Wasn't she the one who played Strode's daughter in the middle films of the franchise?
Yes, she was in 4 and 5, but she's all grown up now.
March 8: Danielle Harris talks HALLOWEEN
FANGORIA recently met up with Danielle Harris at the Horrorfind Weekend convention in Baltimore, where she talked to us about her role in Rob Zombie’s much-anticipated HALLOWEEN remake. According to the actress, however, “re-envisioning” is a much more appropriate word to use when talking about the film. “I’ve been hearing a lot of people saying stuff like ‘It’s going to suck’ and ‘You can’t remake the original,’ and I don’t think that Rob is trying to do that,” she tells us. “He’s more paying homage to it. He’s not showing a ton of the gore, and he’s making it more suspenseful. Rob’s got a style, and that style is killer—pun intended—and it’s his version of HALLOWEEN. I believe he’s done a damn good job, and you will not be let down.
“This one is terrifying,” Harris continues. “It’s like watching an A&E BIOGRAPHY on what it’s like to become a serial killer. Which is totally different [from the original]; it’s not just some guy running around hacking people up, there is a reason for it. Rob gets into the psychology of when Michael Myers was a child, and why he’s as messed up as he is—which is really cool, and is why we watch those shows. Why are we so fascinated by Jeffery Dahmer? Do I really want to know how he ate everybody? No, but I want to know how he became what he became. So it’s really cool.”
The petite actress, who is almost done filming her scenes as Annie Brackett, is best-known to horror fans as Jamie Lloyd, the young heroine of HALLOWEEN 4 and HALLOWEEN 5. When questioned about her return to Haddonfield, Harris notes, “It’s a lot scarier now than it was when I was a child. Because as an actor, when you’re that young, you don’t have a filter; you just know that everything is make-believe and it’s play and fun time, and it’s just easier to go for it. As an adult, when you have to put yourself in that situation, to bring emotion to a scene, you have to really convince yourself that this guy is going to kill you.
“I also do topless stuff in this movie,” she reveals, “which is something that I don’t think any of the fans know, nor have I ever done partial nudity in a film before. And it’s only because I respect Rob so much, and because its not, for a lack of a better word, a T&A shot. It really about what happens. And if you’re looking at my boobs and not looking at the scene, than you’re crazy.”
As for Brad Dourif, who plays her father Sheriff Brackett, “He’s wonderful. I mean, he’s an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning actor. It’s crazy, because we already had this father-daughter bond from the first day I met him, which is really nice. He’s a great Sheriff Brackett, and Malcolm McDowell is also terrific as Dr. Loomis. And neither one of them have seen any of the HALLOWEEN movies! So they don’t have anything to go off of, which is good, because they’re not copying.”
Agreeing with most who have worked with Zombie, Harris passionately tells Fango how amazing the experience has been. “I made an agreement with myself not to do any more horror movies, unless it’s HALLOWEEN or a Rob Zombie film. If Rob wanted me to, I would work with him on everything he does.”
—Logan DeSisto
