Halloween Ends (2022) on Netflix
Laurie Strode lives with her granddaughter Allyson and writes a memoir, four years after Michael Myers vanished. Corey Cunningham, blamed for a boy's death, works at a salvage yard.
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Plot summary
Four years after Michael Myers's killing spree, Haddonfield, Illinois, is still living with the aftermath, and Michael has not been seen. Laurie Strode has set aside the fear that ruled her for decades, is writing a memoir, and shares her home with her granddaughter Allyson. Corey Cunningham, who accidentally caused the death of a boy he was babysitting, was cleared by a judge but remains an outcast, working at his stepfather's salvage yard. When high school bullies accost him and he injures himself, Laurie brings him to the doctor's office where Allyson works. Corey and Allyson plan to meet at a Halloween party.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Halloween Ends (2022)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Halloween Ends went through darker endings that were scrapped: one had Laurie Strode commit suicide, and another had Corey Cunningham survive and run off with Allyson in a Natural Born Killers-style ending.
- The original ending of the film had Laurie Strode and Michael Myers fight in a mask factory that produced Michael's iconic mask, echoing the Silver Shamrock masks of Halloween III, but it was scrapped for being too meta.
SPOILER
The climactic procession, in which Michael Myers's corpse is paraded through Haddonfield and put into an industrial shredder, was a late addition, shot around August 2022 after David Gordon Green wanted "something more grand" for the ending.- Rohan Campbell was one of hundreds of actors who auditioned for Corey Cunningham; David Gordon Green chose him for his "tough but sensitive" face, kept him out of the press before release, and he and Jamie Lee Curtis warned Campbell about potential backlash.
- Kyle Richards was not expected to return for Halloween Ends, but following the positive reception to her performance, the script was rewritten to give her an expanded role.
- The opening titles' jack-o'-lanterns emerging from within each other were practical, made by production designer Richard Wright, then replaced by a digital version, according to cinematographer Michael Simmonds.
- The character of Corey was closely similar to Keith Gordon's Arnie Cunningham in Carpenter's Christine (1983), and the role was also inspired by real-life perpetrators of school shootings.
