A New Halloween Kills Featurette and More From BlumFest 2021

The return of Michael Myers is only a few weeks away, and one of many studios behind Halloween Kills would really like you to be as hyped as doable for that launch—together with all its different horror initiatives which are presently coming down the pipeline. The incontrovertible fact that it’s formally the spookiest month of the 12 months didn’t damage I suppose. Blumhouse’s BlumFest 2021 spotlighted not simply the newest entry within the slasher franchise, however a bunch of different titles, together with some brand-new bulletins.

First up, right here’s “Return to Haddonfield,” a brand new featurette for Halloween Kills—that includes star Jamie Lee Curtis and different solid and crew members speaking about how the brand new brings again actors and characters from the 1978 horror traditional. In a fast clip from the movie, we get to see Charles “Sheriff Brackett” Cyphers repeat his iconic “one good scare” line from the unique.

Halloween followers can head to Blumhouse’s YouTube channel or Facebook page later right now to see a live-streamed introduction (8 p.m. PT) and post-film Q&A with producer Jason Blum and director David Gordon Green (roughly 10 p.m. PT) along with the film’s screening on the genre-focused Beyond Fest in Hollywood, CA.

As for the remainder of BlumFest, you’ll be able to take a look at the stream beneath; it encompasses a chat with Renée Zellweger about her upcoming restricted TV collection, The Thing About Pam, which hits NBC in 2022. It’s extra true crime than horror however right here’s the synopsis: “NBC’s and Blumhouse Television’s The Thing About Pam is based on the 2011 murder of Betsy Faria that resulted in her husband Russ’s conviction, although he insisted he didn’t kill her. His conviction was later overturned. This brutal crime set off a chain of events that would expose a diabolical scheme deeply involving Pam Hupp.” Here are another bulletins from right now’s occasion:

• “The first major collaboration between Tyler Perry Studios and Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Productions,” a thriller known as Help that will probably be written and directed by Alan McElroy (Star Trek: Discovery, Wrong Turn).
• The as-yet-untitled function directorial debut from John Logan (Alien: Covenant, Skyfall, Penny Dreadful), which is able to stream completely on Peacock.
• A deal with the “Welcome to the Blumhouse” quartet of thrillers and horror motion pictures, Bingo Hell and Black As Night (premiering right now on Amazon Prime) and The Manor and Madres (October 8 on Amazon Prime); learn io9’s earlier protection of the collection right here, with extra to come back.
• Premiere dates for writer-director Alex McAulay’s A House on the Bayou (November 19) and director Ali LeRoi’s American Refugee (December 10), the primary two movies in an eight-film collection of “elevated, standalone horror/genre-thriller movies” created as a collaboration between Blumhouse Television and Epix. The movies will probably be day-and-date streaming on Epix and obtainable for digital buy from Paramount Home Entertainment.
• A chat with director Rob Savage (Host), whose newest movie, Dashcam, is presently making the competition rounds.
• And one other new film announcement: “Donald Sutherland and Jaeden Martell have been cast in Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, written and directed by John Lee Hancock, based on the short story by Stephen King. Production begins this month—Blumhouse and Ryan Murphy producing—and will be available on Netflix globally in 2022.”

Also, not a part of BlumFest particularly, however nonetheless one thing very cool to take a look at this month: Revelations, a brand new doomsday cult-focused podcast from Blumhouse Television and Vespucci and hosted by our former Gizmodo colleague Jennings Brown, who’s presently on the Gateway. As Deadline stories, “the six-part series tells the story of the Fellowship of Friends, which was founded by Robert Earl Burton, an East Bay schoolteacher who began preaching out of a van in Berkeley in the 1960s before founding the fellowship in 1970 and building it up to around 2,500 members. The group ran the successful Renaissance Vineyard and Winery between 1982 and 2015.” It premieres on October 3 on Spotify.

Halloween Kills arrives on Peacock and in theaters on October 15.

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