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Anthony Michael Hall can still clearly remember the first time he watched John Carpenter\u2019s Halloween. \u201cThe movie came out in 1978 when I was 10 years old, so it was a year or two later when I saw it on cable,\u201d he tells RadioTimes.com<\/a> over the phone from New York. \u201cI remember distinctly because it was a night where my parents went out for the evening, and I remember being home watching it. And what is embedded in my mind is the images of Laurie walking through the town, all the kids trick or treating, and hearing the score. I mean, it did have a visceral effect.\u201d<\/p>\n Fast forward more than 40 years and Hall is now starring in the Halloween franchise himself, playing, no less, a grown-up version of an iconic character from the original film. In Halloween Kills<\/a>, Hall stars as Tommy Doyle, the boy Laurie babysat for all those years ago, who is now leading the charge for vengeance against the returning boogeyman Michael Myers. Tommy is a character who has appeared in several Halloween films in various incarnations \u2013 with one version of the character played by Paul Rudd in Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers \u2013 but the new film throws much of the continuity out of the window. And Hall says that rather than filling in the gaps in Tommy\u2019s backstory, he relied solely on the script written by Scott Teems, Danny McBride and David Gordon Green when preparing to play the character.<\/p>\n \u201cI think the script was very clear, and in the discussions that we had it was made implicit that he [David Gordon Green] saw Tommy as a hero in the film, \u201d he explains. \u201cSo we go from commiserating about being survivors and victims to then making that decision as a group to unify as a town as neighbours and as friends and to support each other and really fight. And that\u2019s the energy that really propels the film in the first act, that really gets the movie going. It\u2019s this great kind of collision of the townspeople rising up to fight for good. So I didn\u2019t have to research too much, it was really more about taking cues from David and kind of just enjoying the ride of playing Tommy who is fighting for good and who\u2019s a hero.\u201d<\/p>\n