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‘Halloween Kills’: Fresh Look at Michael Myers from the Film’s Flashback to the 1970s
It’s no secret that Halloween Kills will feature flashbacks to the events of John Carpenter’s original Halloween, with a young Michael Myers glimpsed in the most recent trailer. The film, after all, is largely about the survivors of the original classic’s events coming together to take out Michael Myers once and for all, including Tommy Doyle and Lindsey Wallace.
Also in the mix is Lonnie Elam, being played in Halloween Kills by Robert Longstreet (“Midnight Mass”). Lonnie, a minor character from the original, will return through a flashback to his childhood as well, giving us a look at the terror he endured when he encountered Michael Myers all those years ago. And some of that footage is on display in a new featurette today.
Perhaps most notably, the flashback footage from the featurette gives us a nice clear look at “1970s Michael Myers” from Halloween Kills, which should put a smile on your face.
Preview a young Lonnie’s encounter with Michael Myers in the 1970s below…
Halloween Kills comes to theaters and Peacock on October 15.
Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.
Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.
The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).
Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.
Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.
Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.
In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.
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