We’re still waiting to hear if Halloween Kills will be delayed from its current release date of October 16, 2020, but in the meantime we’ve got some fresh new insights from both composer/executive producer John Carpenter and director David Gordon Green.

For starters, Carpenter chatted a bit about the film with Indiewire this week.

“The cut is done. They’ll mix it in New York in the next week or so. Then it will be in the can. My work is all done,” the horror master told the site. “The movie is something else. It’s fun, intense and brutal, a slasher movie times one hundred, big time. It’s huge.”

He added, “I’ve never seen anything like this: the kill count!“

Available on shelves this week is Empire Magazine’s Big-Screen Preview edition, and in it David Gordon Green offers some insights of his own. In particular, he teases the storyline.

“The first one was more about Laurie’s life of isolation after Michael and her attempts at revenge. It was personal. This is more about the unraveling of a community into chaos. It’s about how fear spreads virally,” Gordon Green told Empire, reported by We Watched a Movie.

Co-writer Danny McBride also told Empire that Halloween Kills takes place on the same night as Halloween 2018, picking up right after the fiery climax of the movie.

The cast includes Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak and Robert Longstreet, with original Halloween actor Charles Cyphers returning as Sheriff Leigh Brackett.

Anthony Michael Hall also stars in the new film as Tommy Doyle, with the returning Kyle Richards as Lindsey Wallace and Nancy Stephens as Nurse Marion Chambers.