Halloween Kills star Andi Matichak, who plays Laurie Strode's granddaughter Allyson, says that the new film deserves to be seen in theaters. The sequel to 2018's David Gordon Green directed revival, Halloween Kills was originally slated for release in October 2020, but was pushed back to October 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic. The delay caused Halloween Ends, the conclusion of this new trilogy, to also be pushed back one year, to October 2022.
2018's Halloween revitalized the long-running horror franchise, retconning the previous sequels and serving as a direct follow-up to the original 1978 film. The 2018 film featured the return of Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode, still living with the trauma of that fateful autumn night. The film examined the ways in which people can pass down trauma to their family and featured Laurie Strode's daughter and granddaughter, played by Judy Greer and Matichak, as they grappled with the matriarch's lingering PTSD.
Halloween Kills is said to continue this timely conversation while upping the ante and Matichak says that, ultimately, she's glad that the film was delayed. The actress told WeWatchedAMovie that she wouldn't have been as bothered if the 2018 film had been put on streaming upon its release, but that Halloween Kills should be seen on as big of a screen as possible. Matichak says that the sequel will be "epic" and that she hopes that by the time October rolls around, everyone will be able to see it together.
I've not seen the film in its entirety, [director] David's [Gordon Green] shown me some clips and some sequences of things, but I haven't seen the full film and everything I saw was a temporary score, as well, so I don't know if [composer John] Carpenter's done. Which, to be fair, I kind of don't want to. To see it in a theater, hopefully we can see it in a theater, with just the [big] sound is gonna be epic. I wasn't that bummed [about the delay], if I'm gonna be honest, and the reason is because I would really love if we could see it in a theater and, this past October, there's no way we could. I would have been more okay if this was [the 2018 Halloween] and that needed to go to VOD, fine, it's still a huge bummer, but that type of scale of a movie is at least okay on your home screen. Kills deserves to be in a theater.
Matichak's role in 2018's Halloween was smaller than that of Curtis' and Greer's, but the actress has teased the scope of the second film as much larger than the first. Curtis has also said that Halloween Kills is more of a fast-paced action thriller than its predecessor, but that Halloween Ends returns to a more personal place. By all accounts, Halloween Kills sounds like it does deserve to be seen on the big screen, as the entire town of Haddonfield seems to be involved in the events of the film, which will take place directly after the ending of the 2018 film.
Producer and composer John Carpenter said that Halloween Kills may go to streaming, but at this point he may be wrong. Studios are still mulling their release strategies for 2021, but many seem confident that, by the time the end of the year rolls around, theaters will be largely open thanks to mass vaccinations. Hopefully that's the case for Halloween Kills. While watching a horror film at home alone is always fun, there's nothing like seeing a scary movie with an audience where everyone is invested.
Source: WeWatchedAMovie
