Well, here’s a bit more fuel for the Discourse Factory: David Gordon Green’s Halloween Ends, the final chapter in the trilogy he and co-writer Danny McBride started back in 2018, will now hit Peacock and theaters on the same day. The news comes to us directly from Laurie Strode herself, Jamie Lee Curtis, who had the following to say via Twitter:
A message from Laurie Strode. pic.twitter.com/x9sAOiAHgc
— #HalloweenEnds (@halloweenmovie) August 23, 2022
This is something of an unexpected move for Halloween Ends! I don’t have any cold, hard statistics in front of me, but it certainly seems like a lot more people have been hitting theaters in 2022 than they were back when they pulled the same move on Halloween Kills, and this is alleged to be the actual end of the franchise. A quick glance at social media confirms that this maneuver already has horror fans talking, and I imagine that’ll be the case all the way up until release.
Here’s a plot synopsis for the film, should you find that helpful:
Four years after the events of last year’s Halloween Kills, Laurie is living with her granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak) and is finishing writing her memoir. Michael Myers hasn’t been seen since. Laurie, after allowing the specter of Michael to determine and drive her reality for decades, has decided to liberate herself from fear and rage and embrace life. But when a young man, Corey Cunningham (Rohan Campbell), 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 can’t control, once and for all.”
We’re crossing our fingers that Halloween Ends will bring this trilogy to a fittingly spectacular close on October 14th. We will also be catching it in theaters, but if that doesn’t sound like the move for you, well, now you’ve got the option to (as Curtis puts it above) scream your guts out at home. Just put some plastic sheeting down first if you do, that shit’s gonna make a mess.
