Halloween Kills Is Surprisingly Timely, Says Jamie Lee Curtis

In slasher films, it tends to be one killer versus one sufferer at a time. Rarely does the horror spill out into the streets in a big sufficient method that the sufferer can recruit different individuals to assist them struggle again. In Halloween Kills, although, that’s precisely what occurs, and Jamie Lee Curtis thinks that’s what makes the movie particularly poignant in 2021.

Halloween Kills is the second movie in a deliberate Halloween sequel trilogy directed by David Gordon Green and starring Curtis. Originally scheduled for launch final 12 months, it’s now popping out October 15 and the star defined how this new Michael Myers movie has bigger social implications, very similar to the 2018 authentic. “We got to see in the 2018 movie that Laurie had become the personification of trauma,” Curtis advised Variety. “It [arrived] at the time when the Me Too movement was at its 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.”

At the top of the primary new movie, Curtis’ character Laurie (whom she was reprising from the authentic iteration of the franchise) teamed up along with her daughter (Judy Greer) and granddaughter (Andi Matichak) to lock Michael within the basement of her burning home. In the trailer for the brand new movie, we see that Michael will get out (in fact), then all hell breaks unfastened and Laurie is ready to get some individuals from round Haddonfield to assist in the battle towards pure evil.

“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?’” Curtis mentioned. “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.”

While Curtis is seemingly talking concerning the very warranted protests that occurred in 2020, she additionally believes the movie continued to realize resonance in 2021 because of the Capitol riot. “And then January 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,” she mentioned, “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.”

Will the townspeople defeat Michael? It appears unlikely, contemplating there’s nonetheless a 3rd half within the trilogy left to go: Halloween Ends, which will probably be out in 2022. Halloween Kills arrives on October 15.

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