EVERY Halloween Death RANKED By Stupidity

Corey Cunningham - Halloween Ends

Halloween Ends Corey Cunningham Death
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Even now, several years after David Gordon Green's trilogy wrapped up with Halloween Ends, Corey Cunningham remains such a divisive character.

On the one hand, he is an absolutely fascinating figure, going from a regular, fairly cheery teenager to an outcast whose forever tinged and targetted after an unfortunate accident; all while Haddonfield as a town has long been plunged into fear and paranoia after the evil acts committed there. Added to that, actor Rohan Campbell does a phenomenal job as Corey, showing the various different sides to him as his story and sanity unravel.

The problem is, Halloween Ends promised audiences one last battle for the ages between two of the most legendary rivals in horror history, Michael Myers and Laurie Strode. And while we did indeed get that one last battle, we had to wait until the film's final 15 minutes to see it, which is something made infinitely worse by the fact that, not just does Michael not lock horns with Laurie until then, but he just spends so much of the movie on the sidelines while Corey takes centre-stage.

So, Corey Cunningham is a great character, has a great story, but not the character or story that Halloween fans wanted to see or were promised.

As for Corey's death, his attempts to kill Laurie Strode result in him getting shot several times, and he then stabs himself in the neck to give Allyson the impression that Laurie had stabbed him to death. After Allyson disowns her grandmother and runs from her house, Michael arrives to take back his mask and to take Corey's life, snapping the young man's neck.

In terms of stupidity, again, there's always a tinge of sadness and sympathy to the plight of Corey Cunningham. One complete accident, where he was the victim of a prank, completely changed his life, completely soured the bulk of Haddonfield's residents on him, and led to him becoming constantly bullied, belittled, and shunned like the black sheep of the town. Even when he fully embraced his path to darkness, that only came after he was essentially thrown to his death from a bridge, then had a crazed vagrant claim to be Michael Myers and lunge at him with a knife.

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