Halloween Kills score gets October release, first track online now!

Sacred Bones Records has announced that they will be releasing the score John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter, and Daniel Davies composed for the upcoming Halloween sequel Halloween Kills on vinyl, CD, and cassette on October 15th – and they have even shared a track from the score! You can listen to it in the embed below, and it obviously accompanies a scene in the film that is very intense.

The score is available for pre-order on the Sacred Bones Records website, and there are a few different versions of the vinyl album to choose from. You can see images of them below as well.

Sacred Bones says,

Like the film itself, Carpenter’s score to the second installment of the new Halloween trilogy, Halloween Kills, stays true to the spirit of what made the 1978 original great while bringing it firmly into the present. The music is unmistakably Carpenter: the sinister vintage synth tones, the breath-stealing sense of menace that he conjures with just a few dissonant notes. But with a broader sonic palette, new digital techniques at his disposal, and a deeper sense of musicality, the Halloween Kills score is the work of a master artist who nearly 50 years into his career continues to push his creative limits and find new ways to thrill and terrify his fans.

Directed by David Gordon Green, Halloween 2018 (watch it HERE) ignored all of the other Halloween movies except for John Carpenter’s original (which you can watch HERE). Green returns to the helm for Halloween Kills, working from a screenplay he wrote with Danny McBride and Scott Teems. The film doesn’t have an official synopsis, but it’s said to be about

the creation of fear. It’s one thing to be afraid of the Boogeyman, to have someone who might be in the closet, under the bed, creeping around your house… But we wanted to explore next was confusion, misinformation, and paranoia. What happens when fear goes viral? You can’t just stick your head under the covers any more.”

Jamie Lee Curtis stars in the film as franchise heroine Laurie Strode, alongside Judy Greer as Laurie’s daughter Karen, Andi Matichak as Laurie’s granddaughter Allyson, Robert Longstreet as Lonnie Elam, Dylan Arnold as Allyson’s boyfriend / Lonnie’s son Cameron, Kyle Richards as Lindsey Wallace, Anthony Michael Hall as Tommy Doyle, Nancy Stephens as Nurse Marion, Charles Cyphers as Leigh Brackett, Jibrail Nantambu as scene stealer Julian, child actress Victoria Paige Watkins as a character named Christy, and James Jude Courtney as Michael Myers. Original Michael Myers performer Nick Castle also has a one scene cameo.

David Gordon Green directed Halloween Kills from a screenplay he wrote with Danny McBride and Scott Teems. Green, McBride, and Curtis also serve as executive producers alongside Couper Samuelson and Carpenter. Jason Blum produced with Malek Akkad.

Halloween Kills is rated R for “strong bloody violence throughout, grisly images, language and some drug use”.