Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. It's exciting times for Halloween fans with John Carpenter returning to the franchise in a mentor role, something he hadn't done since way back on Halloween III if my horror trivia is correct. Sure, his name has been on every Halloween movie since then, but other than receiving a giant check for each one he was about as hands off as one can be.
Blumhouse teaming with Carpenter for this new film is pretty cool. It reminds me of Dimension doing H20, which is a fascinating entry into that franchise looking back on it now because it was the horror identity of that time (post-Scream) reflecting on one of the genre's most classic icons. You have a very late '90s Dimension/Kevin Williamson feeling surrounding a pretty solid Michael Myers story.
Jason Blum is that for the current run of popular horror and seeing Myers through that lens I think is pretty interesting.
Bloody-Disgusting is saying they're hearing that HUSH and OCULUS' Mike Flanagan is in talks to write and direct this new Blum/Carpenter iteration of Halloween. This isn't confirmed, of course, but it's the rumor of the hour.
I must admit that I'm a bad horror fan and have somehow missed Hush at a couple different festivals and haven't gotten around to it since it hit Netflix, but everything I hear from fellow genre geeks is that it's pretty righteous.
Now the question is what this new Halloween will be. I'm hoping they don't retread the whole Strode/Myers thing and that hope is bolstered by Carpenter saying they want to go back to the basics. To me, I read that as making The Shape the Boogeyman again, which requires taking away specific motivation. He's not after this girl because she's his sister. Instead, he should be random. He is death personified, afterall.
The sequels (and Rob Zombie remake) lost sight of that. If Flanagan is on that track then we're likely to see Michael Myers scary again, which would be a very welcome change.
Thoughts?
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