Blumhouse Promises New ‘Halloween’ Movie In 2018, John Carpenter Wants To Score
It’s been years since fans of horror maestroJohn Carpenter’sHalloweenfranchise have been truly thrilled with a new entry in the series, and now we know they’ll only have to wait one more year to see if that streak is broken.
ProducerJason Blum, the CEO of the budget-conscious and incredibly successful Blumhouse Productions (Get Out,Paranormal Activity, Insidious, The Purge) has promised thattheir plannedHalloweensequel– the one written byDanny McBrideandDavid Gordon Greenand directed by Green – will definitely be released by its planned date in October of 2018. And additionally, there’s word that Carpenter himself is still interested in providing the score. That’s music to my ears.
During a tour of Universal Studios Hollywood’s “Horrors of Blumhouse” attraction,The Wrapasked Blum how certain he was that the newHalloweenmovie would be out by next October. His response was…well, let’s just call itextremelyconfident:
“You can kill me. You can behead me. You can chop my hand off, the prince of horror, you can cut my hand off. That’s on the record.”
(The reason he referred to himself as “the prince of horror” was because the interviewer attempted to nickname him “the king of horror” because of his successful track record, but Blum insisted that title belongs to Stephen King and jokingly accepted “prince” as a nickname.)
The new film, which will essentially pick up after the events of Rick Rosenthal’sHalloween IIand ignore the other movies in the series, currently has a release date ofOctober 19, 2018penciled in, but Blumhouse has been known to shift projects around when necessary:Amityville: The Awakeningis a notorious example (having been moved to four different dates before being pulled from the schedule altogether), butInsidious: The Last Keyrecently shifted as well. But Blum’s proclamation makes it clear that an October release is of paramount importance forHalloween2018, and frankly that’s as it should be – it just wouldn’t feel right for it to come out in any other month.
HALLOWEEN update from#TIFF17: David Gordon Green tells me John Carpenter has seen the script, given notes, digs it. Still wants to do scorepic.twitter.com/Y29qnqxWXP
— Jason Guerrasio (@JasonGuerrasio)August 03, 2025
Meanwhile, Business Insider reporter Jason Guerrasio spoke with Green at the Toronto International Film Festival and relays word that John Carpenter has “seen the script, given notes, digs it” and that he “still wants to do the score.” That’s great news for those who love Carpenter’s pulse-driven, catchy,piano and synthHalloweenthemeand all the work he’s done scoring projects over the years; as a matter of fact, he’s touring around the country right now playing many of those tunes and I’ve heard he puts on a hell of a show, so if you’re a big fan, that’s probably worth looking into.
For more on McBride and Green’s approach to resurrecting a horror icon like Michael Myers,click here.
