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Halloween Returns – The Horror Movie That Almost Was

By Cody Hamman

Posted 4 years ago

The new episode of The Horror Movies That Almost Was looks at Halloween Returns, which was announced and quickly fell apart in 2015.

Back in June of 2015, it was officially announced that Marcus Dunstan would be directing a new Halloween movie titled Halloween Returns, working from a screenplay he wrote with Patrick Melton. Dimension Films and Trancas International Films had the project on the fast track production… but then it fell apart and Dimension lost the Halloween rights. We’ve since gotten Halloween 2018 (watch it HERE) and Halloween Kills (now in theatres and on Peacock) from Universal, Blumhouse, and Trancas. But if you’re wondering what Dunstan’s Halloween Returns would have had in store for us, we’ve got the information in the new episode of our video series The Horror Movie That Almost Was – and you can check it out in the embed above!

The plot details we heard in 2015 said Halloween Returns would

pit a new group of Haddonfield youngsters against Michael Myers. The now 18-year-old child of one of Myers’ victims plays a central role along with the child of a cop who has long been obsessed with Myers’ case, even putting it before his own daughter. Myers is now on Death Row and the two kids with their own personal vendettas against the killer sneak in to watch his execution. But when things go awry and Myers escapes, the pair, along with their friends, find themselves in the firing line.
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The Horror Movie That Almost Was series focuses on

the various horror projects that could never seem to get things off the ground, be it for budgetary concerns, creative differences, or just an ever evolving Hollywood landscape. We dive into every aspect and see just how close these films had come to cameras rolling.

This episode was Written, Narrated, and Edited by Tyler Nichols, Produced by John Fallon, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.

A few of the previous episodes of The Horror Movie That Almost Was can be seen below. To see more, and to check out our other video series, head over to the JoBlo Horror Videos YouTube channel – and subscribe while you’re there!

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Cody Hamman

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Favorite Movies: The Friday the 13th franchise, Kevin Smith movies, the films of read more George A. Romero (especially the initial Dead trilogy), Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1 & 2, FleshEater, Intruder, Let the Right One In, Return of the Living Dead, The Evil Dead, Jaws, Tremors, From Dusk Till Dawn, Phantasm, Halloween, The Hills Have Eyes, Back to the Future trilogy, Dazed and Confused, the James Bond series, Mission: Impossible, the MCU, the list goes on and on

Likes: Movies, horror, '80s slashers, podcasts, animals, traveling, Brazil (the country), the read more Cinema Wasteland convention, classic rock, Led Zeppelin, Kevin Smith, George A. Romero, Quentin Tarantino, the Coen brothers, Richard Linklater, Paul Thomas Anderson, Stephen King, Elmore Leonard, James Bond, Tom Cruise, Marvel comics, the grindhouse/drive-in era

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