Summary
Legendary horror director John Carpenter knows about Michael Myers' fate inHalloween Endsbut remains unconvinced that the iconic slasher is gone for good.
The filmmaker behind such classics asEscape From New YorkandBig Trouble, Little China, Carpenter also happens to be the mind behind the film that dawned the era of the slasher film. The originalHalloweenpremiered in 1978, catapulting the career of Jamie Lee Curtis as a scream queen and becoming one of themost influential horror franchises of all time. Carpenter has since divorced himself from theHalloweenfilms, preferring to let other directors take the wheel.
One such director was David Gordon Green, who created the most recent and divisive trilogy. Michael Myers meets a seemingly definitive death inHalloween Ends, but that doesn’t mean he’s gone for good. “Don’t you believe it yet. Don’t you believe it yet,” Carpenter toldComicBook.comofHalloween Ends. “There’s all sorts of ways of bringing Michael Myers back. There’s all sorts of ways of telling that particular story. We’ll just have to wait and see.”
In the past 40 years of the franchise, not everyHalloweenfilm has been a winner. But Green’s trilogy has been criticized for its artistic choices, especially in the most recent film, where loner Corey (Rohan Campbell) makes friends with the masked serial killer. This all culminates in the final moments whenMichael Myers' obsession with Laurie(Curtis) ends. After a showdown in her kitchen, Laurie makes sure nothing remains of her tormenter and the entire town puts him through a metal shredder.
While it may seem difficult to return from that, Carpenter has a point. Michael Myers is the infamous character that always gets back up. And no one forgets his seeming demise inHalloween H20: Twenty Years Laterwhen Laurie decapitates him. As Carpenter says, there is always a way to bring Michael back, especially when it is time to reboot the franchise again. The newest trilogy seemed promising but was a critical miss for many.
This failure was exacerbated by Green’s follow-up of rebooting another beloved franchise:The Exorcist. As withHalloween, Green revitalized the franchise by makingThe Exorcist: Believera straight sequel to the original film. But critics and fans alike were less than impressed. Arguably even more rejected than hisHalloweentrilogy, Green may be on his way to making a name for himself by ruining classic horror films. With this in mind, it may be no time before Hollywood decides it is time for Michael Myers to rise from the grave and give theHalloweentrilogy to the hands of another director.
