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I don’t believe I’ve ever wanted to be a theater owner more than this week as news about upcoming movies set to bombard our local multiplexes has been flying at us fast and furiously from the annual film exhibitor-only CinemaCon. Sticky floors, belligerent teens, those annoying people who insist on taking calls during a movie and Mickey Rourke displaying the finer uses of a popcorn box are all negligible and easily put up with in exchange for this event which amounts to nothing less than a veritable orgy of celluloid ooey-gooey fun. Case in point: Halloween Ends.
According to our “Curse of Thorn” pals over at The Hollywood Reporter, the very first trailer for director David Gordon Green’s capstone in his Halloween trilogy – appropriately entitled Halloween Ends – made its world premiere at this week’s CinemaCon, creating a frenzy on social media as details about the short trailer made the rounds (the trailer for Halloween Ends, like all others from this annual extravaganza, has been put under lock and key until Universal, BlumHouse and Miramax decide on a street release date).
Introduced by original Final Girl herself, the legendary Jamie Lee Curtis, the trailer for Halloween Ends was an emotional one for the actress who will, after 44 years, draw down the curtain on her seemingly never-ending battle with The Shape (A.K.A. Michael Myers) with one final battle.
“It’s been the ride of my life to portray Laurie Strode,” Curtis said through tears to an audience that gave her a standing ovation. “…You people are the first people anywhere, everywhere all at once to get a first look at what happens when Laurie Strode and Michael Myers meet for the final time.”
The trailer proper begins with flashbacks from John Carpenter’s original 1978 classic and vignettes from Green’s 2018 Halloween and last year’s Halloween Kills. It concludes with a scene from the new film of The Shape going head-to-head with Laurie Strode: Curtis is thrown across the kitchen by Myers before she flashes a butcher knife which she uses to slash into Myers’ hand. The trailer then ends with Curtis holding said knife over the Boogeyman. Hopefully this turns out better for our heroine than it did in the opening moments of the ill-advised 2002 flick Halloween: Resurrection.
Halloween Ends slashes into movie theaters this October 14!
