Halloween Ends(2022)
2022 · David Gordon Green · 111 min
Four years after the events of Halloween in 2018, Laurie has decided to liberate herself from fear and rage and embrace life. But when a young man is accused of killing a boy he was babysitting, it ignites a cascade of violence and terror that will force Laurie to finally confront the evil she can’t control, once and for all.
Horror · Thriller
6.02.1k votes
TMDB score
3/5
Intensity
3/5
Gore
3/5
Stays with you
How Halloween Ends scares
The story spends its first half as a slow character drama, following grief and small-town tension more than delivering scares, before tipping into sudden bursts of brutal violence in its back half. There's less stalking-in-the-dark suspense than earlier entries and more raw, ugly human cruelty, with violence that feels sudden and mean rather than stylish. It trades the fun haunted-house feel of a typical slasher for something heavier and sadder, focused on how trauma spreads through a community. Fans looking for constant chase-and-scare thrills may find it slower than expected, but it hits hard when the violence does come.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, Halloween Ends rates psychological 4/5, visceral 3/5, gore 3/5, lingering effect 3/5, and overall intensity 3/5.
- Psychological: 4 of 5
- Visceral: 3 of 5
- Gore: 3 of 5
- Lingering: 3 of 5
- Intensity: 3 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 20 of 100 — leans Slow burn
Supernatural vs Real-world: 92 of 100 — leans Real-world
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 65 of 100 — leans Disturbing
Intensity over runtime
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A jarring opening jolt gives way to a slow, brooding character-driven middle with occasional bursts of violence, before building to a hard, relentless final stretch.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 4, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 3, 5, 4.
How scary is Halloween Ends?
On The Horror Database's 0–5 intensity scale, Halloween Ends rates 3/5 — solidly scary, building its fear through slow-burn dread rather than shocks. It works on both fronts, unsettling the mind while going for the body. Expect it to be moderately gory and genuinely disturbing. Some of it will follow you to bed, but it lets go within a day or so.
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