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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 397158" data-attributes="member: 8">HALLOWEEN ENDS (2022)[ATTACH=full]52748[/ATTACH]I was in the mood for something new and   familiar, and HALLOWEEN ENDS seems like the perfect choice for some "comfort horror". I have seen the original, at least one sequel from the 1980s and also the one from the late 1990s - which means that this is my first 21st century Halloween film.Babysitter Corey Cunningham accidentally kills the "baby" which could have been a terrific drama in itself, but at the same time it also looks like a dark comedy "oops!" moment. I honestly don't know if we were supposed to feel sorry for the nasty little brat.In the next scene we see Corey on his bike and I figured it was going to be one of those "one week earlier" kind of narratives, but it isn't, and the accident mostly serves as a backdrop, a new piece of Haddonfield history to build on.It's clear that Corey has become quite the underdog who's just trying to keep his head down, further hammered home by his quirky-overbearing mother (although it made me giggle when she said "who's that calling you under the dinner table?").Meanwhile, Laurie Strode is writing her memoir Serial Dearest and she's living with a young woman named Allyson who turns out to be her granddaughter.Via-via Allyson and Corey meet and a romance develops even though Corey thinks that kind of life isn't meant for him.She takes him to a Halloween party - she's dressed like Catwoman - but later that evening Corey has an emotional run-in with the mother of the boy who was killed.On top of everything he is ambushed by a group of troublesome teenagers who throw him off the bridge and leave him for dead, but then an unseen person drags him away.Funnily enough, this sequence - and the way it would transform his character - reminded me of Selina Kyle who was pushed out of the window, sort of died and then resurrected by the cats which would turn her into the iconic super anti-hero.Corey's confrontation with Michael Myers who's secretly living in the sewers (hello, Penguin) followed by the stabbing of a vagrant (although not entirely without self-defence) has a similar effect on him.There's even a scene that suggests some kind of super power.[ATTACH=full]52749[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]52750[/ATTACH]After a confontation with Allyson's romantic pursuer Corey lures him to Michael's hiding place and the man gets stabbed to death.It seems that the bloodshed awakens Michael, as if he had been a dormant vampire patiently waiting for his next bite.This is where the slasher part takes off except that we have now a serial killer duo, and not in a mysterious way like the SCREAM movies.However, since the killings are a big part of the thrill it didn't bother me that much, and the meatiest drama is still about Laurie and her role in the various tragedies - here and in the previous chapters (which kinda made me wish I had started from the very beginning, and maybe I'll do that anyway).Jamie Lee Curtis really throws herself into it and there's even a moment that suggests that Laurie had killed herself à la JR in the last scene of DALLAS.Michael and Laurie's final battle is quite satisfying - naturally it takes him forever to die - and in case they used a stunt double for JLC then they've done a terrific job obscuring it.All in all an entertaining film but the killings could have been a bit more brutal.</blockquote>

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