Jamie Lee Curtis feels almost incidental to a final chapter in name only.

Where’s the big guy?

All the talking may be the problem:Endsplays more like a psychodrama than a full-fledged horror movie.

Michael Myers (aka The Shape) and Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode in HALLOWEEN ENDS, directed by David Gordon Gree

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Even a bratty preteen knows enough local lore to snap, “Michael Myers killsbabysitters, not kids.”

(Let’s just sayHalloween Endsdoesn’t have to end, should the producers decide otherwise.)

Perhaps that’s the point.Grade: C

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