Halloween: Harvest of Souls (1985)

[NDX]

This is pretty cool and the VHS look really works save for the fact that these actors don’t look like stars from the 80′s. Director Jay Burleson has teamed with actor V/H/S and You’re Next actor Lane Hughes to create a trailer for the “lost” film Halloween: Harvest Of Souls.

Just as good as the trailer is the backstory they came up with for this thing, which is specific enough to almost be believable. “After the failure of ‘Halloween III: Season of the Witch’, the rights to the ‘Halloween’ franchise were lost in the shuffle of a merger, and a sequel to ‘Halloween II’ was quickly rushed into production by a new team of producers. The new installment, ‘Halloween: Harvest of Souls’, was viewed as a direct sequel to the second film and would be a true ‘Halloween III’ with Michael Myers.

The film was made on a shoestring budget, even less than Carpenter’s original, and did not feature a return by Jamie Lee Curtis. The character of Loomis returns, still played by Donald Pleasence, but in a limited capacity. To keep pace with the height of the ’80s slasher craze, Harvest of Souls featured extreme nudity and gore, and had yet to receive better than an X-rating before it was canned.

Original series producer Moustapha Akkad tied the rights up with a long legal battle, which he ultimately won, and ‘Harvest of Souls’ was shelved altogether in favor of ‘Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers’, which was released in 1988, three years after Souls was filmed. Until recently, ‘Harvest of Souls’ was nothing more than an urban legend, the original film print long lost, the knowledge of its very existence scarce. A lone VHS tape, found in an abandoned storage locker, containing the X-rated cut of the film and a very tame ‘PG’ trailer, recently surfaced and that brings us to the here and now. The release of the aforementioned trailer and proof that this urban legend is real.”

Source: bloody-disgusting.com/news/3262978/random-cool-trailer-for-the-lost-halloween-movie-between-season-of-the-witch-and-the-return-of-michael-myers/

[endo]

Nice, I liked that a lot.

[NDX]

Someone had fun making that fake trailer, didn't they? Would be interesting if it were real.

[gorepolice]

This just makes you wish even more that the series kept doing in this direction instead of bringing back Michael Myers.

Then again, it could have sucked, like when Silent Night, Deadly Night tried going in a different direction.