Halloween Killsis set to premiere next week at the Venice International Film Festival, and the makers are leaving no stone unturned to hype the movie. From announcing 4K UltraHD editions of the first fiveHalloweenmovies to releasing John Carpenter’s original score, marketing is in full swing onHalloween Kills. With only a month left before the film releases worldwide on October 14, lead star Jamie Lee Curtis recently talked bout how the newHalloweentrilogy is coincidentally inspired by social issues like the MeToo movement and the Capitol Hill Attack.
Jamie Lee Curtis will be receiving Venice Film Festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and she sat down with Variety, where she reflected on her career and achievements while also talking aboutHalloween Kills’socially relevant themes. First, she discussed how the new 2018’sHalloweenoriginated and what made her return to the franchise. Here is what she said,
“This all began when Jason Blum wrote David Gordon Green a one-word email: ‘Halloween?’ And David and Danny McBride conceived atrilogy. We got to see in the 2018 movie that Laurie had become the personification of trauma. It married at the time when the MeToo Movement was at it’s ascent. Here you have a movie about a woman traumatized for 40 years and she is now rising up. And it collided with what was happening globally.”
2018’sHalloweenhad surprisingly feminist themes considering how the strode women fought back against Michael Myers. Curtis couldn’t help but compare the film’s plot to the#MeToomovement and also how the trauma affected her character’s life. Curtis then goes on to reveal that the upcomingHalloween Killswill deal with mob violence. She has in the past mentioned how the entire town of Haddonfield will rise up against Michael Myers, and John Carpenter himself has teased that the film will have the highest body count in the whole franchise. But this is the first timeJamie Lee Curtishas made some real-life comparisons.
“And what they’ve done with the second part of the trilogy was, ‘What happens when the rest of the people in that town get angry?’ We made the movie and the uprisings that started to happen where people were taking to the streets - it was all happening with what was to be the release of our movie. Which is about mob violence. So somehow they intuited in understanding that the next wave of trauma is rage. They wrote a movie about mob violence and five months later, the mobs started to gather. We were supposed to come out a year ago. And then Jan. 6 happened - this was supposed to be released in October of last year and now we’re watching a mob descend on the U.S. capital. That’s what the next movie is about: the town of Haddonfield, all of the people in the town who were also victims of Michael Myers. There’s a group of people who are very angry at the authorities and are going to take the law into their own hands.”
The Capitol hill attack probably isn’t the best comparison to make when talking about a mob fighting back against injustice, but still, Curtis is entitled to her own opinion. Hopefully,Halloween Kills is more than just socially relevant and delivers on the scares and the tension that made the 1978 original one of the best horror films ever. Movies that deal with real-life horrors have proven to be quite successful lately. For instance, Jordan Peele producedCandymanbecame the no. 1 movie at the box office recently. PerhapsHalloween Killsmakers decided to take a page out of their book to devise the marketing plan. WithHalloween Killspremiering next week, we will soon know if it lives up to the fans' expectations.
David Gordon Green returns to directHalloween Killsfrom a screenplay he co-wrote with Danny McBride and Scott Teems. Jason Blum, Malek Akkad, and Bill Block are serving as producers, with John Carpenter, his son Cody Carpenter, and Daniel Davies handling the background score.Halloween Killswill release worldwide only in theaters on 30 July 2025. Read the full interview atVariety.
