It was Quentin Tarantino’s turn to direct the sixth film in the Halloween Horror franchise, and although it never came to be, its core concept resurfaced in the final chapter of the reboot trilogy, Halloween ends. The Halloween Franchise has gone through several iterations (and an upcoming Halloween TV show) since the original, with different continuity lines. While Rob Zombie’s Halloween Reboot from the late 2000s stands on its own, all other sequels and reboots (except Halloween III: The Last Witchits own anthology) goes back to Halloween (1978) and Halloween II (1981).

Although there were 13 Halloween Films made since the franchise began have never come close to the quality of the original. After the miserable reviews for the four immediate sequels to the original, the (then) up-and-coming Quentin Tarantino was recruited to Halloween6. Obviously, this never came to fruition, and instead of a sequel written by Tarantino, the audience got Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myerswhich is the worst film in the series according to Rotten Tomatoes’ Tomatometer. However, Tarantino’s main idea for the sequel still ended up in the franchise.

Quentin Tarantino’s Halloween idea was used with Michael Myers and Corey Cunningham

The idea of ​​giving Michael a partner was the focus Halloween ends

At the end Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myersa captured Michael is freed from prison by a mysterious man in black who wreaks havoc on the police station where Michael is being held. It would have been up to Tarantino to find out who the man in black was and why he freed Michael from prison. Per Indiewire, Tarantino would have had the Man in Black and Michael start the film with a road trip on Route 66where Michael killed people at every stop.

The idea of ​​giving Michael Myers a partner became an important subplot in Halloween ends. In Halloween endsa young man named Corey Cunningham, an outsider in Haddonfield, discovers Michael hiding in the town’s sewers, becomes infected by Michael’s evil and commits a series of murders, first with Michael’s help and then using Michael’s mask himself. It is not a direct adaptation of Tarantino’s original idea, but the echoes of his original concept are definitely there.

Why the connection between Michael Myers and Corey Cunnigham in “Halloween Ends” was so divisive

It contradicts everything that is known about “The Shape”

The connection between Corey Cunningham and Michael Myers was one of the most controversial elements of the much maligned Halloween endswith many fans pointing out how unrealistic and impossible the connection was. Michael Myers began as “The Shape” in Halloween (1978), a faceless evil that seemingly randomly attacks Laurie Strode, as the two first turned out to be siblings Halloween IIThe fact that Michael Myers complies with Corey’s wishes and works with him instead of murdering him immediately was an insult to everything that Michael Myers is supposed to be.

Furthermore, Corey is established as a main character and even manages to overpower Michael Myers and steal his mask. Die-hard fans of the series found this borderline offensiveand although Michael eventually killed Corey and got his mask back, the damage was done. While the idea of ​​Michael’s murderous legacy being passed on to a new person in Haddonfield might have been effective, Corey’s story was in the wrong movie; it should have been over long before Halloween ends in the Blumhouse continuity so that it could be properly established.

Source: Rotten Tomatoes, Indiewire

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