Warning: There are MAJOR spoilers ahead for Halloween Ends. If you haven’t seen the movie yet, please come back here once you have!
We’re going to jump right to it, so if you’ve not yet seen Halloween Ends, please go and watch it and then back here as soon as possible, because straight off the bat, we’re going to reveal the film’s biggest spoiler.
So, without going through the movie beat by beat - which we’ve already done in our Halloween Ends Ending Explained article - we’re going to go straight to the ending. Now, let’s address the elephant (or the bogeyman) in the room.
For the first time in Halloween history, we see Michael Myers (James Jude Courtney) actually die. Having already been fatally wounded by Laurie Strode, he is thrown into an industrial shredder as the whole of Haddonfield looks on.
So Michael Myers has finally been killed, as there is no coming back from his body being completely destroyed. And as he didn’t even react, it’s likely he was actually dead by the time he was put in the deadly machine.
Michael Myers’ supernatural abilities have always been vague at best, but he is no Freddy Krueger, or Jason Voorhees, or Chucky. Simply put, within this timeline, Michael Myers is well and truly dead.
So now comes the question: Will the next Halloween movie follow on canonically from David Gordon Green’s trilogy, or will it, like many others have before it, wipe the slate clean and start anew?
Given Halloween’s reputation of retconning and rebooting, the latter is the most likely scenario. Unless of course a new director and team intends to set a new Halloween movie within the same timeline.
This could allow for anthology movies such as Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982), or perhaps it could even be a prequel, expanding upon what Halloween Kills (2021) did with the excellent 1978 flashback scene.
As such, this could allow for more Michael Myers without figuring out a way to bring him back from the dead (we wonder how many cinemagoers thought that the man going into the industrial shredder was some random paramedic)
Either way, it’s safe to say that there will be another Halloween movie, whatever “shape” it decides to take. What we know for certain, however, is that the next movie will not be from Blumhouse Productions.
Halloween Ends producer Jason Blum recently said that the latest sequel is not the final movie in the series - that it’s simply the last film with Blumhouse Productions, as the property will now revert back to producer Malek Akkad.
Original Halloween (1978) director John Carpenter, who has worked as a composer on all three of David Gordon Green’s Halloween movies, also recently said that if Halloween Ends makes enough money, then another movie is inevitable.
David Gordon Green also echoed this in a recent interview. And while another Halloween movie is inevitable, we’ll just have to wait and see whether or not it’s another reboot, or perhaps one that picks up from elsewhere in the series.
Halloween (2018) and its two sequels Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends ignore every single Halloween movie with the exception of Halloween (1978). So is it possible a new Halloween movie might do the same?
Maybe a new film can pick up from another point in the franchise entirely - will a new filmmaker continue with Rob Zombie’s two Halloween movies? Will Halloween: The Thorn Trilogy be rebooted or followed up in some way?
It all remains to be seen, but as Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) says in one of the closing scenes in Halloween Ends, evil never dies - it just changes its shape…
As per Blumhouse Pictures (via Wikipedia), here’s the official synopsis for Halloween Ends, the final chapter in David Gordon Green’s Halloween Trilogy:
Four years after the events of Halloween Kills, Laurie is living with her granddaughter Allyson after the death of her parents.
Laurie has decided to take all the fear and rage, she has been holding onto for the last 4 decades and write a memoir which is almost completed.
Michael Myers has once again disappeared and hasn’t been seen since. This time Laurie has decided to liberate her fear and rage and embrace life with open arms.
All is quiet in Haddonfield, but when a young man, Corey Cunningham, is accused of killing a boy he was babysitting, it ignites a cascade of violence and terror that will force Laurie to finally confront the evil she couldn’t control, once and for all.
Halloween Ends stars Jamie Lee Curtis, Will Patton, Andi Matichak, James Jude Courtney, and Kyle Richards, who are reprising their roles as Laurie Strode, Frank Hawkins, Allyson Nelson, Michael Myers, and Lindsey Wallace.
Newcomers include Rohan Campbell (Corey Cunningham) and Michael O’Leary (Dr. Mathis).
Halloween Ends is now out in theaters and is also streaming on Peacock.
