John Carpenter teases massive kill count in Halloween Kills

July 8th 2020, 11:17am

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

As we wait for a trailer for HALLOWEEN KILLS, or even news that the film will make its planned October 16, 2020 release date, all we have are occasional teases the people behind the film have dropped in the meantime. We've heard that this sequel to the 2018 rebirth of the franchise is supposed to be "meaner" than its predecessor and now composer and executive producer John Carpenter, who helmed the 1978 classic that started it all, is doubling down on that "meaner" assessment with a tease of a massive kill count.

John Carpenter spoke with "Indiewire" this week and Carpenter, speaking of the kill count, says he hasn't seen anything like it before:

"The cut is done. They'll mix it in New York next week or so. Then it will be in the can. My work is all done. The movie is something else. It's fun, intense and brutal, a slasher movie times one hundred, big time. It's huge. I've never seen anything like this: the kill count."

Director David Gordon Green also offered up some insights on the upcoming sequel during a talk with "Empire" and he went on tease aspects of the film's storyline:

"The first one was more about Laurie's life of isolation after Michael and her attempts at revenge. It was personal. This is more about the unraveling of a community in chaos. It's about how fear spreads virally."

I'll take any news about HALLOWEEN KILLS at this point because I have this growing concern that the film is going to be pushed off its release date unless things being to change with movie theater re-openings in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. If films get pushed further into September or October, I fear the film is likely to move. Blumhouse head, Jason Blum, spoke recently about hoping to get us a trailer soon and getting the film out before the end of the year but there is so much uncertainty in the industry right now it's hard for filmmakers and studio heads to give definitive answers.

Jamie Lee Curtis will be returning as Laurie Strode in the sequel and will be joined by Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, Robert Longstreet, Anthony Michael Hall, Kyle Richards, and Charles Cyphers. As of now, the film is set to open on October 16, 2020, with a third and final film of this HALLOWEEN trilogy called HALLOWEEN ENDS tentatively scheduled to open October 15, 2021.

What are your thoughts on a more massive kill count in the sequel? Do YOU think HALLOWEEN KILLS will make its October 16, 2020 release date?