Updated On: 14 October, 2022 06:36 PM IST | Mumbai | Johnson Thomas
David Gordon Green rebooted the slasher original in 2018 but the subsequent sequels were imminently forgettable

A still from ‘Halloween Ends’
The Halloween franchise that fortified Jamie Lee Curtis’ career in Hollywood, beginning with John Carpenter’s iconic Horror classic, appears to have decided to finally call it quits. And that’s a good thing because the franchise has been resurrecting itself again and again with brand instalments mainly engineered to keep its cult following and not necessarily for the purpose of great horror story telling.
Even though in film after film in this woebegone franchise, Laurie (Jamie Lee Curtis) has been brandishing her knife and other arsenal quite effectively, it hasn’t quite vanquished the evil she first confronted way back in 1978.