It’s only June right now, but I’m already thinking about Halloween. (Hey, it’s never too soon to get spooky.)
It helps that the trailer for the newest addition to the classic 1978 horror film franchise, Halloween, was just released. The new film, also titled Halloween, takes place in the modern day and follows the extended family of Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) from the original movie. Laurie herself is back with a vengeance, ready to get revenge on serial killer and brother, Michael Meyers.
“Do you know that I pray every night that he would escape?” she tells a police officer. “So I can kill him.”
Unfortunately, it looks like Michael Meyers escapes, donning his signature mask. Laurie and her family attempt to exact their revenge, but not before Michael Meyers stalks his victims in places like women’s restrooms and children’s closets. CREEPY.
2018’s Halloween was written by David Gordon Green and Danny McBride, who is usually known for comedy. McBride starred in HBO’s Eastbound and Down and movies like This Is The End (and one of my all-time favorites, Hot Rod). But as we learned from Jordan Peele’s directorial debut Get Out, comedy writers can craft great horror as well. “Whether it’s to make [the audience] laugh or make them scream and s— their pants, it’s all in the engineering of the pace,” McBride told Business Insider.
The film is produced by Blumhouse, which has produced some of the scariest movies in the past few years, like Insidious, The Purge, and Get Out. This Halloween looks like it’s going to hit all the right notes of terrifying when it hits theaters October 19.