Halloween Kills was something of a reunion for the cast of John Carpenter’s 1978 Halloween, as suggested by a new teaser from Universal Pictures.
The studio dropped a video called “Halloween Kills – Return to Haddonfield,” which splices interviews with clips from the upcoming horror flick. Assembling the likes of Kyle Richards to again play Lindsey, the girl whom Jamie Lee Curtis’ Laurie babysits in the original film, the production yielded touching behind-the-scenes footage of the revenant castmates.
“We had, just, this beautiful, beautiful reunion,” recalled Curtis. In addition to Richards, Charles Cyphers will be back as Leigh Brackett, and Nancy Stephens shall reprise her role as Marion Chambers in David Gordon Green’s second entry in the franchise. His first, 2018’s Halloween, is a direct sequel to Carpenter’s seminal horror flick, ignoring all of the several sequels before it. Its use of retroactive continuity even extends to the ending of the original film, allowing for Green’s story to build on the saga independently.
“When I was in Halloween, I was eight years old,” Richards recalled. “I didn’t know what I was doing until I saw it. Then I was like, ‘What on god’s green earth…?'” Her character, Lindsey Wallace, gets dropped off with Laurie in the 1978 film when Annie Brackett resolves to quit babysitting for the night and spend some quality time with her boyfriend. Annie and her sweetheart don’t make it out alive, but Lindsey survives and grows up to help Laurie fight another day. In the promo clip, Curtis carries Richards in her arms after the actors share a bear hug.
A nurse by trade, Marion Chambers assists Dr. Samuel Loomis, played by Donald Pleasence in the first film. The grisly events that occur throughout the course of the Halloween films are set off when her car is stolen by the escaped sanitarium patient, Michael Myers. She manages to flee his grasp, but the psychopathic killer’s drive to Haddonfield precipitates a bloodbath. “Sometimes you just luck into something,” said Stephens, remembering when she decided to take a chance on a “brand-new” Carpenter.
“Forty-one years is a long stretch of time, isn’t it?” mused Cyphers. As the sheriff in town, Leigh Brackett confers with a gravely serious Dr. Loomis after Myers slips away from Smith’s Grove Sanitarium in 1978. Sheriff Brackett survives Halloween that year, unlike his unfortunate daughter, Annie. Speaking of Carpenter’s film, Cyphers expressed a measure of pride in his statement that they “shot it in three weeks.”
Co-writer Danny McBride commented on his process for writing Halloween Kills, saying, “It just had to do with finding characters that had been established in Carpenter’s original and finding ways to keep them involved in the story.”
Halloween Kills will premiere in theaters and become available to stream on Peacock starting Oct. 15.
Source: Universal Pictures
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