8 EXACT Moments Classic Horror Franchises Should Have Come To An End

1. Halloween Ends With Michael’s Burning Body

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To go all “this writer” on you, this writer’s absolute favourite horror franchise is the Halloween series. From all-time classics, to guilty pleasures, the entire eleven Halloween movies to date all hit the spot in their own particular ways.

Still, if we’re being realistic, the Halloween franchise should have ended in 1981 with Rick Rosenthal’s Halloween II. To be a little more exact, the long-standing saga should have just ended naturally with the film’s closing credits.

Continuing the events of “the night HE came home,” Halloween II picked up in the direct aftermath of John Carpenter’s legendary 1978 picture. Laurie Strode had been taken to hospital after the traumatic events of that original movie, and Michael Myers was on a mission to hunt her down in her hospital bed.

The culmination of the film sees Laurie shoot Michael in the eyes, before Sam Loomis blows up both himself and The Shape. And it’s there, with the closing shot of Michael’s burning body and The Chordettes’ Mr. Sandman cheerfully playing away to make the scene even more impactful and macabre, that the franchise should've ended.

With this ending for the franchise, there would be a nice sense of ambiguity to the fates of Loomis, Laurie, and Michael, while also saving us from The Shape engaging in a kung fu battle with Busta Rhymes years later in Halloween: Resurrection.

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