’s story, and the story of how the rot of a scarred community can nurture wounds that never heal-passing trauma and violence from one generation to the next. It’s a fairly subversive idea for what’s being marketed as the final Michael Myers slasher movie to actually be the story of Corey Cunningham (Rohan Campbell), a young guy who never even met Michael on one of his many killing sprees. Instead Halloween Ends is more concerned with how the legacy of that Shape passes on to the next generation, and how evil flourished even before Michael’s last drop of blood left his body. That’s just a name for the Shape of evil that took hold of a child’s body way back in 1963. While it’s perhaps inevitable a franchise movie with “ends” in the title will conclude with its main antagonist dying, most of the two-hour picture isn’t even that concerned with Michael Myers. And in its own shaggy, roundabout way, Halloween Ends is nothing if not a contemplation on this uncomfortable fact of human nature. Presumably, as the town of Haddonfield watched on in this midnight mass of revenge, they all got to take home a little bit of eviscerated brain matter too. Halloween Ends shows Laurie Strode ( Jamie Lee Curtis) not only bleed the Shape dry from the neck and wrists on her kitchen table, but then has her feed his body to a metal shredder where his bones are crushed into dust. In fact, all of the above occurred in the last one, Halloween Kills!īut this time Michael is gone and he’s not coming back, at least in this current form. He’s been shot, stabbed, and burned across multiple movies. Yes, we’ve seen the embodiment of pure evil, this personification of cruelty, the HUMAN VESSEL for what his own psychologist dubbed “the Devil’s Eyes,” die on screen before. This article contains Halloween Ends spoilers.
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