Halloween Returns

Halloween Returns is a 2025 American Slasher film directed John Carpenter and co-written by Carpenter, Cody Carpenter, Leigh Whannell and Jeff Fradley. It is the fourteenth installment in the Halloween franchise and a complete reboot of the story and characters, disregarding all other films. The film stars Aaron Armstrong as Michael Myers/The Shape who reprises his role as Michael Myers from Halloween Kills, Shohreh Aghdashloo portrays Michael's psychiatrist Dr. Farah Zyanni, Sadie Sink portrays Amy Mitchell Michael's Main target, While also starring Jenna Ortega, China Anne Mclain, Asher Angel, William Gao, Colman Domingo, Thomas Mann, Rosario Dawson, Peter Jacobson, Natasha Lyone and Jessica Chastain.

PLOT SUMMARY

Set mostly in the fictional town of Haddonfield, Illinois, the plot centers on notorious mental patient, Michael Myers who was committed to a sanitarium for murdering his teenage sister on Halloween night when he was a child. Fifteen years later, having escaped and returned to his hometown, he stalks teenage babysitter Amy Mitchell and her friends while under pursuit by his psychiatrist Dr. Farah Zyanni and the town's Chief of Police Franklin Brown. The secondary plot focuses on Dr. Zyanni's colleague Dr. Howard Schuster investigating the conspiracy of how Michael escaped and if anyone assisted him or not.