‘Halloween Ends’ Trailer: Laurie Strode Makes Her Final Stand On October 14

John Carpenter has recently teased that “Halloween Ends” will be “a departure” from the other films in the new trilogy. One wonders what type of departure the film will take after “Halloween Kills” murdered most of its protagonists. Still, director David Gordon Green explained that the film takes place a few years after ‘Kills’ and will incorporate real-world elements into the movie, which includes the COVID-19 pandemic and what Green calls “peculiar politics.”

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“Where we’re leaving these characters on Halloween 2018, the world is a different place,” Green told Uproxx last year. “So not only do they have their immediate world affected by that trauma, having time to process that trauma—and that’s a specific and immediate traumatic event in the community of Haddonfield. But then they also had a worldwide pandemic and peculiar politics and another million things that turned their world upside down.”

While some may have diverging opinions on what Green means exactly, Jamie Lee Curtis has hinted that the movie is “going to make people very angry and it’s going to be shocking because it asks a lot of questions.” This is Curtis’ seventh time playing Laurie Strode in “Halloween,” as the franchise’s reboot trilogy is in its final installment and may give Strode a more satisfying ending than in “Halloween: Resurrection.” 

Here’s the official synopsis:

Four years after the events of last year’s Halloween Kills, Laurie is living with her granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak) and is finishing writing her memoir. Michael Myers hasn’t been seen since. Laurie, after allowing the specter of Michael to determine and drive her reality for decades, has decided to liberate herself from fear and rage and embrace life. But when a young man, Corey Cunningham (Rohan Campbell; The Hardy Boys, Virgin River), 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.

Alongside Curtis, Andi Matichak, Will Patton, James Jude Courtenay, Nick Castle, Kyle Richards, and Omar Dorsey will be reprising their respective roles as Allyson Nelson, Deputy Frank Hawkins, The Shape/Michael Myers, Lindsey Wallace, and Sherrif Barker. Joining the cast is Michael O’Leary as Dr. Mathis, who was mentioned in “Halloween Kills.” 

The third and final chapter of this new trilogy directed by David Gordon Green, with a screenplay written by Paul Brad Logan, Chris Bernier, Danny McBride, and Green, “Halloween Ends” releases only in theatres on October 14.