![]() ![]() The Laurie and Allyson of Halloween Ends are like aliens in flesh suits compared to their Halloween Kills counterparts.Įven worse? Corey’s screen dominance over the Strodes is a massive distraction that never begs for our investment - yet we’re attached at his hip. But again, Green does a massive disservice to himself and his ambitions by pretending like we’re all up to speed with no context. It’s all a commentary on overcoming survivor’s guilt and the warped perceptions these characters either fight or succumb to. Laurie goes from polishing shotguns in the throes of paranoia to (poorly) baking pies as a homemaker, while Allyson freefalls into doomed relationships like we’ve missed an entire fourth Halloween entry that Green forgot to release. Green’s desire to turn Halloween into a Lifetime special is a shambles of emotionally inept developments, hampered by the insufficient backstory building that’s skipped over thanks to the calendar leap. Without getting into spoiler territory, Halloween Ends also struggles as a Halloween movie that respects the slash-and-stalk formula. It’s like if an NFL referee decided for the fourth quarter of a tie game that players would have to switch to baseball and the next home run wins. Halloween Ends not only struggles to passionately and proficiently explain why we’re watching some new-to-franchise jabroni get his own origin story instead of a deserving Strode closer, but does an embarrassingly poor job earning its conceptual Hail Marys. ![]() Beloved characters like Lindsey Wallace (Kyle Richards) return only to be unceremoniously benched, while Green bumbles through Corey’s trajectory meant to highlight how evil that resides in people can’t be shaken - or is it a depiction of how society can turn good people into bad apples? Allyson is wedged into an awkward romance with misunderstood Corey, who might or might not have an even odder relationship with Michael Myers.
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