Synopsis:

The best parts of Halloween II, (H81) Hall0ween 2018 (H18), and Halloween Kills (H21), To make one film that functions as a direct sequel to the original.

Intentions:

While I enjoyed both H18 and H21, I found that tonally they both swung too far into the extremes of humor and terror/gore. Many scenes are overlong. Halloween 2018 and 2021 function butter as one film, IMO.

Change List:

The edit plays H18 and H21 as chronologically to events of the night as possible. . The cuts and changes are in the hundreds, but the basic idea is as follows: Added 70's era Universal logo Opens with the final minutes of Halloween 1978 Michael lurks the alleys and encounters the older couple, loomis waves down the police (Halloween II) Lonnie gets bullied and encounters michael, but tighter editing (Halloween Kills) Hawkins and the other office encounter michael at the myers house, michael is captured (Halloween Kills) Opening Credits, newly constructed Podcasters meet Michael at asylum. very shortened, less inmates screaming ( Halloween '18) Podcasters meet Lori. much shorter. less table-setting with Lori's survivals habits. Cemetery scene removed restaurant scene shortened Lori removed from the Michael-gets-on-the-bus scene The father and son who find the bus scene is shortened. kill is less graphic Michael's kill during trick-or-treat scene is less graphic Tommy and crew are introduced right after the trick or treat kill. Tommy's first scene is shortened. a quick cut flashback of tommy is added to match that everyone else gets a flashback cut. Dance scene and babysitter scene is shortened . less humor, less talking. Big John and little john are introduced after the dance scene Tommy and crew learn of the murders right after Hawkins is found, escaped inmate, the lynch mob subplot removed there is extensive trimming in nearly every scene, to tighten the action and reduce dialogue heavy scenes that don't move the story forward of everyone. The running time at the moment is 156 minutes, not including the end credits. total time is 161 minutes.

Additional Notes:

Like my "For Your Eyes Only" cut, the idea was to tone down the humor, and replace the modern score with some more *classic* bits of music. Additionally, I wanted to tone down the violence that seemed to revel in showing the audience how gross some of the kills were. Pacing is tighter, subplots that deviate from the core story are trimmed or eliminated. I wanted a good balance of genuinely scary 70-80's slasher movie, without the extremes of the new films. I wanted to to be more fun... but less funny, Scary and violent, but less grim and horrific.

Other Sources:

Covers of John Carpenters original score, from youtube Joseph Bennie Halloween cover by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross.

Special Thanks:

Thank you ArtisDead, for the poster!