Halloween Kills: Rated R for strong bloody violence and grisly images

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

Individuals involved with the making of Halloween Kills, director David Gordon Green's sequel to his 2018 Halloween (watch it HERE), have been hyping up the fact that the new film is going to be bloody and brutal. Robert Longstreet, who plays Lonnie Elam in Halloween Kills, said this "might be the nastiest of all" the Halloween movies. Andi Matichak, who reprises the role of franchise heroine Laurie Strode's granddaughter Allyson, said that "violence takes on a whole new meaning in Halloween Kills". Executive producer / composer John Carpenter described it as "fun, intense and brutal, a slasher movie times one hundred, big time. It's huge. I've never seen anything like this: the kill count!"

All this nastiest, violence, and death has, of course, resulted in Halloween Kills officially earning an R rating. The reason given for the R: "strong bloody violence throughout, grisly images, language and some drug use". Sounds like a good time at the movies to me!

Directed by David Gordon Green from a screenplay he wrote with Danny McBride and Scott Teems, Halloween Kills 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.

Jason Blum produced the film with Malek Akkad, and Bill Block. Green, McBride, and Curtis serve as executive producers alongside Couper Samuelson and Carpenter.

If not for the pandemic, we would have already seen Halloween Kills two months ago. When the pandemic hit it was pushed back to October 15th, 2021. So we still have ten months to wait before we can see the bloody violence and grisly images.