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Halloween Kills’ Final Trailer Introduces More of the Cast—and Raises the Stakes

It’s feeling like Halloween is coming early this year. David Gordon Green’s Halloween Kills made its worldwide debut at the Venice Film Festival on September 8th, three days later it was announced that the film would be streaming on Peacock the same day it would be released in theaters, and now Blumhouse Productions is dropping one final piece of candy into our trick-or-treat bags: the final trailer for Halloween Kills dropped and there’s quite a bit to unpack here.

Where previous trailers had kept the focus almost entirely on Laurie Strode, her family, and Michael, the final trailer for Kills gives us our first real look at some of the familiar faces that will be returning: Nurse Crane, who was with Loomis the night Michael first escaped in 1978, Lindsey and Tommy, the two children Laurie was watching on the night of Michael’s first attack, and Lonnie, who nearly entered the Myers house that night on a dare only to get scared off by Loomis.

We already knew that Kills was considerably upping the stakes by pitting the entire town of Haddonfield against Michael, but these returning faces seem to suggest that there’s going to be considerable focus put on the continuing trauma of the events of forty years ago—not just with Laurie, but with everyone who survived that fateful night.

a side profile of Michael Myers

But the star of the show here is quite clearly Michael Myers himself. Michael is everywhere in this trailer, and he is brutal: heads get repeatedly bashed into walls, car windows are smashed with relative ease, and a light fixture is effortlessly broken to create a crude improvised weapon. It seems like nothing is able to stand in the way of Michael and…whatever it is he’s seeking, as it’s once again pointed out that Michael’s victims on this particular night form a direct path towards his childhood home. There’s even a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it glimpse of six-year-old Michael at the two-minute mark, hinting at even deeper ties to the original film than what we saw even in the 2018 Halloween.

Michael isn’t the only frightening thing found here though. For the first time, we get a sense of the true scale of the mob being whipped into a frenzy to hunt down Michael. This isn’t the relatively small group of vigilantes from Halloween 4, it’s a mob of close to a hundred people chanting “Evil dies tonight” outside of the hospital where Laurie is recovering, with a frenzy seemingly right on the edge of spiraling horribly out of control. Michael’s return is bringing out the worst in Haddonfield’s citizens, with the brutality of The Shape seemingly spreading like wildfire—something that can only end badly for everyone involved.

I’ve said it once already, but it bears repeating: Halloween Kills is shaping up to be an absolute monster of a slasher film, and with every new tidbit of information that gets dropped I’m only getting more and more excited to see it when it hits theatres and streaming on October 15th.


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Written by Timothy Glaraton

College graduate. Horror enthusiast. Writer of things.

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