There’s a moment in the Halloween trailer, not long after we visit Michael Myers in Haddonfield’s maximum security mental asylum, when Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) admits that, for 40 years, she’s been praying for him to escape.
Why, you ask? So she can kill him, and bring an end to his reign of terror that began with John Carpenter’s original classic back in 1978. But whereas the first Halloween left Michael’s fate on a cliffhanger, David Gordon Green and co-writer Danny McBride have dreamed up a retcon of their own so that The Shape winds up in police custody after killing three innocent teenagers on Halloween night four decades ago. And that’s where Blumhouse’s sequel begins.
But of course, it won’t only be Michael that Laurie needs to contend with, as the film will also see a tense relationship between Curtis’ character and her daughter,...
Why, you ask? So she can kill him, and bring an end to his reign of terror that began with John Carpenter’s original classic back in 1978. But whereas the first Halloween left Michael’s fate on a cliffhanger, David Gordon Green and co-writer Danny McBride have dreamed up a retcon of their own so that The Shape winds up in police custody after killing three innocent teenagers on Halloween night four decades ago. And that’s where Blumhouse’s sequel begins.
But of course, it won’t only be Michael that Laurie needs to contend with, as the film will also see a tense relationship between Curtis’ character and her daughter,...
- 6/15/2018
- by Matt Joseph
- We Got This Covered
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