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Halloween Kills won't be for the faint of heart as the upcoming horror sequel has officially been rated R. The news doesn't exactly come as a shock, as it correlates with recent comments from director David Gordon Green that the sequel would have "twice the trills" and "ten times the kills" compared to the 2018 movie. According to the MPA, the R-rating was given to Halloween Kills based on its portrayals of "strong bloody violence throughout, grisly images, language and some drug use."

For Halloween Kills, Green directs using a screenplay co-written by Green, Danny McBride, and Scott Teems. It serves as a direct sequel to 2018's Halloween with Jamie Lee Curtis reprising her role as Laurie Strode. After narrowly surviving another massacre in Haddonfield, Laurie will be forced to confront her lifelong nemesis once again when she learns that Michael Myers is still alive. Given the R-rating, we can presume...

In a not-so-shocking announcement, Halloween Kills has officially been rated R. That’s exactly what we were expecting from the latest instalment in the iconic horror franchise, of course, which is not exactly known to cater to all the family, but the interesting thing is the description of why that rating’s been applied.

The MPAA’s official classification has just been turned in and it suggests that Kills is going to be even more brutal than the 2018 movie, as it’s been rated R for “strong bloody violence throughout, grisly images, language and some drug use.” Conversely, Blumhouse’s relaunch of the series achieved the same rating for “horror violence and bloody images, language, brief drug use and nudity.” Just as you’d expect from a horror sequel, then, it seems there’ll be more murder, mayhem and gore in the follow-up. It shouldn’t be a surprise that...

Until a few weeks ago, we were expecting Halloween Kills to be with us this October, but unfortunately, in early July we found out that Blumhouse had made the difficult decision to push the horror sequel’s release back by a whole year. We did get an awesome teaser (see above) for the movie, though, which promises that it’ll be worth the wait.

The trailer deliberately harked back to a classic installment in the franchise, so it felt very familiar in a good way, but now director David Gordon Green has given us some info on the new angle that this movie will take which will serve as a fresh way of looking at the threat of Michael Myers.

In a recent interview, Green told Total Film that Kills will explore mob rule and the way Myers being on the loose fractures the community, saying:

“If the first film...

Since Batwoman first introduced the character of Tommy Doyle way back in its third episode “Down Down Down,” fans have been beyond eager to meet his villainous alter ego Hush. And after being teased a few weeks ago, the bandage-faced maniac finally made his big debut in “A Secret Kept from All the Rest,” the penultimate episode of season 1.

Although this was the villain’s first real live-action appearance, we’d previously seen Tommy in Gotham. Not to mention an animated adaptation of the original comic arc recast him as a disguise of the Riddler. But it’s fair to say that nothing could’ve prepared fans for what went down with Hush in tonight’s season finale of Batwoman.

We’ll warn you now that spoilers lie ahead, as this was easily one of the Arrowverse’s biggest surprises in a while. So if you’re not caught up yet,...

Most of 2020’s tentpole cinematic releases have been pushed back to 2021, given the uncertainty over both when theaters will open and if people will even want to visit them following the Covid-19 outbreak. One of the movies due for the tail-end of the year that has yet to be moved though is Halloween Kills, the much-anticipated sequel to Blumhouse’s successful Halloween rebootquel from 2018.

Having said that, word has been quiet on the production of late, causing fans to wonder if the studio is thinking of skipping its planned October drop date. Director David Gordon Green has just given an encouraging update on where things stand, though. As part of a Halloween ’18 watch party yesterday, Green – who was tweeting through the Blumhouse Twitter account – revealed that he hopes to share the first full trailer for Kills soon.

“We’re still working on the trailer for #HalloweenKills now,” Green stated.” And...

Upcoming sequel Halloween Kills will be revisiting even more elements from the 1978 slasher classic than its predecessor, 2018’s smash hit Halloween rebootquel. A bunch of original cast members are returning, with Anthony Michael Hall joining the franchise as a grown-up Tommy Doyle. And now, director David Gordon Green has revealed that a major location from that first film will be back in Kills, as well.

Blumhouse hosted a watch party of the 2018 flick yesterday evening (Saturday the 16th), with Green hijacking the studio’s Twitter account for the occasion. One of the juicy secrets he dropped was that the Myers house will feature into the plot of his next movie. This is, of course, the childhood home of Michael Myers and the site of his first murder, when the 6-year-old killer stabbed his 17-year-old sister Judith to death while dressed in a clown outfit on Halloween night.

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During the course of the Halloween series’ 12 films, Michael Myers has been shot, stabbed, run over and blown up on more than one occasion. It’s fair to say he’s pretty much unkillable, and a new fan theory that’s doing the rounds online has attempted to explain his apparent invincibility using science.

