He’s a seemingly immortal killer. She’s a retired babysitter now living with her granddaughter. When these two get together, sparks fly. And guns fire. And machetes chop. And… you get the picture. If you’re just coming in to the Halloween franchise, you may want to step back a bit.
Jamie Lee Curtis returns as Laurie Strode, a role she first played in John Carpenter’s original 1978 Halloween. While there have been many films in the series since, this current trilogy co-written by Danny McBride and directed by David Gordon Green ignores everything after Carpenter’s original. Except that the three masks from the unrelated Halloween III: Season of the Witch made an appearance in Halloween Kills. So watch John Carpenter’s Halloween, David Gordon Green’s Halloween and Halloween Kills, and you should be caught up.
It was at the end of that last one that Laurie realized Michael Myers might be more than just your average super strong psychopathic killer. This time she’s ready.
From Universal Studios:
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; The Hardy Boys, Virgin River), 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.
Halloween Ends co-stars returning cast Will Patton as Officer Frank Hawkins, Kyle Richards as Lindsey Wallace and James Jude Courtney as The Shape.
From the creative team that relaunched the franchise with 2018’s Halloween and Halloween Kills, the film is directed by David Gordon Green from a screenplay by Paul Brad Logan (Manglehorn), Chris Bernier (The Driver series), Danny McBride and David Gordon Green, based on characters created by John Carpenter and Debra Hill. Halloween Ends is produced by Malek Akkad, Jason Blum and Bill Block. The executive producers are John Carpenter, Jamie Lee Curtis, Danny McBride, David Gordon Green, Ryan Freimann, Ryan Turek, Andrew Golov, Thom Zadra and Christopher H. Warner.
Universal Pictures, Miramax and Blumhouse present a Malek Akkad production, in association with Rough House Pictures.
Halloween Ends opens 10/14/2022. But even with this definitively finishing the trilogy and no doubt allowing Curtis to gracefully leave the series on a high note, Michael Myers will be back. He always comes back.
