Halloween Ends-- My take on the movie with Spoilers!

 PLOT: Laurie and Michael come face to face for the final battle.

First of all, the memes of this movie are completely accurate. The movie is mostly about a new character that was introduced in the movie.

No, he wasn't in any of the previous movies. He is Corey, a new character that features in pretty much every frame and so for fans of the Halloween franchise who were anticipating an exciting showdown between Laurie and Michael, they will be disappointed.

The trailer may have featured the iconic characters, but the movie focuses on Michael's influence and the fear he has created. It is about Laurie and her guilt as people blame her for instigating Michael which causes the death of several people in the town.

But yeah, mostly it is about Corey.

HALLOWEEN ENDS PLOT

The year is 2019 and it is a Halloween night. No, we don't get to see Michael Myers just yet. It's Corey. He's about to go to college and he's spending his time babysitting before he leaves. His charge Jeremy is as bratty as any kid can be.

There's a scene foreshadowing what's about to happen next. The mother looks up the staircase as she calls for her son. But he's not up there. He's behind her in a mask. Boo! The mother is charmed but not enough to cancel her evening plans. Off she goes leaving Corey in charge.

Corey and Jeremy are watching a horror movie when Corey goes off to get something to eat. Jeremy is a brat, the mother did say he could have anything from the fridge, so why not indulge a bit?

As he's in the kitchen slicing up food with great difficulty, suddenly he hears the TV go off. Obviously no kid is going to switch off the TV himself. Expecting something has gone wrong, Corey leaves the kitchen.

At this point one would think Michael has entered the house. Yes, he won't hurt kids but he despises babysitters for some reason. Even Jeremy knows Michael kills babysitters.

Jeremy gets on guard and roams around the house. He goes to the kitchen but his knife is nowhere in sight. Uh oh...

No, it's not Michael. This movie is about Corey, remember?

Suddenly he hears Jeremy call for help. The voices are coming from the attic. Corey tries to be a hero and only when he gets locked in does he realize he has been pranked. Whoops.

Yeah, Jeremy is a brat indeed and he teases Corey who goes berserk. He gets so angry as he stomps and kicks the door.

At that very minute, Jeremy's parents return. Corey manages to kick open the door just as he says he is going to kill Jeremy.

Kill him he does. Jeremy is standing right outside and gets knocked off the staircase.

His parents enter and Jeremy falls right in front of them.

As if that wasn't enough, Corey is also holding a knife. Whoops.

The next scene is intercut with Laurie working on her book. She refers to Michael an an "it", the personification of evil, etc. She writes about the after effects of Michael's attacks and how it has made people hysterical and how quick they are to blame every crime on Michael.

She is taking a drive around and sees Corey being taken away by the police.

Three years have passed and Laurie is living with Allyson who has become a nurse.

Allyson is driving to work when a police officer pulls her over. Turns out the officer is an ex called Doug who is still trying to unsuccessfully get back with her. She barely makes eye contact with him and doesn't laugh at his sad attempts to be charming. To save face, he tells her of the broken muffler in her car.

She drives away after promising to fix it.

Meanwhile, Corey has been acquitted and trying to live a life free from trouble. He goes to the store to buy chocolate milk but the people in the town are not ready to let him forget what he did three years ago.

Four teens, looking to buy beer, approach Corey but he declines to help them. The four teens: Terry, Billy, Stacy and Margot decide to annoy the "psycho babysitter". For some reason they think it's  good idea to bully someone accused of murder. Of course it isn't going to end well for them.

Corey has suppressed rage and crushes the chocolate milk bottle in his hand. BAD IDEA. Some of it splashes on Terry and he decides to behave like a little boy in a schoolyard and push Corey down.

Corey accidentally slices his hand on the broken milk bottle. This hasn't been Corey's day or month or year.

Luckily for him, Laurie shows up at the right moment and shoos the kids away. She helps him up and Corey seems embarrassed but she then gives him a switchblade and asks if she should do it or does he want to?

Corey uses the knife well on Terry's tires and then goes off. Terry is super pissed. Thanks to Laurie, Corey now has a rival and knows that slashing things with a knife is a good idea.

Laurie takes Corey to the hospital where Allyson works. There's an instant connection between them both.

Even when the doctor is fixing up Corey, Allyson is busy batting her eyes while Corey keeps staring at her. Of course Allyson drops some things around and gets scolded by the doctor. When he leaves, Allyson takes over and Corey tells her that the doctor should not be talking to her like that and even if she's clumsy, no one should tell her anything to hurt her feelings.

Allyson whole-heartedly agrees. She starts talking about her car issues and Corey agrees to fix it up for her.

At home, Laurie and Lindsey (Tommy's friend. Tommy was the boy Laurie babysat in the first Halloween movie) are encouraging Allyson to date Corey. She barely puts up a resistance. Even she knows she needs to move forward.

Corey doesn’t have a very supportive family. His mother barely lets him out of sight and wants him to stay home. She also wants to know who he keeps texting. Sick of it, Corey heads out to meet Allyson.

