Watching Halloween Ends is a highly bizarre experience. Then again, so is David Gordon Green’s trilogy taken as a whole. I admire him for wanting to try something different. Halloween (2018) established the old Halloween franchise feeling successfully. Halloween Kills (2021) is more of an action movie with Laurie sidelined. Now, in Halloween Ends, Michael Myers is sidelined for Corey, a character we’ve never met.
Yes, Halloween Ends is a love story and a very boring one. At the end of the day, this is a horror franchise, and making the main character someone who has never appeared before in any Halloween movie is a little baffling. The film hints at some fascinating ideas, like what makes a psychopath and whether evil is made or inherent in somebody. Despite that, this feels like two movies crammed into one—a bold but unsatisfying choice to end a trilogy.