In an interview with Empire, Green and McBride explained that "Halloween Kills" picks up directly where the previous film ended. However, while the first film focused on Laurie's life 40 years after surviving a brutal killing spree, Green said, "This is more about the unravelling of a community into chaos."
The 2018 film ends with Michael Myers trapped and left for dead in Laurie's flame-engulfed home, but as fans know, the Captain Kirk-Masked killer doesn't go down easily ... or at all. The "Halloween Kills" trailer shows Myers walking out the front door and attacking the firefighters before resuming his reign of terror on the small Midwestern town.
As Myers leaves a trail of bodies leading to his childhood home where it all began, the Haddonfield residents rally together to hunt down the obsessive killer. Laurie leaves the hospital where she's recovering from a stab wound and declares, "Evil dies tonight."
"Events in the film bring together a lot of characters who were in the 1978 film who we didn't see last time," McBride explained to Empire. "They gather to try, once and for all, to take down Michael, to stop this madman."
It's unlikely that Myers will be defeated in "Halloween Kills" considering there's one more film to come in the trilogy, but anything is possible.
