John Carpenter’s soundtracks for the recent “Halloween” trilogy, which he composed together with his long-time collaborators Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies, marked the legendary director and composer’s return to film music after a break of almost two decades.“Halloween” (2018), “Halloween Kills” (2021), and “Halloween Ends” (2022) were all directed by David Gordon Green, who brought Carpenter into the trilogy early on in pre-production and eventually hired him as executive producer and soundtrack composer.Now, for the first time, a deluxe edition of the “Halloween Ends” soundtrack is being released as a 2xLP expansion on Carpenter’s longtime label, Sacred Bones Records.2018’s “Halloween” was a success that exceeded everyone involved’s wildest dreams.The film opened with the highest box office numbers in Blumhouse’s history and was the most successful film in the “Halloween” series.It was inevitable that two sequels, Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends, would soon be greenlit.Green signed on to direct both films, but he didn’t want to assume that John, Cody, and Daniel would return to score them.“I don’t take anything for granted,” he says.“So you hope they had a good experience.I know we had fun on the project, but you never know what people’s time and financial interests are, and all those things.The realities of business and filmmaking don’t always go so smoothly.But there were no problems.We looked at each other and said, ‘How can we make this work? Let’s try it again.'”The expanded version of Halloween Ends includes 10 previously unreleased tracks and comes with brand-new artwork by Chris Bilheimer and an exclusive 24 x 36″ poster of Creepy Duck.
