New Halloween Movie Trailer: Status and Every Film Trailer

No, a new Halloween movie trailer does not exist yet, since a trailer needs a film and the studios have not announced one. The only new project on record is a television series: in October 2023, Deadline reported that Miramax Television signed a deal with Trancas International Films, run by Malek Akkad, to develop and produce a Halloween series together. The announcement described it as a possible start to a cinematic universe spanning film and television, but it was a TV deal and not a film greenlight. Any rumored dates for a future film are tracked, with their status and source, on the new halloween movie page.

Until a studio does announce a film, a clip billed as a new trailer is most likely a repost or a compilation of older footage. Compilation videos that cut every Michael Myers appearance into a single reel are popular, and they can look fresh at a glance. The reliable test is simple: a real trailer comes from the studio's own channel, and it names a title and a date.

The latest trailer for a Halloween film is the one for halloween ends, Halloween Ends (2022), which reached US theaters on October 14, 2022 and streamed on Peacock on the same day, according to TheWrap. It stars Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode and Andi Matichak as her granddaughter Allyson, with James Jude Courtney as The Shape. The story opens on Halloween night in 2019 and then jumps three years ahead, where Laurie is writing a memoir while Haddonfield turns on a teenage babysitter named Corey Cunningham. It was the last chapter of a trilogy, so the next trailer, whenever it arrives, will start a new stretch of the saga.

The Halloween Kills trailer and the Halloween Ends trailer promote the two films that finished the trilogy, and it is easy to mix them up. halloween kills, Halloween Kills (2021), also directed by David Gordon Green, opened in theaters and on Peacock on October 15, 2021, as CNBC reported when Universal announced the plan. It premiered at the Venice Film Festival on September 8, 2021, the same day Curtis received a lifetime achievement award there. Judy Greer returns as Karen, Anthony Michael Hall plays the grown Tommy Doyle, and Charles Cyphers returns as Leigh Brackett. The film starts right after the 2018 ending, with Michael Myers freed from Laurie's burning basement, and Tommy Doyle is among the survivors of the 1978 attacks who gather in Haddonfield to hunt him.

Halloween Ends (2022) followed a year later and puts Corey, Allyson and Laurie at the center of its story. If you want either trailer, go to the studio's official channels rather than a reupload.

The Halloween 2018 trailer promotes Halloween (2018), directed by David Gordon Green and released by Universal Pictures on October 19, 2018, according to Comcast (see halloween 2018). It is a direct sequel to the 1978 film and departs from the other sequels. John Carpenter served as executive producer and creative consultant, and he scored the film. The world premiere took place on September 8, 2018 at Midnight Madness during the Toronto International Film Festival, as NOW Toronto reported. In the story, Michael Myers has been held at Smith's Grove for forty years, while Laurie Strode lives in a fortified home, estranged from her daughter Karen (Judy Greer), with Andi Matichak as Allyson.

The halloween 1978 trailer belongs to Halloween (1978), directed by John Carpenter, which opened in the US on October 25, 1978 on a budget of $325,000 and runs 91 minutes. It follows young Michael Myers, who kills his sister in Haddonfield, Illinois in 1963 and escapes the sanitarium fifteen years later while Dr. Loomis chases him home. Jamie Lee Curtis plays Laurie Strode and Donald Pleasence plays Loomis. The sequels that followed include halloween ii 1981, halloween 4, halloween 5 and halloween the curse of michael myers.

Every Halloween trailer has had a different job, and in our opinion the production figures explain why. Halloween (1978) cost $325,000 and grossed about $70 million worldwide, according to The Numbers, so its marketing could lean on one idea: a masked figure watching Laurie Strode on an ordinary Haddonfield street, set to a score Carpenter composed himself. It opened with a premiere at the Empire Theatre in Kansas City, then moved on to Chicago and New York. The later sequels had to sell a sequel to that idea, which is why Halloween 4 (1988) leaned on a new young lead, Jamie Lloyd, and Halloween H20 (1998) on a returning Laurie living as Keri Tate.

The 2018 trailer had the hardest task, because it had to tell viewers that most of the sequels no longer counted. Comcast's own description says the film departs from them, and the results suggest the pitch worked: on a $10 million budget, Halloween (2018) grossed about $260 million worldwide, roughly 26 times its cost. Halloween Kills (2021) then cost $20 million and grossed about $133 million, and Halloween Ends (2022) cost $30 million and grossed about $104 million (Box Office Mojo reports the Ends budget; The Numbers lists a lower one). Perhaps the lesson is that spending more did not buy a bigger audience, though both films also went to Peacock on their opening day, which complicates any simple comparison.

That being said, it could be argued that the Ends campaign carried a particular risk. Its story shifts attention to Corey and to Laurie's memoir, so a trailer had to promise Michael Myers while selling a film that spends its early scenes on someone else. Compare that with Halloween Resurrection (2002), whose pitch was plain: students locked in Michael's childhood home for an internet reality show. A future trailer will probably need to choose between those approaches, and the first sign of which one the studio picks will be the title and the cast.

The remaining Halloween films each have their own trailer, and the year in the title tells them apart because several share a name. halloween 3 season of the witch, Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982), directed by Tommy Lee Wallace, is a spin-off in the series. halloween h20, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998), directed by Steve Miner, stars Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode, and halloween resurrection, Halloween: Resurrection (2002), directed by Rick Rosenthal, is the next main saga film. Rob Zombie's remakes are halloween 2007 rob zombie, Halloween (2007), and halloween 2 2009, Halloween II (2009), which should not be confused with Halloween II (1981). The halloween timelines explained guide maps how they connect, and the halloween movies in order page lists the viewing sequence.

If you want to watch the films themselves after the trailers, start with where to watch halloween for current streaming and rental options in the US, UK and Australia.