Just when the residents of Haddonfield, Illinois thought it was safe to venture out for All Hollow’s Eve this year, a new entry in the horror slasher series Halloween is set to be released in theaters. The new film, appropriately entitled Halloween Ends, is the final entry in Blumhouse’s new trilogy and will see perennial final girl Laurie Strode square off against the masked killer Michael Myers one final time. In a new interview with reporters from Salon, Jamie Lee Curtis, who has brought Strode to life for the past 44 years, reflected on her character’s history, especially her role as the final girl of the Halloween series.
Curtis says that prior to making Halloween Ends, she never completely understood the true meaning of the term final girl, a trope which is found in countless slasher films of the past four decades. Curtis says that filming Ends made her realize how cathartic and emotional her role is, and she expects that audiences will be very happy with the character’s journey. In the past, Curtis has been candid on how thrilling it has been to portray Strode since the original Halloween film from 1978, calling the part the ride of her life. Curtis’s comments to Salon further echo statements she made at CinemaCon earlier this year, when she promised that audiences would find watching Ends a harrowing experience.
Along with Curtis, members of the Halloween Ends‘ crew have also spoken on how the film is an emotional and traumatic conclusion to the latest trilogy. Speaking with reporters from Fandom, director David Gordon Green told of how he and the film’s writers brought the tragic events of the previous films to fruition in the final entry in the series. Continuing, Green says that Ends will see how Strode and the other survivors of the previous films have processed their trauma. Instead of being a one note story of good versus evil, Green says that Ends will find Strode faced with many different types of obstacles while still struggling to retain her resilient self.
Halloween Ends is scheduled to hit theaters on October 14.
