Halloween Kills Ending Explained - What's Next For Michael Myers?

3. How Are Those Four Years Spent?

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If Halloween Ends really is the final battle between Laurie Strode and Michael Myers, it needs to be addressed why exactly it's taken four post-Kills years for this fight to take place.

Granted, Laurie is likely to be physically out of action for a little while longer in the immediate aftermath of Kills, yet she's surely not going to wait four years to avenge her daughter's death. Has she frantically spent those four years unsuccessfully trying to hunt down Michael? Maybe she's found The Shape and had a couple of further wars with him during this period? Or how about the shock of losing her daughter pushes Laurie into hiding, for fear of Myers hurting anyone else close to her?

On the flip side of this, there's also the notion of what Michael himself has been up to in these four years away. While the previous canon of the series had Haddonfield's most infamous son resurface on Halloween night at several points across the decades, the current canon of the franchise means that The Shape stayed dormant (and locked up) from 1978 t0 2018. As such, a four-year hiatus is nothing.

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