WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Halloween Kills, now playing in theaters and available through Peacock.
It turns out Halloween Kills' most unexpected returning character, Dr. Samuel Loomis, was brought to life without CGI or any other type of digital de-aging.
"No, [Loomis] was not [CGI], but our own construction foreman Tom Jones Jr. in an 11 piece prosthetic makeup with hair pieces," revealed the film's makeup effects designer Christopher Nelson. He also unveiled multiple photos of Jones in his makeup, along with an image of him prior to his transformation (for the sake of comparison).
Donald Pleasence starred in John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) as Dr. Loomis, the psychiatrist assigned to the franchise's inhuman killer Michael Myers. Pleasence reprised his role in several Halloween sequels before his death in 1995, with Malcolm McDowell assuming the part for Rob Zombie's 2007 Halloween reboot and its sequel. 2018's Halloween, a quasi-reboot that ignores the previous sequels to Carpenter's slasher classic, features a vocal cameo by Loomis -- who died prior to the film's events -- in the form of an audio recording from 1979, with Colin Mahan voicing the character.
Halloween Kills, on the other hand, features a cameo by Dr. Loomis in the flesh, with Jones playing the role and Mahan once again providing his voice. The scene in question takes place during a flashback to Halloween night in 1978, revealing that Haddonfield deputy Frank Hawkins accidentally shot and killed his partner after Michael attacked him in the Myers house. Loomis then arrives with reinforcements and asks Hawkins if Michael killed again -- a query the guilt-stricken Hawkins struggles to answer. However, when the police capture Michael and Loomis tries to shoot him in the head, Hawkins stops him, believing it wrong at the time.
The Halloween (2018) sequel ends on an equally shocking note, with Michael stabbing Laurie Strode's daughter, Karen Strode (Judy Greer), to death. And while Greer admitted to being "bummed" about this dark turn of events, she added, "I thought it was a good idea, though. I thought it was really beautifully written, and it felt like a dance, like an opera."
Halloween Kills is playing in theaters and streaming on Peacock. Its sequel, Halloween Ends, arrives in theaters Oct. 14, 2022.
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