Bigger, Badder, Meaner: Halloween Kills

When 2018's Halloween reboot was first announced it was met with scepticism by fans and critics alike. The Halloween franchise is so popular and the first movie so iconic that it seemed impossible to be able to reboot the story in any way that would do the franchise justice. It seemed like the project would just damage Halloween like some of the more questionable later sequels.

Fan's fears turned out to be largely unfounded and the project ended up being a big success with viewers and critics and it performed well at the box office. Riding on the success of the first movie it was announced that there would be two more. Halloween Kills to be released this year and Halloween Ends will complete the trilogy in 2021.

Halloween Kills co-writer Scott Teems spoke with Movie Web about the movie, he said:

"It's kind of like The Quarry, except nothing at all like it. I really can't say anything about it, but I am really excited about it. I saw a rough cut of it a few weeks ago, and I'm a little biased, but my gut says that people that like the last one will be very excited about this one. It's like the first one on steroids, I guess. It really is the bigger, badder, meaner version of the first one."

Producer Jason Blum has something similar to say about Halloween Kills. He told Den of Geek:

"I just saw Halloween Kills. It was SO good. So good. It’s intense. It’s huge. It really feels really big."

The man behind the mask in Halloween (2018) had this to say in an interview with Bloody Disgusting:

“We have to make the natural progression from 1978 to 2018 to Halloween Kills – the ante has be upped. The ticking bomb has to be more intense. Otherwise we’re just doing what we’ve done before...We pumped up the volume on this one. We’ve progressed late into the night, and now that everybody realises what the stakes are…it’s reaching a head. It’s [Halloween 2018] on speed.”

As far as the plot goes, not much has been revealed at all and we don't know whether the sequel follows on immediately after Halloween (2018) or if some amount of time has passed since its conclusion. It's safe to assume that Michael Myers will be back to terrorise the Strode family. At the end of Halloween (2018) it seemed as though Laurie and co might have succeeded in defeating The Shape once and for all as they locked him in the basement and set the house alight. However, as the movie ends you can hear Myers breathing.

James Jude Courtney will be returning to play the infamous Michael Myers, supported by the original man behind The Shape. Nick Castle supported the actor in the role in Halloween (2018) and appeared on screen in the scene where Laurie and Michael come together again for the first time in four decades.

Jamie Lee Curtis will be reprising her role as the iconic final girl Laurie Strode alongside Judy Greer playing her daughter Karen and Andi Matichak as her granddaughter Allyson. Dylan Arnold returns as Allyson's boyfriend Cameron.

Other Haddonfield dwellers returning for the sequel include Robert Longstreet as Cameron's father, Nancy Stephens as Marion Chambers, Anthony Michael Hall as Tommy Doyle and Kyle Richards as Lindsey Wallace. Tommy and Lindsey were the kids that Laurie was babysitting in the original 1978 movie.

Halloween Kills is appropriately scheduled for release in cinemas on October 16.

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