Michael Myers is getting ready to come home with Halloween: The Game next year, but in the meantime, we’ve learned that The Shape is headed back to theaters THIS year. John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978) will terrify audiences once more when it returns to theatres across the country this October. The chilling classic, along with Halloween […]
Michael Myers is getting ready to come home with Halloween: The Game next year, but in the meantime, we’ve learned that The Shape is headed back to theaters THIS year.
John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978) will terrify audiences once more when it returns to theatres across the country this October. The chilling classic, along with Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers and Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers, will appear in more than 80 markets and nearly 400 showings, with additional locations being added daily.
Check your local listings to find screenings near you!
“Seeing Halloween in theatres is unlike anything else. It’s the way the film was intended to be experienced,” said Malek Akkad, CEO of Trancas International Films. “For many families and fans, revisiting Halloween in theatres has become a seasonal tradition—an annual chance to share the suspense, the dread, and the terror of Michael Myers on the big screen. We’re proud to once again partner with CineLife Entertainment® to bring not just Halloween, but also Halloween 4 and Halloween 5, to audiences everywhere.”
“Halloween is more than just a film. It is an experience that has become part of how people celebrate the season,” said Bernadette McCabe, Executive Vice President of CineLife Entertainment. “We’re thrilled to bring these classics back to theatres so both long-time fans and first-time viewers can share in the excitement, the scares, and the fun of spending October with Michael Myers.”
John Carpenter’s original horror classic paved the way for the Golden Age of Slashers in the 1980s, the film introducing Jamie Lee Curtis as iconic final girl Laurie Strode. The film begins on Halloween night in 1963 with six-year old Michael Myers brutally murdering his 17-year old sister, Judith. He was sentenced and locked away for 15 years. But on October 30, 1978, a 21-year old Michael Myers steals a car and escapes Smith’s Grove. He returns to his quiet hometown of Haddonfield, Illinois, where he looks for his next victims…
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers was released nearly a decade later in 1988. The apparently comatose Michael Myers (George P. Wilbur) is being transferred from one hospital to another, but he wakes up when the ambulance crew talk about his surviving niece, Jamie (Danielle Harris). After slaughtering his attendants, Myers sets out to find his one living relative who is, fortunately, being cared for by a kind and resourceful foster sister named Rachel (Ellie Cornell). Meanwhile, the ever-cautious Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence) remains on the killer’s path.
