SDCC 2018: We Just Got Murdered By An Extended Look At HALLOWEEN
Holy shit, the Halloween SDCC panel was nuts.
Jamie Lee Curtis came out with a ton of fire. Pretty much everything she was passionate and inspiring, but she leaned hard into an amazing speech about why she came back to the role and how it relates to female empowerment: “There comes a point where you say ‘I am not my trauma’. The narrative of my life is not that I’m a victim.” I can’t quote the whole thing, but man it was amazing to witness. In terms of movie tidbits, we also learned that Laurie Strode’s obsession with safety and Michael Myers caused her to have her child taken away before the film begins.
Also, and if you already knew this I apologize, but according to David Gordon Green, John Carpenter uses the Halloween theme as his cell phone’s ring tone. That's the best thing I've heard in a while.
But of course, what we really came for was some rumored footage. They didn’t waste much time getting to it, and what we saw blew me away:
Kids are trick or treating. Two run right into Michael Myers. To everyone on the street, he’s just some guy. It’s so blunt and cool.
Myers walks behind a house where he finds a hammer. He then walks directly into the house and murders a regular old woman in her kitchen, which gives him an opportunity to trade up to a classic butcher knife.
He walks into the next room and we hear a crying baby. Myers checks the baby out but leaves it alone (thank goodness). He walks outside where kids are still trick or treating. No one pays him any mind.
Avoiding children, he happens to see a lady talking on the phone in her living room. He spies on her for a bit through her window and walks behind her house while the camera stays on her. Suddenly he appears behind her and stabs her in the neck.
The footage then transitioned into a new trailer. It’s a little faster and typical than the previous trailer, more plot based.
But good grief, this movie looks impressive. There’s a very present sense of care and deliberation to this that answers the promise of what someone like David Gordon Green could do with a slasher. Myers moves like a normal person. He sees no reason not to do what he’s out there doing. In other words, he’s not creeping around like a horror villain. There’s something especially scary about him as a result.
The whole presentation is very similar in theme to those shots in the original Halloween where Myers is just out and about during the day, and I am fucking here for it. We are all in for a treat when this thing comes out this fall.
