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“Michael’s here.”

If the movie is “Halloween,” a new sequel to the 1978 horror classic, those are the last words any character wants to hear. This scene involves a showdown, 40 years later, between the deranged killer Michael Myers and the resilient Laurie Strode. Jamie Lee Curtis reprises her role from the earlier film, and the director, David Gordon Green, spoke here about how to keep the suspense of the sequence alive. One way was to consult with the original film’s director, John Carpenter, who wrote the score for this movie (as he did for the original) and served as an executive producer.

Read our movie review of the new Halloween remake starring Jamie Lee Curtis.

Read the review of the original, 1978 “Halloween.”