The same lines are muttered almost constantly and it made for an irritating experience in that respect. Some hate the new entry with a passion and feel its excessively brutal, gory kills and unlikable characters put it more in line with the Halloween movies directed by Rob Zombie.

The situation ends up becoming personal for a doctor accidentally involved, Daniel Challis (Tom Atkins), and Ellie Grimbridge (Stacey Nelkin), whose father was mysteriously murdered while in Daniel’s care. Early on in John Carpenter's original Halloween movie, Laurie Strode and her friend Annie run into Annie's father Sheriff Brackett. If that happened in the Michael Myers timeline, then no amount of PR wizardry would allow Silver Shamrock branding to be used to sell Halloween masks again - let alone the exact same Halloween masks.Picking up immediately after the events of the previous film, Laurie Strode (played once again by Jamie Lee Curtis) is being rushed to the hospital. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Michael Kennedy is an avid movie and TV fan that's been working for Screen Rant in various capacities since 2014. The filmmakers may slam in home with Halloween Ends but from my current viewing this film accomplishes little character development. A FL native, Michael is passionate about pop culture, and earned an AS degree in film production in 2012.

When not writing, Michael enjoys going to concerts, taking in live professional wrestling, and debating pop culture. Again though, it's hard to pick this film apart when it's very clearly just trying to be one thing and it does exactly that. S. Capital insurrection, watching a sea of angry, misinformed citizens run wild in misplaced fear and loathing.These masks were also seen in 2018's Halloween, but this is the first time that the Silver Shamrock tag (which, in Halloween III, contains the mechanism that kills the wearer) has been shown on them.