Halloween Kills Ending Explained - What's Next For Michael Myers?

10. What Happened?

Before getting into what's next for Michael Myers and the Halloween franchise, it's impossible not to address what actually happened by the time Halloween Kills rolled to a close.

While one of the major story strands of Kills revolved around Tommy Doyle assembling a Haddonfield lynch mob to put Michael done once and for all, that plan spectacularly backfired.

Despite getting the better of The Shape, beating him to a pulp and even sticking a knife in his back, Tommy and his crew, quite frankly, didn't finish the job. Even if you work on a Halloween continuity that only includes the first movie and the 2018 picture, that's still enough bloodshed and bodies to mark Myers out as a figure who you need to go the extra mile to really stop in his tracks. After all, this is someone who we've just seen somehow survive being trapped in the basement of a burning building.

As such, Michael eventually rises from his beatdown, returns the favour by brutalising this group of vigilantes, and the population of Haddonfield is now a few people less. And speaking of those "few people less", that nicely dovetails into...