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- [SPOILER WARNING] Halloween: Forty Years Later - H18 & KILLS Combination Cut (WIP)
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Hey everyone! I posted this topic on FE.org and figured I’d post it here too, the link to the forum post will be below.
The Idea:
Edit Halloween 2018, and Halloween Kills together to create a long epic. The estimated runtime could be between 2hr 30min and 4hrs.
Adding Halloween Ends is questionable because of the recent changes made to the film that DGG (David Gordon Green) mentioned at the Kills premiere. If it is possible to combine Ends, then we’ll see how it goes.
I will do the narrative in parts:
PROLOGUE
PART I - MASKS AND GROTESQUE FIGURES
PART II - THE HOMECOMING
PART III - DEMONS TORMENTING ME
PART IV - RETRIBUTION
The Cut-List:
2018 will be reconstructed to follow the original screenplay and tightened to remove cringeworthy moments pick up the pace in scenes when needed. Here’s a rough cut list of the Prologue and 1st part [BEWARE! There are SPOILERS A-foot!]
PROLOGUE
- Kills’ 1978 flashback is the opening, with dialogue from 1978 over the opening credits
- New opening titles ('18s with Forty Years Later tag)
- '18s opening scene at Smith’s Grove, removing ADR lines “He can speak, just chooses not to,” & “He’s been watching you since you arrived.”
- After “Say Something”, smash to another title card
PART I - MASKS AND GROTESQUE FIGURES
- After the title card, cut to Ray, Karen & Allyson’s introduction, leading into her friends walking down the street
- Pumpkin explodes, match-cut to Laurie in her compound (DELETED SCENE)
- Crosscut with Dana and Aaron driving, with his speech, overtop of Laurie footage
- Laurie cleans her guns, Russian roulette moment, then they ring the buzzer
- After the interview, cut to the school scene with Cameron and Allyson
- After Laurie and Allyson’s talk, Prison Montage (will have to remove the Laurie footage)
- Dinner scene, then bus crash scene after
- After the kid’s death, back to Karen and Allyson
- Hawkins investigating the crash site goes as normal
- Add deleted scene of Allyson jogging
- Cut to Laurie’s house afterwards
- Cut to Cemetary scene after
- Keep Hawkins and Barker scene where it is (Unsure)
- Minor trims to the Gas station fight
- Remove the scene in Karen’s house and replace it with the deleted school scene (Unsure)
That’s all I have for now. Looking forward to hearing everybody’s opinions and some help on making this edit a reality. This has been in my head for years and can’t wait to make it real.
Cheers!