Halloween Ends will see Laurie Strode confronting Michael Myers one last time, and Jamie Lee Curtis’ tease about being a Final Girl hints that Laurie won’t die. The Halloween franchise has gone through different retcons over the years that have made way for different timelines, and the current one is the reboot trilogy by David Gordon Green. The Halloween reboot timeline brought Laurie Strode and Michael Myers back four decades after their first encounter, and the nightmare isn’t over yet for her and Haddonfield.
Back in 1978, John Carpenter’s Halloween introduced the audience to Michael Myers, who on Halloween night 1963, killed his older sister and was sent to Smith’s Grove Sanitarium. Michael escaped 15 years later and returned to Haddonfield, Illinois, where he targeted Laurie Strode and her friends. Laurie was the only survivor of Michael Myers’ killing spree, and even though Michael Myers’ targets changed with time (and among those was Laurie’s daughter, Jamie Lloyd), Laurie Strode was established as the Final Girl of the Halloween franchise, and that might be a title she won’t give up in Halloween Ends.
In an interview with Salon, Jamie Lee Curtis shared that her experience filming Halloween Ends made her truly understand how important being a “final girl” is, calling the Halloween Ends experience “deeply emotional and cathartic”. Although Curtis didn’t share anything about Laurie’s story in Halloween Ends (but there have been teases about the ending potentially pissing fans off), her words on the importance of being a Final Girl hint at Laurie surviving her final encounter with Michael Myers – but that doesn’t necessarily mean that Laurie should survive.
Why Halloween Ends Should Kill Off Laurie Strode
Laurie Strode has already died three times in the Halloween franchise and none of them really did justice to her and her story. First, Laurie was killed off-screen between Halloween II and Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, then Michael killed her in the first minutes of Halloween: Resurrection, and later in Rob Zombie’s Halloween II, but none of them actually honored her Final Girl status. Now, in the reboot trilogy, Laurie has gone through a lot more than she did in the now-forgotten sequels. Laurie had been waiting and training for decades for Michael’s return, and she has seen more people die on one Halloween night, including her daughter, Karen (Judy Greer). Michael Myers killing Karen will surely be a major push for Laurie to really kill Michael Myers this time, but that might require sacrificing herself.
Halloween Kills brought a big twist by making Michael Myers supernatural again, and as he rose again to kill the Haddonfield mob, Laurie told Hawkins (Will Patton) at the hospital that Michael is no mortal man, that “the more he kills, the more he transcends into something else, impossible to defeat”, and that Michael’s curse is the fear he has seeded in Haddonfield. Laurie, then, might have to sacrifice herself in order to kill Michael Myers, which would not only bring his reign of terror to an end but it would also allow Laurie to complete her decades-long mission of killing him, and her death would further establish her as Halloween’s real Final Girl. Halloween Ends will surely have some surprises prepared for the audience, and Laurie’s death could be one of them.
Key Release Dates
Halloween Ends
Release Date:2022-10-14
