What is up Scream team, Zack Cherry here, and today we are going to go over the newly
released Halloween Ends teaser trailer. I don't normally do content like this, but I've been working
on like a pretty substantial video and just to have something in between then, I wanted to put
this video out there. And the Halloween Ends teaser trailer was not something I was initially going to
even watch. I wanted to kind of go into it spoiler free, or at least as spoiler-free as I possibly
could. And I guess just on a whim I decided to watch it, because I feel like as much
as you try to avoid spoilers, they're gonna be all over the internet for the next three months.
Having said that, if you've been watching any of my other Halloween related content or ranking
videos, you'll know that 2018 and Kills were not very high up on my list. But that is not to
take away from the people who do really love those movies, because I know that a large portion of the
community really does love these movies, and I respect that, I think that's awesome. You know
there's value to be found across every single one of these movies, that includes Resurrection.
So with that said, I honestly have not been very enthusiastic about it coming out. It hasn't
been on the top of my list or really on my radar of things coming out in 2022 that I have to watch.
Obviously I'm gonna see it opening night, or as quickly as I can. I'm hopeful that I'm
gonna like it more than the last two, but at the same time I don't really have any expectations.
You know, even in hindsight, because I really wasn't a huge fan of 2018 when that came out, I
do like it a lot better in perspective against halloween Kills, and I really felt like I was
going into Halloween Kills thinking like - oh this is going to be the good one, this is going to
be the one I love - so I don't want to psych myself up for that again, and just feel like Halloween
Ends is gonna be the one that redeems everything for me. So I'm just gonna go into it like it's
any other Halloween movie coming out, and regardless of any opinion that I might
have had about Blumhouse and their direction, and David Gordon Green and Danny McBride, I'm still
happy that we're getting Halloween movies, and that this has really paved
the way for other franchises like Scream to have new sequels coming out years later. Anyway,
in terms of this teaser, I'm happy because I was expecting spoilers galore, obviously,
and this is very short, it's like just over a minute I believe. No narration,
that was one of the things that really kind of irked me about, I mean not just even the movies,
but even the the trailers from before. It's just like a lot of Laurie Strode voice over of her
kind of pretentious rhetoric that made absolutely no sense. So we really only get two sentences just
from Laurie Strode in this, where she says "come on, let's do this" and then something akin to like a
very Sidney Prescott "Come and get me, mother effer" So I mean it's to be expected, we kind of knew that
this final chapter was going to be the two of them facing off against one another. So just in terms of
what we see here, we start off with the streets with the trick-or-treaters. Actually the
first thing that came to my mind as I was watching this is that the house is very reminiscent of the
Carruthers house from Halloween 4 and 5. Like it's the same exact design, it's just kind of
mirrored, like the door is on the other side. Obviously it's not the Carruthers house, but I feel
like it's one of those tip of the hat, or you know - look what we put in here - very much like
the the Season or the Witch masks. So this is not my own observation, but on Instagram someone, and I'm
so sorry because I would have credited them, but it was one of those things that popped up and then the
screen refreshed and I lost who said it, but they noticed that in this scene where Michael
is going up the stairs and opens the door where Laurie is standing there with the gun, that Michael
has all of his fingers on his left hand, which obviously he wouldn't have because they were blown
off by Laurie's shotgun at the end of 2018, and he didn't have them in the duration of Kills. So it's
created a lot of speculation that this is not actually Michael Myers, which I mean given the
the trajectory of what we've seen in 2018 and Kills, Gordon Green and McBride
like to dip their hands in a lot of the nostalgia of the the past movies, and kind
of take a lot of cues from there. And if they were doing something like, I could see this being a very
Resurrection type thing, if someone else wearing Michael's mask came and attacked Laurie,
and she killed him. I pray that that's not what they're doing, because I think that that would be
ridiculous. But what I'm thinking is that this whole thing was just kind of a very last minute
shoot, just to have something to put in the trailer. Because I feel like Blumhouse and
Jason Blum - for as much criticism as I've given him and that studio - does listen to the fans,
and tries to improve upon things. And I'm sure that they know that the trailers
of the past have been very spoilery and they want to kind of condense it down so there isn't
a whole lot. So I feel that this might be a fake scene, just because they want to kind of leave more
open to the imagination. Because when we see Laurie and Michael fighting inside this house, like that
is certainly in the movie, and that's where we see that Michael actually has his fingers missing
when she goes to stab his hand. So I mean at least that lets us know that in the movie, the continuity
is right. But this is why I feel that this scene is fake and that's not necessarily
James Jude Courtney playing Michael in that reshoot. Or you know, maybe it is. Maybe
they just didn't have time to apply all the makeup because they wanted to make this really quick and
for cheap, just to have it for the teaser trailer. But I do know that there were reshoots that were
done, and James Jude Courtney was involved in those. He was going to be at the Calgary - which is where
I live - horror convention, and he had to cancel his appearance to do these reshoots, so a lot of people
were very upset about that. And whatever these reshoots were, I'm not sure that it is actually
what we see in this trailer, but this whole scene is very reminiscent of classic
Halloween, like Michael Myers' point of view shot coming up the stairs and going into the bedroom.
