20 July
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HALLOWEEN ENDS Director: David Gordon GreenStarring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Andi Matichak, Kyle Richards, Will Patton, Nick Castle, James Jude Courtney Fans have been eagerly anticipating the trailer for Halloween Ends, the final film in the new trilogy by David Gordon Green. Green set out to make a direct sequel to the original John Carpenter classic reuniting Jamie Lee Curtis’ final girl, Laurie Strode, with Michael Myers forty years later. The sequel, Halloween Kills, picked up the very same night as Halloween (2018) and saw Haddonfield coming together as a mob to take down Michael. Four years have passed when Halloween Ends picks up. Here’s theRead More →

13 October
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HALLOWEEN KILLS Director: David Gordon GreenStarring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Anthony Michael Hall, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, Kyle Richards, Nancy Stephens, Charles Cyphers, James Jude Courtney, Nick Castle, Will Patton, Thomas Mann, Dylan Arnold, Robert Longstreet Michael Myers is back for more bloodshed in Haddonfield in Halloween Kills. And if you saw the 2018 version of Halloween, you may be wondering how that’s possible. Director David Gordon Green’s new Halloween trilogy kicked off in 2018 picking up with Laurie Strode, the final girl played by the legendary Jamie Lee Curtis, forty years after Michael Myers killed her friends. Halloween Kills picks up the very same nightRead More →

03 October
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Jamie Lee Curtis Interview – HALLOWEEN KILLS and the Legacy of Michael Myers Jamie Lee Curtis is an icon in the horror genre thanks to her memorable role of Laurie Strode in the Halloween movies. If you’ve been following my work over the last decade, you know that Halloween is my favorite scary movie of all time. I’ve been obsessed with this franchise since I was far too young to be watching scary movies. I had the great honor to sit down with Curtis to talk about the latest in David Gordon Green’s new trilogy, Halloween Kills. We talk about having some of the originalRead More →

25 June
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HALLOWEEN KILLS Word started racing around Film Twitter on Thursday, June 24 that the new Halloween Kills trailer was attached to The Forever Purge. This lead to leaks from people who already saw that trailer and the teams at Universal Pictures and Blumhouse decided to release it ahead of schedule. I’ve watched it a few times now, and it does NOT disappoint! I will say that it looks pretty spoiler heavy in terms of explaining how Michael Myers gets out of the house that’s burning down as we saw at the end of Halloween (2018) and we get shots of some brutal kills. We getRead More →

08 July
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HALLOWEEN KILLS Director:  David Gordon GreenStarring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, Anthony Michael Hall, Kyle Richards, Charles Cyphers, Nancy Stephens, Robert Longstreet One of the movies I WAS most looking forward to in 2020 is Halloween Kills. This should come as no surprise for readers given my obsession with the Halloween franchise. I’ve done many write ups and a podcast episode about it over the years, and the recent sequel met all of my high expectations. The excitement for us Halloween fans is sky high with the return of many familiar faces from the original film like Kyle Richards, Charles Cyphers, and NancyRead More →

01 October
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HALLOWEEN KILLS – WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR Halloween Kills has officially started filming and we’re getting more insider news about casting and some of the themes writer/director David Gordon Green will be covering. The last time I wrote about Halloween Kills was with the news that Anthony Michael Hall will be playing Tommy Doyle, one of the original kids Laurie Strode and her friend Annie were babysitting on that original night they met Michael Myers. I’ve read a few tweets by original Tommy Doyle Brian Andrews that he’s not too pleased about being passed over. With the news of the return of Tommy Doyle,Read More →

27 August
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ANTHONY MICHAEL HALL JOINS “HALLOWEEN KILLS” Halloween enthusiasts are rejoicing with the news that the character of Tommy Doyle will be appearing in Halloween Kills. Blumhouse Pictures announced that Anthony Michael Hall will now be playing the character who first made his appearance in the original film as the little boy, then played Brian Andrews, that Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) was babysitting on that fateful night. They carved jack-o-lanterns, and she rolled her eyes at the fact he hid comic books under the couch. Audiences would go on to see Paul Rudd (yes, that Paul Rudd) play  the character in the sixth film, Halloween:Read More →

20 July
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HALLOWEEN KILLS & HALLOWEEN ENDS Halloween fans are rejoicing with screams of joy as Universal Pictures has announced two additional Halloween films, Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends, as a follow up to 2018’s Halloween. Last year’s film saw the return of Jamie Lee Curtis as heroine Laurie Strode battling masked killer Michael Myers. That film acted as a direct sequel to the original 1978 masterpiece and reached massive box office success. Here’s their statement: In response to the global fan enthusiasm for last year’s Halloween, starring Jamie Lee Curtis and directed by David Gordon Green, which went on to become the highest-grossing installment in the classicRead More →

01 November
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PODCAST EPISODE 36: “Halloween” – 40 Years of Michael Myers I have a brand new episode of my podcast “Paul’s Trip to the Movies” up on PodcastOne, Apple Podcasts, My Talk 1071’s website or wherever you get your podcasts. It’s brought to you by T-Rex Cookie Company. “Halloween” is killing it at the box office and marks the return of Jamie Lee Curtis in her iconic role of Laurie Strode. Her strong survivor is back facing Michael Myers one more time. Host Paul McGuire Grimes and his guest Leigh Finke celebrate the original 1978 “Halloween” and examine the new one in theaters forty years afterRead More →

22 October
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“HALLOWEEN” RETROSPECTIVE- 40 Years of Terror This an an abbreviated version of a piece I wrote five years ago. With the release of the new Halloween and its 40th anniversary, I thought I’d re-share it and add in the new one among my ranking of the entire franchise. Please note, I review the movies going in reverse order starting with the newest one and ending with the original. HALLOWEEN (2018) Director: David Gordon Green Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, Will Patton, Nick Castle, James Jude Courtney, Rhian Rees, Jefferson Hall It’s been forty years since serial killer Michael Myers stalked and killedRead More →