Halloween (2018 Film)
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Halloween | |
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Directed by | David Gordon Green |
Produced by | Malek Akkad Jason Blum Bill Block |
Written by | Jeff Fradley Danny McBride David Gordon Green |
Based on | Characters by John Carpenter |
Starring | Jamie Lee Curtis Judy Greer Andi Matichak Will Patton Haluk Bilginer Virginia Gardner |
Music by | John Carpenter Cody Carpenter Daniel Davies |
Cinematography | Michael Simmonds |
Edited by | Tim Alverson |
Production companies | Miramax Blumhouse Productions Trancas International Films Rough House Pictures |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
Release date | September 8, 2018 (TIFF) October 19, 2018 (United States) |
Running time | 106 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $10–15 million |
Box office | $255.6 million |
Halloween is a 2018 American slasher film directed by David Gordon Green and written by Green, Jeff Fradley, and Danny McBride. It is the eleventh installment in the Halloween film series and a sequel to the 1978 film of the same name while effecting a retcon of all previous sequels. It stars Jamie Lee Curtis and Nick Castle who reprise their respective roles as Laurie Strode and Michael Myers, with stuntman James Jude Courtney also portraying Myers. The film also stars Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, Will Patton, and Virginia Gardner. Its plot follows a post-traumatic Laurie Strode who prepares to face Michael Myers in a final showdown on Halloween night, forty years after she survived his killing spree.
After the release of Rob Zombie's Halloween II, the 2009 sequel to the 2007 remake of the original, two consecutive follow-ups went into development from former rights holder Dimension Films, respectively, but neither achieved fruition. As a result, the studio lost the rights to the intellectual property, which were later obtained by Blumhouse Productions with John Carpenter's involvement. Carpenter, who disagreed with the remake's portrayal of lead killer Michael Myers, planned on helping the studio to make the next Halloween film into what he believed to be more terrifying than the preceding sequels. Filmmakers David Gordon Green and Danny McBride, who were already fans, proposed their vision to Blumhouse and Carpenter. It was accepted and developed into a sequel to the original, with Jamie Lee Curtis and Nick Castle reprising their roles as Strode and Myers, respectively.
Halloween was filmed from January to February of 2018 in Charleston, South Carolina before reshoots took place that June. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2018, and was theatrically released in the United States on October 19, 2018, by Universal Pictures, the distributor's first involvement with the series since Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982). The film received generally positive reviews from critics, with many considering it to be both the best Halloween sequel and a return to form for the series, and particularly praising Curtis' performance. It grossed over $255 million worldwide, making it the highest-grossing film in the franchise and the highest-grossing slasher film in unadjusted dollars, breaking a record that Scream had previously set in 1996, as well as setting several other box office records. Two sequels, Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends, are scheduled to be released on October 15, 2021, and October 14, 2022, respectively.
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- Main article: List of Halloween characters
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Halloween (Original 2018 Motion Picture Soundtrack) | ||
Film score by John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies | ||
Released | October 18, 2018 | |
Genre | Electronic • rock • film score | |
Length | 43:29 | |
Label | Sacred Bones | |
John Carpenter chronology | ||
Anthology: Movie Themes 1974–1998 (2017) | Halloween (Original 2018 Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2018) | Lost Cues: The Thing (2020) |
After previously providing the score for the original Halloween, Halloween II, and Halloween III: Season of the Witch, John Carpenter confirmed in October 2017 that he had made a deal to score the 2018 release. Regarding his take on the sequel, he said, "I'll be consulting with the director to see what he feels. I could create a new score, we could update the old score and amplify it, or we could combine those two things. I'll have to see the movie to see what it requires."
All music is composed by John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter, and Daniel Davies.
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Sequels
- Main article: Halloween Kills