The Original Final Girl, Jamie Lee Curtis, Is Taking On Michael Myers In The First Trailer For 'Halloween Ends.'
The day has finally arrived for all you horror hounds out there. The first trailer for Halloween Ends finally dropped, and it looks like Jamie Lee Curtis is ready to kick ass and take names.
This new trailer is from the third installment of the reimagining of the original John Carpenter classic, this time helmed by David Gordon Green, who gave us the stoner comedies Pineapple Express and Your Highness.
Co-written by long-time collaborator and actor Danny McBride (The Righteous Gemstones), this is the "final chapter" in their trilogy, which takes place after the events of the original Halloween - thus negating all the the other sequels.
The trailer is less of a narrative layout - although we get a few quick clips from the film - and more of a montage of final girl Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) taking on her bemasked hulk of a brother, Michael Myers, in a battle to the death.
With quick cuts of what could be the last act of the movie, the now 60-something Laurie, who suffered a gut wound in the last film, is holding her own as she taunts Michael with the line, "Come and get me, motherf***er."
The first one was a decent attempt at doing something different while still keeping with the traditional structure of the 1978 masterpiece.
Though it has some shortcomings, it is a far cry better than the sequel Halloween Kills, which was panned by critics for its illogically ridiculous Frankenstein turn where the town of Haddonfield forms a mob to take down the unstoppable killer.
This time, it seems to have gone back to basics with our heroine going to work in a David and Goliath winner-takes-all: A tried and true formula which has sustained slasher flicks all these years.
Halloween Ends will hit theaters October 14.
