Universal Pictures drops ‘Halloween Kills’ featurette

Movie production and distribution company Universal Pictures has released a short documentary film about the making of the upcoming slasher feature film “Halloween Kills.”

Introduced by feature film writer-director David Gordon Green, the short documentary – a featurette – titled “Halloween Kills: Return to Haddonfield” is one minute and 29 seconds long and features interviews with full-length movie cast members Jamie Lee Curtis, Danny McBride, Kyle Richards, Nancy Stephens and Charles Cyphers.

You can watch the featurette below too.

The movie is set for release in theaters on October 15. It will also start streaming only on Peacock the same day.

Other cast members include Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, Will Patton, Thomas Mann and Anthony Michael Hall, among others.

A sequel to 2018’s “Halloween,” which was also directed by Green and starred Curtis and Nick Castle, among others, the upcoming slasher movie is the 12th installment in the over four-decade movie franchise. The 2018 film earned more than $250 million globally and became the highest-grossing chapter in the franchise, also setting a record for the biggest opening weekend in history for a horror movie starring a woman.

The film franchise began with “Halloween” releasing in 1978, with filmmaker-actor-composer John Carpenter directing and Curtis making her movie debut. The 2018 flick is the direct sequel of the 1978’s.

Curtis has appeared in six movies of the franchise and provided her voice for a 7th.

The 2018 night shown in the previous film is not over yet.

“Minutes after Laurie Strode (Curtis), her daughter Karen (Judy Greer) and granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak) left masked monster Michael Myers caged and burning in Laurie’s basement, Laurie is rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, believing she finally killed her lifelong tormentor,” reads the featurette release-announcing press note Universal Pictures had distributed to media and which we also received. “But when Michael manages to free himself from Laurie’s trap, his ritual bloodbath resumes. As Laurie fights her pain and prepares to defend herself against him, she inspires all of Haddonfield to rise up against their unstoppable monster.”

It goes on to read: “The Strode women join a group of other survivors of Michael’s first rampage who decide to take matters into their own hands, forming a vigilante mob that sets out to hunt Michael down, once and for all.

“Evil dies tonight.”