David Gordon Green explains how the horror of 'Halloween kills' led to its 'very romantic' sequel

It's fair to assume that most people who watched David Gordon Green's bloody and brutal "Halloween Kills," the second film in his "Halloween" trilogy, weren't necessarily thinking "romance!" Green was, however. At least when it came time to write "Halloween Ends", the last film in the franchise.

For longtime fans of Green's multi-faceted resume, which includes everything from dreamy romances like "All the Real Girls" to R-rated stoner comedies like "Pineapple Express," the filmmaker's desire for embracing all sorts of genres, even within a franchise, should be a happy surprise. As Green explained to IndieWire, after the "devastation" of "Halloween Kills," he was eager to tap into something a little different to close out his series.

"We wrote 'Halloween Ends' alongside 'Halloween Kills,'" Green told IndieWire during a recent interview. "But I didn't know where it was going until we finished editing 'Kills' and when we decided that the end point of 'Kills' was going to be this devastation. I knew I couldn't do it again , and I think before that understanding I would have gone darker, simply because it's instinctive in my impulses in the genre."

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For Green, writing two different types of stories that exist in the same setting made sense. And reassure 'Halloween' fans: the final chapter is just as bloody and spooky as 'Halloween' and 'Halloween Kills', but with a bit of a sweeter middle.

"I wanted to write an action movie and a love story at the same time and see how they fit together, and that was just fun, because I like mixing genres," the filmmaker said. “I don't just want to do the same movie over and over again, the same genre, the same whatever. I would literally write these two very opposite types of scripts on the same day. I knew where I wanted to go atmospherically and I knew I wanted to be very romantic, and I knew I wanted to put my heart on my sleeve and make a movie about bad boys and motorcycles and leather jackets and that kind of stuff . "< /p>

Trilogy star Andi Matichak plays an even bigger role in "Halloween Ends" — she's one half of that central love story, alongside franchise newbie Rohan Campbell — and was thrilled to have the chance to explore Allyson's psyche and the impact the terrors of "Halloween" and "Halloween Kills" had on her.

Director David Gordon Green, Andi Matichak and Kyle Richards on the set of "Halloween Ends"