Honestly, I still don't quite know what to make of it.

Will watch again on the big screen and see how I feel.

It's clearly a very well made movie, and DGG obviously wanted to take a different direction with it, but I have this inescapable feeling it's not a Halloween movie, and instead a different movie with Halloween branding slapped on.

The first of this triology was a brilliant horror film; the second a little step down, but much better on a second viewing, and this third one?

What did others think?

I LOVED it. It's not perfect. They fumbled the ending a bit, but this was mostly excellent. They finally tried something different. Yeah, I suck at reviews. Lol. This might be my favorite sequel.

Hated it, not a Halloween movie, and unfortunately not an exploding mask in sight ;-(

My shortest review because with horror flicks it's pretty hard to not give away spoilers but I think I succeeded***No Spoilers***

A horror movie is like a roller coaster. It's scary, but you're having fun because you know that it's perfectly safe. The scarier it gets, the more entertaining it is because it pulls you deeper into the story until you forget entirely that you're in the theatre watching a piece of fiction. We saw "A Quiet Place 2"  several months back, and I didn't expect to see another great horror film in at least a year but Christmas (or is it Halloween?) has come early because "Halloween Ends" is here.

You know expectations are funny things. Sometimes expectations can lead you down a completely wrong path ending in crushing disappointment when said project doesn’t live up to your lofty anticipation and even on rarer occasions the thing you confidently predicted crash and burn quicker than the Hiddenburg turns out to be a lot better than you expected. As a avid Halloween/Michael Myers fan, I can see why so many die hard fans are pissed off. Admittedly, I was to...

The long and short of it is... if it were a stand alone film then it would have been pretty good, but to introduce a new element in the final chapter was a BAD idea....It's not the perfect film by any means,  but looking at it with a open mind and not the mindset of a 16 year old, who stayed up late against her mother’s wishes to watch the original on television..

I did get what they were going for here, so the “evil never dies, it changes shape” is befitting. So yea, I'm onboard with Michael Myers passing the torch, and with letting the old boogeyman finally getting eternal rest.  He's gone above and beyond in kills, cementing his spot with all the greats on the Mount Rushmore of horror villains.

Anywaz, I'm glad they established that Michael is a metaphorical boogeyman instead of the literal one. We all have to overcome our own boogeyman growing up and I'm glad Laurie was finally able to beat hers. -A

This review more or less matches how I feel about Halloween Ends. The more I think about it, the more I love the idea but am disappointed by the tail end.

Warning: Spoilers!!!

Quoted from ghost and_ghostie gal The long and short of it is... if it were a stand alone film then it would have been pretty good, but to introduce a new element in the final chapter was a BAD idea....It's not the perfect film by any means,  but looking at it with a open mind and not the mindset of a 16 year old, who stayed up late against her mother’s wishes to watch the original on television..

Yeah, this nicely sums it up for me.

Going in for the second viewing tonight, so may have a more - or less - favourable view of the film after that!

This entire reboot was an inconsistent mess to me. In the first one, they almost made Michael more human, like a single bullet would kill him. In the second, he became an indestructible juggernaut. And this third one? well...

I liked the opening sequence. It was filmed nicely, and I kept wondering how it would tie into the rest of the film and that's where I got disappointed. This started to feel like Friday the 13th Part IV when Jason was supposedly handing over the reins of evil to some little shit.

This didn't feel like a Halloween movie at all. Just felt like a standard slasher with Michael Meyers being someone else's muse.

So, Jamie Lee Curtis is done, but that won't be the last of the Halloween franchise. It'll probably be 10 years or more before they reboot it again, but I sure hope they can get some people in there with a fresher take on the legacy when they finally do. RIP, Michael, for now. You deserved a better send off.

James

I don't understand why DGG didn't just remake the original Carpenter one, rather than this strange reboot/sequel hybrid thing that disregards like 90% of the original Halloween movies (I haven't seen it). From the premise, it sounds like an awkward attempt to do both.

Of course, that begs the question - why did it need to be a Halloween movie at all? If he and McBride wanted to make a quote-unquote prestige slasher movie, why not create an original premise and let it be inspired by the 1970s movie? It would be hard to avoid an homage anyway because Carpenter's original is the DNA of every slasher movie anyway.

I just don't think this series had any reason to exist as it goes. They spent close to 100 milion dollars making a franchise that wasn't necessary because it was based on a movie that all acknowledge is perfect as it is.