The Terror Talks #40 - Halloween Kills Breakdown & Review

On Episode 40 of The Terror Talks, we are discussing the newest installment in the Halloween Franchise, "Halloween Kills"

In September of 2018, Miramax and Blumhouse Productions premiered the newest installment of the world-renowned "Halloween" franchise, created by John Carpenter and Debra Hill. The film, to nobody's surprise, would be a COMPLETE SUCESS, grossing $255.6 at the box office. Because of this success, Jason Blum of Blumhouse Productions remained true to his word of "we will do a sequel if the movie performs".  By October 2018 after the film's opening weekend, it was confirmed that a sequel was in the works with Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, and Andi Matichak reprising their roles. 

This new film would also allow for the return of Nick Castle and James Jude Courtney as The Shape/Michael Myers, Will Patton as Deputy Hawkins, and Omar Dorsey as Sheriff Barker. 

The film would also play host to some new talent with Anthony Michael Hall as Tommy Doyle, one of the survivors of the 1978 Halloween, Kyle Richards as Lindsay Wallace, another survivor of the 1978 Halloween, Nancy Stephens as Marion Chambers, the nurse who was attacked by Michael in 1978, and Charles Cyphers as Leigh Brackett, the sheriff from Halloween 1978 who lost his daughter Annie and played alongside Dr. Loomis, played by Donald Pleasance, for most of Halloween 1978. 

The film would pick up right where the 2018 film left off with the Strode family escaping Michael Myers, but learning that he is still alive and hunting down the residents of Haddonfield. Now with the help of survivors of the original 1978 attacks and the townspeople, they fight to kill Michael Myers once and for all stating that "Evil Dies Tonight!" 

Halloween Kills premiered at the 78th Venice International Film Festival on September 8, 2021. The film was originally set to be theatrically released on October 16, 2020 but in July 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was delayed to October 15, 2021. On September 9, 2021, it was announced that in addition to being released in theaters the film would also be streamed on paid tiers of Peacock for 60 days.

A sequel entitled "Halloween Ends" is already in pre-production and planned to release on October 14th, 2022, and will take place at least 4 years later in the year 2022 and will address the Covid-19 Pandemic. Director, David Gordon Green, describes the film as a "coming of age story" and "a more intimate movie" where "some of the characters.... have processed the insanity of the circus of the massacre of 2018. And not only that, but they've also processed the world as it's spun so wildly in the last four years." 

Be sure to go check out "Halloween Kills" at your local movie theatre today!! 

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