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‘Happy Halloween: A Halloween Kills Fan Film’ Brings the Terror and the Brutal Kills [Video]
Presenting itself as a “lost scene” from David Gordon Green’s Halloween (2018), the 13-minute short Happy Halloween: A Halloween Kills Fan Film has been unleashed, coming along as a special fan-made treat on the very weekend Halloween Kills was originally supposed to be released in theaters. And to its credit, it’s a highly satisfying way to tide us all over.
A great example of squeezing high production value out of *no* budget, Happy Halloween was written & directed by Courtlan Gordon and Jimmy Champane, with Never Hike Alone/Never Hike in the Snow filmmaker Vincenti DiSanti in the role of Michael Myers. He makes for a terrifying and imposing Shape, slashing his way through a new group of characters.
“In this lost scene from Halloween 2018, a police officer, a trick-or-treater and three high school friends have a deadly encounter with THE SHAPE.”
“We all went through so much effort to make sure every costume you see in this movie is as close to the ones you saw in Halloween 2018 as possible,” Champane had said in a teaser video earlier this month. “We worked super hard to make sure this movie can exist in the same universe as Halloween [1978], Halloween 2018, Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends.”
Tense, well shot and with a few absolutely brutal kills, Happy Halloween does indeed feel like it’s ripped right out of David Gordon Green’s vision of Haddonfield, and it’s an incredibly impressive effort that once again reminds how far fan films have come in recent years. It’s also proof that you don’t need a budget to make a kickass horror movie, fan film or not.
Check out Happy Halloween: A Halloween Kills Fan Film below!
Before updating the video nasty Faces of Death, director Daniel Goldhaber and writer Isa Mazzei explored the dangers of online life in tech-thriller Cam, their feature debut that was acquired by Netflix in 2018 after making waves on the festival circuit.
At the end of last year, the Netflix exclusive quietly departed from the streaming platform, left without another streaming home.
It’s not an isolated story; Mike Flanagan’s Hush also left streaming entirely for a period until it was finally picked up on both physical media and other streaming services.
While the tech-thriller currently isn’t available to watch on Netflix, Tubi, Hulu, or any other platforms, that’s not a problem for Cam thanks to a very cool move by Goldhaber: the director has made his breakout film accessible to watch online for free via his website.
As his site notes: “CAM is unfortunately not currently available to view on any platforms, so you can watch it here if you like :).“
No subscriptions or fees necessary, just hit play.
Cam follows Alice (Madeline Brewer), who works as an online cam girl obsessed with her ranking on the cam site. The higher her ranking goes, the more it draws unwanted attention, and Alice soon finds herself replaced on her own show with a doppelganger.
Written by Mazzei, a former camgirl, it uses the horror thriller premise to examine the life of a sex worker; Alice’s career ambition is directly at odds with the shame it brings to her family, and how she tries to spare them from it by keeping them in the dark. It only compounds her danger when the doppelganger enters the equation in Goldhaber’s engaging thriller.
For a deep dive into the treacherous world of Cam, listen to Horror Queers’ episode on it now.
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