Halloween Ends

Halloween Ends has arrived to bring an ending to the epic Laurie Strode vs Michael Myers saga that started 44 years ago. The new movie also marks Jamie Lee ...

The offerings between the US and UK versions differ, and this is unfortunately the case here. If you're not signed up and you're in the US, it costs $4.99 a month to sign up. There's a chance it could be earlier as Beast was available to rent at home around a month after its cinema release, but we're only speculating for now. A similar timeline would mean Halloween Ends will be available to rent from Monday, November 28. [now available in the UK through Sky and NOW](https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a38254947/peacock-sky-nbcuniversal-uk-rollout/), Halloween Ends is not available to watch on Peacock in the UK. Like recent Universal offerings such as [simultaneous streaming release](https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a40977783/halloween-ends-streaming-us-same-day-cinemas/) and is available to watch right now for [Peacock Premium](https://go.redirectingat.com/?id=127X991730&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.peacocktv.com%2F&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.digitalspy.com%2Fmovies%2Fa41574991%2Fwatch-halloween-ends-online%2F) subscribers at no extra cost. How to watch Halloween Ends in the US Michael is never far from her mind though, so an inevitable showdown beckons... Halloween Ends is available to watch right now in cinemas, so if you want to see how the Laurie and Michael saga ends, head to your favourite cinema to see it play out. [Halloween Ends](https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a37948147/halloween-3-release-date-ends/) in the UK and US. How to watch Halloween Ends in the UK

David Gordon Green's Halloween ends. There has never been a Halloween film that ends quite like this one.

In such a definitive act of destruction, Halloween Ends boldly goes where no other film has gone before in terms of how it dispatched the killer at the center of the story. The longer they go, the more people join them as they head to the local scrapyard with the intent of disposing of the killer once and for all. Laurie has used a knife to pin each of his hands to the kitchen table and pushed the fridge down on him for good measure. The two take part in a battle to the death that ends with Michael trapped. Taking no chances, they all arrive at the scrapyard with the intent of putting Michael straight into a crushing machine typically used for metal. The film opens a year after the events of Halloween Kills with Corey (Rohan Campbell) who is going to babysit for a local family just as Laurie did all those years ago. This is followed by Corey splitting away from Michael and stealing his mask to go on a rampage throughout Haddonfield. Eventually, Laurie starts to pick up on what is happening and tries to get her granddaughter away from Corey who wants to run away with her. However, instead of Michael coming into the situation, it is Corey who accidentally kills the young boy that he is meant to be watching. The moment is shocking and, when the film flashes forward to four years after Halloween Kills, we see how it has inexorably altered the lives of all who were involved. He ended up brutally killing her daughter Karen ( [Judy Greer](https://collider.com/tag/judy-greer/)) in the film’s closing moments. Laurie Strode ( [Jamie Lee Curtis](https://collider.com/tag/jamie-lee-curtis/)) had spent years waiting for his return after he initially attacked her decades prior, but spent the majority of the previous film in a hospital while Michael roamed the streets.

As Jamie Lee Curtis faces the boogeyman one last time in Halloween Ends, Empire ranks all of their slasher face-offs.

[Carpenter’s original film](https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/halloween-review/) is an all-timer from front to back, you can trace the enduring appeal of Halloween and Michael Myers to one precise chilling moment: Laurie thinks she’s taken out her masked attacker, puncturing his eye with a coat-hanger and plunging a kitchen knife into his chest – but as she sits in the doorway catching her breath, Myers silently sits bolt upright behind her. The real legend of Myers is born in this brawl, an apparently mortal man whose imperviousness to knife wounds or gunshots suggests (but never confirms) something more supernatural – and after tumbling over the balcony, he swiftly disappears into the ether. Now, they’re about to finally face off once and for all in [Halloween Ends](https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/halloween-ends/), the final instalment in [David Gordon Green](https://www.empireonline.com/people/david-gordon-green/)’s recent trilogy. With surprising accuracy, Laurie shoots Michael in each of his eyes (a move as gleefully metal as it is implausible) in the operating room, before Dr. And since he vanished at the end of the first film, the sequel is at least able to provide a greater sense of finality with a second showdown (until Halloween 4 flipped the script and brought Myers back, while also killing Strode off-screen). There’s a real dread to seeing Myers somehow stagger out of the room while flaming from head-to-toe – before finally collapsing in the corridor. [Halloween II](https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/halloween-ii-review/) feels a bit unnecessary – but it’s a perfectly solid sequel that continues Myers’ rampage in the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital. It’s masterfully done – and in the tussle that follows, Laurie actually, for once, succeeds at unmasking the man behind her misery. So as Halloween Ends prepares to finally end Halloween, Empire presents a dive into the endings of all the Halloween finales and put an end to the Halloween debate: which Michael vs. Loomis floods the room with gas and takes Myers out in a massive fireball. It’s just, the rest of the film doesn’t set it up in a particularly satisfying way – so, like a rusty knife, it gets the job done but with a bit of a dulled impact. [Jamie Lee Curtis](https://www.empireonline.com/people/jamie-lee-curtis/)’ Laurie Strode, and masked madman murderer Michael Myers – an unstoppable (or is he?) knife-wielding stalker who refuses to stay down.

