10 Movie Trilogies That Had The WORST Endings
2. David Gordon Green's Halloween
David Gordon Green's Halloween sequel trilogy functioned as a belated post-script to John Carpenter's 1978 original, jettisoning the many weird and bad sequels from the continuity while establishing its own new chronology.
And Green's 2018 Halloween legacy sequel was indeed a massive breath of fresh air, suggesting that Green intimately understood the characters of Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Michael Myers (James Jude Courtney) and also appreciated the elemental fan appeal of Halloween.
Even with sequel Halloween Kills disappointing so many fans with its hilariously clumsy social commentary, there was still faint optimism that Green would land the trilogy in satisfying fashion, especially with the marketing for Halloween Ends focusing on Laurie and Michael's epic final battle.
Except, this wasn't what Green wanted to do at all, and he instead decided to get very, very weird with his trilogy capper.
Ultimately Halloween Ends reduced Laurie and Michael to supporting characters in their own finale, with Green vaulting off to tell a mostly tangential story about a young man, Corey Cunningham (Rohan Campbell), who inadvertently crosses paths with both Laurie and Michael.
The end result was a finale that pleased few fans, hardcore or casual, by shifting its focus so drastically away from the core components before circling back to finally become a recognisable Halloween movie deep into its third act.
Even with Ends bringing the trilogy to a relatively concrete conclusion, many felt like Green bait-and-switched them, trojan-horsing an original horror story into a Halloween movie before offering up a limp, underwhelming final clash between Laurie and Michael.
It'll be interesting to see whether or not public opinion turns around on the film in the years to come, but given just how vitriolic the early response has been, it's not looking terribly likely.