10 Exact Moments Recent Movies Lost Us
9. Corey Beats Up Michael & Takes His Mask - Halloween Ends
Halloween Ends made the bold, arguably very ill-advised decision to shift the focus away from both Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Michael Myers (James Jude Courtney) towards an entirely new protagonist, Corey Cunningham (Rohan Campbell).
Corey has considerably more screen time than either Laurie or Michael throughout the movie, and through his interactions with both Michael and Laurie's granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak), is seemingly teed up to become the next Michael Myers.
Yet even if you could accept this subversive narrative choice for the final entry into the Laurie/Michael saga, fans struggled to accept that Michael could be beaten up and have his mask stolen by Corey of all people.
After all, a little while before Corey beats up Michael, we see Corey himself being brutally attacked by a group of local high-schoolers, who to make matters worse are also shown to be a group of marching band geeks.
And so, having Corey - a guy who couldn't fend off a few dweeb kids - be the one to overpower Michael and take his mask left a hugely sour taste, ensuring most fans were left totally disengaged for the rest of the movie.
Even accepting that Michael was left in a massively weakened state after the events of Halloween Kills, it felt like character assassination to have him be manhandled by a guy who himself got bodied by a group of children.