We’re still waiting on the first teaser trailer for this Halloween season’s Halloween Kills, a sequel to 2018’s Halloween that will continue the never-ending fight between Laurie Strode and Michael Myers. Actor/stuntman James Jude Courtney reprises the role of the iconic slasher villain in this year’s sequel, and he teased the film in a new chat with Pop Culture With Pat.

For starters, he promises that Halloween Kills will be a more intense experience.

“We have to make the natural progression from 1978 to 2018 to Halloween Kills – the ante has be upped,” Courtney told the site. “The ticking bomb has to be more intense. Otherwise we’re just doing what we’ve done before.”

He continued, “We pumped up the volume on this one.”

“We’ve progressed late into the night, and now that everybody realizes what the stakes are…it’s reaching a head. It’s [the 2018 film] on speed.”

You can listen to the full interview below.

The cast includes Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak and Robert Longstreet, with original Halloween actor Charles Cyphers returning as Sheriff Leigh Brackett.

Anthony Michael Hall also stars in the new film as Tommy Doyle, with the returning Kyle Richards as Lindsey Wallace and Nancy Stephens as Nurse Marion Chambers.

Halloween Kills will arrive in theaters on October 16, 2020 followed by Halloween Ends on October 15, 2021, with David Gordon Green returning to direct both films.