Synopsis:

A combo edit of Halloween (2018) and Halloween Kills made to feel like a singular experience both in narrative and runtime. Halloween Kills events have been shifted into the Halloween 2018 narrative while lots of music cues have been changed to better suit this particular edit. Some scenes have been cut to get us into the action sooner while other scenes have been cut due to poor audience reception (every single Tivoli bit is gone from Halloween Kills).

Intentions:

My original intention was to just make a simple copy and paste edit of these two movies with the two edits I'd already done of them and then call it a day. As I really sat and took a look at them though I realized that there was so much more that could be done. You could definitely make this feel like its own unique viewing experience. My intention them became to cut the runtime of 2018 down even further and seriously restructure Kills.

Change List:

1. Halloween Kills 78 flashback used to start movie. Gunshots and dialogue from Halloween II (“call the police… tell the sheriff i shot him…”) play over newly constructed studio credits with “The Shape Stalks” from Halloween 78 extended into it. 2. Trimmed Lonnie being bullied. 3. Inserted scene of Lonnie seeing Michael behind bushes from Halloween Kills extended cut. 4. Cut Lonnie aplologizing for bullying Tommy Doyle to Michael. 5. Trimmed Lonnie’s dialogue to the cops. 6. Cut McCabe dialogue before being attacked. Shot cropped to maintain continuity. 7. Cut Hawkins talking to Loomis. 8. New opening credits created to more accurately represent this edit. Pumpkin from Halloween 2018 and score “Halloween Kills End Titles” used. 9. New “October 28th, 2018” title card added. 10. Trimmed Aaron and Dana talking about Michael. 11. Cut Sartain mentioning Tivoli and trimmed other moments with the mental patients. 12. Rescored very end of Smith’s Grove scene with “Mannequin Panic” from the Halloween 2018 soundtrack. 13. Cut Dana and Aaron meeting Laurie and Laurie watching Allyson in school. Gun range now first time we see her. 14. Added “October 30th, 2018” and “Haddonfield, Illinois” title cards. 15. Cut “peanut butter on my penis” line and trimmed Ray’s dialogue afterwords. 16. Trimmed dialogue with Allyson and her friends. 17. Cut Laurie dry firing shotgun with the gun right by her freaking face. 18. Cut Laurie drinking in her car. 19. Trimmed Ray’s dialogue at dinner. 20. Cut Laurie referring to Michael as “The Shape” at dinner. 21. Cut hunter and son stumbling upon bus crash. Cut Hawkins finding hunter’s body because of this. 22. Cut scene with Hawkins and Sheriff in the hospital with Sartain. 23. Trimmed Laurie watching news footage. 24. Cut entire scene of Laurie sneaking into Karen’s house. 25. Trimmed Michael’s attack on the Dana and Aaron. 26. Centered shot of Michael from the inside of the car after he’s retrieved his mask. Cut blank black screen that followed. 27. Removed two shots of trick or treaters to be repurposed later. 28. Trimmed initial Julian and Vicky scene. 29. Trimmed Dave arrival at Julian’s. 30. Inserted initial bar scene from Halloween Kills (Tommy’s speech). Masked out “Halloween Night 2018” from establishing shot. 31. Cut Vanessa and Marcus talking about botched Halloween party. 32. Drastically altered Tommy’s speech and trimmed 1978 flashbacks. 33. Cut Vicky pretending to talk to someone in Julian’s room. 34. Vicky’s attack trimmed with Julian’s dialogue omitted. 35. Repurposed trick or treater footage used to cut away from small children wearing Silver Shamrock masks. Done to prevent redundancy with teenagers from Kills who wear them. 36. Cut away from Silver Shamrock masks when Laurie pulls up to Julian’s house. 37. Trimmed Hawkins in Julian’s house. 38. Cut Hawkins seeing Dave’s tattoo. 39. Trimmed dialogue between sheriff and Hawkins and shots of Vicky’s body. 40. Trimmed scene of Laurie arriving at Karen’s house. 41. Rescored Allyson seeing Oscar’s body with “Michael Kills” from Halloween 2018. “Shape Hunts Allyson” repurposed later. 42. Trimmed Laurie giving guns to Ray and Karen. 43. Cut Sartain wearing Michael’s mask. 44. Inserted scene of Cameron finding Hawkin’s body from Halloween Kills. 