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From the moment I got done watching Halloween Kills, I started constructing a fan edit in my mind, that turned Halloween 2018 and Halloween Kills into one film. I've been working on it for a few months, and its ready to go.
Title at the moment is "Halloween II: Redux" to reflect that i see it as taking the best parts of Halloween II, (H81) Halloween 2018 (H18), and Halloween Kills (H21).
While I enjoyed both H18 and H21, I found that tonally, they both swung too far into the extremes of humor and terror/gore.
Like my "For Your Eyes Only" cut, the idea was to tone down the humor, and replace the modern score with some more *classic* bits of music. Additionally, I wanted to tone down the violence that seemed to revel in showing the audience how gross some of the kills were. Pacing is tighter, subplots that deviate from the core story are trimmed or eliminated. I wanted a good balance of genuinely scary 70-80's slasher movie, without the extremes of the new films. I wanted to to be more fun... but less funny, Scary and violent, but less grim and horrific.
The edit plays H18 and H21 as chronologically as possible. .
The cuts and changes are in the hundreds, but the basic idea is as follows:
Added 70's era Universal logo
Opens with the final minutes of Halloween 1978
Halloween II: Michael lurks the alleys, Loomis waves down the police (Halloween II)
Lonnie gets bullied and encounters Michael, but tighter editing (Halloween Kills)
Hawkins and the other office encounter Michael at the Myers house, Michael is captured (Halloween Kills)
Opening Credits, newly constructed
Podcasters meet Michael at asylum. very shortened, less inmates screaming ( Halloween '18)
Podcasters meet Lori. much shorter. less table-setting with Lori's survival habits.
Cemetery scene removed
restaurant scene shortened
Lori removed from the Michael-gets-on-the-bus scene
The father and son who find the bus scene is shortened. kill is less graphic
Michael's kill during trick-or-treat scene is less graphic
Tommy and crew are introduced right after the trick or treat kill.
Tommy's first scene is shortened. a quick cut flashback of Tommy is added to match that everyone else gets a flashback cut.
Dance scene and babysitter scene is shortened . less humor, less talking.
Big John and little John are introduced after the dance scene
Tommy and crew learn of the murders right after Hawkins is found.
The couple with the drone removed.
Extensive trimming is during the hospital scenes of Halloween kills; the escaped inmate, the lynch mob, all gone.
there is extensive trimming in nearly every scene, to tighten the action and reduce the chatti-ness of everyone.
The running time at the moment is 2 hours 37 minutes, not including the end credits.
