# Halloween Ends (2022)

What a bummer! The first two entries of the latest Halloween entries punched above their weight - great production, great casting, and a unique point of view.

Unfortunately, this doesn’t live up to the legacy of Halloween and Halloween Kills. It flirts with some interesting ideas about how we’ve lost a shared sense of reality and truth, but then the plot feels like a retread of the themes of Halloween Kills. You could pause the movie 25 minutes in and accurately sketch out every major & minor story beat remaining in the movie, but it’s in no hurry to get there.

Still, it’s a treat to see Jamie Lee Curtis in the spotlight and I enjoyed my time with the rest of the cast too.

I’m glad this trilogy exists - it reminds me a bit of Restoration Games from the boardgaming world, a company that does remakes of old boardgames that aren’t faithful to the mechanics but instead the feel. They remember the IDEA of playing Fireball Island! and made a game to capture that idea.

These people loved the idea of Halloween and they did great by it.