‘Halloween Kills’ Extended Cut Slashes Its Way Onto Digital This December
Mary Beth McAndrews
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For the past few weeks, we’ve been under the impression that we’d get a 4K Ultra HD Steelbook release of Halloween Kills on January 22, 2022. That’s thanks to a listing on Best Buy’s website. But Amazon seems to have an early holiday treat for us. The streaming service’s website states that the Halloween Kills extended cut is coming to the platform on December 13!
Nothing says happy holidays like a good ol’ fashioned small-town massacre! We don’t know much about what may await us in the extended cut. But, director David Gordon Green did tease the Halloween Kills alternate cut in an interview with Collider last month.
“This is the director’s cut through and through, but there’s an additional scene that we filmed that was scripted. And actually I think is a pretty brilliant scene. So we’re going to do an extended version on the DVD, just so people can see an extended ending that’s different and cool,” Gordon Green told the site. “We ended up lifting it when I became more confident of where we’re going to pick up in the next movie; it didn’t feel authentic to where we’re going to go. So we lifted it.”
Gordon Green went on to explain, “It’s part of [Halloween Kills]. It’s just not part of the appropriate momentum of…I think it was cool in its own right as watching a one-off movie, but knowing where we’re going to exactly where we’re going to pick up which, you’ll know in a year, it wasn’t the right look in the eye that we needed to give the audience.”
The second film in Gordon Green’s trilogy hit theaters and Peacock in October to mixed reviews and audience reactions. According to Dread Central’s Josh Korngut, “[Halloween Kills] moments and imperfections like these that put this entry in line with its historical predecessors, maybe even more so than Blumhouse’s 2018 chapter.”
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