Reviewer score. 18. Director David Gordon Green. Starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Andi Matichak, Rohan Campbell, James Jude Courtney, Will Patton, Kyle Richards.

Unlike the series' black sheep, Halloween III: Season of the Witch, it's hard to see Halloween Ends improving with age or generating the same cult kudos. It's when the monster is finally ready for his close-up that the film goes to blazes. It begins with a nifty prologue that fools fans into thinking that they're in for a treat.

This review discusses a handful of plot points from Halloween Ends, all of them from the first 40 minutes or so of the picture. Spoilers, they have been ...

Yes, fear is a cancer that infects a community, but there’s good reason to fear the raving lunatic murderer who cannot be killed and who kills again and again. *Not to be confused with Halloween (1978), to which Halloween (2018) is a direct sequel. Sure, unfocused mobs are bad, but not as bad as the raving lunatic murderer who cannot be killed and who kills and kills again. Except Corey can’t always get the job done, so Myers has to shadow him around, filling in some of the murder gaps. It would be one thing if Myers straight-up infected Corey with his evil and turned him into a killing machine, Corey in turn infecting Allyson and turning her against Laurie. She lives with granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak), whose parents were murdered by Myers in the previous two films in the series, Halloween (2018)* and Halloween Kills.

There are not many who have been able to face down Michael Myers and live to tell the tale. Is Laurie Strode one of them?

In that sense, part of her has died as a result of the trauma that Curtis has referred to as being a central theme of these films. She is undeniably scarred by all that has happened and likely going to be forever changed. It is there that Michael is removed from the car and put on top of a crushing machine. Oh, and fittingly, plenty of knives that come in handy when taking on her longtime nemesis in an encounter that proves to be the last they'll ever share. However, there is a rather long road to survival that the film leads us on where she comes awfully close to not making it. Even as he is seemingly dead, she then decides to take a nice little drive with what is left of him on top of her car.

Laurie Strode and Michael Myers have (supposedly) one last standoff in David Gordon Green's uneven and dull Halloween Ends.

These grand ideas of generational trauma added a nice layer of substance to the hyper violent outside of Kills. In Kills, Laurie spent most of the film in a hospital bed, recovering from injuries from the first film. Allyson, who was definitely painted as the new scream queen, a new Laurie so to speak, is once again left with shallow characterisation. Any attempts to explore what makes a killer and how they are shaped by hate and people’s perception of them is ruined by bad pacing, insufferable characters and the sidelining of your biggest stars. You have to admire the absolutely insane narrative twists Green and his team of screenwriters go for. Shame that 2021’s Halloween Kills was a laughable effort, despite some interesting themes, and now, Halloween Ends tries to pull this trilogy to a neat, violent close.

The bloody saga of Michael Myers vs Laurie Strode comes to a close in Halloween Ends… And against all odds, it's actually pleasant surprise.

It clears the low bar set by the trilogy's middle episode, and while that may be damning it with the faintest of praise, Green’s closer to his wobbly trilogy remains a broadly effective swansong for horror's original “final girl”. Unlike the promising but squandered themes in Halloween Kills about the guilt inherent to intergenerational trauma and the timely winks to collective hysteria – all of which were handled by writers barely operating above the level of a full nappy – _Halloween Ends_’ motifs are actually handled with care. And even when Halloween Ends sacrifices character arcs for silliness and spells things out far too much, there’s enough here to keep slasher fans and gorehounds entertained. There’s also little-to-no doubt that for all of its ambition, the film singularly loses its nerve during the rushed final act, which unfortunately doesn’t quite deliver the showdown catharsis one would have hoped for. Safe to say, however, that Laurie, who was bafflingly sidelined in the previous instalment in favour of a nosebleedingly annoying bunch of vigilantes with the collective IQ of a sock, gets far more screen time this time around. However, the past comes back to taint this new chapter for the Strode family…

Universal and Blumhouse's Halloween Ends earned $5.4 million in Thursday preview showings. That compares to the $4.9 million earned by Halloween Kills via ...

