Warning: Full spoilers for Halloween Ends follow. Do you want to know if there is a scene after the credits in the movie? We’ll reveal it right here: No, there’s no mid-credits or post-credits scene.
Rebooted (again) in 2018, Halloween promised a fitting ending to Laurie Strode and Michael Myers’ story, which began in 1978. And now, with Halloween Ends, we have reached the end of this special trilogy. Is it really for Laurie this time? Who makes it out alive? When does evil die?!
We can confirm, without spoiling anything, that Halloween is indeed ending. So points for local delivery! But beyond that point, we’ll be breaking down exactly what’s happening in Halloween Ends in full spoilers. You have been warned!
(Read our Halloween Ends review when you’re done here!)
Halloween ends declared end
Halloween Ends begins on Halloween 2019, a year after the events of the previous two films. Not seen since the last fateful Halloween, Michael Myers is something of the town’s figurative bogeyman again. We meet Corey Cunningham (Rohan Campbell), a 21-year-old with a bright future who is babysitting a child named Jeremy. Long story short, Corey accidentally knocks Jeremy off a high stairwell and the child dies. Corey then becomes the town outcast, the “child killer,” and he can never shake that, missing out on the fulfillment of his dreams and ending up in his father’s car junkyard to this day 2022, which is where we pick the rest of the movie up.
Meanwhile, Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) writes her memoir and discovers how the town of Haddonfield has changed, sinking into grief, fear and paranoia in the wake of Michael’s attacks. She has been trying to move on with her life and lives in a beautiful new home that she shares with her granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak). Of course, Allyson’s parents were killed during Michael Myers’ attack in 2018.
Laurie arranges a sweet meeting between Corey and Allyson, and Allyson tries to get Corey to come out of his shell at a Halloween party. But that night, he’s ambushed by a group of – yes – marching band bullies and finds himself in a drain that’s also Michael Myers’ hideout. Michael attacks him but something strange happens as the killer stares Corey in the eye and he lets the boy go. Corey storms out and almost immediately stabs and kills a homeless man, either accidentally or on purpose…it’s hard to tell.
Soon, Corey becomes a mini-Michael of sorts, working with Shape to murder Allyson’s obnoxious ex-boyfriend. He wants to learn the ways of Michael and it seems like the darkness that Michael carries carries over to Corey. Meanwhile, Corey grows closer to Allyson and decides with her to “burn it down” and leave Haddonfield. Not great, Bob.
Inevitably comes October 31st. Laurie, who has come to feel that something is deeply wrong with Corey, confronts him and tells him that he needs to stay away from Allyson. He replies, “If I can’t have her, nobody will.” Then he goes off and kills some other people.
In the end, Laurie fakes a suicide attempt, but in reality she knew Corey was going to get her and she shoots him. After a fight, he says again, “If I can’t have her, nobody can,” and then he cuts his own throat. Allyson walks in at exactly the wrong time, thinking Laurie did it.
Michael then rejoins this chat and finally kills Corey before reclaiming his mask from him. He and Laurie get into a huge fight in the kitchen and she manages to nail his hands on the table with knives, stab him in the chest and through the armpit, and slit his throat. Oh, she also throws the fridge on one of his legs, why not. He wraps his hands around her neck and she yells “Do it!” Memories of previous encounters with Michael flashing before her eyes, Allyson runs in and stops him. Laurie slits his wrists…and Michael ends up dead.
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But apparently not dead enough as they strap his body onto a car and head to the junkyard with the townsfolk following them. There, Laurie throws Michael Myers’ body into a giant grinder and we watch as his limp form is ripped into small pieces. He’s awesome, incredibly dead!
In the film’s final moments, we see Allyson leave Haddonfield to be on her own, and Laurie moves on as well, tentatively reconnecting with Deputy Frank Hawkins (Will Patton), who took Michael after his OG killing spree had arrested. We see Michael’s mask lying on a table in Laurie’s house and the film ends.
Is there a Halloween Ends end credits scene?
No, there are no mid-credits or end-credits scenes in Halloween Ends. We’re sorry!
Halloween ends with Easter eggs
No Halloween is complete without Easter eggs! Wait, that’s another independent holiday.
- The main title font is the same as used in the first third Halloween film, Season of the Witch. It’s not about Michael or Laurie. It’s about… ghost masks.
- There are several homages and direct recreations of the original Halloween film here. In the first few minutes of Corey babysitting Jeremy, the two watch OG Halloween director John Carpenter’s sci-fi classic The Thing. Not only is this a nod to one of Carpenter’s best films, but it also references a scene from the original Halloween where Lindsay Wallace is watching 1951’s The Thing from Another World (of which Carpenter’s film was a remake).
- Original Michael Myers actor Nick Castle appears as a flasher during the costume party. Don’t worry – he’s wearing an actual costume depicting human entrails. Nothing gross!
- Laurie is writing her memoir entitled Stalkers, Saviors, and Saw-Wen. Saw-Wen is the Celtic festival that eventually became the Halloween holiday we know today, but it has also been referenced in previous Halloween movies. In Halloween II, Dr. Loomis figured out that Michael wrote it on a tablet, but there he translates the word as “Lord of the Dead,” which isn’t entirely historically accurate. In Halloween 3: Season of the Witch, the villain Conal Cochran (Dan O’Herlihy) is a Celtic witch planning a mass sacrifice of children on the night of Halloween. The holiday also plays a central role in the plot of Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers. The curse of the same name is the curse of Thorn, which in that film’s canon was the force that drove Myers to kill.
- There is a shot of Laurie looking down from her house to see Corey near a bush looking at her from the sidewalk only for him to disappear, recreating a similar situation in Halloween ’78 where she is with Michael in her backyard sees from her bedroom.
- Michael kills Allyson’s colleague by impaling her on a wall, just like he kills Lynda’s friend Bob in Halloween ’78.
- During their final confrontation, Michael’s face is reflected in Laurie’s knife. This is a small visual callback to the Halloween 5, Halloween 6, and Halloween: Resurrection posters. That’s really what this trilogy really comes closest to these movies.
- The film ends with a series of shots of empty rooms in Laurie’s house, much like Halloween ’78 ends… only much quieter now that Michael is dead.
- Blue Oyster Cult’s “Don’t Fear the Reaper” rolls over the credits. The song is played on the radio on Halloween ’78 as Laurie and Annie drive through Haddonfield.
But what do you think of Halloween Ends? Was it a real… end? Why has nobody ever thought of throwing Michael’s body into an industrial mill? Let us know in the comments! And then be sure to check out our Halloween Multiverse Timeline!
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