MushiMinion’s review published on Letterboxd:
Halloween '78: "Laurie! Don't drop the knife!"
Halloween '22: "Laurie! Don't grab the knife!"
See, it's like poetry, they rhyme.
All joking aside, Halloween Ends has been on the receiving end of some intense critical backlash that I feel is entirely unwarranted. This, and I say this without a hint of irony, is the first worthwhile entry in the Halloween "franchise" since Season of the Witch. In fact, my only note for David Gordon Green would be to not include Michael Myers at all; commit fully to the notion of a town so defined by its trauma and grief that they've begun to create their own monsters. The previous two Blumhouse sequels are almost inconsequential - Ends successfully untethers itself from the Halloween curse and stands alone in concluding the Laurie Stode saga.
Audiences hate this for the same reason they rejected a Myers-less sequel back in 1982 for not being what they expected and now that we have a precedent for history repeating itself, I have no doubt Blumhouse going to double down and ruin this with another Halloween Resurrection.
Trick or treat, mother f'er!
