Where is the next generation of slasher killers coming from? "Halloween Ends" has some ideas.
Supposedly the final "Halloween" movie with Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode — and the third in a latter-day trilogy she made with writer/director David Gordon Green — "Ends" starts with what could be dubbed "The Making of a Maniac." He's a bullied young man named Corey who enrolls in a loose Michael Myers Apprenticeship Program, interning as a serial killer who gets bloody revenge on the people who wronged him. And there are a lot of them.
That means more than half of "Ends" focuses on stuff that involves neither Laurie nor Michael, and it is not the good half. There's nothing special about Corey (Rohan Campbell), whose story echoes what we know of Michael's childhood, and his budding romance with Laurie's granddaughter (Andi Matichak) that is supposed to balance his hulking outsiderness. It just creeps us out instead.
