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Jamie Lee Curtis is ready for action in new Halloween still

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Laurie Strode has been waiting nearly forty years for Michael Myers to return to Haddonfield, so it’s no surprise to see that she looks well prepared in this latest still for David Gordon Green’s Halloween. Via USA Today, the shot shows Jamie Lee Curtis in her Lara Croft garb, hunting knife on belt, appearing to […]

Listen to a tease of John Carpenter’s new Halloween score

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John Carpenter makes his return to the Halloween franchise forty years after the original horror classic this October as executive producer on the David Gordon Green-helmed sequel, but that isn’t his only role on the film as he’s also composed the score with Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies. “It was great,” said Carpenter regarding his […]

Jamie Lee Curtis and Judy Greer featured in new Halloween image

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Thanks to Entertainment Weekly, we’ve got a new image from the upcoming Halloween sequel/reboot, which features Jamie Lee Curtis’ Laurie Strode along with her daughter Karen Strode, played by Judy Greer; check it out here… SEE ALSO: Halloween producer reveals why the 2018 film is not a reboot Master of horror John Carpenter will executive produce and […]

Michael Myers featured on new Halloween poster

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Ahead of its Comic-Con panel, a new SDCC exclusive poster for hotly-anticipated slasher sequel/reboot Halloween by artist Bill Sienkiewicz, which shows the iconic killer Michael Myers ready to strike; check it out here… SEE ALSO: Halloween producer reveals why the 2018 film is not a reboot SEE ALSO: Danny McBride wanted to shoot two Halloween movies back-to-back Master of horror […]

Venom, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Glass and Halloween are coming to Comic-Con

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While the likes of Marvel Studios, Game of Thrones and Westworld are going to be absent from next month’s San Diego Comic-Con, there’s still going to be plenty of excitement for fans lucky enough to make it into Hall H this year. Warner Bros. has already announced a big DC Films panel, with the first […]

Danny McBride wanted to shoot two Halloween movies back-to-back

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Michael Myers returns to Haddonfield this October some forty years after his original killing spree to face Jamie Lee Curtis’ Laurie Strode for a final time in the new Halloween movie from director David Gordon Green and co-writer Danny McBride. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly following the release of the first trailer, McBride has […]

A Modern Horror Renaissance and the Hereditary Legacy Question

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Tom Jolliffe looks at modern horror films on the up, and whether Hereditary will leave a lasting legacy… Minor Hereditary related spoilers may follow: Horror films have always been divisive. They’re certainly popular and in comparison to other genres, they’re normally cost-effective. You only need look at the cost against return on The Blair Witch […]

Jamie Lee Curtis on how Laurie Strode has been preparing for the return of Michael Myers

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Last week we got our first look at the new Halloween film, which is set to deliver a direct sequel to the 1978 classic, ignoring subsequent instalments, as Jamie Lee Curtis’ Laurie Strode finds herself face to face with Michael Myers once again some 40 years after those fateful events in Haddonfield, Illinois. During an […]

Halloween director explains why the new movie ignores all the sequels

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We’ve known for some time that David Gordon Green and Danny McBride’s new Halloween movie would be ignoring all but the first instalment of the slasher series, and now that the first trailer for the film has arrived, Green has been explaining to Entertainment Weekly why they decided to disregard everything but John Carpenter’s classic […]