When director David Gordon Green’s 2018 Halloween (watch it HERE) was released on home video, it came with an underwhelming selection of bonus features: five short featurettes and some deleted scenes. It looks like the sequel Halloween Kills is going to fare a bit better, as iTunes has revealed that its list of bonus features includes the extended cut we’ve been hearing about, plus featurettes, deleted scenes, and two audio commentaries.
Author Matt Serafini shared a screen cap of the list on Twitter, revealing that the iTunes digital release of Halloween Kills will have the theatrical cut, the extended cut, a gag reel, deleted and extended scenes, audio commentaries with David Gordon Green, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Judy Greer, and the following featurettes: Haddonfield’s Open Wounds, The Kill Team, Strode Family Values, 1978 Transformations, The Power of Fear, and Kill Count.
Halloween Kills is believed to be getting a digital release on December 13th, with the physical media release to follow on January 11th. Amazon is accepting pre-orders for 4K, Blu-ray, and DVD copies, and Best Buy has an exclusive steelbook.
Green’s Halloween 2018 ignored all of the other Halloween movies except for John Carpenter’s original (which you can watch HERE). Directed by Green from a screenplay he wrote with Danny McBride and Scott Teems, Halloween Kills is set on the same night as its predecessor.
Minutes after Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), her daughter Karen (Judy Greer) and granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak) left masked monster Michael Myers caged and burning in Laurie’s basement, Laurie is rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, believing she finally killed her lifelong tormentor. But when Michael manages to free himself from Laurie’s trap, his ritual bloodbath resumes. As Laurie fights her pain and prepares to defend herself against him, she inspires all of Haddonfield to rise up against their unstoppable monster. The Strode women join a group of other survivors of Michael’s first rampage who decide to take matters into their own hands, forming a vigilante mob that sets out to hunt Michael down, once and for all. Evil dies tonight.
The cast includes Jamie Lee Curtis as franchise heroine Laurie Strode, Judy Greer as Laurie’s daughter Karen, Andi Matichak as Laurie’s granddaughter Allyson, Robert Longstreet as Lonnie Elam (a character from the original film), Dylan Arnold reprising the role of Allyson’s boyfriend / Lonnie’s son Cameron, Jibrail Nantambu as Halloween 2018 scene stealer Julian, Omar Dorsey as Sheriff Barker, Nancy Stephens back in her Halloween, Halloween II, and Halloween H20 role of Marion Chambers, Charles Cyphers back as Brackett, Will Patton as Deputy Hawkins, Carmela McNeal and Michael Smallwood as “Sexy Nurse” Vanessa and “Hunky Doctor” Marcus, Anthony Michael Hall as Tommy Doyle, and Kyle Richards returning to the role of Lindsey Wallace. James Jude Courtney is playing Michael Myers for the second time. Newcomers include Brian F. Durkin as Deputy Graham and child actress Victoria Paige Watkins as Christy.
Original Michael Myers performer Nick Castle was brought in for a one scene cameo, but it ended up being cut.
Green, McBride, and Curtis also serve as executive producers on Halloween Kills alongside Couper Samuelson and John Carpenter. Jason Blum produced with Malek Akkad.