You just can’t keep a good masked killer down, can you? Michael Myers — no, not the Austin Powers one — is returning to the big screen for the first time in nearly a decade (or 16 years for purists who discount Rob Zombie’s Halloween films), and the first trailer has just stalked its way online. Simply titled Halloween, David Gordon Green’s film is pitched as a direct sequel to John Carpenter’s 1978 original. In this timeline, Myers has been locked away for 40 years since his Haddonfield spree — and Jamie Lee Curtis’ Laurie Strode has spent four decades preparing for his escape. And escape he does, returning to terrorise a whole new generation.
With Blumhouse on production duties and Carpenter himself getting an executive producer credit, the pedigree is there for this to be a worthy return for one of the all-time horror greats. Curtis in particular looks spectacular as an aged Laurie, raring to fight back against the masked boogeyman. Her last turn as Strode came in 2002’s Halloween: Resurrection, where the character was controversially killed off.
Halloween is set for release shortly before Halloween this year, hitting the big screen on 19 October.
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