Jamie Lee Curtis Says Halloween Kills Is a Timely ‘Masterpiece’ That’s ‘About a Mob’

Jamie Lee Curtis is effusive about next year’s Halloween Kills, calling it a “masterpiece” that taps into some very timely themes. Curtis spoke with the Jess Cagle Show about the film, which was scheduled to release last month but was pushed out in July to next year’s Halloween season. Speaking with the hosts, Curtis talked about how the film expands its scope to look at the entire town of Haddonfield and how they were affected by Michael Myers’ rampage in 1978.

“2018 was about Laurie’s trauma, right? It was focused on Laurie Strode,” she said. “But you know, there are a lot of other people that had the result of Michael Myers in 1978. And we brought back all of those people. So Kyle Richards, who played the little girl Lindsay, came back. We have the character of Tommy. There are other characters. Marian, the nurse. All of the people that suffered the trauma. And the Halloween Kills movie is about a mob. So what I will tell you is that what we were seeing around the country of the power, of the rage of voices. Big groups of people coming together enraged at the set of circumstances, that’s what the movie is. The movie is about a mob.”

She continued, “And so it’s very interesting, because it takes on what happens when trauma infects an entire community. And we’re seeing it everywhere with the Black Lives Matter movement. We’re seeing it in action. And Halloween Kills, weirdly enough, dovetailed onto that, preceded it! It was written before that occurred. But then of course, so when you see it it’s a seething group of people, moving through the story as a big angry group. It’s really, really, really, really, really intense. It’s a masterpiece.”

Curtis gave full credit to Green and Danny McBride for the concept, saying, “It was just because trauma isn’t just Laurie’s, it was the entire community. It was the police officers, it was the little children. And that’s, to me — by the way, that’s all the genius of David Gordon Green and Danny McBride. It’s all their construction. And again, I want to remind everybody. It was pre-[2020 era] Black Lives Matter movement. And yet the same activity takes over in Halloween Kills.”

She went on to say that while Halloween Ends is “a total secret, but it’s amazing. It’s just amazing.” Pressed for a hint about the film, she said it was about “the nature of evil, and the legacy of evil.”

Halloween Kills stars Curtis, Richards, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, Anthony Michael Hall, and more and will release on October 15, 2021.

If you use any of the quotes in this article, please credit The Jess Cagle Show with a h/t to 411mania.com for the transcription.