Is ‘Halloween: The End’ really the end of the ‘Halloween’ saga?

¡spoiler from ‘Halloween: The Ending’ below!

The time has come for the ultimate showdown between Laurie Strode and Michael Myers…or has it?

‘Halloween: The Ending’ puts an end to David Gordon Green’s trilogy and, from what is known so far, it will mark the end of Jamie Lee Curtis playing Laurie. The actress stated in July 2021, speaking with DigitalSpy, that making this film was comparable to a breakup. “Last week in Savannah, Georgia, when I went to the set knowing that this was the last time I would play Laurie, and that I would be with my team, I could only cry,” he mentioned.

But, Will this really be the end of the ‘Halloween’ franchise? Let’s break down the brutal outcome of ‘Halloween: The Ending’ to speculate on what might come next.

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The ending of ‘Halloween: The Ending’ explained

The new film takes place four years after the events of ‘Halloween Kills,’ and no one in Haddonfield has seen Michael Myers since. His new local enemy is Corey Cunningham (Rohan Campbell) who, a year earlier, had been accused of murdering a child he was babysitting.

Corey comes into Laurie’s lives when she defends him from stalkers and his granddaughter Allyson (And Matichak), with whom he falls in love. Unfortunately, Corey also runs into Michael Myers in the sewers after another altercation with his stalkers.

Michael tries to kill Corey, but is mysteriously stopped. Something changes in Corey after the incident and he starts murdering people, sometimes with Michael and sometimes on his own.

Laurie begins to suspect that Corey is not who he says he is and claims that he sees “Michael’s eyes on Corey”. Halloween night arrives, and after Corey removes Michael’s mask (whose form is greatly changed after the events of the previous film), he escalates his killing spree, with Laurie being his ultimate target.

However, she breaks free from Corey and shoots him, failing to kill him. Corey slashes his own throat, leaving Laurie a suspect in her murder, which will pit her against Allyson for good. Michael returns and takes up Corey’s job, just before the final showdown occurs.

Laurie gives Michael some of his own medicine and traps him between the refrigerator and the kitchen table. At one point, it seems to be the end of both of them, because Michael starts to strangle her (“do it” he tells her), after she has slashed his throat. Allyson gets home just in time to stop Michael and he bleeds to death.

However, Laurie knows that the town of Haddonfield needs more than that to believe that Michael is dead. She puts the corpse in her car and takes it to the junkyard to grind it up once and for all.

After this, we see Laurie finishing writing her memoir and potentially starting a romance with Frank Hawkins (Will Patton), while Allyson leaves Haddonfield. After everything she’s been through, we can’t blame her.

Is this the end of the ‘Halloween’ franchise?

It certainly seems like a pretty definitive ending. Laurie manages to survive and Michael is basically mush. In this way, the masked man – who has already been beheaded before, we cannot forget it – is going to have a bit of a hard time putting himself back together.

What’s important to remember is that this trilogy already tweaked canon by erasing all sequels since ‘Halloween Night.’ Nothing assures us that there isn’t another direct sequel to the first ‘Halloween’ movie that turns the plot into a different timeline.

If we were realistic, we would say that the chances of another ‘Halloween’ movie would depend on the success of ‘Halloween: The Ending’. It’s what creator John Carpenter was saying in August 2022: “If the movie makes money, I don’t think it’s the end. When one movie makes a lot of money, it somehow resurrects the next one.”

Could this be the last time we see Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode? That does seem more possible. “I would say, based on what I know about ‘Halloween: The Ending,’ which I think will be the last time I play it,“said the actress in July 2021.

Laurie has been killed before and brought back, so you could never say never, even more so knowing that she has survived this trilogy. However, continuing with this line of argument seems quite unlikely, but not impossible.

Although ‘The End’ answers nothing about the supernatural element of Michael Myers, it introduces the concept of “bad michael“infecting others. It’s possible that when Corey looked into Michael’s eyes on their first meeting, something changed inside him and aroused his killer instinct.

Michael may really be dead in this plot, but no one is sure that there isn’t someone out there on the loose that Michael has “infected“. He would just have to put on a mask and presto, Haddonfield would have a new Michael Myers.

A sentence of Laurie’s final narration (the end of the memoirs she is writing) could be anticipating the return to this argument. “Evil does not die. Just change the mask” he says winking at Michael’s other nickname.

A new killer may not be Michael Myers, but it will be his evil spirit.

A suitable approach, if there were to be a 14th ‘Halloween’ movie, would be to restart the timeline all over again. This trilogy has its own context, and a new one would have to originate from the original movie or from another point in the storyline.

Whether that will happen is yet to be discovered, but we should all know by now that it’s hard to kill Michael Myers properly.

‘Halloween: The End’ is available in theaters since its premiere on October 14.