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Plot summary
Firefighters answering the call at Laurie Strode's burning house encounter Michael Myers, and he heads back toward Haddonfield. Laurie arrives at the hospital with her daughter Karen and granddaughter Allyson and goes into emergency surgery, believing Myers is dead. In a bar, Tommy Doyle and other survivors of 1978 mark forty years since Myers was captured, among them Marion Chambers, Lindsey Wallace and Lonnie Elam. An emergency alert brings word of fresh killings, and Tommy gathers townspeople to hunt Myers down. Karen hides the news from Laurie so she can recover. Allyson, back with her ex-boyfriend Cameron Elam, joins the mob. Hawkins, found wounded by Cameron, vows to kill Myers himself.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Halloween Kills (2021)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- During filming, actress Kyle Richards broke her nose in an action sequence with Michael Myers but kept the injury to herself so she would not be replaced by a stunt double.
- Paul Rudd, who had played Tommy Doyle in Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, was approached to reprise the role for Halloween Kills but turned it down because he was committed to Ghostbusters: Afterlife.
- Halloween Kills made $4.85 million from Thursday night previews, the biggest such total for both an R-rated film and a horror film during the pandemic, edging past A Quiet Place Part II's $4.8 million.
- The film's $49.4 million opening weekend was the best debut for an R-rated film during the pandemic, nearly double The Suicide Squad's $26.2 million, a record that stood until John Wick: Chapter 4 opened to $73.5 million in 2023.
- Bob Odenkirk appears only in a photograph, as 1978 victim Bob Simms, because producers could not secure original actor John Michael Graham's likeness; they used a real high-school yearbook photo of Odenkirk instead after noticing the two men resembled each other.