Allyson openly flirts with Corey and makes sure he knows she wants him. The car was only a ruse to advance her love life.

Corey's attention is diverted towards a car that enters the garage. It is Terry and his father.  Terry's father blames his son for being careless and irresponsible. Corey notices it all and is clearly amused by it, especially when Terry is smacked on the head.

On the other side of town, Laurie is at the supermarket when she runs into Officer Frank Hawkins. He's busy buying lots and lots of meat and Laurie comes over and question his choices about not adding vegetables to his diet. She throws him a can that he fails to catch. Canned vegetables? Are they really supposed to be very healthy? But vegetables are vegetables and even though Laurie mocks his diet he still doesn't pick any vegetables.

Not that Laurie has picked any vegetables herself.

She tells him about Allyson being interested in Corey. Frank knows about him and is glad that Laurie is looking out for him.

Before leaving, Frank admits he likes seeing Laurie. She smiles but doesn't return the compliment. In this whole scene, Laurie may have been twirling her hair but she also looks disinterested and seems to be forcing her conversation with him.

As she leaves the store, she is accosted by a disgruntled relative of Michael's victim. She blames Laurie for provoking Michael which led to her sister's stabbing. The poor woman is in a wheelchair and cannot speak anymore.

Laurie's smile instantly disappears. She forgot that as a protagonist she wasn't allowed a happy scene. Not until the end of the movie anyway.

Later, Allyson has invited Corey to a Halloween party. He dons a scarecrow mask and is finally relaxing when he gets thirsty. Since he has to remove his mask to drink, his face is revealed to the partygoers.

Guess who is there? Jeremy's mother who apparently goes to every Halloween party around town. She starts cursing at him and Corey realizes he can never escape his past.

He walks out in a huff but Allyson follows him trying to tell him that they are in the same boat. But Corey tells her that they are not. He's seen as the psycho murderer while she is seen a survivor of Michael's attacks.

Allyson lays out her hands to show how troubled she is but Corey rebuffs her. He walks away but Corey's night is about to get worse.

Terry, who has nothing else to do but wear the same jacket and drive around town with his three friends, stops when he sees Corey.

They start to bully him and only Margot tries to stop them and tell them to get a life. Terry and Billy start beating him up after which Corey remarks how Terry is full of hatred because his father hates him too. That remark earns Corey a trip down the bottom of the bridge.

The four teens freak out, wondering if they've become murderers. But it isn’t enough to stop them from driving away rather than checking up on Corey.

But there is someone who checks up on Corey. Is it a friend? Nope. Just a criminal hiding out in the sewers. It's Michael!

He barely gets decent screen time. All his scenes are in the dark. He drags Corey into the sewers.

Corey gets a surprise when he wakes up because not only is he in a stinky sewer, he's being throttled by Michael Myers.

For some reason, Michael drags Corey into the sewers and then waits for him to get up, and then looks deep into his eyes to evaluate his soul. Michael senses something evil about him and lets him go. Corey stumbles but has the sense to run away but as he does, he bumps into a homeless man.

Frightened, Corey once again behaves impulsively and repeatedly stabs the vagrant.

Nervous, he goes to see Allyson who at first doesn’t want to see him after the drama he created at the Halloween party but then realizing she doesn’t have any other prospects at the moment, goes to meet him. Laurie is standing right there and she too possesses the power of insight and reading people's eyes.

Laurie sees evil in Corey's eyes and is now kicking herself for encouraging her granddaughter to get involved with him.

Corey tells Allyson about the killings but she seems hardly concerned. Later at the diner, Doug pops over to flirt with her. Corey is done being a pushover. He's not wearing glasses anymore. He's evil now and especially serial killers in masks have great eyesight because how else will they wear a mask over their glasses?

We never see Corey get contact lenses.

Anyway, Corey pretty much tells Doug to buzz off. He does but later follows Corey around.

Meanwhile Laurie is off to Corey's house to talk to his mother but she rebuffs her concerns and pretty much tells her that Corey is a grown man and can stay out late if he wants to. She also tells Laurie that the town wanted another boogeyman after Michael, to pin their problems on,, and instead of helping Corey, he has been picked on.

Laurie cracks, unable to take another person blaming her for ruining their lives because of her feud with Michael. She leaves.

On the other side, Doug thinks he can bully Corey and follows him down the sewers. Bad idea. Guess who has sought shelter there? What does Michael do for food, anyway? How has he been surviving? Does he bathe?

Living in the sewers all this time, he must have a stench that could be detected a mile away. Then again he rarely comes out of the sewers.

Anyway, Michael is old now and weak. He is unable to slash Doug properly so Corey helps him. Afterwards Corey goes to Allyson's to celebrate Doug's death. They spend the night together.

Any chance that the next Halloween movie will have Corey and Allyson's kid as the antagonist? The franchise is too popular to actually end, right?

At work, Allyson isn't having the best of days. Her obnoxious coworker got the promotion Allyson thought would be hers. Who can drop trays better than her? And flirt with patients?