The theory suggests that the masked killer displays the symptoms of Congenital Insensitivity to Pain (Cip), a rare disorder which renders sufferers impervious to pain. This could potentially rationalize why Myers is able to shrug off gunshot wounds and other injuries, but how well this concept holds up under scrutiny depends on which Halloween films we’re talking about.

Let’s say you consider only the first two movies canon. If that’s the case, then Myers’ ‘invulnerability’ could be the result of Cip but as the series becomes more outlandish, the theory fails to hold water.

Since Batwoman introduced the character of Tommy Doyle back in its third episode “Down Down Down,” fans have been eager for the appearance of his villainous alter ego Hush. After being teased in last week’s episode, the bandage-faced maniac made his true debut last night in “A Secret Kept from All the Rest.”

When the character was shipped off to Arkham at the end of his debut appearance when it came to light that he murdered his mother, it was inevitable that he would eventually return as the single-minded maniac. He resurfaced in scenes set in the asylum, forming a tentative alliance with Alice, and managed to escape due to the security in that place being about as tight as a revolving door. As expected, fans had some excited thoughts on his rampage and made sure to let them be known over on social media.

It’S Him He Is Here!

Members of fandoms express their love of a property in different ways, with fan films being one of the most expressive declarations of passion. A Halloween fan movie, titled simply Halloween Night, has now been released online in its entirety and is viewable above.

Made for $10,000 and funded through Indiegogo, the film is the creation of writer-director Jp DeStefano, and is set in Haddonfield in the modern day, where Michael Myers and his night of stalking and murder over 40 years previously have become a distant memory. However, the past never stays at rest and the knife-wielding incarnation of pure evil has returned to wreak havoc once again.

The movie is clearly made from a position of affection for and familiarity with the original, as its atmosphere and visual style are perfect imitations of John Carpenter’s slasher classic. Numerous tropes are invoked and played with, such as Michael being seen...

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, numerous television and movie productions have shut down to avoid spreading it. Among them is Halloween Kills, which is a sequel to the 2018 Halloween. The movie is in the post-production phase, but additional work was needed, including some heavy breathing.

That’s right. Nick Castle, the first to portray the iconic villain in John Carpenter’s 1978 classic, has returned to the Blumhouse sequels to lend a literal voice to the role. While Myers never talks, he does have to breath occasionally, which is where Castle comes in.

Actor James Jude Courtney is the physical manifestation of Myers, but Castle is vocalizing Michael. And given that Adr work doesn’t really require a lot of people, Castle was able to leave his home to go work on the movie. And he was rather tongue in cheek about the experience, sharing the following on Twitter:

Bravely...

Quentin Tarantino has been making the rounds to promote the release of Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood on home video and while speaking to Consequence of Sound, he gave an update on his Star Trek movie, how he almost wrote Halloween 6 way back when and also shared his thoughts on Rob Zombie’s often maligned Halloween films.

Though he hated the first movie initially, the director says it eventually grew on him and now he counts himself a big fan of both, explaining:

“I am a big fan of the Rob Zombie Halloweens. When I saw the first one, I didn’t like it at all. I didn’t like the aesthetic. I didn’t like everything that he added to it and then the last hour just becomes this fast forward remake of the first one. What the fu*k is all this shit? Eight months later, I...

“Does my house have a sign out front that says dead babysitter storage?” This, or some equivalent, may have been uttered by an unhinged Paul Rudd in some alternate timeline, where two of the most iconic things in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino and the ever-enduring Halloween franchise, nearly collided in the early 90s. Put on your Walkmans and hit play on Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun,” because we’re going back in time, man.

Post-Halloween 5 cliffhanger, which as we all know debuted in 1989, Miramax was in a bit of a pickle. They needed someone to make sense of that dumb Man In Black ending that left Halloween fans with a sour taste in their mouth. They turned to the blossoming Tarantino, who, apparently, at that point in his life “hadn’t done anything” yet. It would have been his job to figure out the next steps in the story, and he...

Jamie Lee Curtis is returning as Laurie Strode for the first time in almost 20 years for this fall’s Halloween sequel. As fans are well prepared for by now, the movie will cut out decades of continuity and act as a follow-up to only the iconic first film from John Carpenter. This means we’ll see a very different version of Laurie from the one we’re used to.

While speaking to the La Times, director David Gordon Green explained where the impetus for his belated sequel came from. Interestingly, it was one line in the 1978 original that informed the new Halloween‘s depiction of Laurie – one small moment that hinted the character had grown over her horrifying experience in the film.

“She has a line in the original film when she’s talking to young Tommy Doyle at the climax of the movie. She says, ‘Do as I say.