Nobody truly believes “Halloween-Ends-2022-movie-posters/”>Halloween Ends” is the actual end of the “Halloween” movies — the only thing that’s harder to kill than a slasher villain is a profitable series of movies about him.
But it’s also not obviously clear where the franchise should go next.
In fact, the slasher genre as a whole is at a bit of a standstill.Franchises like “Halloween,” “Friday the 13th,” and “A Nightmare on Elm Street” spent the 1980s and ’90s building loyal fanbases by releasing a seemingly endless series of fun and gory sequels that provided annual scares while building gonzo, comic book-like mythologies for their masked killers.
Then, they spent the first two decades of the 21st century squandering that goodwill with a series of remakes that attempted little more than opportunistic retreads of old story beats.
These days, news of a new “Friday the 13th” or “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” elicits little more than groans.
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