There is little wonder that horror fans are so excited about the forthcoming release of Halloween. The film is being labelled in its advertising as the true sequel to the 1978 original and it sees the modern day King Of Horror Jason Blum, the man behind Blumhouse Productions, teaming up the legendary John Carpenter and Jamie Lee Curtis to bring it to the big screen. Of course that means that everybody’s favourite psycho Michael Myers is also back in cinemas just in time to give us a fright for Halloween. Intrigued about what audiences can expect HEAVY Mag sent Dave Griffiths to catch up with the man himself – Jason Blum.
“I discovered Halloween a little later on, I discovered it in college,” admits Blum as we chat. “But we have a very specific approach to movie making at Blumhouse, as a company, and I was very intrigued to try and introduce that process to such a well-known franchise with so many sequels. I wanted to try and you know apply our technique and try and make a great one. The first Halloween is such an iconic movie and none of the sequels have ever really lived up to it and I’m not sure if ours is good as the first but it is better than the other nine so I am very proud of it.”
When this new Halloween was first talked about online as a sequel fans started to ask the question of whether they are supposed to ignore all previous sequels so what does Blum as a producer say about that. “Yeah, this movie is basically the characters from the first Halloween movie forty years later, because that is how many years ago it is since the first film. I think our film tips its hat to the other nine movies, yeah there are references to the other nine, but in the terms of story-telling and mythology it is absolutely John Carpenter’s and then us and we ignore the other nine films.”
You can hear our full interview with Jason Blum with the Spreaker player above. Halloween hits cinemas on the 25th October.
