Welcome to the age of “big-box office post-trauma horror.”
Vulture journalist David Edelstein digs deep into the legacy of 1978’s Halloween, David Gordon Green’s upcoming direct sequel of the same name, the ‘final girl’ mythos and so much more in this ‘must read’ article with series star Jamie Lee Curtis and originating filmmaker John Carpenter.
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Read the article here.
*A version of this article appears in the October 1, 2018, issue of New York Magazine. Subscribe here.
Halloween next plays on October 6th at Beyond Fest in Hollywood, CA at the Egyptian Theater as part of ‘Halloween Day’ (along with 1974’s Black Christmas and 1978’s Halloween, with Halloween series producer Malek Akkad in person, and more) before opening wide in theaters on October 19th, 2018 via Universal Pictures.
Co-written by director Green, Danny McBride and Jeff Fradley, Halloween is produced by Trancas International Films’ Akkad, Blumhouse’s Jason Blum and Bill Block, with McBride, Green and star Curtis serving as executive producers, along with Ryan Freimann and Carpenter, the latter who also serves as the film’s composer.