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THR Wraps Up the Halloween Twitter Watch Party

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With Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Twitter ‘Watch Party’ of Halloween (2018) haven taken place this past Saturday, director David Gordon Green revealed some details of the upcoming Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends, including the status of the trailer of the former (see our coverage here). The conversation of course centered primarily around Halloween, with the film’s principals, including Green, stars Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, James Jude Courtney and Nick Castle, along with producers Jason Blum, Ryan Turek and John Carpenter offering some insight into the film, including its original ending.

Of note, Green revealed (via the @blumhouse Twitter account) that the scene in which Drew Schied’s character of ‘Oscar’ is dispatched by Myers was not only shut down early, but that it was the most difficult to shoot, with Matichak providing a couple of behind-the-scene shots (see them below).

Additionally, star Curtis revealed interestingly enough that she herself provided the voice over for the crying infant in the crib, who Myers for a moment considers (you know the scene).

For more, head on over to the The Hollywood Reporter here, and for more lively tweets stemming from the Halloween (2018) Twitter ‘Watch Party’ event, links to the participants’ Twitter accounts may be found below.

Jamie Lee Curtis @jamieleecurtis
David Gordon Green via @blumhouse
Jason Blum via @jason_blum
Judy Greer @missjudygreer
Andi Matichak via @andimatichak
James Jude Courtney @jamesjcourtney
Nick Castle @ncastlez
John Carpenter @TheHorrorMaster

Set for release by Universal Pictures on October 16th, 2020, Halloween Kills is produced by Trancas International Films, Miramax and Blumhouse Productions, with director Green directing from a script he co-wrote with returning collaborator Danny McBride and series newcomer Scott Teems.

In addition to Curtis, series cast members returning for Halloween Kills include Nick Castle, James Jude Courtney, Kyle Richards, Nancy Stephens, Judy Greer and Andi Matichak, who are joined by newcomers Robert Longstreet and Anthony Michael Hall.

Based on characters created by series originator John Carpenter and Debra Hill, Halloween Kills and its 2021 follow-up Halloween Ends will be produced by Malek Akkad, Jason Blum and Bill Block. Green, McBride, John Carpenter, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jeanette Volturno, Couper Samuelson and Ryan Freimann will serve as executive producers.

John Carpenter Teases Return to Directing Horror?

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In speaking to the press this week at the Cannes Film Festival (where he received the Golden Coach award), writer, composer, director and master of horror John Carpenter teased his interest in a possible return to the director’s chair, as well as to the horror genre itself.

While speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, the filmmaker, whose impressive body of work includes the genre classics Halloween (1978), The Fog (1980), Escape from New York (1981) and The Thing (1982) among others, stated, “I’m working on some TV stuff and a couple of feature ideas. It’s a different time now, so it takes a long time for them to get set up. You’ll know it when you know it. I don’t know it (yet).”

Expounding to Collider, Carpenter (whose last directorial feature was 2010’s The Ward) observed, “I made a lot of movies and I got burned out, and I had to stop for a while. I have to have a life. Circumstance would have to be correct for me to do it again. I’d love to make a little horror film that would be great or a big adventure film. It would be a project that I like that’s budgeted correctly. Nowadays they make these young directors do a movie for $2 million when the movie is written for $10 million. So you have to squeeze it all in there and I don’t want to do that anymore.”

What kind of flick would you care to see Carpenter helm? Sound off in the comments below.

Halloween Has Premiered at TIFF and the Critics are Raving

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Ahead of its October 2018 release via Universal Pictures, director and co-writer David Gordon Green’s Halloween held its world premiere to a packed house this past Saturday, September 9th at Toronto International Film Festival, and the critical response has been overwhelming.

Says Variety’s Peter Debruge, “Why choose when you can have tricks and treats? David Gordon Green does horror fans a favor, bringing Michael Myers’ slasher-movie saga back to its roots,” while Katie Walsh of Nerdist proclaims: “David Gordon Green delivers the best Halloween sequel ever.”

That’s not all.  Leah Greenblatt of Entertainment Weekly  states, “Long live Michael Myers, so maybe someone can finally kill him — in a big, funny, scary, squishy, super-meta sequel that brings it all back to John Carpenter’s iconic 1978 original,” Dreadcentral’s Jonathan Barkan muses, “After years of waiting for a Halloween sequel that felt like it did justice to John Carpenter’s original masterpiece of slasher horror, David Gordon Green has brought us a vision of terror that gives fans what they’ve been craving,” and originating filmmaker Carpenter himself has declared that following his 1978 original, Green’s is the best in the franchise.

Perhaps some of the TIFF audience agreed, as following the screening, Jamie Lee Curtis and assembled cast and crew took the stage to an enthusiastic standing ovation, to which Curtis playfully said, “Happy Halloween, mother*ckers.”

The eleventh film in the franchise and co-written by director Green, Danny McBride and Jeff Fradley, Halloween is intended as a direct sequel to Carpenter’s ‘78 film, 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.

Looking forward to October 19th? We are.