10 WAY Better Endings For Recent Movies

10. Allyson Dies - Halloween Kills

Halloween Kills was a generally disappointing follow-up to 2018's franchise-saving sequel, concluding with a laughably predictable ending that just about everybody saw coming.

Given that Kills was presented as the second film in a new trilogy of Halloween movies, it was incredibly easy to guess that it would end on a downcast cliffhanger - an Empire Strikes Back-esque bummer that set the stage for an emotionally charged "final" showdown in next year's Halloween Ends.

And the most obvious choice was to kill off Laurie's (Jamie Lee Curtis) daughter Karen (Judy Greer), who is indeed brutally stabbed to death by Michael Myers in the final moments of the film.

But if filmmaker David Gordon Green wanted to deliver a truly shocking ending, he would've gone one step further and killed Laurie's granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak) instead.

This would've been far more impactful for several reasons - for starters, it would've subverted the passing-of-the-torch expectation in years-later sequels, that the young descendant of the hero is basically guaranteed to survive.

It also would've been the worst possible thing Michael could've done to both Laurie and Karen, to literally kill the youngest member of their bloodline, annihilating their future while teeing up a finale that couldn't be more personal.

On top of this, Karen's death was a genuine bummer because she's shown to be one of the film's most resourceful characters, only to pick up the idiot ball in the final moments and wander off to Judith Myers' old bedroom unaccompanied.

Conversely Allyson is shown to be reckless throughout the film, joining the group that's hunting Michael, and so her demise would seem a lot more plausible.

Imagine if, when Karen is luring Michael out of the house by holding his mask, Michael instead just closes the front door and butches Allyson. Roll credits. Now that is an ending.