45. Inserted bar scene two (the gang talks to the bartender, Cameron calls Lonnie). 46. Cut footage of Cameron at crime scene. 47. Cut banh mi sandwich talk with the cops. 48. Trimmed Michael stomping on Sartain’s head. 49. Cut shot of Michael watching the cops. 50. Trimmed Laurie turning off lights in her house. 51. Ray’s demise rescored with restructured “The Fog Enters Town” by John Carpenter with stinger added. “Ray’s Goodbye” repurposed later. 52. Cut Michael stumbling after killing Ray. 53. Added footsteps and sound of Karen picking up garage door opener. 54. Cut Allyson stumbling upon mannequins in the Forrest. 55. Trimmed Laurie looking for Michael as well as mannequin room scene. 56. Cut “Happy Halloween MIchael.” 57. House on fire trimmed and rescored with extended “The Shape Hunts Allyson” from Halloween 2018. Minor changes to sound design. 58. Cut closeup of Allyson holding knife. 59. Inserted scene of bar goers watching news footage. 60. Cut Tivoli and Julian out of news footage and cut parking lot scene with Tivoli. All Tivoli footage cut from Kills. 61. Cut scene of Laurie screaming “let it burn.” 62. Trimmed firefighter scene. 63. Trimmed elderly couple death scenes. 64. Cut scene with cops seeing massacre at Laurie’s compound. 65. Cut hospital scenes with Allyson seeing Sartain’s body. 66. Inserted Big John and Little John with trick or treaters. Trimmed beginning of the scene. 67. Trimmed Karen and Allyson talking to cops at the hospital. 68. Trimmed hallways scene with Karen, Allyson, and Cameron. 69. Cut Halloween 2018 flashbacks while Allyson is giving Laurie the knife. 70. Cut Allyson’s “Michael Myers has haunted this town for 40 years…” 71. Cut Tommy referencing his “altercation” with Michael earlier in the night as this doesn’t happen now. 72. Trimmed park scene (Marcus and Vanessa talking about gun, Lindsay talking to kids). 73. Trimmed Marcus’s death scene. 74. Cut music and recreated sound design for Michael looking at Vanessa’s body. 75. Rescored Michael vs Lindsay with a combo of “The Shape Kills” and “Ray’s Goodbye” from Halloween 2018. Trimmed scene. 76. Changed shot composition of Michael chasing Lindsay. 77. Trimmed Tommy’s dialogue at the park. 78. Cut scene with Lindsay talking to everyone by the cars after she’s been found. 79. Cut Brackett and random woman saying “evil dies tonight.” 80. Trimmed both Laurie stabbing herself with needle and her dialogue to Karen afterwards. 81. Moved up scene with map of Haddonfield in Lonnie’s car. 82. Cut entire second Big/Little John scene. 83. Cut entire Tivoli chase in the hospital and all small hospital bits included in it. 84. Cut hospital scene with Laurie and Hawkins talking about “Michael’s masterpiece” including second and third 1978 flashbacks. 85. Cut both the 1978 and 2018 flashbacks while Hawkins talks about Michael looking at his reflection. 86. Hawkins saying Michael’s “wants only one thing” played over a shot of the Myers house. 87. Cut Karen and Tommy in the parking lot. 88. Michael storms out of the closet earlier now. 89. Trimmed Michael slamming Cameron’s head on the stairs. 90. Cut Allyson yelling “ DO IT!” as Michael tries to stab her. Restructured “Unkillable” from Halloween Kills to do it. 91. Trimmed Karen goading Michael to chase her. 92. Cut Karen saying “gotcha” by the car as it’s too repetitive. 93. Cut Laurie’s final monologue. Restructured version of “Michael’s Legacy” used to accomplish this. 94. Cut Karen imagining 6 year old Michael in the window. 95. Finale restructured. We now see how Michael escaped the mob simultaneously with him murdering Karen. 96. Mob murders trimmed with some shots from extended cut used. 97. Michael looking at his reflection used as final shot. 98. Custom closing credits created to accurately represent the cast and crew of this edit. 99. “Halloween Kills End Titles” extended.

Additional Notes:

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Other Sources:

Halloween Kills Extended Cut The Fog motion picture soundtrack by John Carpenter Freesound.org sound effects

Special Thanks:

Thank you so much to ArtisDead for yet another great poster and both ArtisDead and JorytheGreat for being the first to preview this edit. Their contributions were greatly appreciated.