Halloween Ends (Spoiler Free Review)
It’s a strange feeling to be so let down.
This is a spoiler-free review of Halloween Ends; if you want the full spoiler-filled review, click here.
As a newer fan of the franchise, I was looking forward to seeing this with my boyfriend as soon as it came out. We treated this like a holiday and took the day off to go ahead and see it.
But to be honest, we were super disappointed.
The things that make a Halloween Movie a Halloween Movie were simply lacking or missing entirely from this film. You’re not given enough time to get to know newer characters so you can decide if you love or hate them.
The script was highly rushed, and the pacing of the entire thing was off from the start. The characters that we do know and love had minimal screen time; the fact that they used their name and likeness to get us to come into the theater feels like I was catfished.
If this is what David Gordon Green wanted to do with the Halloween Franchise, making it only a trilogy was just making it doomed to fail. I understood what was trying to be done with the beloved franchise, but I do not believe they had enough time or room in the script to do it.
Rohan Campbell had the chops to be a very memorable character, one that could’ve made a mark on the franchise. But because of the lack of direction in the script, he didn’t have enough material to dig in and make his mark on the beloved franchise.
After this movie, I’ve decided that I’m going to ignore Halloween Ends altogether in the canon and say that it all ended with the 2018 Halloween.
“They made two more Halloween movies after that? I believe you’re quite mistaken!”
