10 Movie Endings That KILLED Franchises For Good
7. The Death Of Michael Myers - Halloween II (2009)
It was fully assumed that Rob Zombie's rebooted Halloween franchise would just keep going for as long as fans kept turning up to watch it, but the filmmaker himself had other ideas.
Zombie, who in his own words had a "miserable experience" battling the Weinsteins on his 2007 Halloween film, reluctantly agreed to return for Halloween II, but in doing so decided to curb-stomp the franchise's longevity in the most drastic, definite means possible.
Though the theatrical and director's cuts of Halloween II differ significantly, both of them conclude with the unambiguous demise of Michael Myers (Tyler Mane).
The director's cut goes even further in its pursuit of finality by additionally killing off Laurie Strode (Scout Taylor-Compton), leaving nobody alive to carry the franchise's mantle.
While the Weinsteins could've easily just hired another director to helm a third Halloween which retconned Michael's death - it wouldn't be the first time the series pulled this card, after all - between Zombie's closed-off ending and the film's lackluster box office performance, they instead decided to put the IP on ice for a good while.
With Zombie's Halloween being categorically, violently snuffed out after just two movies, the series sat dormant for almost an entire decade before David Gordon Green's 2018 film returned to the original Jamie Lee Curtis-starring continuity.