Warning: Major Spoilers Follow For Halloween Kills

Halloween Kills featured Michael Myers on yet another gruesome rampage through Haddonfield, and here's how the sequel's ending explained and how it sets up the final chapter. Halloween Kills is the 12th entry in the franchise overall, but confusingly, it's only the third installment of the current saga. With Halloween 2018, director David Gordon Green and Blumhouse decided to hit the reset switch, wiping all previous movies bar the 1978 Halloween from canon.

This allowed the 2018 film to start somewhat fresh, and the sequel picking up the story of Michael Myers' original Halloween target Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) 40 years after the original. She spent nearly all that time preparing for Michael to one day escape from his asylum and wreck havoc again - which of course, is exactly what happened. This led to an inevitable showdown between Laurie, her daughter Karen (Judy Greer) and granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak). The movie ended with Michael trapped in Laurie's burning house, and the three women escaping together and leaving their collective nightmare behind.

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Naturally, there wouldn't be a Halloween Kills if Michael Myers was truly dead, and the follow-up finds the slasher escaping the blazing inferno and cutting a bloody swathe through town. Haddonfield residents - including returning characters like Tommy Doyle (Anthony Michael Hall), Lindsey Wallace (Kyle Richards), Lonnie Elam (Robert Longstreet) and Leigh Brackett (Charles Cyphers) - have had enough of being victimized so they band together to find Michael and kill him for good. This only sets the table for more bloodshed, so here's how Halloween Kills ends, who survives, Michael's "supernatural" powers and how it will all lead to Halloween Ends.

Michael Myers' Goal In Halloween Kills

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During Halloween Kills' 1978 flashback, a fellow officer reveals to a young Deputy Hawkins that he knew Michael Myers as a young boy and that he used to just stare out of his sister's bedroom window. In keeping with Michael's unknowable nature, this is his sole quest throughout the story. All he wants is to get back to his old home and stare out the window - though he commits a lot of killings along the way. This includes the couple residing in the house when he arrives, with the story resulting in a Halloween franchise high body count.

The Wrong Michael Myers

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The residents of Haddonfield are whipped up into such a fear frenzy in Halloween Kills that they mistake another escaped asylum patient for Michael Myers. This serves the dual function of displaying just how terrified the town is of Michael, while also taking attention off the real Myers. This case of mistaken identity reaches a boiling point when this other patient arrives at Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, and Laurie and Karen soon realize it's not Michael.

Despite their pleas to call off the chase, the mob is too frenzied. Karen's efforts to help him escape are also in vain, and terrified of what will happen if they catch him, he takes his own life by jumping from a window. This leads into Halloween Kills' final act, as Lonnie and Allyson realize Michael Myers' trail of kills is all leading to his old house.

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Michael Myers Unmasked & Mob Justice

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Despite Allyson, Lonnie and his son Cameron (Dylan Arnold) being armed and ready when they enter the house in Halloween Kills' finale, it's all for naught. Michael Myers quickly overpowers the trio, with Lonnie dying offscreen, Cameron being subjected to a brutal beating before having his neck snapped, while Allyson is nearly killed. She's saved by mother Karen, who stabs Michael with a pitchfork and grabs his mask.

A maskless Myers (whose face is largely obscured throughout this scene) gives chase to Karen as she runs through nearby alleyways. It turns out Karen was leading Michael into an ambush, where Tommy, Brackett - whose daughter was killed by Michael during the 1978 movie - and other locals have gathered. After they kindly give the unmasked Michael Myers time to put his mask back on, they give him an almighty beating, including hits from Tommy's baseball bat and he's later shot multiple times. When he's down, Karen stabs him with his own butcher's knife.

"You Can't Kill The Boogeyman"

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Laurie Strode spends nearly the entirety of Halloween Kills in hospital, and never actually encounters Michael Myers. She does give a speech that's intercut with the mob preparing to finish Michael, however. Just as Brackett prepares to shoot Myers in the head, Laurie suggests the slasher isn't really flesh and blood, since no man could have survived his many injuries. She also believes the more he kills, the more he "transcends" to something else.

Possibly to prove her point, Michael Myers almost supernaturally springs back to life, slicing Brackett's throat and proceeding to effortlessly slay the entire mob. Tommy is the last to go, with Michael stabbing him before finishing him off with the bat. Neither Karen nor Allyson are aware of this, with the pair sitting out the Myers house surrounded by police and emergency services. Halloween Kills ends with a sudden Psycho homage, as Karen wanders up to Michael's sister's room. She looks out the window, only for Myers to suddenly appear behind her. After he stabs her to death, he gains possibly the only happy ending of any character in the sequel by completing his goal of looking out his sister's bedroom window.

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How Halloween Kills Sets Up Halloween Ends

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Halloween Kills ends with the implication Laurie Strode somehow aware her daughter Karen is being murdered, and if her vendetta against Michael was intense before, it's going to be red hot in Halloween Ends. It's been confirmed the next sequel will take place after a time jump, so it might be set a few years after the events of Halloween Kills. Haddonfield will have had some time to get to grips with Michael's night of horror, where he racked up a body count in the dozens.

The key characters still alive by Halloween Kills' ending are Laurie, Allyson, Hawkins (Will Patton), and Lindsey, the latter of whom narrowly escaped a Michael attack. Time will tell if Michael Myers was recaptured again or managed to disappear like in the ending of the original Halloween, but once the scars of the survivors have healed, they'll no doubt be ready for a final showdown. Hawkins has regrets over preventing Dr. Loomis from killing Michael in 1978, while Allyson has to avenge the deaths of her parents and boyfriend. Laurie has arguably lost the most to Michael, and by the time Halloween Ends comes to a close, either one of them will be dead - or both will be.

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