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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 […]

Can we all admit the Halloween trailer was kind of terrible?

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Anghus Houvouras wasn’t impressed by the Halloween trailer… One could argue that movie marketing has become as formulaic as the movies they are pimping. There isn’t a lot of variety in trailers for high-profile studio movies. They all tend to follow a certain rhythm and cadence with very few offering anything novel. You give a […]

Michael Myers returns in first trailer for the new Halloween

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Following a couple of teasers for Halloween [watch them here and here], Universal Pictures have debuted the first trailer for director David Gordon Green’s upcoming horror reboot which sees Jamie Lee Curtis’ Laurie Strode out for revenge against the iconic killer Michael Myers forty years after their first encounter; check it out here… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s6mHvFRf6I Master […]

Michael Myers and Laurie Strode return in first Halloween images

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With the first trailer set to arrive on Friday, USA Today has revealed three new images from David Gordon Green’s upcoming Halloween sequel featuring the iconic killer Michael Myers and Jamie Lee Curtis’ Laurie Strode; check them out here… SEE ALSO: Jamie Lee Curtis discusses the “terrifying” new Halloween, John Carpenter confirmed to score Master of horror John […]

Halloween gets a brief teaser ahead of Friday’s trailer

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Earlier today we brought you three images from Halloween [check them out here], and now with the first trailer set to arrive this coming Friday, a teaser has been released for the horror reboot which you can watch here… SEE ALSO: Jamie Lee Curtis discusses the “terrifying” new Halloween, John Carpenter confirmed to score https://youtu.be/fuQPmCS-EGQ Master […]