“trailer opens with a guy visiting Myers in a loony bin courtyard where he is chained down in place. He walks up behind Myers and holds up the mask; Myers starts shaking.”
Jamie Lee Curtis came out onstage to introduce the footage herself, explaining that she hopped onboard the project the moment she heard Green and McBride’s pitch (she did not elaborate). She went on to promise everyone in attendance that the film would “scare the shit out of” them, and lemme tell ya: if the trailer we saw today is any indication, Jamie Lee Curtis did not lie - this shit was intense.
The trailer opens with a pair of researchers (?) entering an open-air courtyard in a mental institution. We quickly realize that they’re there to see Michael Myers, who’s positioned at the center of the courtyard. One of the two retrieves the famous Michael Myers mask from his bag and holds it out to the looming killer: “I’ve got something I think you’d like to see.” The score intensifies over quick shots of the drooling, gibbering patients surrounding Myers and a barking guard dog, and then - boom, we’re hearing that old familiar John Carpenter score.
Curtis’ Laurie Strode is front and center in this footage. This is an older, meaner, wearier Laurie Strode than we’ve ever seen. Now living in a house out in the middle of nowhere (complete with a mannequin for target practice set up out back), Laurie seems to have spent the past four decades preparing for her next encounter with Michael Myers…and boy, does she look ready for it.
It’s impossible to recall the trailer beat for beat, but some of the highlights included: a scene wherein Myers tracks a woman to a bathroom stall, reaches one bloody hand over the door, and drops a handful of teeth on the ground; a quick dialogue exchange that casually reconfigures Halloween franchise mythology (you’ll know it when it happens); shots of Myers stalking a neighborhood on Halloween, slashing his way through a number of houses, while Laurie screams at crowds of trick-r-treaters to get to safety.
One particularly great moment was an exchange between Curtis and Will Patton’s sheriff. Laurie tells the cop, “I’ve prayed every night that he’d escape.” Sheriff: “Why on earth would you do that?” Laurie: “So I could kill him.”
I confess to you that I may have cheered.
I cannot overstate how excellent this trailer was. Of course we’re going to have to wait and see how the final film turns out, and of course your mileage may vary on the footage I saw today, but the crowd I saw this trailer with went absolutely bananas, and I think there’s a good chance you will, too. I’ve got a good feeling about this one.
Ok after reading this part, OMG… .I swear this really hit a nerve with me of…just how sick and awesome this is gonna be.
" shots of Myers stalking a neighborhood on Halloween, slashing his way through a number of houses, while Laurie screams at crowds of trick-r-treaters to get to safety.‘’
I love Donald Pleasence and the Dr. Loomis character. JLC is going to basically take his role in that she’s the one to talk about Michael and how evil he is from what I gather.
She liked H20 until it was revealed later that the death of Myers wasn’t Myers after all. So now she is happy, that tells me the chance she kills Myers in this movie is at about 99%.
Well the only way she could get the ending she wanted, where she killed Myers, was if it wasn’t actually him and then agreed to do another one. It was due to the clause in the contract from Mustapha Akkad that stipulated that Myers wasn’t allowed to die. So, after several rewrites of that last scene she found out and compromised.
She wasn’t referring to H20 or HR. She was referring to the film Virus from 1999, and she said that right after the quote, so it was a joke making everyone think she was a referring to a Halloween film.
Yeah someone else was telling me this. My only thing is, why would she refer Virus, which has nothing at all to do with Halloween? I think she did in-fact mean H20 and then quickly changed her mind and said Virus instead.