15 Predictions For 2018 Movies That Everybody Got Wrong

10. Michael Myers Dies For Good - Halloween

The new Halloween movie was hyped up as the climactic showdown between Michael Myers and Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), not to mention a corrective for four decades of crappy sequels and reboots.

As such, there were murmurs of the possibility that, rather than an attempt to resurrect the franchise for a glut of new sequels, Halloween 2018 was actually a standalone film intended solely to bring closure to the series once and for all.

Of course, this was mightily naive thinking given Hollywood's insatiable desire to milk every lucrative IP for every drop they're worth, and so, the movie's cowardly ending sees Michael Myers mysteriously absent when the house he's apparently trapped inside burns down.

When a horror movie makes $253.7 million at the box office on a $15 million budget, you're getting a sequel.

It's not at all surprising that Myers lived to stalk another day, but this was such a ripe opportunity to finally end the franchise on something of a high.