Can you imagine a future Halloween without a new “Halloween”? If we were to plant a stop, we might have to. We understand that Myers is unlikely to remain buried for long.
And in the case of the “Halloween Ends” spell, Green appears to be giving the potential successor a creative hand, only to withdraw it in favor of business as usual. Four years after the events of , Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) has given up her shootout grandma look and doomsday prep in favor of Cottage’s core aesthetic and memoir writing. . She and her granddaughter Alison (Andy Matichak) inexplicably remain in Haddonfield, Illinois, and townspeople still believe that they instigated Myers’ final stabbing, and perhaps that her property values have plummeted. I blame Raleigh.
Corey Cunningham (Rohan Campbell) is also shunned by the locals. A geeky young man who was tried and acquitted for murder three years ago after a child died due to a tragic babysitter abuse. Clearly, he’s the perfect boyfriend material, and after saving him from the town bullies, Laurie introduces him to Alison. Things go smoothly until you encounter and learn that there may be more to life than enduring insults and suffocating shame.
At first, Corey’s involvement with the visibly declining Myers (played by James Jude Courtney) is strangely unclear, a cross between caretaker and understudy. As Corey changes in – being an acolyte clearly does wonders for libido – his too rapid change means he missed a franchise opportunity. This allowed Greene to make a film that overtook the torch and gave Corey a clear framework for succumbing to the allure of carnage. It would have been perfectly consistent with Raleigh’s declaration that there was.
But reshaping is something a run-down movie property struggles to do, and Green and his three co-writers are quickly back to the feel-good beats of Body Count. After effectively hijacking the previous article, the townspeople become a few familiar faces, and there’s an emotional reunion between Raleigh and flirtatious officer Frank Hawkins (nice to meet you, Will Patton, but briefly). He doesn’t know she has already been taken away.
The twisted bond between hunter and hunted common to many serial killer stories Bryan Fuller’s Great TV Show “Hannibal”) has always been the backbone of this franchise. As if trying to respect that, Green made a less frenetic, more intimate film than its predecessor. To me, its most evocative image is a severed tongue lazily spinning on a record turntable. Perhaps it’s Green’s way of letting us know at least there’s nothing more to say.
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R-rated. Don’t pretend you don’t know why. Running time: 1 hour 51 minutes.available in theaters peacock.