You can’t kill the boogeyman, and you can’t kill the “Halloween” franchise either. After a couple of story retcons in the original slasher series and Rob Zombie‘s take on the Michael Myers mythos, The Shape rose again in 2018 with David Gordon Green‘s “Halloween.” A redundant title to a tired narrative, to be sure, but there are plenty out there (including this writer) who still love to see Laurie Strode duke it out with Haddonfield’s least favorite son.
Well, guess what, horror fans? Laurie Strode dukes it out with Michael Myers again in “Halloween Kills.” Next month, the film has its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, with Jamie Lee Curtis in line to receive a Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement award. “Kills” picks up right where the 2018 film left off, with Myers caught in a fiery trap Laurie and her kin laid for him. However, The Shape soon escapes, and now the entire town of Haddonfield bands together to put down Myers for good. Will Haddonfield’s residents succeed in expelling evil from their little town?
Jamie Lee Curtis plays Laurie Strode in “Halloween Kills” for the fifth time. Nick Castle also returns to play Michael Myers a third time, with James Jude Courtney reprising his role as Myers from 2018, too. Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, and Will Patton also return, as do Dylan Arnold, Omar J. Darcey, Brian F. Durkin, and Thomas Mann.
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Other characters and actors from Halloweens past are in “Halloween Kills” too. Anthony Michael Hall plays an adult Tommy Doyle, the kid Laurie babysat in John Carpenter‘s 1978 original. Charles Cypher returns to reprise his role as Sheriff Leigh Brackett. Nancy Stephen, who has already repeated her role as Nurse Marion Chambers twice in 1980’s “Halloween II” and 1998’s “Halloween H20,” also returns. Kyle Richards also returns to reprise her role as Lindsay, the girl Annie babysits in the 1978 film, and Robert Longstreet plays Lonnie, Tommy’s school bully from Carpenter’s film.
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Danny McBride is back to co-write the screenplay for “Kills” with Green, with Scott Teems also on board with a writing credit. Green and McBride have more Halloween in store for audiences, with “Halloween Ends” coming (hopefully) next year. Will that be a definitive end to the Strode-Myers saga? Stay tuned on that.
After its premiere in Venice, with reviews being, uh, mixed, it appears Universal is ready to hedge its bets by giving “Halloween Kills” a streaming release that coincides with hits theatrical strategy. So, if you want to watch ‘Kills,’ you can go to theaters everywhere on October 15, as well as check it out on Peacock. Watch the new trailer below.
