Halloween Ends 2022 - SPOILERS

This is the SPOILER thread. There are SPOILERS in this thread, because it is the SPOILER thread.



Did you get that? The part about the SPOILERS? Okay. I did like the protege angle. The opening was a shocker, but that evil manifested, really emphasizing that Christine comparison. Plus, there's the whole car salvage yard, bullies, girl problems, and gradual madness. I think Corey was a good character. Shit on by everyone, you want to root for him. Possibly even more so once Michael finds him a kindred spirit.

It is weird to see Michael as a feeble bum, but it also evens the playing field a bit. His interactions with Corey were highly amusing, because Michael is known as a solo act. One of his only comparable moments of sympathy before was in H8 when he gives the clown admirer his knife, but that movie is incredibly half-assed compared to this movie.

The bodycount was much lower this time around. When you think about it, Michael only kills what... three people? I do like how it rejuvenated his weakened body a bit though, but he was still too fucked up from his Kills injuries to be at 100%. And this movie retroactively removes one of his HK kills, just like HK removed Hawkins from the H'18 bodycount. I still don't know how that black lady could have survived that neck wound, but whatev. Nice touch to really guilt Laurie.

I'm not quite sure why the end was so divisive to audiences. Did they want him to seem dead, then come back to life? They seemed pretty pissed when that happened in HK. Did they want Laurie to die? Or both of them to kill each other? What did the audience want to happen? For what it's worth, it was a very cathartic end. I don't think any of us really wanted Michael to wind up being supernatural. He was just a tough motherfucker, but always a man.