Michael Myers is back for this Halloween. Halloween Kills is the intermediate chapter between the sequel/reboot of Halloween night and the tremendous finale of Halloween Ends, which will be released in 2022 at this time. Perhaps that is why it has one of the most abrupt and shocking endings of the franchise.
The film picks up immediately after the events of the previous one, with Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), her daughter Karen (Judy Greer), and her granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak) on their way to the hospital, convinced they have killed the psycokiller to kill them. forever. But, after dispatching an entire fire brigade, Michael Myers will manage to escape from the burning trap that Laurie had turned his house into, convinced that he would return sooner or later to finish that crime that began 43 years ago.
With Laurie injured in the hospital, this time the absolute protagonist of Halloween Kills is Michael Myers himself. If in Halloween night, director David Gordon Green explored the aftermath of trauma in a family, this time he extends it to the entire community of Haddonfield, obsessed with Myers' crimes. While Tommy Doyle (Anthony Michael Hall), the boy Laurie took care of on John Carpenter's Halloween turned into a vigilante with a baseball bat, excites the inhabitants of Haddonfield - "Evil dies tonight", they will all shout feverishly- and leads a gang of vigilantes to end Myers once and for all, he will continue his way from house to house perpetrating his crimes.
The idea of turning Halloween Kills into a social portrait of the tension in post-Trump America threatens the film with disaster, but the murders of Michael Myers, who is more ruthless than ever in his obsession to return to the house in which he was born, and the texture and original music of John Carpenter drive it with a pulse towards its shocking finale. And it leaves us with a lot of questions ahead of the final movie in the trilogy, Halloween Ends.
This is the Halloween Kills ending explained. Spoiler free bar.
Michael Myers Immortal
Nearing the end of Halloween Kills, it seems that the citizens of Haddonfield have definitively finished Myers off. Karen, Tommy and his gang of vigilantes catch the serial killer, beat him up, shoot him, stab him, and leave him lying on the ground…forever?
As Karen and Allyson gather exhausted in front of the Myers house, calm at last, the film returns to the hospital where Laurie begins a monologue with Agent Hawkins (Will Patton) that explains much, perhaps too much, about how David Gordon Green conceives of the character:
Meanwhile, we will see how Myers, the bogeyman, the Coco of stories to keep you awake, recovers from his wounds, gets up from the ground and in a hallucinogenic sequence reduces Haddonfield's life expectancy by half.
The idea that Michael Myers has a supernatural origin is not new. It was already hinted at by John Carpenter and Debra Hill in the original film when they compared him to the boogeyman and showed that he was not an easy killer to kill. Halloween 3 was already openly giving in to fantastic delirium and Halloween 6 went even deeper into this idea. And Rob Zombie also pointed in the same direction in his sequel Halloween II. So nothing new here.
However, we have never seen a Myers so unstoppable. Halloween Kills has the honor of delivering the deadliest movie to date. With a final count of 30 confirmed kills (it's impossible to know how many more Myers has killed in that bloody feast after his resurrection), Comic Book claims he has broken the record for all psychokills and slashers in history, ahead of Jiggsaw and Jason Voorhees.
Laurie goes on to explain her interpretation of the malevolent essence of Myers: it is fear, which explains Haddonfield's transformation into a horde thirsty for revenge, the social message of the film, in case it wasn't already clear:
And Laurie continues, preparing us for what Halloween Ends has in store:
Halloween Kills: one last murder… a la Psicosis
"You can't close your eyes," Laurie says in the last sentence of the film. That's why we know that when Karen closes them immediately afterwards, nothing good can happen. Michael Myers is there.
Halloween Kills has been preparing us the entire movie for this moment by telling us about Myers' mysterious origins, when he was a strange boy obsessed with his older sister. A kid who looked at the teenager's window at all hours. What did he see on the other side? What does Myers see become a murderer as he looks out on the streets of Haddonfield from his late sister's window?
Convinced that Myers is dead, Karen looks down the street at that window where it all began, and sees a vision. For an instant Karen sees there, or she thinks she sees, what looks like the Myers boy watching her, dressed in that weird frilly ruff or scarf he dressed up in that Halloween in 1978. And she can't resist it. While Laurie's monologue continues to play from the hospital, Karen enters the murder house, goes to the fateful window and looks outside. So her: she closes her eyes. What is she seeing by putting herself in Myers's shoes?
As if coming from behind her, Michael appears behind her and successively stabs her with the knife in a violent montage of stabs and screams reminiscent of Psycho, although he alternates with Laurie in the hospital, advancing perhaps that this new trauma for Laurie and Allyson It will be capital in the last film.
Okay, Michael Myers is alive. We could expect it, although nothing prepared us for this violent last appearance. But what does this scene mean? Could Gordon Green be telling us that the fates of the Strodes and Myers are even more intertwined than we thought? Is it Karen's fear, the trauma that these new films are influencing, that keeps him alive as Laurie's monologue indicates? Is Myers some kind of demon summoned by the repressed subconscious of the protagonists? How to defeat a psychokillers who is more than just a mortal?
