“Halloween Kills” is the twelfth installment in the Halloween franchise and a direct sequel to the 2018 “Halloween”.
Let’s find out some trivia and facts about the new film.
- Halloween Kills is a 2021 American slasher film
- The film is directed by David Gordon Green
- It is written by Green, Danny McBride, and Scott Teems
- The film is a sequel to 2018’s Halloween
- It is the twelfth installment in the Halloween franchise
- The film stars Jamie Lee Curtis and James Jude Courtney
- They reprise their roles as Laurie Strode and Michael Myers
- Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, and Will Patton also reprise their roles from the previous film
- With Anthony Michael Hall and Thomas Mann joining the cast
- The film begins precisely where the previous film ended
- The film sees Strode and her family continuing to fend off Myers, this time, with the help of the Haddonfield community
- Jason Blum serves as a producer on the film through his Blumhouse Productions banner, alongside Malek Akkad and Bill Block
- Before the release of the 2018 film, McBride in June 2018 confirmed that he and Green were originally intending to pitch two films that would be shot back-to-back
- Then decided against it, waiting to see the reaction to the first film
- Following the critical and commercial success of the 2018 film, development on the sequel promptly began as early as October 2018
- By February 2019, Teems was hired to co-write the script
- The film’s title was officially announced in July 2019, along with its sequel
- Principal photography commenced in September 2019 in Wilmington, North Carolina
- Halloween Kills had its world premiere at the 78th Venice International Film Festival on September 8, 2021
- Following a year delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and was theatrically released in the United States on October 15, 2021, by Universal Pictures
- It will also stream on paid tiers of Peacock for 60 days
- The film received mixed reviews from critics
- Critics praised the film’s creative kills, references, and the performances of the cast
- They criticized its screenplay and claimed it didn’t add anything new for the franchise
- A direct sequel, Halloween Ends, is scheduled to be released on October 14, 2022
- On July 19, 2019, a spokesperson for Blumhouse Productions confirmed that Halloween Kills and its sequel Halloween Ends will commence production and filming in Wilmington, North Carolina at the same time
- The movie commenced filming September 16, 2019
- According to a film permit obtained from the city, there will be a news reporter scene giving updates on the events of the 2018 film
- Filming in Wilmington on September 20 to 21 involved a car wreck scene
- Additional photography included simulated gunfire scenes on September 27, September 30, and October 1
- Additional filming occurred on October 16, 2019
- Filming concluded on November 3, 2019
- In an interview, Andi Matichak revealed that filming was planned back-to-back with Halloween Ends but did not occur due to the “intense schedule”
- In the United States and Canada, Halloween Kills was released alongside The Last Duel
- The film is projected to gross $35–40 million from 3,700 theaters in its opening weekend
- The film made $4.85 million from Thursday night previews
- This is the biggest for both an R-rated title and a horror film amid the pandemic
- Surpassing A Quiet Place Part II’s $4.8 million
- On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 39%
- Based on 122 reviews
- With an average rating of 5.3/10
- The site’s consensus reads, “Halloween Kills should satisfy fans in search of brute slasher thrills, but in terms of advancing the franchise, it’s a bit less than the sum of its bloody parts”
- On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 42 out of 100
- Based on 41 critics
- Indicating “mixed or average reviews”
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