Halloween Kills

Halloween Kills (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack album to the 2021 film Halloween Kills, directed by David Gordon Green; a sequel to Green's Halloween (2018) and the twelfth instalment in the Halloween franchise. John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies, who previously scored for the first film, returned for the sequel. As similar to the predecessor, John had reused the original theme from the 1978 film using modern interpretations. Halloween Kills soundtrack featured 20-tracks, mostly consisting of John, Cody and Davies' score, and was led by three singles: "Unkillable", "Rampage" and "Michael's Legend". A non-album single titled "Hunter's Moon" performed by Ghost, was also released, that feature in the end credits. The album, distributed by Sacred Bones Records, had a limited release in ITunes on October 14, 2021, and later released through multiple music platforms, the following day, on October 15, which coincides the film's release. It was also distributed in CD, LP and cassettes. John's score received generally positive response from critics, and the score album debuted at number 9 in Billboard Top Album Sales for the week beginning October 23. Development John who also scored for the 1978 film, had modernised the original theme from the film, with different sounds and approaches, as he did for the soundtrack of the 2018 reboot, as he felt that "[There] are brand new sounds that are constantly being updated. That’s where the inspiration comes from", appreciating the modern innovations applied in this generation. He, along with Cody and Davies, had worked on the score before 2019, as the film was shot back-to-back with Halloween Ends (2022), and scoring was completed before the COVID-19 pandemic.