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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Wendy Ide

Halloween Ends review – even Jamie Lee Curtis loses the will in puny series finale

Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween Ends.
‘The scares are sad’: Jamie Lee Curtis with Nick Castle in Halloween Ends. AP Photograph: Ryan Green/AP

The relentless masked murderer Michael Myers and the Halloween horror franchise have proved notoriously difficult to kill. But with this lacklustre final film in his reboot trilogy, David Gordon Green finally seems to have done the trick. The killer blow comes not from a knife, gun or spanner (although all three figure heavily and bloodily). Rather, the series is simply starved of ideas. The scares are sad, puny little things. Even Jamie Lee Curtis seems to have lost the will to fight. It’s time that Myers and his mouldy old mask were laid to rest. Let’s hope nobody decides to disinter him yet again.

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