‘Halloween Ends’ Nearly Had Two Odd, Totally different Endings

It’s been almost three years since Halloween Ends closed the e-book on the reboot movies, however there’s nonetheless extra to study it.

In response to BloodyDisgusting, the just lately printed e-book Horror’s New Wave: 15 Years of Blumhouse by David Schilling reveals an alternate ending to the conclusion of Ends. Within the theatrical model, Laurie Strode defeats Michael Myers in her residence, then disposes of his lifeless physique together with her granddaughter Allison and the folks of Haddonfield in industrial shredder. However there have been completely different variations of that fateful brawl, and it’d have ended with the reboots in a darker or extra self-referential place.

Within the e-book, Jamie Lee Curtis revealed an ending they filmed which might’ve seen Laurie primarily turn into Michael upon killing him, resulting in her residing in isolation once more, as she was doing within the 2018 Halloween. This was likened to a “transference,” and she or he conceded it would’ve been “too darkish and too profound to fulfill the starvation of this 40-year journey.” Because of this, she asserted it’d be higher for Laurie to be with Frank and have a happier ending.

However curiously, Curtis additionally mentioned the unique ending (again when it was titled Halloween Dies) the place Laurie and Michael fought in a masks manufacturing facility crafting his masks for the spooky season. In her phrases, it’d have been the movie’s approach of claiming, “‘We’re all monsters if we placed on the masks. It’s not simply Michael, it’s all of us, if we put on the masks.’” The situation was in the end “too mental for this finale,” however she stands by the intent and thinks the ending they filmed displaying Michael’s masks in her home conveys the same impact.

As BD famous, Halloween Ends director David Gordon Green stated in 2023 he’d written an ending that may’ve taken place in a manufacturing facility owned by Silver Shamrock, a novelty firm featured prominently all through Halloween III: Season of the Witch. Regardless of loving the movie and  “having the temptation” to make that reference, he minimize it since it could’ve simply been fan service for the subset of viewers who caught the reference. However perhaps the next stab at Halloween will name again to Halloween III indirectly?

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