Anyway, a straight 10% Thursday-to-weekend split (like the last two) gets Halloween Ends to a terrific $54 million, while a split like It Chapter Two ($91 million from a $10.5 million Thursday) gets it to $47 million for the Fri-Sun weekend. I appreciated its left-field turns and (especially for the first act) its existence as very much a Halloween film from the guy who directed All the Real Girls and Snow Angels. The reviews are slightly better than this installment (45% and 5.3/10 on Rotten Tomatoes versus 38% and 5/10 for Halloween Kills). That compares to the $4.9 million earned by Halloween Kills via previews this time last year and the $7.7 million Thursday preview gross for Halloween in 2018. Universal and Blumhouse’s Halloween Ends earned $5.4 million in Thursday preview showings. Zero more days till Halloween Ends, Halloween Ends, Halloween Ends.

I wrote in my review of the 2018 reboot of “Halloween” that the team behind the film didn't “really understand what made the first film a masterpiece.

A shocking amount of “Halloween Ends” is poorly executed with clunkier editing, framing, and writing than the other two films, as if the team were hired to make this one as a contractual requirement and were trying to get through it as quickly as possible. To say the love story between Corey and Allyson is underwritten and unbelievable would be an understatement. When the kid decides to play a prank on Corey, it results in an accident that leaves the little scamp dead, turning Corey into a pariah. He’s babysitting for a kid in Haddonfield who’s a little scared by all the murder around town. [Halloween Kills](/reviews/halloween-kills-movie-review-2021)” didn’t prove me right then the baffling “Halloween Ends” certainly does. There will be another “Halloween” movie somewhere in the future, which will make this even more of an odd tangent in the history of a horror legend.

Movie Review: In Halloween Ends, director David Gordon Green and star Jamie Lee Curtis bring the classic slasher series to a surprisingly entertaining end.

The new movie is maybe not quite as goofy, but it has a similarly irreverent spirit, a refusal to fit into the demands of the broader slasher genre and a cavalier attitude toward this specific slasher’s so-called lore. Luckily, with Halloween Ends, he’s found a way to make one of these movies his own, sans scares but with tons of atmosphere and a sense of queasy, gathering dread. Watching the slow-building romance of Corey and Allyson against the backdrop of this dead-end small town, it feels at times like director Green has finally brought to the series some of the charm of his earlier independent films. (Relax — it’s not a spoiler if it’s the first thing that happens in the movie.) Although he ultimately gets off, Corey’s life is ruined. We might know where the story is going generally, but individual scenes retain the element of surprise, as the story takes unexpected emotional detours. (“As he was locked away in his prison, I disappeared into mine.”) Her new attempts at a soft-focus life notwithstanding, Laurie secretly wants to mix it up. He’s an outcast in the town of Haddonfield, Illinois, a place that knows a thing or two about child murders. Eventually, the movie does begin to indulge in gore and other typical genre kicks, which can feel like a bit of a letdown, in part because Green, despite having co-written and directed all of the entries in this most recent crop of Halloween sequels, isn’t really a horror guy. Indeed, the craziest thing in Halloween Ends might be its opening scene, which takes place on Halloween night 2019 and features a teenage babysitter, Corey Cunningham (Rohan Campbell), taking care of a young boy who’s a little too fond of pranks. There’s no desperation to escalate, no tiresome fetishization of the gruesome. The only person who seems to show Corey any kind of grace is longtime franchise survivor Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), who after the events of the previous film appears to be trying to shed much of her gun-toting, survivalist persona. After the carnival-belly inanity of the previous movie,

The new horror movie, now in theaters and streaming on Peacock, brings Michael Myers back from the grave after Halloween Kills, but can't find a logical ...

