David Gor­don Green’s Hal­loween gets a spooky first trailer

It’s been quite the week for trail­er releas­es, with footage from new works by Steve McQueen, Luca Guadagni­no, Drew God­dard and David Low­ery all bar­rel­ing onto the inter­net. Now, fol­low­ing a lengthy teas­er cam­paign, the first offi­cial trail­er for David Gor­don Green’s high­ly-antic­i­pat­ed Hal­loween sequel has been unleashed, herald­ing OG scream queen Jamie Lee Cur­tis and Michael Myers him­self Nick Castle’s return to the franchise.

Set 40 years after the events of the orig­i­nal Hal­loween, the trail­er reveals that Michael Myers is alive and incar­cer­at­ed in a creepy psy­chi­atric facil­i­ty, where he’s vis­it­ed by two indi­vid­u­als inves­ti­gat­ing the case against him. They pro­duce his icon­ic mask and wait for a reac­tion. Mean­while, Lau­rie Strode is a grand­moth­er, but remains haunt­ed by her past, and still har­bours a desire for revenge against Michael Myers. When Myers escapes cus­tody and goes on the hunt for Strode, she’s ready to take him down, say­ing defi­ant­ly: ​“He’s wait­ed for this night. He’s wait­ed for me. I’ve wait­ed for him.”

John Car­pen­ter was famous­ly unhap­py with the 2007 Rob Zom­bie reboot of his film, but when fran­chise fans David Gor­don Green and Dan­ny McBride came to him with a script for a new ver­sion, he gave it his seal of approval – he’s even com­posed the score, which will undoubt­ed­ly touch on his icon­ic orig­i­nal work. In a nod to the fact that this Hal­loween doesn’t fol­low the events of pre­vi­ous sequels, when a friend asks Laurie’s grand­daugh­ter Allyson, ​“Wasn’t it her broth­er who mur­dered all those babysit­ters?” she replies ​“No, that’s some­thing they made up.”

The film also stars Judy Greer as Laurie’s daugh­ter Karen Strode, and has been pro­duced by Blum­house – who pre­vi­ous­ly brought hor­ror hits Get Out, Insid­i­ous, The Purge and Split to the big screen.

Hal­loween is released on 19 Octo­ber. Watch the trail­er below and let us know your thoughts @LWLies