A new Halloween Kills video gives a close-up look at Michael Myers' burnt mask. The upcoming film is the first of two planned sequels to 2018's Halloween, with the third installment titled Halloween Ends, from writer-director David Gordon Green and co-writer Danny McBride. After being delayed a year due to the pandemic, Halloween Kills will release simultaneously in theaters and on Peacock on October 15.
Green and McBride's Halloween picked up 40 years after the 1978 original and ignored every other entry in the franchise, effectively establishing a brand new continuity for Blumhouse Productions to play with. At the outset of that film, Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) has spent the decades since surviving Michael Myers' (Nick Castle) killing spree preparing for his eventual escape, traumatizing her daughter Karen (Judy Greer) in the process. Michael does finally break out, though, and the films ends with Laurie, Karen, and Laurie's granddaughter Allyson having trapped him in the basement of her burning home. But, in the film's final shot, the killer is nowhere to be seen, implying that he somehow escapes the fire.
Promotional material for Halloween Kills has already confirmed that he does indeed live to kill again, and a new video from halloweenmovie provides fans with a close look at his burned mask. A key part of his iconography from John Carpenter's original, Green's Halloween gives Michael's mask an almost mystical importance, and the fire has left half of it seriously charred. The iconic expression, however, remains perfectly identifiable:
This Halloween Kills video also includes voiceover of Curtis' Laurie expressing her intent to unmask Michael and make sure that when they next meet, he actually dies. A short clip also has Greer's Karen taunt the killer with his mask in her hand, a reveal that has proven controversial with fans. This occurs only rarely throughout the Halloween franchise, with the biggest exception, Rob Zombie's 2007 remake, criticized for its attempt to demystify Michael.
While fans would probably reject an outright design overhaul, this burned mask is likely more cool than controversial, giving the Shape scars from his second brush with Laurie while showing that his evil has endured. However, the decision to remove the mask has potential viewers nervous, and how that is handled will have a big influence on the film's overall reception. The trailers do seem committed to the idea of Michael as a primordial force, making it unlikely that Halloween Kills would try to humanize him, but audiences can only hope that showing his face for too long doesn't break the spell anyway.
Source: halloweenmovie
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