Her coworker also makes a remark about her love life to which Allyson responds angrily. Her coworker seems hardly bothered.

Later, Jeremy's father is driving about when he sees Corey, he beckons him over to tell him he doesn’t blame him for his son's death but Corey barely blinks at him. The father drives off and later when he meets Laurie at the bar, he tells her how Corey's eyes are evil now.

Basically the town not giving Corey a second chance has turned his eyes evil, and evil eyes don't require glasses.

Allyson must have complained to Corey about her coworker giving her a hard time because we next see Corey teaming up with Michael to kill the doctor and Allyson's coworker.

Realizing he's becoming old and weak, was Michael looking for an apprentice? Why else would he suddenly be interested in a team-up?

There are more people in town who instigate Corey. They are also unable to see the evil in his eyes that so far Laurie and Jeremy's father had seen. At home, Corey's mother complains about his not spending time with her, and Corey just walks away.

Corey spends the night at Jeremy's house which is now abandoned. When he wakes up, Laurie is right there, leaning against a chair. She warns him to stay away from her granddaughter but he reminds her she was the one who fixed them up in the first place and the rules of fix-ups stipulate that she can't go back on her word. He calls her a freakshow for even suggesting this. He goes on a tirade and looks away for a couple of seconds before she vanishes.

Was that all in his imagination? His conscience, perhaps? The one good bit left inside him? No idea.

Corey calls Allyson and tells her Laurie is trying to kill him. Just out of the blue. Allyson believes that about her grandmother instantly.

Corey goes to the sewers to take Michael's mask. He wants to establish himself as the killer now. Michael is too weak and is easily overpowered. People don't throw food in the sewers. Of course he doesn’t have the energy to fight back. But the evil inside him makes him sit up after Corey leaves with the mask.

Corey goes on a killing spree, starting with the four teens who bullied him. He gets in a truck and chases down Stacy. When Margot sees her friend running, she joins her in the middle of the road. How about staying where she was? Or taking a turn and hiding between the rows of cars. Nope. The girls are run down. Billy is killed in his car. Terry tries to alert the garage owner who has a soft spot for Corey. But Corey doesn’t have any soft spots left. The garage owner is killed and Terry's face is melted with a blowtorch. Margot is still pinned under a gate and gasping but Corey stomps on her.

Next on the list is his mother who can barely put up a fight. He then heads to the radio station to cut off the DJ's tongue because he has been talking crap about Corey.

Laurie tries to get Allyson to stop from leaving but she has made up her mind. She wants to be with Corey.

But Allyson gets a rude shock when Corey doesn’t turn up at their meeting spot nor picks up her calls.

Laurie tries to call Allyson but she ignores her call.

Tired and hurt, Laurie calls the emergency number to report a suicide.

HALLOWEEN ENDS Ending Explained with Spoilers!

At this point, Corey has entered the house wearing Michael's mask. He hears a gunshot and opens the kitchen door to see Laurie shooting pumpkins. She's done with Halloween. She asks him whether he really thought she was going to kill herself.

Corey would have no idea since he may not have heard her call the emergency number. He is instantly shot and he stumbles and falls down the stairs.

Laurie unmasks him but Corey hears Allyson's car approach and decides to ruin granddaughter and grandmother relationship forever. He stabs himself in the neck and Laurie pulls out the knife for some reason just as Allyson opens the door.

If people kept their front doors locked, so many problems could have been avoided.

Allyson screams and tries to unsuccessfully stop Corey's bleeding. She doesn't even try to call for medical help. That's probably one of the reasons she didn't get a promotion at work.

She then simply leaves the house in tears.

While all this family drama is going on, Michael has come to retrieve his mask. He takes it from Corey and then snaps Corey's neck.

He confronts Laurie and they both begin to demolish the kitchen in inventive ways.

Allyson gets a call from Officer Hawkins who wants to know why Laurie called in for a suicide at her house. Allyson's mind connects some dots and she rushes over to help Laurie who has just thrown a refrigerator on Michael's legs and pinned his arms using kitchen knives.

Michael still attempts a trademark sitting up after getting a severe beating but Allyson arrives to help Laurie.

Laurie removes his mask and taunts him for being terrible in this movie. She slits his neck and then Allyson helps Laurie slit his wrist. Blood pours everywhere.

He is definitely dead now. Allyson confirms it using her limited medical knowledge.

Laurie comes up with an idea to give Michael's funeral a procession. His corpse is tied to the top of her car and driven around all over town so everyone can see that the terror is finally over.

For a finale, Michael's body is thrown into a compactor. There is absolutely no way he could survive now, is it?

Maybe another homeless man stole Michael's mask and has been running around town? There could be more people in town with evil eyes.

Let's see.

Finally, Allyson and Laurie reconcile. But Allyson leaves town to get a fresh start and Laurie finishes her book.

Later Officer Hawkins pays her a visit and we can see the reluctance in Laurie as she forces herself to be charmed by his efforts to buy her groceries.

She likes to do her own grocery shopping, dammit!

The movie ends with shots of Laurie's house.

SCARE SCALE: 4/5