Halloween Ends' big moment was a last-minute addition to the ending

Halloween Ends spoilers follow.

The title of Halloween Ends teases that this is either the end of Michael Myers, Laurie Strode, the both of them, and/or the franchise itself.

Now the film is out (full ending breakdown here), Myers is the one who meets a grisly end, while Laurie looks like she may finally get to enjoy her life, and there's room for the franchise to potentially continue without either of them.

The big victorious moment in which Laurie straps Myers' body to her car and drives it through town to the local junkyard metal grinder was actually not something originally planned, as it turns out.

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Speaking Entertainment Weekly, director David Gordon Green explained: "I screen movies a lot, from the very first assembly. I want to watch the audience as much as I'm watching the movie. I'm ping-ponging back and forth, trying to see when they're engaged and when they're not."

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He added that they were leaning towards "a modest, intimate ending" for this movie, in contrast to Halloween Kills' "super noisy and aggressive" tone.

"I wanted this to return to the simple dramatic roots. But then there were times when I thought it just didn't play big enough and I wanted some scope to it," he continued.

"We wanted something more grand, and [that became] the procession sequence."

Green further explained that the ending was drawn up about "two months ago" over the summer, following some initial screenings.

"We went through a lot of endings. Some were really bleak, and some were less bleak. The version we ended up with, I think, is optimistic, hopeful," he said.

"After Kills came out with a bleak ending, I didn't want to do that again. I wanted to have some note of satisfaction."

Halloween Ends is out now in cinemas, and is also available to watch on Peacock in the US.

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