Michael Myers is coming home again, thanks to an expanded edition of the soundtrack to last year's Halloween sequel.

John Carpenter helped kickstart the slasher genre with this low-budget classic he co-wrote and directed in 1978. Jamie Lee Curtis (daughter of Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, making her film debut) starred as Laurie Strode, a babysitter in Haddonfield, Illinois who is targeted by Myers ("The Shape"), a masked killer who murdered his sister 15 years before. Donald Pleasance portrayed Sam Loomis, the psychiatrist hot on Michael's trail. Filmed on a shoestring budget of some $300,000, the film grossed $70 million worldwide, one of the year's biggest cinematic successes.

Carpenter (as writer), Curtis and Pleasance reunited for a sequel in 1981; Carpenter produced the unrelated Halloween III: Season Of The Witch a year later, intending to spin the series into a horror anthology. Its failure spurred a series of increasingly diminishing sequels between 1988 and 1995. Curtis returned for Halloween H20: 20 Years Later in 1998 and made a cameo in the panned Halloween Resurrection (2002). Rocker Rob Zombie rebooted the franchise with two films in 2007 and 2009 - leading to last year's reboot, which stripped away the continuity of every sequel to reintroduce Curtis as Strode, traumatized by her ordeal in 1978 yet determined to protect her family when Myers breaks out of prison some 40 years later.

Director David Gordon Green, co-writing a script with comedian Danny McBride, was given Carpenter's blessing - and the horror master returned to the franchise for the first time in decades as a composer, having created the iconic, minimal synth score of his original film. Working with his son Cody and collaborator Daniel Davies, the new Halloween score, like the film, was a smash hit, reaching the Top 20 of the Billboard 200.

While fans wait for Green, McBride, Curtis and Carpenter to conclude the story with two back-to-back sequels (2020's Halloween Kills and 2021's Halloween Ends), the 2018 score returns on a brand pressing for this Halloween, featuring nearly 30 minutes of additional music. It'll be available on CD, digitally or as a double LP, pressed on orange and black vinyl, is packaged in a deluxe gatefold with a lenticular wrap-around sleeve that makes the flames surrounding The Shape's unforgettable mask (an old Star Trek/Captain Kirk rubber mask painted white) look like they're moving. (150 copies in an alternate "Bloody Jumpsuit" sleeve will be randomly distributed to members of the Sacred Bones Society record club.)

October 18 is the night he - or at least this modern classic score - came home! Check out the full track list below.

John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies, Halloween: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Expanded Edition) (Sacred Bones Records SBR-231, 2019)

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1. Intro
2. Aaron Meets Michael *
3. Halloween Theme
4. Laurie's Theme
5. Aaron and Dana Enter Laurie's Compound *
6. Laurie's Past *
7. Prison Montage
8. Laurie Breaks Down *
9. Karen's Flashback *
10. Lumpy Explores Crash *
11. Michael Kills
12. Hawkins Arrives At Crash Site *
13. Dana's In The Shower *
14. The Story Of Judith's Death *
15. The Gas Station *
16. Michael Kills Again
17. Gas Station Aftermath *
18. The Shape Returns
19. The Boogeyman
20. The Shape Kills
21. Hawkins Called To Babysitter's House *
22. Laurie Sees The Shape
23. Babysitter Aftermath *
24. Sartrain Meets Laurie *
25. Looking For Allyson *
26. Wrought Iron Fence
27. The Shape Hunts Allyson
28. Talking To Cops *
29. Allyson Discovered
30. Gun Closet *
31. Halloween Theme (I've Got Eyes) *
32. Sartrain's Gone Mad *
33. Say Something
34. Through The Woods *
35. Ray's Goodbye
36. The Shape Attacks Laurie *
37. The Shape Is Monumental
38. Searching For The Shape *
39. Mannequin Panic *
40. Death Drum *
41. The Shape and Laurie Fight
42. The Grind
43. Trap The Shape
44. The Shape Burns
45. Halloween Triumphant

* previously unreleased - all other tracks first released as Sacred Bones Records SBR-213, 2018