When it comes to horror movie sequels, no amount of bad reviews can keep down the monsters and villains that terrorize teenagers and adults alike in some of the biggest R-rated franchises. That appears to be true of Halloween Ends, the final installment in David Gordon Green’s Halloween reboot trilogy. Despite abysmal reviews and low audience ratings, the final showdown of Michael Myers and Laurie Strode has become Peacock’s most-watched addition to the platform ever. According to Deadline, while the exact viewing figures are not available yet, Halloween Ends was watched by more people over two days than anything that has ever been streamed on the Peacock.

Although the film has done a huge trade on streaming, its box office results were slightly under projections at $41 million. However, that was still enough for the movie to grab the top spot at the domestic box office and has been a bigger success than its predecessor Halloween Kills, which at least bodes well for Green’s next project with Blumhouse – a reboot of The Exorcist.

While the box office result is decent enough, and the streaming numbers seem over-delivering, the critic and audience reviews have not been something that was as easy to spin in a positive way. Halloween Ends has failed to please many fans of the franchise, with Rotten Tomatoes numbers showing a 41% critic approval rate and a similarly lowly 57% on audience ratings. Additionally, CinemaScore, which bases its results on the opinions of opening night audiences, delivered a franchise-low grade of C+, which suggests that the film did not deliver what it promised to those first audiences.

Jamie Lee Curtis Bids Farewell To the Halloween Franchise With Halloween Ends

Halloween Ends
Universal Pictures

Whatever the opinions about Halloween Ends, one thing for certain is that for Jamie Lee Curtis, it has been a movie that provides a bookend to a huge part of her career. Having starred in John Carpenter’s original Halloween back in 1978, she returned for the original sequel and again for two movies in the early 2000s, which saw her character of Laurie Strode killed off. With David Gordon Green’s reboot of the franchise, all of those storylines were ignored and 2018’s Halloween picked up the story decades after the events of Carpenter’s original classic. Obviously, that meant filming Halloween Ends was a hugely emotional experience, as Green revealed in a previous interview. He said:

"There were enormous emotions. It was late at night, we were all exhausted, but it was bittersweet. We’re really proud of what we’ve done, and it’s hard to say goodbye. I’m confident Jamie and I will work together in other forms and capacities forever, but Laurie is a character that means so much to millions of fans. She’s a huge part of her professional career, so it was a beautiful thing to be a part of that goodbye. It wasn’t just, 'Hey, Jamie Lee Curtis has wrapped, y’all,' but it was also that we were coming to the end of our story, which has lasted 44 years for her."

Halloween Ends is playing in theaters worldwide now and streaming on Peacock.