Is it really over, though? Halloween Ends, the latest—and theoretically final—film in the Halloween franchise, is coming this fall, and now we have a trailer. Unsurprisingly, it reveals very little: There’s stalking and screaming and Michael Myers, and of course Jamie Lee Curtis, who isn’t exactly waiting around for the bad guy to find her.
This is director David Gordon Green’s third Halloween film, following 2018’s Halloween and 2021’s Halloween Kills. Gordon’s series of films only relates to the very first Halloween, from 1978, and ignores all the other movies in the long-running slasher series.
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Curtis, of course, plays Laurie Strode, as she did in the original Halloween. In the new movies, Laurie, her daughter Karen (Judy Greer), and Karen’s daughter Allyson (Andi Matichak) face the returned Michael Myers (Nick Castle and James Jude Courtney) and the trauma of Laurie’s past.
Halloween Ends picks up after Halloween Kills‘ cliffhanger ending (for more on that, and to remind yourself who’s still alive, see Natalie Zutter’s review). In an interview last year, Green said that this last film would “take place the time of its release,” and that the characters are dealing with “a worldwide pandemic and peculiar politics and another million things that turned their world upside down.” Here’s the summary:
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 was written by Paul Brad Logan, Chris Bernier, Danny McBride, and David Gordon Green, based on characters created by John Carpenter and Debra Hill. The film premieres October 14th.
