by While Halloween proved popular with horror audiences in 2018, welcoming back Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode and examining the traumatic consequences of being a Final Girl, the sequel Halloween Kills divided fans. More violent than ever, it saw Laurie sit back and present antagonist Michael Myers as a supernatural entity – and not everyone was into it. Now, director David Gordon Green has defended the slasher sequel, saying it was “100% the movie [he] wanted to do’ and that he is ‘extremely proud of his kind of insanity’.
In the new issue of SFX magazine, which features the upcoming Halloween Ends cap trilogy on the cover, the director explains: “For me, psychologically, the whole point of this movie is to unravel things and not solve them.
“There’s a lot of people who when they see an ending like that or an unresolved mess like that, they get frustrated as a moviegoer. To me, that’s just part of the fun and then we go in and sort it out. So whatever frustration was expressed about the last one, I just smile and say , “Hold on tight, we’re coming.”
Set four years after the events of Halloween Kills, Halloween Ends follows Laurie (Curtis) as she attempts to write a memoir about her past experiences. Michael hasn’t been seen since his last murderous rampage, Laurie has moved in with her granddaughter Alison (Andy Maticak) and things seem to have calmed down in Haddonfield. But when a young man, Corey Cunningham, is accused of killing a boy in his care, Lori is finally forced to confront the evil beyond her control, once and for all.
“It’s funny, because it’s so subjective what people want to see with these movies. Some people just want to literally see the original movie. You’re not going to redo that, you’ve got to do something different,” Green continues. “Some people say they want X, and then when you literally sit down with your co-writers and think about what it would be like, it’s not really a movie, or it’s not enough to keep me interested, or it’s not enough to go back and really go to emotional and logistical effort of making a film. So what is the story we want to tell? What is the atmosphere and the atmosphere that we want to live that makes each of our three contributions to the franchise very different?”
We’ll find out how he and co-writers Paul Brad Logan, Chris Bernie and Danny McBride answered those questions when Halloween Ends comes out on October 14th.
The above is just an excerpt from the widely read Halloween Ends issue of SFX Magazine (opens in new tab)available on newsstands from Wednesday, October 5. For even more from SFX, sign up for the newsletter, getting all the latest exclusives straight to your inbox.
