Everything You Need To Know About “Halloween Kills” — Including Why There’s A Change.org Petition To Remove A Scene

Allie Hayes: Totally. So really, all you need to know is the 1978 one and the 2018 one. The basic throughline of all the movies is that it’s about Michael Myers, who is essentially a serial killer, and Laurie Strode, who is the final girl who survived his attacks in the 1978 one. The 2018 one picks up decades later after those stories left off, and it follows Laurie Strode still trying to live with what happened to her as Michael Myers breaks out and begins his reign of terror yet again.

AH: Yeah, that’s the thing — she’s like, “I set this man aflame. I burned down my own house, and now I’m in the hospital and have to pay American healthcare prices. And you’re telling me this asshole is walking around again.” And that’s the movie. No, but I imagine they’re saving her for the big finale, which makes sense. But still, I think a lot of people went in expecting to kind of see Laurie Strode versus Michael Myers in a steel cage.

AH: I think babysitters across America have a better case against Michael Myers than the firefighters do. He kills a preteen boy in the 2018 one, and I don’t remember anyone being like, “But the children!” which is usually the reaction.

To answer the question of whether I’ve seen anything like this before? Of course. Every big horror movie ever since the dawn of time has a group of people who are offended by it. There was a movie that came out in the ’80s, called Silent Night, Deadly Night. The poster had Santa holding an ax. The movie didn’t even come out and people were like, “Absolutely not. You cannot do that,” which I just find hilarious, because this man’s already breaking into your house technically.

AH: I’ll start it with the optimistic sentence of: I as a person am willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. And now I will move onto the mean sentence of: I kind of hate that, I’m not going to lie. I really loved the idea of having it all take place on one Halloween night. I thought that was extremely interesting, especially when it’s spread out. I mean, I guess the pandemic did throw a wrench in their original release schedule, but three or four years is not enough to make you notice, watching back in 10 years, that it’s not all in one night. Someone’s not going to have an iPhone 11 and then an iPhone 14 or something.

I don’t think that it’s enough of a time jump, but a lot of people want to explore what the pandemic did for things, and I just kind of find that funny because Michael is already wearing a mask.

She said on The View: “I said to Hagai [Levi], who wrote and directed in the series, I said in the very beginning, ‘I’m comfortable with all the nudity, but any part of my body that you show, you’re going to have to show the same with Oscar. There’s a shower scene we have in Episode 2, and you see my body, so you see his body. For me, I wanted it to be balanced.”

Amidst the Dave Chappelle controversy, Sarandos sent an internal memo to employees defending Netflix’s choice to air Chappelle’s special, in which he pointed to multiple “marginalized communities” represented on Netflix, including Hannah Gadsby. 

After the memo leaked, Hannah took to Instagram to pen a scathing critique of Sarandos’ memo.

She wrote, “Now I have to deal with even more of the hate and anger that Dave Chappelle’s fans like to unleash on me every time Dave gets 20 million dollars to process his emotionally stunted partial world view. You didn’t pay me nearly enough to deal with the real world consequences of the hate speech dog whistling you refuse to acknowledge, Ted. Fuck you and your amoral algorithm cult. I do shits with more back bone than you. That’s just a joke! I definitely didn’t cross a line because you just told the world there isn’t one.”