Take with a grain of salt any time an actor cheerleads for the movie they’ve got coming up. It’s part of the job, and far too often we see them do a one-eighty months down the road. But when a screen veteran like Jamie Lee Curtis goes out of her way to tie-in a controversial, divisive social movement like Black Lives Matter, better take notice. And that’s what she has done with the upcoming sequel, Halloween Kills.
Speaking on The Jess Cagel Show (via ThePlaylist), Curtis says the horror film, which sees her returning as Laurie Strode to battle a returned Michael Myers, has themes which related to the Black Lives Matter and recent protests against police violence…
“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. 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. 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.”
While she doesn’t say the film is about Black Lives Matter, I may have an idea what she’s teasing here. It does look as if the residents gather up in force to take down Myers, and many of them appear to be persons of color. I wouldn’t be surprised if they are looked at with suspicion by the police and perhaps even met with resistance, even as an unstoppable killing machine rampages through town. Stupid cops; all they have to do is wait for Myers to come around swinging his kitchen knife and they’ll scatter on home! Or get killed.
Obviously, I don’t know shit about what actually happens, but I’m more curious about Halloween Kills now than I was an hour ago. The film arrives next year on October 15th.
