Without news from Michael Myers for four years, Laurie Strode and her granddaughter Allyson are slowly resuming a normal life. However, their worst nightmare resurfaces on Halloween night.
Posted at 11:30 a.m.
John Carpenter’s cult series which will celebrate its 45 next yeare birthday ever end? Between the sequels, variations and homecomings, there was everything to make the joy – and the misfortune – of the fans of the first hour. Filmmaker David Gordon Green brilliantly revived it in 2018, before destroying it three years later.
The director has however learned from his mistakes, positioning this final volume of his trilogy at the antipodes of the previous one. Halloween Kills. The tone is more intimate, the characters fewer and there is no longer this whole town that wants revenge like in a derivative of The Purge.
We even see Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis, since reinvigorated Everything Everywhere All at Once) more than 15 minutes, unlike Michael Myers who is desired. So much so that the confrontation at the top between these two icons comes very close to never taking place, the script written with eight hands preferring a much less interesting story.
That of Corey (Rohan Campbell, more intense than convincing), a tormented teenager who falls in love with Allyson (Andi Matichak, bland). All the ingredients of the classic initiation story are there, distorting the seal of Carpenter in the process. The film bores more than it frightens or holds in suspense, always being on the verge of falling into parody.
There were, however, good ideas hidden here and there. The introduction, particularly absurd, surprises by playing with the expectations of the spectator. Then there is this concept of seeing Michael as absolute Evil, this virus capable of infecting anyone without their knowledge.
It will not be enough to captivate an audience that has just devoured the superiors in recent weeks. The Smile, Barbarian and Pearl.
The last 35 minutes attempt to set the record straight by emphasizing carnage and hemoglobin. It’s a waste of time to restore the image of this particularly unequal trilogy, which will be forgotten as quickly as the episodes of Rob Zombie. Let’s get back to the 50e anniversary ?
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Horror
Halloween Ends
David GordonGreen
With Jamie Lee Curtis, Andi Matichak and Rohan Campbell
1:51 a.m.