Here’s why… as Michael is getting weaker, his evil is spreading into others… that’s way more interesting than a single killer. His evil manifests through others. Since he’s destroyed, his evil is now fully set free from his body as a vessel to invade whoever wherever. They can go with that story arc forever!
So just a copy of Scream, and Halloween 4-6 all over again
If he wanted to remake Christine he should have just done that
I fully agree that it’s played out. Reason being the franchise hasn’t landed in the right hands. Maybe next time lol
Completely agree… maybe someone like Ari Aster could completely re invent it
This movie is very character driven, which is very unusual for a slasher movie. I think that’s why it’s getting the pushback it’s getting. Audiences are used to the same old same old, and Ends goes deeper than that. Michael is present more psychologically than physically in this movie. He still haunts Haddonfield even as everyone is trying to move on. Like Allyson said in Kills, “He’ll always be with us, even when we can’t see him.”
2018 played it super safe, and to me it was a rehash of 1978 in many ways. Kills was a generic slasher, but the Jason fans loved it. Ends has a certain class to it, in that it delves into some pretty deep stuff, a slow burner, and that’s why I feel it’s the superior film, it didn’t copy the others.
But it would seem people want more of the same.
For me, clever storytelling doesn’t mean the same old thing. Just saying…
The concept was interesting but it wasn’t executed correctly.
Elaborate. So what do you find clever or the same old thing in regard to this trilogy? I don’t feel 2018 or Kills added anything new to the franchise, but that’s just opinion. I know the majority hate Ends, that’s just something I have to accept.
I am not a fan of any of the new trilogy tbh.
By clever storytelling I mean by someone other than this team that could possibly be clever & fresh
Agreed. It took 4 people to come up with the story and write the screenplay for Halloween Ends. And the best they could do between the 4 of them was take Arnie Cunningham from Christine and put him in Halloween Ends 
Personally, I disagree. The idea behind Corey Cunningham is interesting. It really is. But the way it was executed was poor. Even for a character-driven slasher, Corey comes off more as an edgy school shooter than he does an embodiment of the evil that Michael Myers was.
Haddonfield treated him with an unrealistic kind of poorness, even by the fact that people do stupid things when afraid. We should have seen him become more and more detached from the people around him. We should have seen him become more and more like Michael Myers. Instead, we get an edgy copycat with “I wanna burn it all down” kinda personality. That would have made more sense with what Laurie was saying: that she saw Michael’s eyes, his evil, his detachedness in Corey.
If I could change anything, I’d make the following:
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Bring Michael to the forefront. Let him be the Boogeyman for his last hurrah. Sure, keep Corey connecting with Michael, but have it happen at a different point.
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Change Corey Cunningham’s overall personality. It didn’t mesh well with becoming Myers 2.0. In fact, I’ll do you one better. Instead of Corey going around and killing people and talking about how no one understands him, let him become slowly more and more detached. More stalky. More creepy. And then have Ends end where it all began: a kid on Halloween night standing outside his front porch with a bloody knife, in a one piece suit and mask. Have his first kill be Allyson, his mother (changed to be kinder than she was), or even Laurie Strode herself.
It would’ve been a better film overall if Green and McBride had left it open that Corey would be the new contemporary Shape: Michael’s time was done. He was 64 at his death. It would have been masterful, especially if they had the focus on the Strodes moving past their grief and Corey was a background character for most of the film, while the Strodes became Michael’s targets in addition to neighbors and friends.
Back in 2017 I predicted The Last Jedi would end up the most well received of the ST because it was the most different, and so far that prediction has proved true. I predict the same for Halloween Ends. It’s the least run of the mill of the Blumhouse trilogy. It’s unique and I think it may end up a sleeper fan favorite like H3 and H6 (producer’s cut) are.
Any way you paint it…it is a epic failure imo. The Corey thing is not interesting. Not in the least bit. Movies are very subjective. We all have our unique views on what we “wish had happened” That don’t fix it. Yes I am a purist but that doesn’t mean I won’t appreciate a good story/film making team. This just isn’t one of them. None of the last three in my eyes
Jay how dare you hate this excellent sequel to Christine. I told you it’s a masterpiece and that’s all that matters, now praise it!! 
To each their own. Halloween 1978 is sacrosanct in my eyes, and can’t really be ruined. But H18 is made worse by the existence of the others of its trilogy, none more egregious than Ends. But I will probs turn on H18 every so often, and will continue to have a place for '18 and the lightning in a bottle it was for myself. It was reinvigoration. It was decent. Better than any sequel bar 2, which is more an extended epilogue than anything. It’s such a shame that DGG and DMB doubled down on the pretentiousness of their trilogy’s messages imo.