UPDATE: Bloody-Disgusting has exclusively reported that Dimension Films has officially announced Halloween Returns. Marcus Dunstan is tapped to direct and filming is expected to take place next month!!!
Halloween is hands down my favorite horror film franchise of all time. I love it so much that I can even turn a blind eye to Halloween 6 and Halloween: Resurrection… and Rob Zombie’s H2. While the before mentioned “remake” was financially successful, it’s been quite difficult to get a new entry in the franchise over the last six years. We all remember the proposed Halloween 3D, a new feature written by Patrick Lussier and Todd Farmer which was eventually scrapped.
However, in February 2015 the Weinstein Company announced that it was still going forward with a new Halloween film, a “recalibration” that would be written by Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton of The Collector, Feast and Saw fame. Well, have a seat and get your oxygen masks ready because if the rumors are true… The new Halloween film has been given the greenlight and several details are currently emerging about Halloween 9, the tentatively titled Halloween Returns.
According to MovieHole.com, Halloween Returns will follow the now 18-year-old child of one of Michael Myers’ victims, one that will be featured alongside the child of a cop whose long been obsessed with Myers’ case. Myers is now on death row, having been apprehended at the end of Halloween: Resurrection, and the two children sneak into Haddonfield Prison with with vendettas of their own and to watch the killer die during his execution. Things go awry and Myers escapes and the pair, along with their friends, find themselves in the middle of the firing line.
This bares a stark resemblance to the rumored Halloween 9 synopsis from 2005. I know that I am all for a new entry in the Halloween franchise, especially one that is directly related to previous installments and have oldschool Haddonfield nostalgia.
ShockTillYouDrop is also reporting that Halloween Returns is about to kick off the casting process.
More information will be coming and hopefully we’ll get clarification as to whether or not these are rumors or cold hard facts! New movie in 2016? I sure hope so!
