Andi Matichak tells me a spoiler that I'm not allowed to print. But I asked, and she tells me out of the kindness of her heart. Matichak is like that: gregarious, open and full of genuine excitement for the horror film she's here to discuss, a film that, while noted for its gore, seems also to be marked by great love.
We're talking about "Halloween Ends," the third installment of the Michael Myers trilogy from director David Gordon Green. Beginning with 2018's "Halloween," Green envisioned a straight sequel from the 1978 original film, which ignores the many movies in between. Jamie Lee Curtis reprises her role as Laurie Strode in Green's films, the babysitter role that launched her lauded career. In Green's 2018 film, Laurie is a grandmother, dealing with PTSD and all that can come along with it, including hypervigilance, paranoia, substance abuse and estrangement from her family; in other words, what might really happen if one had been terrorized as a teen by a serial killer.
