HALLOWEEN KILLS Will Premiere at Venice Film Festival!
Jans Holstrom
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Of course all of us here at Dread Central absolutely love Halloween. Some of us have our favorites and our least favorites (for the curious, I didn’t care for Rob Zombie’s Halloween). Halloween 2018 is almost universally well regarded. Expectations were low for the sequel and it blew everyone away. I still consider it one of the finest horror films of the twenty-teens. This year, we’re finally getting the sequel we’ve been waiting for.
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Halloween Kills will premiere at the 78th Venice Film Festival. Also, this year Jamie Lee Curtis will be receiving a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. This is a reflection of the almost 50 years that Curtis has graced our screens. Jamie Lee Curtis is still kicking ass, and we couldn’t be happier to see her get this award. David Gordon Green’s Halloween Kills will screen September 8th out of competition. After this screening, Curtis will receive her award.
Synopsis:
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. 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. 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.
In case you lived in the mountains for the past few years, Halloween Kills is the sequel to 2018’s Halloween. Halloween is a sequel to Halloween. Wait. Halloween 2018 is a sequel to Halloween 1978. Curtis reprises her role as Lauri Strode, bringing the fight to the menacing Michael Myers to protect her daughter and granddaughter. Curtis had this to say regarding her award.
“I am incredibly humbled to be honored in this way by the Venice International Film Festival. It seems impossible to me that I’ve been in this industry long enough to be receiving ‘Lifetime Achievement’ recognition, and to have it happen now, with Halloween Kills, is particularly meaningful to me. Halloween – and my partnership with Laurie Strode – launched and sustained my career, and to have these films evolve into a new franchise that is beloved by audiences around the world was, and remains, a gift. Italian Cinema has always honored and heralded the genre that gave me my career, so I couldn’t be more proud and happy to accept this award from the Venice International Film Festival on behalf of Laurie and all the courageous heroines of the world who stand tall in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles and refuse to yield.”
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