Are you ready to get spooked with an original Halloween classic this year? John Carpenter’s original “Halloween” will be returning to theaters starting Sept. 27 on more than 1,000 screens — three weeks before the reboot arrives.
CineLife Entertainment, the event cinema division of Spotlight Cinema Networks, which has teamed up with Compass International Pictures and Trancas International Films, made the announcement.
Spoiler alert for those who have never seen the film yet: villain Michael Myers (played by Nick Castle) has spent the last 15 years locked away inside a sanitarium under the care of child psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis. On the night before Halloween in 1978, Myers escapes and makes his way home to Haddonfield, Ill., where he stalks high-school student Laurie Strode played by Jamie Lee Curtis, which just so happened to be her film debut).
To prepare for its re-debut in U.S. theaters, the original film has been restored and digitally remastered, created under the supervision of original cinematographer Dean Cundey.
The “Halloween” film franchise was started in part by Carpenter and Moustapha Akkad in 1978, and led to 10 films that have grossed nearly $400 million worldwide. The original “Halloween” was directed by Carpenter from his own script and begins with six-year-old Michael killing his teenage sister on Halloween in 1963.
In the upcoming “Halloween” reboot, Curtis reprises her role as Strode, who is praying every night to get one more chance to dispatch Myers. Castle also reprises the Myers character.
By: Maytinee Kramer
