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Let’s get this out of the way: There is not a Halloween: Origins of Evil series coming to Netflix today, or ever. There is also not a Halloween: Origins of Evil movie coming to Netflix today, or ever. There is currently no new Halloween movie or series in development. Don’t believe everything you see online, kids.
The rumor about a Halloween Origins of Evil series began on Facebook, when, on July 29, a fan of the Halloween franchise named Deïmian posted a fake concept poster he had made. He posted the fake, fan-made poster in the Facebook community group, “The Legacy of Halloween,” with a caption that read, “Made By Me Deïmian… Fake concept poster…”
The fake poster depicts Michael Myers standing on the steps of his old house in Haddonfield, Illinois, clutching his signature kitchen blade. The poster is titled “Halloween Origins of Evil,” in a font that is similar to the original 1978 Halloween poster font, complete with a convincing-looking Netflix logo at the top declaring it’s a Netflix original series coming to the streaming service on August 18. The fake series is supposedly brought to us by original Halloween director John Carpenter and Friday the 13th director Sean Cunningham. (Wouldn’t that be a fun team-up?)
Have I mentioned this is a fake poster? As in, it’s not real? Still, the post was shared over five thousand times on Facebook, and folks were quick to overlook the “fake” part of it. The comments were filled with people asking, hoping, pleading for the series to be real. Now there are a bunch of Halloween fans waiting for the new Netflix series to drop today, August 18, as evidenced by “Halloween Origins of Evil” being one of today’s top Google Trends for “Netflix.”
Unfortunately, they are going to be waiting a long time. There are currently no plans for another Halloween movie, nor a Halloween TV show. That said, there may be more Halloween movies someday. Last year, when Halloween Ends opened in theaters and on Peacock, Carpenter, who has served as an executive producer on the recent films, hinted that he would like to make more movies in an interview with ComicBook.com. But Carpenter conceded that director David Gordon Green wanted Halloween Ends to be a conclusion, at least in the reboot series. “Let me explain the movie business to you: if you take a dollar sign and attach it to anything, there will be somebody who wants to do a sequel. It will live. If the dollar sign is not big enough, no matter what, it will not live,” he said, jokingly. Then he added, “I don’t know, man. I don’t know. This time, I do not know. They really want to end. They’re going to shut it off, end it. It’s what David has in mind. That’s fine.”
Unfortunately, Halloween Ends was the lowest-grossing film in the reboot Halloween trilogy. Therefore, it will likely be awhile before we see any new Halloween content. Sorry! In the meantime, if you want to watch the most recent Halloween film, you can stream 2022’s Halloween Ends on Peacock.