The Halloween saga started by John Carpenter and Debra Hill in 1978 ends in this film, but the end can’t vindicate the existence of this continuation of the story. Where Halloween Kills was a brutal slasher that seemed to place us in the shoes of the Shape, David Gordon Green tries everything he can to subvert the primal origins of the premise. He discards the modernized John Carpenter visuals and camera work that became essential to his first Halloween sequel for a less creative or energetic film where the camera barely moves. Halloween Ends continues the thread from Kills of asking whether Michael Myers is a 70-something-year-old mentally ill man or evil incarnate, a supernatural being that heals himself through the act of killing and can almost pass on his essence to others. The tonal shift borders on victim-shaming, and a complete betrayal to what was supposed to be the core of this movie. That’s because most of the 111-minute run time is spent on Corey, who becomes a social pariah after a deadly incident one Halloween night and gets strangely obsessed with Michael Myers.

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Now that we've reached the end of this particular trilogy with Halloween Ends, we have questions - and some answers. Is this it for Laurie Strode for real ...

The holiday's also central to the plot of Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers. The song plays on the radio in Halloween '78 as Laurie and Annie are driving around Haddonfield. - There are several homages and straight-up recreations to and of the original Halloween movie here. [The Rings of Power: Sauron Actor Responds to the Finale Reveal5h ago - The actor behind the Dark Lord gives their first comments on the surprise.](/articles/lord-of-the-rings-rings-of-power-sauron-actor-responds-to-the-finale-reveal) [Pokémon Sword and Shield Won't Be Supported Past November9h ago - Online trading and friendly battles will remain.](/articles/pokmon-sword-and-shield-wont-be-supported-past-november) [The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Finale Explained9h ago - Well... - The main title font is the same used in the first third Halloween movie, Season of the Witch. This is a bit of a visual callback to the posters for Halloween 5, Halloween 6, and Halloween: Resurrection. But not dead enough apparently, as they strap his body to the top of a car and drive to the scrapyard as the townspeople follow. We see that Michael’s mask sits on a table in Laurie’s home, and the film end. He and Laurie get into a huge fight in the kitchen and she manages to pin his hands down to the table with knives, stab him in the chest and through the armpit, and slice his throat. Meanwhile, Corey is getting closer to Allyson and resolves with her to “burn it to the ground” and leave Haddonfield. But that night, he gets jumped by a group of – yes – marching band bullies, and finds himself in a sewer drain that is also Michael Myers’ hideaway. Halloween Ends starts on Halloween 2019, one year after the events of the previous two movies.

The last movie in director David Gordon Greene Halloween saga marks Jamie Lee Curtis' last appearance in the franchise.

She then stabs him with a knitting needle, only to have him stab her in the side of the face with it. Laurie seems to sense that Michael is somewhere in the house and hides in a kitchen closet. By not destroying the mask with Michael Myers, Green might have created a symbolic passing of the torch for anyone who might be bold enough to revive the Boogeyman again. In the daylight, it’s not quite as menacing as it once appeared to be. [“The Shape,”](https://screenrant.com/halloween-movie-michael-myers-name-shape-reason/) in fact.) For now, she’s looking to live a more peaceful life. She has Frank strap Michael to the top of her car as if he’s a beast like King Kong so she can drive him to the auto body shop where they plan to throw him in the car crusher. She goes to her office, lights the jack-o-lantern on her mantle, and grabs a gun from a locked drawer in her desk. She brings the gun to her head and just as she pulls the trigger, the camera peers in from beyond the door. He becomes stuck to the butcher block table, unable to move, and in his vulnerable state, Laurie gets on top of him and stakes a knife through his other hand. She appears to be spiraling and calls the police to report a suicide at her home. It’s more dangerous because we may not know we’re infected.” She alludes that Corey is in the latter category, that he has chosen to let evil take hold of him, to let it infect him figuratively and literally. Laurie is trying to move forward with her life, unpacking her trauma by writing a memoir and making a happy home with her granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak) in Haddonfield.

This thirteenth (!) movie features favorites like Andi Matichak, Nick Castle, James Jude Courtney, Will Patton, Rohan Campbell and Kyle Richards (who's ...

[Annie O’Sullivan](/author/223968/annie-o-sullivan)Assistant Editor [Halloween Ends available to watch](https://imp.i305175.net/c/3006986/828265/11640?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.peacocktv.com%2Fstream-movies%2Fhalloween-ends&subId1={subid}&subId3=xid:{xid}) via its Premium subscription. At the moment, Peacock is the only streaming site that will have Halloween Ends available while it's in theaters. Fans of the previous film know that Laurie's daughter Karen (Judy Greer) was killed in the 2021 movie Halloween Kills. The movie takes place four years after Laurie Strode's ( This year, fans of the thriller franchise are more excited than ever for the newest and last installment, Halloween Ends.