As a long-term horror fan I know better than to trust a studio when it claims a film is the final outing for one of their iconic boogeymen.
But even if it’s inevitable that we’ll see Michael Myers on screen again, this is definitively the closing chapter of David Gordon Green’s trilogy.
And that’s one of the things that makes Halloween Ends so disappointing; it doesn’t feel like the final part of the story that began with 2018’s Halloween - and veers off into wildly different directions from that opening instalment.