A little over a month remains until Halloween Ends is released, and it’s hard to believe it. All indicators point to Ends being another horrible massacre for the series, and the promotion for the last picture in the Michael Myers and Laurie Strode story has begun its vicious killing rampage. Another Halloween night where “he came home” is teased in a new TV commercial for the film. Three unidentified teenagers who are clearly up to no good say, “We’re going to have a wonderful time tonight” in the opening scene of the film. One should remark that the teenager with glasses is very reminiscent of Lynda’s boyfriend Bob from the first Halloween. Myers notoriously murdered Bob by pinning the unlucky partner against a door and stabbing him to death with a kitchen knife.
When Myers finished the kill and looked back at his handiwork, he made the famous head tilt, and here is the same location where he took the identical shot. Myers pins a mystery lady against a painting in one of the trailer’s closing scenes before stabbing her and giving her the ol’ Myers head twist. Although it is not yet known whether or not this gang of teenagers is on Myer’s list of targets for Halloween due to their striking likeness, it is a fair bet that they will not survive this bloody climax. The commercial continues with flashes of Myers’ last confrontation with Jamie Lee Curtis’ Laurie.
Andi Matichak’s Allyson is shown at a Halloween party, what appears to be the village of Haddonfield banding together to combat evil once more, and a number of individuals, including Allyson, are shown under duress. Myers lunges his hand towards the camera for an awesome image. The ends seem to be another aesthetically gorgeous and horrifying night, much like Halloween 2018 and Halloween Kills before it. The spot’s use of the original Halloween’s unsettling lyric “the Boogeyman is coming” further adds to the film’s eerie suspense. There’s a lot we don’t know about Ends even though October is almost here.
The film is set four years after Halloween Night 2018, so we know that Laurie has moved on from Myers and that Michael is apparently drawn out of hiding by the murder of a babysitter. Since this showdown has been in the works for over 40 years, it’s understandable that Universal and the filmmakers would like to keep this Halloween’s scares under wraps. While this new TV promo doesn’t provide any answers, it does a fantastic job of transporting us back to the spooky world of Halloween.
The first two films in David Gordon Green’s legacy trilogy were a horrifying love letter to the whole franchise, bolstered by the creative musical imagination of John Carpenter, but the third instalment, Kills, was met with mixed reviews from reviewers, moviegoers, and fans. Everything points to more of the same lethal mix at the finish line. On October 14, Halloween Is Over: The Final Chapter will be released in cinemas and on Peacock.