10 Movies You Never Expected To Have A Happy Ending
6. Halloween Ends
Halloween Ends was marketed as an ending to the story of Michael Myers. The film rights have now reverted back to Malek Akkad, so the original producers will probably make yet another continuity - to go alongside Miramax getting the Halloween TV rights - but for the time being, this is the only thing we've got that resembles a closed ending to the Halloween story. It's one far happier than most will have expected.
The movie concludes with Michael Myers finally being killed off for good. The residents of the town that he has terrorized for all these decades have a procession as they journey to the scrapyard to see Michael's body being destroyed in an industrial shredder, preventing him from ever coming back.
As if that wasn't great enough, the movie's new villain, Corey Cunningham (Rohan Campbell), is also killed, Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) reaches a new sense of inner peace and rekindles an old romance, her granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak) leaves the town for pastures new, and Haddonfield, a long-traumatized community, seems to have healed. There's no suggestion of a new threat either.
This is hammered home by the choice of end credits music. Every other Halloween movie features sinister instrumental music as the closing theme - bar Halloween II's Mr. Sandman - but these end credits have Blue Oyster Cult's Don't Fear the Reaper (a song which appeared in the 1978 original) playing triumphantly and defiantly.
Halloween Ends was a messy and polarizing sequel, for sure, but it is worth seeing for this ending alone.