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“The Outrage of Haddonfield”: David Gordon Green Teases What Makes ‘Halloween Kills’ Feel Fresh
We’ve gotten no shortage of sound bite teases for next year’s Halloween Kills over the last few months, with John Carpenter calling the sequel “a slasher movie times 100,” co-writer Scott Teems saying it’s “bigger, badder and meaner” than the previous movie, and Jason Blum referring to it as “a very big movie.” This latest tease comes direct from the film’s director.
Speaking with Total Film, David Gordon Green touched upon the aspect of Halloween Kills that makes it feel different from Halloween 2018, as well as all previous Halloween movies.
“If the first film was somewhat retelling the origin of Myers and getting us up to speed with where Laurie had been all those years, then part two is about the outrage of Haddonfield,” Gordon Green told Total Film for the magazine’s latest issue, reported by sister publication Games Radar. “Mob Rules was our working title for the film.”
He added, “It’s about a community that is united by outrage, and divided in how to deal with evil.”
It’s not just Laurie and the Strode family who will be trying to take Michael Myers down in Halloween Kills but rather the entire town of Haddonfield, populated in next year’s sequel by returning faces including Charles Cyphers as Leigh Brackett, Anthony Michael Hall as Tommy Doyle, Kyle Richards as Lindsey Wallace and Nancy Stephens as Marion Chambers.
The current release date for Halloween Kills is October 15, 2021, only in theaters.
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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