'Halloween Kills' star spills on being murdered by Michael Myers: 'It was really beautiful'
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Spoiler alert! The following post discusses important plot points and the ending of âHalloween Kills,â so beware if you havenât seen it yet. Also beware of Michael Myers, just in general.
After years of playing best friends, sidekicks and supporting characters onscreen, Judy Greer finally gets to step up and take on a legendary cinema bad guy â only to meet the business end of his knife.
The horror sequel âHalloween Killsâ (in theaters and streaming on Peacock) unleashes masked murderer Michael Myers again on Haddonfield while heroine Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) recuperates from a gnarly stab wound (see: end of 2018âs âHalloweenâ) at a local hospital. Her daughter, Karen (Greer), initially wants everybody to stay there and be protected, including Karen's teen daughter Allyson (Andi Matichak), but she also joins the fray as townsfolk track Michael back to his childhood home.
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To save Allyson, Karen removes Michaelâs iconic mask and takes it into the street, luring the villain out so her neighbors can kill him once and for all. But Michael silently fights back and takes out his attackers before murdering Karen. It leaves audiences with a cliffhanger, wondering where Laurie (who doesnât know her daughterâs dead yet) and the survivors go from here.
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The next installment, âHalloween Ends,â which begins filming soon, will âtake a leap in timeâ and catch up with the community in present day, director David Gordon Green says: âEverybody has their process and time does a lot to the intellectual realization of these events."
But Curtis teases: âIt is mayhem, by the way, with a capital M.â
Unfortunately, Greer, 46, wonât be a part of the long-running franchise anymore, though sheâs not at all bitter. In an exit interview, the actress â who next stars in HBOâs âThe White House Plumbersâ with Justin Theroux and Woody Harrelson, and the NBC limited series âThe Thing About Pamâ with Renee Zellweger â talks about her "Halloween Kills" death scene and the deleted ending fans didnât get to see.
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Question: What's the coolest part about being in two âHalloweenâ films?
Judy Greer: It's really fun to jump into a franchise that already has a huge following, I'm not going to lie. I would probably not say that if our first movie hadn't been such a huge hit, but everyone loved the first one so much that it just made me really happy that people got to have it back after so long.
Q: Do you have more âHalloweenâ fans or âAnt-Manâ fans?
Greer: I do so much more in the âHalloweenâ movies, so my fans are more excited about me. And âAnt-Man,â they're more excited about Ant-Man and I just happen to stand next to him sometimes.
Q: Did you come into the âHalloweenâ films as a fan yourself?
Greer: I saw the original (1978 film) when I was older and I was a fan, but I'm scared to death of horror movies. I don't watch tons of them, because I have nightmares; I'm still afraid of the dark and I travel with a nightlight and am not ashamed to admit it.
Q: Even after starring in two of them?
Greer: Iâm still like that. I'm even scared watching this movie, and I read the script and was in it!
Q: So youâve officially been murdered by Michael Myers. Whatâs that like?
Greer: It was really beautiful. I'm really happy that if I'm going to die in the movie, he's the one to kill me. At least it wasn't like falling down the stairs or something. But I also appreciated that my death is not very gruesome. It's more beautiful and cinematic and sort of operatic. So I thought that was a cool way to do it.
Q: Itâs also a meaningful death because Laurieâs really going to be on the warpath now.
Greer: They shot something that they didn't put in the movie at the end, which is Laurie stomping out of the hospital with a knife in her hand. I got to see it. It's not the right ending for this story, but it was definitely cool.
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Q: I had to Google if youâve ever died on screen before. But you did get shot in the head playing a werewolf in 2005âs âCursed.â
Greer: Yeah, and I was killed in this (1997) independent horror movie called âStricken,â like my second acting job ever, that I shot right after I graduated from college. I have memories of being thrown in a ditch, but I don't remember exactly.
Q: Did watching yourself get killed in âHalloween Killsâ bother you?
Greer: I could take myself out of it because it wasn't super-graphic. It was really hard for me to watch Dylan Arnold (who plays Allysonâs boyfriend Cameron) get killed because it was so graphic and I love Dylan so much. I immediately texted him after the screening and I was like, âYour mom can't watch this movie, dude. Trust me.â
Q: Who's going to get the biggest kick out of seeing you die?
Greer: Gosh, I suppose my enemies, whoever they are (laughs). That's a good question. Maybe my husband, because it means I don't have to go away and shoot the next one.