And that's another reason why I think this is fake, because it's so telegraphed that we know that
Laurie is going to be standing on the other side of that door holding a gun. So I feel that whatever
happens in the movie that precedes this showdown, is going to be more climactic of just like
within the context of everything else that happens in the movie. There's going to be some
sort of segue that gets them to that fight at the end, and I don't think it's him just simply
going into her house. But who knows, maybe I'm wrong, and maybe this is a Halloween Resurrection
nod, and she's going to kill a prankster or or something, which I would not put it
past them. But when we actually do see the fight here, this is very brutal, this obviously
reminds me very much of Halloween H2O and the fight in the kitchen. We also get the garbage
disposal bit, which never actually happened in uh neither that scene with Michael and Laurie, or
even the scene where where we did see the garbage disposal, which was earlier in the movie with uh
I forget the kid's name... um Charlie? Charlie! "Chawleeee" But it was more of a fake out of will
his hand get grinded up in the garbage disposal? And it didn't. We're also seeing like a lot of
split split-second images of people screaming, and this actually really does remind me of the Scream 3
trailer, which I actually think that's how you make a trailer, because it builds up anticipation
for something without actually showing anything, or giving away anything. So they definitely are doing
that right. This is might be another Halloween Resurrection homage, because there's this kid
in what looks like an underground tunnel system or like the sewers, which obviously were these tunnels
that ran under the Myers house in that movie. So it slightly reminds me of that. Other than that, most
of the scenes that are shown here are things that we've seen in Halloween 1978,
2018, and Halloween Kills, so there's very little like actual new stuff. This is supposed to take
place four years later, like it's all in real time, so supposedly this is happening October
2022. She's dressed up exactly the same as she was in the original, she's got the the blue shirt, that
JC Penney's outfit that she had in the original. We see a shot of Allyson coming out of a car,
and then I'm sure this is new - I don't remember it being in 2018 - but just Hawkins and other
police officers ascending on a location. Other than that, Michael attacking a red-headed woman. He's
also attacking that kid in the sewer. And yeah, just people screaming. It looks like Allyson
screaming. This is the shot that confuses me. I don't know what it is, but it looks like
he's stabbing into something which, I don't know what it is, but it all of a sudden explodes into
what looks like bats. It's like he stabbed into Dracula. If anyone knows what this is, please share
some insight in in the comments as to what that might be. I can't say that this trailer has
hyped me for this movie. I mean, I'm gonna see the movie regardless. That's the thing, I don't
need to watch these trailers because my ticket is already mentally purchased. But I commend
them. I feel that they did the teaser trailer right. I don't know why it was so difficult for them to
do it right, but I'm glad that they did. I'm glad that there wasn't really any
major plot spoilers in there. I'm sure that when the official trailer comes out, we'll have more
insight into things - I don't know if I'm gonna watch that. Guys, let me know in the comments
what you think about this, what your expectations are, other things that you noticed in the in the
teaser that I probably missed. But other than that, if you do want to get some more insights into
my feelings about the new Halloween trilogy especially, check out my podcast channel
because we are going to be doing episodes for Halloween 2018, Halloween Kills, leading right
up to Halloween Ends, that will also happen in October. I will put the links down below
so you can find it there as well. But until next time, I've been Zack Cherry, and I'll be right back.