Halloween Reboot: Teaser Released, Full Trailer Tomorrow

UPDATE: A teaser for Friday's Halloween trailer has been released. It's very short but it provides a few quickly cut shots of Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Michael Myers preparing to meet again--check it out here. Original story below.

The Halloween series is one the most successful horror franchises ever made, but like most long-running series, the quality of the films has been extremely variable over the years. This October sees the release of the latest movie; it's simply called Halloween and will ignore every entry since John Carpenter's 1978 original. The first trailer is expected later this week, but ahead of that, we have the first official images.

Two of the pictures feature psychotic killer Michael Myers, wearing his distinctive white mask and looking very scary indeed. The third is of original star Jamie Lee Curtis, who returns as Laurie Strode, getting attacked by Michael through a door. Check them out below:

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These images follow the movie's poster, which was released in April. Halloween is directed by acclaimed indie director David Gordon Green (George Washington, Pineapple Express), with a script co-written by comedian and actor Danny McBride (Eastbound and Down, Alien Covenant). Carpenter is involved as a story advisor and is composing the movie's score.

In an interview with Charleston City Paper last year, McBride spoke about his and Green's approach to the movie, and how they were tapping into the more subtle scares of the first film. "The original is all about tension," he said. "Laurie Strode [Curtis' character] doesn't even know that Michael Myers exists until the last minutes of the movie. So much of it you're in anticipation of what's going to happen and the dread that Carpenter spins so effortlessly in that film, I think we were really trying to get it back to that.

"We're trying to mine that dread. Mine that tension and not just go for gore and ultra-violence that you see some horror movies lean on. To us, it was all about bringing back the creep factor and trying to find the horror in your own backyard, in our own homes."

Halloween hits theaters on October 19. For more, check out GameSpot's look at the best upcoming horror movies of 2018.