‘Halloween Kills’: Following Poor Venice Reviews, The Slasher Sequels Heads To Theaters & Peacock With Hybrid October Release

Halloween Kills has been shared, the latest in a comeback series of films from the popular horror franchise.Jamie Lee Curtis reprises her role as Laurie Strode for the movie.

Michael Myers is on the loose again.

You can’t kill the boogeyman, and you can’t kill the “Halloween” franchise either. After a couple of story retcons in the original slasher series and Rob Zombie‘s take on the Michael Myers mythos, The Shape rose again in 2018 with David Gordon Green‘s “Halloween.” A redundant title to a tired narrative, to be sure, but there are plenty out there (including this writer) who still love to see Laurie Strode duke it out with Haddonfield’s least favorite son.

The trailer for Halloween Kills is here!

The upcoming movie Halloween Kills is going to be available to watch from the comfort of your home earlier than we expected.

Universal will be releasing the Blumhouse/Miramax movie Halloween Kills in theaters and on Peacock on Oct. 15. The release date stays the same, the distribution pattern changes up.

stripping off her shoes as she ran onstage to accept the prestigious honor. Talking about the memorable moment on social media after the ceremony, the “Halloween Kills” star wrote, “I accepted my Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement with these words which I attempted to deliver in Italian. ‘Thank you again for this great honor. I dedicate it to the victims and survivors of violence.

This is the second Universal film this year to attempt a hybrid release with Peacock after the studio did so with DreamWorks’ “The Boss Baby: Family Business” in early July. Universal has released more theatrically exclusive films this year than any other studio, including “F9,” which grossed $172 million in North America and $710 million worldwide.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter“Halloween Kills,” the upcoming entry in Universal’s slasher franchise, will debut on Peacock on the same day as its theatrical release.Starring Jamie Lee Curtis as the avenging teen babysitter-turned-grandmother Laurie Strode, “Halloween Kills” is scheduled to debut on Oct. 15.

Halloween Kills have been released following its debut at the 78th Venice International Film Festival.Halloween Kills is the second chapter in director David Gordon Green’s trilogy following 2018’s Halloween, which acted as a direct sequel to John Carpenter’s 1978 classic.The film brings back Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode, alongside Judy Greer, Andi Matichak and Will Patton who all reprise their roles.

Here it is: the second installment in the current reboot of the franchise they couldn’t kill, Halloween. Jamie Lee Curtis’s Laurie Strode is still with us as the slasher genre’s essential “final girl,” despite now being and playing a senior citizen.

John Carpenter has released a new track from the upcoming soundtrack to Halloween Kills.David Gordon Green’s sequel to 2018’s Halloween receives its world premiere at Venice Film Festival today (September 8). To coincide with the event, Carpenter has released ‘Rampage’, an instrumental composition made with his son Cody Carpenter and fellow composer Daniel Davies.The entire soundtrack is being released on vinyl on October 15 via Sacred Bones Records.

is the twelfth installment in the franchise, and it’s a shockingly realistic one. Laurie’s been stalked by Michael for 53 years, which means any spark of normalcy has been dampened by a hailstorm of knives, masks, cloaks and jump scares.

Of all the evenings for the Haddonfield Department of Plausible Human Behavior to close early, it’s deeply unfortunate that October 31, 2018 had to be one of them. For t’was on that very night that the events soberly documented in “Halloween” (2018), David Gordon Green‘s fun first stab (intentional, as are all puns that follow) at revitalizing John Carpenter‘s beloved franchise, took place.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticIn 2018, when David Gordon Green was given the hallowed mission of rebooting the “Halloween” series (that the director of “All the Real Girls” would embrace becoming the showrunner of a slasher franchise says a lot about the 21st century, but let’s leave that for another time), his job was to wipe away 40 years of bad sequels and to restore the lurchy cinematic gamesmanship, the perfectly-timed-shock-cut ingenuity, and the scary-classic mystique of the 1978

Typically, when a studio revives a horror franchise and tries to reboot it for a new audience, fans roll their eyes. This has been seen time after time, and mostly, these reboots/revivals result in a subpar product.

“Laurie/Jamie, we’re the same thing after 43 years,” said Jamie Lee Curtis as she greeted the Venice Film Festival press corps this afternoon.

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