Halloween Kills: Michael Myers and John Carpenter get Total Film coverage

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

Iconic slasher Michael Myers is going to be looking a little cripsy – "like some chicken-fried motherf*cker", as Busta Rhymes said in Halloween: Resurrection – in director David Gordon Green's Halloween Kills, which is set to reach theatres on October 15th. Myers' slightly burned mask got a close-up on the poster released last month, and it's also featured on the cover of this week's issue of Total Film Magazine. An issue that also, fittingly, features "a huge celebration of the career of John Carpenter". 

The Total Film covers can be seen below. The issue has already been shipped out to subscribers, and will be available on store shelves this Friday.

We’ve got the full story on the ultimate slasher sequel in our new #HalloweenKills issue, plus a huge celebration of the career of John Carpenter! On the way to subscribers’ mailboxes now – and available on newsstands this Friday https://t.co/NGzbt0K2ZU pic.twitter.com/pma4KLiBA7

— Total Film (@totalfilm) July 19, 2021

Set on the same night as 2018's Halloween (which you can watch HERE), which ignored all of the previous Halloween movies except for the 1978 original (watch that one HERE), Halloween Kills is said to be about 

the creation of fear. It's one thing to be afraid of the Boogeyman, to have someone who might be in the closet, under the bed, creeping around your house… But we wanted to explore next was confusion, misinformation, and paranoia. What happens when fear goes viral? You can’t just stick your head under the covers any more."

The film stars Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode, Andi Matichak as Laurie's granddaughter Allyson, Judy Greer as Laurie's daughter Karen, Robert Longstreet as Lonnie Elam, Dylan Arnold as Allyson's boyfriend / Lonnie's son Cameron, Kyle Richards as Lindsey Wallace, Anthony Michael Hall as Tommy Doyle, Nancy Stephens as Nurse Marion, Charles Cyphers as Leigh Brackett, Jibrail Nantambu as scene stealer Julian, child actress Victoria Paige Watkins as a character named Christy, and James Jude Courtney as Michael Myers. Original Michael Myers performer Nick Castle also has a one scene cameo.

David Gordon Green directed Halloween Kills from a screenplay he wrote with Danny McBride and Scott Teems. Green, McBride, and Curtis also serve as executive producers alongside Couper Samuelson and Carpenter. Jason Blum produced with Malek Akkad.

Halloween Kills is rated R for "strong bloody violence throughout, grisly images, language and some drug use".