HALLOWEEN KILLS

On Thursday night I was invited by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment to participate in a killer Twitter party to help promote the Digital release of HALLOWEEN KILLS and announce the that the film will be available on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD in January. HALLOWEEN KILLS is a sequel to 2018's HALLOWEEN and is the second in a three-film trilogy produced by the horror movie extraordinaires at Blumhouse Productions. 

Blumhouse's 2018 movie circumvents the prior sequels of the original 1978 slasher film to show a post-traumatic Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) preparing to face Michael Myers for a final showdown on Halloween night forty years after she survived his initial killing spree. HALLOWEEN KILLS begins just where the 2018 film concluded. It shows Laurie along with her daughter, Karen (Judy Greer), and granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak) fending off Myers. They are joined by townspeople who help to fend off the evil led by Tommy Doyle (Anthony Michael Hall) who is one of the children who was being babysat by Laurie during the original killing spree by Michael Myers. The final film in this trilogy HALLOWEEN ENDS is scheduled to arrive in movie theaters next fall.

It was fun during the party to interact with two of the actors from HALLOWEEN KILLS, Judy Greer and Anthony Michael Hall, to talk about the movie. You normally don't get the chance to chit chat with people from Hollywood that you see on television and in movies. So, I was geeked to interact with Anthony Michael Hall and Judy Greer!

For Generation X kids who grew up in the '70s & '80s, Michael Myers and Anthony Michael Hall are two nostalgic names. Halloween was a scary flick that kids were dying to see because parents didn't want them to and Anthony Michael Hall was the geeky face of teenage angst in the movies Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Weird Science. 

I remember one of my friends had a sleepover where he pulled out a VHS copy of Halloween that we were all excited to watch because we felt so grownup to see a horror movie when we were probably still way too young to see it. And what can I say about Anthony Michael Hall ... his characters made a lot of us feel comfortable that we weren't alone in being awkward and not part of the "popular" crowd when they came out in the 1980s.

Judy Greer is the same age as I am and grew up in a suburb of Detroit about ten miles down the road from my childhood home. Never met her before she left Detroit for Hollywood though. Do I come off like a slasher movie creeper to say I've had a crush on her since her stint on Two and a Half Men? My wife likes to tease me about that!

I enjoyed being a part of the Halloween Kills at Home Twitter Party:

Hey @MissJudyGreer do you have a favorite Anthony Michael Hall story from filming #HalloweenKills or during its press junket? #HalloweenKillsAtHome pic.twitter.com/TjVeoYwTyT

— A Geek Daddy (@GeekDad248) December 17, 2021

awwww thank you we all LOVE you @missjudygreer. Did you ever finish my sweater? 🤣
- AMH

— Universal All-Access (@UniAllAccess) December 17, 2021

YEAH!!!! #detroitwhatsup #halloweenkillsathome

— judy greer (@missjudygreer) December 17, 2021

For more information about HALLOWEEN KILLS head over to halloweenmovies.com. And if you aren't following me on Twitter look up @Geekdad248!

YOU SHOULD HAVE LEFT

Thank you Universal Pictures Home Entertainment for this complimentary movie.

The kids and wife were in bed for the night but I couldn't fall asleep. So decided to stay up and watch some TV. There really wasn't anything on television so decided to watch a new movie Universal Pictures sent me to check out called YOU SHOULD HAVE LEFT. A spooky horror movie to watch late at night.

Starring Kevin Bacon (Footloose, Hollow Man) and Amanda Seyfried (Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, Les Misérables) this movie was originally slated to appear in theaters last Spring. With the pandemic closing movie theaters though, Universal Pictures recently released the movie instead on digital and DVD. Written and directed by David Koepp (Stir of Echoes), this psychological thriller from Blumhouse Productions (which has emerged as the horror king of the 21st Century creating movies including Paranormal Activity, The Purge, Halloween, The Invisible Man, Ouija, and Ma) is based on a novel by German literary sensation, Daniel Kehlmann.



Theo Conroy (Kevin Bacon) is a wealthy banker married to a much younger woman who is trying to make a name for herself as an actress in Hollywood. Trying to stabilize a troubled marriage, Theo and Susanna (Amanda Seyfried) along with their six year old daughter head to the Welsh countryside for a relaxing family vacation. Things quickly begin to unravel on their arrival as they begin  to experience nightmares that cause their reality to blur into confusion and terror.

Then a mysterious spectral figure begins to intervene. Are they being haunted or is this all just taking place within Theo's mind? Is Theo having a mental breakdown or is the whole family in danger from a haunted house? Is this a spectral intervention or a nervous breakdown? Will the Conroy family ever be able to leave this vacation house or will it be their final resting place? You'll have to watch YOU SHOULD HAVE LEFT to find out!

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