It is no secret that the latest installment into the Halloween franchisee is a total flop. Everyone is going on and on about why it was an absolutely horrible movie. We here at Mutilated Mohawk Media were extremely excited to see Halloween Ends, and then we saw it. It was, indeed, a disappointment. In fact I sat on this post, wondering if I should even release it. The movie completely trashed everything that was built up in the prior two films just to go off on its own thing. It was a filler episode, it made no sense, and somehow it was approved to be the final film in the trilogy. Also this article is going to contain heavy spoilers.
For this post we want to dive into three of the top reasons that this movie failed. What went wrong? For so many fans who just want to see the Boogeyman roam Haddonfield and mutilate a bunch of people, how could a franchise let them down so bad? We’ve summed it up to three primary reasons that this movie tanked such as the franchise introducing new films into the franchise so late in the game, a lack of gore, a whole bunch of unanswered questions, and the fact that Michael wasn’t even in the film for the majority of the movie.
New Plotlines
The first thing that went majorly wrong with this movie was the introduction of Corey Cunningham. While the character was well thought out and the idea was really cool, they tried to fit this massive character arc into just one movie and it didn’t work. It felt like the second he went full Michael he died. I think that the idea of a younger guy sort of taking on the role of Michael would have been so cool if they introduced this idea earlier on in the trilogy.
Having this new main character introduced so late in the game feels like a huge letdown. Since they released Halloween 2018 they were advertising Halloween Kills with the epic conclusion of Halloween Ends. The movie was built up to wrap everything up from the previous two movies. Instead it did its own thing. It changed Michael, it left a lot of unanswered questions, and it gave us the rushed tale of Corey.
I think another reason this failed is because his death was really lame. It was a letdown. They spent the whole movie building him up to be the next Michael just to have him slit his own throat. What the hell. It was the biggest ‘what the fuck is this movie’ moment I’ve ever had in a movie theater. Personally I would have liked to see more kills with him and Michael.
While the idea of Corey was really cool and the actor did an amazing job playing him, it was so late into the game that they tried to execute his complex plot. It was rushed and sloppy and so it failed.
Gore, Death, And Guts
So coming from Halloween Kills we may have expected too much. That movie was an absolute gore-fest and we loved it. Going into Halloween Ends I expected at least a little resemblance to the brutality that was Kills. However, that is not what we got at all. While there were two notable kills that were like ‘damn this movie is about to get good’ it never followed through. The killing stops almost as soon as it starts.
I understand that if you look back to the classics there weren’t a lot of kills in the original films, however the directors amped this series up as slaughter-town 2022. Both Halloween 2018 and Halloween Kills had some fantastic kills. They had well executed scenes that built up suspense and horror. This movie did neither. The scene at the junkyard was cool and the radio station scene was okay. It was just a let down. The movie seemed to just go on and on and tease us that this Corey kid was going to go on a rampage like Michael, or that Michael was going to come back. Neither of those things happened effectively.
Where Did The Story Go?
I think that throughout the trilogy there were a lot of things that were built up. We were going to learn more about Michael. We may even get to hear him speak. Seeing his face was supposed to be a big deal. A lot of things that the series built up ended up being pretty big letdowns. We saw his face in Halloween Ends and it wasn’t a big deal at all. A huge fight between Jamie Lee Curtis and Michael was foreshadowed in the other movies because of how they were ‘connected’ and the fight we got was rushed and sloppy.
This movie felt like it just disregarded everything. It felt like the producers and directors dumped all of these small little strands of a story that they had been building to bum rush the Corey character. Because the whole movie was focused on Corey we don’t get any of these Michael subplots solved.
You Seen Michael Anywhere?
Where the hell was Michael in any of this? The man stepped out for cigarettes and when he came back he was decrepit. The Michael that was around for Halloween Kills was a tank. An absolute unit. He took down half of a fire department, a mob of angry citizens, and even made a chick shoot herself. He was an absolutely unstoppable force that was the ‘incarnation of evil’ and was supposed to be like no other man. However, this is all ignored in Halloween Ends because he is essentially a worn down and injured Master Splinter.
We are supposed to believe that the Michael from Halloween Kills just vanished and decided to live in the sewers for four years. That this person who wasn’t human suddenly just became this fragile old man. That makes no sense. They don’t even try to explain it. On top of that, he’s barely in the movie at all. They waste so much time trying to explain Corey’s story that Michael just stays in the sewers almost the entire film, and then when he does get released upon the Earth, it’s nothing. He was nerfed for no explainable reason.
Halloween Ends is a Halloween movie with Michael Myers, but as a side character. What the hell? I just want to know what they were smoking in the studio to think that doing this for the ‘epic conclusion’ was a good idea. This was an absolute letdown to fans after what I believed to be a pretty decent revival.
To stay up to date with Mutilated Mohawk Media, follow us on our social medias. Our Instagram is here and our Twitter is here. CLICK HERE TO VOTE FOR ME FOR THE FACE OF HORROR COMPETITION (for more information on this click here). Mutilated for life!