Halloween Ends
2022 · Directed by David Gordon Green
Original language: English
- horror
- thriller
The story
Four years after the events of Halloween in 2018, Laurie has decided to liberate herself from fear and rage and embrace life. But when a young man is accused of killing a boy he was babysitting, it ignites a cascade of violence and terror that will force Laurie to finally confront the evil she can’t control, once and for all.
What it’s like
Autumn dusk in a small Illinois town: sodium streetlights, rust-brown leaves, rain-slick asphalt, and the cold blue of late-October nights, shot with the broad, composed frames of David Gordon Green's trilogy closer. The camera lingers on suburban kitchens, porch lights, and quiet residential streets, while John Carpenter's synth motif pulses under the score in deliberately stripped, rhythmic bursts that give way to long stretches of near silence. Violence arrives in sudden, ugly flashes rather than sustained gore, but it lands hard and sometimes lingers on its aftermath, so expect brutal moments and a steady undercurrent of dread, with grim cruelty and some sexual tension in a jealous, unhealthy romance. The pacing is slow to build and then abruptly escalates, and the emotional register is weary and bleak, following a survivor trying to outrun old trauma and a community sliding into fear and suspicion. It suits a dark, lonely night with the lights low, and fits viewers who want a moody, atmospheric slasher that treats its wounded characters seriously and does not stop at the scares.
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