 What is going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overload here so I'm talking about Halloween ends in this video here today I want to talk about the novelization that's out there Variety and Halloween ends because this novelization is just packed with details that could have made the Cory character That much more compelling even if he is misplaced in this trilogy I've said it many times in my review and in the other videos I've done since the review that Cory himself as a character I don't think that he is overly the most poorly written character. He's very compelling His downfall is how they have interjected him and just kind of dropped him in this trilogy Towards the end when his story kind of works better as a trilogy starter and not a conclusion When you've already worked up so many other arcs related to other characters that are thrown to the side in favor of what they Want to tell for Cory, which is why so many people were turned off by the movie Not the movie again is the worst thing ever because I do not think the Halloween ends a bad movie I've gone on and said that you can probably say it's a bad Halloween movie I just think that it's not executed in the best fashion and is misplaced in this trilogy That really is its biggest downfall So this novelization again It has the details that would have made Cory a much more compelling character more something he already was Now according to the novelization Cory's mother Who suffered an off-screen death presumably by Cory would have had a dark history that's revealed now It seems that as a child his mother Joan or Joanne, whichever way is pronounced killed her toddler brother By accidentally moving his chair and causing the boy to die from the fall now Of course, this would just open the discussion of Cory inheriting evil from his mother Because she seems to have done this based off of just pure jealousy that she wasn't getting attention from the family as opposed to her Little brother as that's how it usually goes with children when they were an only child and a new child comes into the mix But in Jones case she accidentally ended up killing her sibling I think this would have explained a lot of the weird behavior That she was displaying in the film Maybe not that that bizarre random kiss she gives to Cory But she could be living with like extreme guilt and there's a chance that Cory just reminds her of her little brother Now again, it would just open up the discussion of Cory inheriting evil from his mother But I wouldn't even go down that route if if it was an accident genuinely I would just kind of just let the viewer play up that idea In their head, but I wouldn't be going down that rabbit hole at all because if it was deemed an accident Then he's not inheriting anything from her Some tendencies maybe but definitely if it was a flat-out accident no way So again, she could be living with extreme guilt and there's a chance that Cory reminded her of her little brother And that's why she was over protective and a little bit overbearing towards the child and fearful of someone's being Someone stealing him from her because she's she's living with so much guilt and projecting her little brother onto her son Even though in a lot of ways again that makes it a little weird considering We see her kiss the boy during the movie Because there's none of this still explains that random kiss in a deleted scene also just to touch on more stuff about Joan and her demise That was off-screen this deleted scene that actually depicts her death. We get to see what again I'm assuming is Cory kill his mother and I'm assuming this is him only because the fact that by this time Michael would have had his mass stolen from that unnecessary Tussle we had to witness. It's looking like it's in Cory's house. Cory's mom is watching TV So during this scene Cory's mom is watching TV on Halloween night There's trick-or-treaters at the door But she's too busy again being stabbed by Cory as he creeps up on her dressed as Michael Myers and starts stabbing We even get to see the pillow stab take place that was highlighted in an official steal from the movie and According to the novelization Joan is actually killed by an unmasked Michael Myers during her demise I prefer to delete it scene where it's safe to assume that that is Cory killing his mother Since she was one of the people that gave him a hard time and he already had been killing People prior that were giving him a hard time in those a group of band idiots that he put it put to bed now Michael doing the DJs wouldn't have had the same impact The novelization does seem to suggest that if Michael was the one that ended up killing the boys mother He definitely was hunting him down after that after his mass was stolen and was looking for the boy so Cory disposing of his mother to me is stronger Narratively only due to the fact that there's again those things that were already going on with Cory prior to him him killing his mother that Back up a much more impactful reason to have him be the one kill her He already killed those band idiots He was going around talking about if he can't have Allison then no one can Cory's mom was also giving him flak and giving him grief over his exchanges with Allison She was feeling threatened by Allison She was very obsessive towards Cory and he had to get rid of her There were three people that Cory seemed to think were in the way of him and Allison one being Doug Allison's ex-boyfriend who we know is part of the Haddonfield PD that of course also then being Lori Stroll herself Who knows Allison's grandmother who had red flags about Cory and then Cory's mother who felt threatened by Allison So you had you had Lori feeling threatened feeling that Cory was a threat to Allison And then you had Cory's mom thinking Allison was a threat to her place with Cory So those all three of them had to go because they were stumbling blocks in the way of what Cory perceived was a bond That only he should have with Allison. He was gonna go off with her They were gonna leave town and he had to take out all those people. So that's why narrative Lee Michael doing the deed just wouldn't have had the same impact Cory doing it given all the material they wrote for him prior and his mentality towards Allison and how Joan was acting about Allison makes him the one doing the deed a lot more meaningful and progressive the narrative for it I was saving a lot more better continuity So this detail about Joan killing her little brother, it's interesting I think it could have made the parallels between Michael and Cory that much better Depicted on or that much better if they had depicted this on screen So I think that the character of Joan if they wanted to flesh her out a little bit better That would have been an amazing thing to include but they didn't they just made her this weird overbearing mother who was Seemingly either crushing on her son or knowing what I know from the novelization She had some guilt built up in her that she was projecting onto her son And if Cory left that meant that her toddler brother that she is living with red of killing would also be leaving again because of this Damage in her head over what she has done Also, it clearly would be obvious that she is struggling to forgive herself from the deed If this is what it is because I can't think of why else she would be so overprotective of the boy with this Newfound knowledge if she was someone who was constantly reminded of this in her youth Her parents never let her live it down and then she was finally able to have somebody new in her life That came from her and she started to project that guilt onto Cory in a way to say, okay This is my way. I can make amends and say I'm sorry to my little brother because she was never allowed to move beyond it in Her youth because people might have been reminding her of it all the time But you guys can let me know what you think about this little detail about Joan down in the conversation Well, what do you think about the deleted scene of Cory killing his mother? Do you wish they would have included that in the film? Do you also wish it would have fleshed her character out a little bit better? Let me know down in the comment section below if you have already, of course Make sure you subscribe turn on post notifications so that you never miss a video in the description I will have links to all my social media accounts. I am on Facebook Twitter and Instagram You can message me there of course to limit or if there are any movies news or reviews You let me to cover in the future and with all that in mind guys. I will see you in the next video