Popular Horror Movie Joins Netflix 4 Years After Box Office Success

David Gordon Green's Halloween Ends is finally making its way to Netflix just four years after dominating the box office in October 2022.

The film is the third and final installment in Green's rebooted Halloween trilogy, which brought Jamie Lee Curtis back as the iconic final girl Laurie Strode for one final battle with horror icon Michael Myers.

Despite receiving mixed reviews from critics, this revamped trilogy was a massive success and proved enduringly popular with horror fans. Halloween Ends pulled in $104 million against a reported budget of $33 million, turning over an impressive profit for Universal Studios and closing the trilogy neatly (via Box Office Mojo).

Despite this unstoppable momentum, Halloween Ends took some bold storytelling choices that many fans didn't quite agree with. Critics adopted a similar stance, taking issue with the film's poor writing and uneven editing choices.

"Rather than directly end what was set up in the previous film," RogerEbert.com writes, "it introduces a new antagonist, and spends way too much time on a half-baked young love story, but it has to come back to Laurie Strode, even if the final showdown has been drained of any sense of urgency by the convoluted route these films took to get there."

Halloween Ends went through countless edits and reshoots in 2021 after being delated due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which immediately put the film at a clear disadvantage compared to the rest of the trilogy. It was also difficult to market to slasher fans, as franchise creator John Carpenter had already described it as a "departure" and David Gordon Green had frequently referred to it not as a horror movie, but a love story.

This created a very distinct tone around the film's marketing that rubbed some fans the wrong way—but upon release, many enjoyed the bold new vision that Green had put forward for this franchise. It remains perhaps the most controversial and polarizing Halloween movie, but not one without its strengths.

'Halloween Ends' Is Joining Netflix on April 13

Netflix has confirmed that Halloween Ends will be joining the streaming platform on April 13, where it will be available to watch in the United States with a valid subscription.

For those who can't wait until then, the film is also available to watch with a subscription on YouTube TV and Peacock—though it will be leaving the latter when it joins Netflix.