New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Universal Pictures, Miramax, and Blumhouse's HALLOWEEN KILLS, set for release on Friday, October 15, 2021 - wide, will also premiere day-and-date with theatrical on Peacock.
In 2018,
David Gordon Green's Halloween, starring icon Jamie Lee Curtis, killed at the box office, earning more than $250 million worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing chapter in the four-decade franchise and setting a new record for the biggest opening weekend in history for a horror film starring a woman.
And the Halloween night when Michael Myers returned isn't over yet.
Minutes after Laurie Strode (Curtis), her daughter
Karen (Judy Greer) and granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak) left masked monster Michael Myers caged and burning in Laurie's basement, Laurie is rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, believing she finally killed her lifelong tormentor.
But when Michael manages to free himself from Laurie's trap, his ritual bloodbath resumes. As Laurie fights her pain and prepares to defend herself against him, she inspires all of Haddonfield to rise up against their unstoppable monster.
The Strode women join a group of other survivors of Michael's first rampage who decide to take matters into their own hands, forming a vigilante mob that sets out to hunt Michael down, once and for all. Evil dies tonight.
Universal Pictures, Miramax and Blumhouse present a Malek Akkad film, Halloween Kills, co-starring Will Patton as Officer Frank Hawkins,
Thomas Mann (Kong:
Skull Island) and Anthony Michael Hall (The Dark Knight).
From the returning filmmaking team responsible for the 2018 global phenomenon, Halloween
Kills is written by Scott Teems (SundanceTV's Rectify) and
Danny McBride and
David Gordon Green based on characters created by
John Carpenter and Debra Hill. The film is directed by
David Gordon Green and produced by Malek Akkad p.g.a., Jason Blum and Bill Block. The executive producers are John Carpenter, Jamie Lee Curtis,
Danny McBride,
David Gordon Green and Ryan Freimann.
