Halloween Kills’ Andi Matichak calls sequel “ambitious”

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

Andi Matichak of the 2018 Halloween (watch it HERE) stars in the recently released horror film Son (watch that one HERE, read our review HERE), and of course the Halloween sequels Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends come up frequently when she's doing press for Son. That's what happened when Matichak spoke with The Hollywood Reporter recently, and she gave some interesting quotes about both upcoming Halloweens.

Production on Halloween Kills already wrapped quite a while ago, and there was even a test screening held. The film was scheduled to be in theatres last October, but was pushed back to October 15, 2021 due to the pandemic. Halloween Ends was supposed to start filming soon after Kills finished, but isn't rolling just yet. Matichak told The Hollywood Reporter the sequels weren't shot back-to-back because 

Halloween Kills was just so ambitious. It was such an intense shooting schedule that it would have been a bit much to try to do them at the same time. So we didn’t. We just have Halloween Kills in the can, and if Allyson is lucky enough to make it out of Halloween Kills, then I think that the third one will be filmed in the foreseeable future."

Matichak admitted that she hasn't seen Halloween Kills yet herself, but 

I’ve seen bits and pieces. (Director David Gordon Green) took me into the editing room and showed me some sequences and clips. But I haven’t seen the full thing and I haven’t seen anything that has John Carpenter’s full score over it. Obviously, that’s part of all of the fun and what makes it so epic."

When asked for a couple adjectives to describe the footage she saw, Matichak instead chose to tell them her reaction to the script: 

That was the first time I was exposed to the story of it, and when I read it, I was just blown away with how big, wonderfully chaotic, mad and ambitious it was. It felt so exciting to tell this story. And the sequences that I saw just affirmed that we were able to achieve all of those things."

2018's Halloween ignored all of the previous Halloween movies except for the 1978 original (which you can watch HERE). Halloween Kills is set on the same night as its predecessor, and the director has said that it's 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."

The film stars Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode, Andi Matichak as Laurie's granddaughter Allyson, Judy Greer as Laurie's daughter Karen, 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".