“Michael’s Legend,” the final offering from John Carpenter and his collaborators Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies’ upcoming score for Halloween Kills, has been released.
“Michael’s Legend” is an unsettling, scary piece, led by a piano melody that recalls Carpenter’s famous Halloween theme at times but has its own gravity. Before the keys return for one more foreboding toll, there’s even a disturbing false ending.
Carpenter announced the Halloween Kills soundtrack with “Rampage” and “Unkillable” before “Michael’s Theme.” The Halloween Kills music will be released on October 15th via Sacred Bones, and the film will be released in theatres (and on Peacock) on the same day.
Halloween Kills, directed by David Gordon Green, was intended to be released last October but was postponed due to the pandemic. Jamie Lee Curtis and Nick Castle reprised their roles as Laurie Strode and Michael Myers in the 2018 remake of Halloween.
Carpenter delivered “Lost Themes III: Alive After Death,” his first album of non-soundtrack music in five years, earlier this year. Carpenter released the first instalment of the Lost Themes series in 2015, followed by a sequel the following year. The goal of the project was to produce “a soundtrack for the movies in your mind.”
