Unmarked spoilers ahead!
Fridge Brilliance
- The decision to use a Mythology Gag font reminiscent of Halloween III: Season of the Witch seems like a simple nod to that film. However, with all the wildly different and contested changes to the status quo in this movie, it almost seems intentional on the filmmaker's part.
- Corey's victims were typically those who'd wronged him, but he also kills a few innocent people who happen to be in their vicinity. Why? Remember that his endgame is to elope with Allyson and Laurie stands in the way of that. By taking on Michael's likeness, Corey can effectively pin his killing spree on the town's resident boogeyman, allowing him to take his revenge on his enemies and remove Laurie so that Allyson leaves with him in one fell swoop. The senseless murder of innocents would make the killings a more authentic Michael Myers rampage.
- The focus on Corey for a large part of the film is quite controversial but it makes sense. In Halloween (2018), Laurie already had a climactic fight with Michael. In Halloween Kills, Laurie was witness to the paranoia he caused the town. Now, in Ends, she has to witness that kind of evil in a new vessel.
- In a case of 13 Is Unlucky, the thirteenth film just happens to be where the original Michael Myers finally meets his end.
- Why does Laurie look and act not as paranoid as she was in the first two movies to the point that it seems she forgot Michael exists? It’s a deliberate act to lure him in: just like Karen did in the very first movie.
- Supported by her faking her own suicide to draw Corey in to attack him; she's more together now, but she hasn't lost her tactical edge.
- Corey might be fundamentally lesser than Michael, but he also shows an example of what people look for in modern horror films. When the original Halloween came out, the horror lay in basically mindless killers who slaughter for relatively minimal reason and don't need to do anything more to be scary. For Corey, he at least attempts to be a more psychological kind of evil, manipulating Allyson into turning against Laurie rather than the "easy" option of killing her, but is unsuccessful because Michael's just that much more terrifying.
- Why is Michael in such a reduced state in this movie? It's the logical conclusion of the absence of the original incarnation's Healing Factor; despite the stabbing and bullet wounds he endured in the first film, Michael was quickly captured and would have received medical attention. Here, however, he disappeared into the night after his rampage in 2018, unable to seek treatment for the many injuries he took over the course of that night, which included blunt force trauma, stabbings, bullet wounds, a maimed hand, and serious burns. On top of that, while he would have been fed regularly at Smith's Grove, as a fugitive, he's stuck on eating whatever he can scavenge (even the first movie demonstrated that Michael needs to eat). Combined with his advancing age, his untreated (and, following a theme in the film, likely infected) wounds and malnutrition have weakened Michael to the point that he can be overpowered.
- The reason he was able to fight so well in the last film, even after the already lethal injuries he sustained in the 2018 film, may also have a pretty mundane explanation: he was running on pure adrenaline the whole movie.
- Laurie and the people of Haddonfield have Michael's body mulched instead of cremated because the last time they tried fire as a means of destroying Michael, it didn't end well; one can hardly blame them for not taking any chances this time, even if Michael is dead.
