Forty years in the making, Laurie Strode’s final (?) confrontation with Michael Myers hits the big screen this Friday, October 19th from Universal Pictures, and to get you in the mood, the retro-style ‘Escape Michael Myers’ video game, in which the boogeyman chases our beloved and beleaguered final girl through a graveyard, the streets of Haddonfield and beyond, is now available for free online at www.escapemichaelmyers.com
It’s pretty addictive, although we here at Trancas haven’t been able to survive any longer than a minute and a half. How will you fair against The Shape?
The eleventh film in the franchise, co-written by director David Gordon Green, Danny McBride and Jeff Fradley, Halloween is intended as a direct sequel to John Carpenter’s 1978 classic of the same name, and thusly disregards all of the series subsequent entries. Trancas International Films’ Malek Akkad, Blumhouse’s Jason Blum and Bill Block produce, with McBride, Green and star Jamie Lee Curtis serving as executive producers, along with Ryan Freimann and series originator Carpenter, who also serves as the film’s composer.