Why Halloween Ends Is Nowhere Near as Scary as E.M. Forster’s Literary Classic, Howards End

The major obstacle is the powerful influence of one man: Michael Myers, an ageing serial killer who should really be hitting retirement

Photo (left) from Merchant Ivory Productions. Photo (right) from Miramax Blumhouse Productions Trancas International Films, and Rough House Pictures. Fair use.

Halloween Ends
An entire community has to grapple with inherited trauma.

Howards End
One woman has to grapple with inheriting a sprawling estate in the English countryside from a relative stranger.

Halloween Ends
The major obstacle is the powerful influence of one man: Michael Myers, an ageing serial killer who should really be hitting retirement.

Howards End
The major obstacle is the powerful influence of one man: Henry Wilcox, a middle aged industrialist, who burns the evidence of his first wife's final wishes to bequeath her estate to an acquaintance.

Halloween Ends
Michael Myers wears an expressionless mask that reveals no discernible emotion.

Howards End
Henry Wilcox's actual face is an expressionless mask that reveals no discernible emotion.

Halloween Ends
The house where much of the story takes place is on a residential street where, theoretically…