Kyle Richards reprised her iconic role from the 1978 horror flick for its sequels, Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends, but did her character survive?
Halloween is one of the most recognizable horror films ever made. Fans of Bravo know that Kyle Richards from The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills has a significant part in the film, which chronicles the homicidal rampage of the masked killer Michael Myers across a town on the spookiest day of the year.
Numerous sequels and remakes of the 1978 film have been produced, including Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends. But did Kyle’s Lindsey Wallace, who appeared in both the first and last films as an 8-year-old girl, survive Michael Myers in the end? The following contains spoilers:
What happened to Kyle Richards’ Lindsey on Halloween Kills?
Lindsey was one of the two kids Laurie, played by Jamie Lee Curtis, was eventually babysitting in the original film. After living through Myers’ original killing rampage back in 1978, in Halloween Kills, Lindsay is one of his survivors who gathers every Halloween to remember what happened.
Surprisingly, Lindsey lives through the sequel as well.
“I went right to the last page I was on to see if I was dead or alive,” Kyle told Insider about her role in the movie. “I was curious if this was just going to be a cameo, so I was really happy to have a significant enough role to really sink my teeth into and be able to show that I’m really an actor and this is what I do.”
Myers stalks Lindsey down at a playground in Halloween Kills, just one of many terrifying encounters she experienced with him despite living. Despite killing Nancy Stephens’s character Marion, Lindsey was able to flee by hiding from Myers near to a body of water before he gave up and fled. Kyle acknowledged that she gave her character’s backstory much more care this time around than she had when she was 8 years old. She even determined that her character would require a nose ring for the follow-up.
“I was thinking about my character after all these years of being terrorized by Michael Myers,” Kyle said to Insider. “I really had to think about who this person is, and who does she grow into as an adult after what she’s gone through. She never left Haddonfield. I mean, what is wrong with this woman? Why didn’t she get the hell out? But, she’s bonded with these people in this small town and I felt she had to have some edge to her.”
Kyle even changed up her look to appear in Halloween Kills. In September 2019 she debuted a new haircut with bangs: a throwback to her hair style when she appeared as a child in Halloween.
Did Kyle Richards’ Lindsey survive Halloween Ends?
In Halloween Ends, Lindsey the adult revealed more about herself as a bartender at a location frequented by Curtis’ Laurie. In this movie, which takes place four years after Halloween Kills’ violent rampage, Michael Myers makes another appearance. According to Variety, because of the enthusiastic response from viewers to Kyle’s performance in Halloween Kills, the movie’s creators revised the screenplay to include her in the series’ climax.
Kyle told Andy Cohen during the RHOBH Season 11 reunion how honored she was to be in the movie.
“It’s been unbelievable reprising this role all these years later,” Kyle said. “Working with Jamie Lee Curtis again. It’s been amazing just to be part of this film. It means so much to so many people.”
Kyle said her main role in Halloween Ends was to support Curtis’ Laurie. That included spending time with Laurie and Laurie’s granddaughter Allyson, played by Andi Matichak.
“As my character, I want to be there to be more nurturing to them, because I felt like they’re the ones who needed that right now,” Kyle told SyFy. “That’s why I took more of a maternal approach with Allyson.”
Kyle was grateful to have scenes with Curtis in this film as well.
“It felt really great to be there with Jamie, finally, because we didn’t have a scene together in Halloween Kills,” she told Syfy.
Although the horror movie odds were against her, Lindsey survived in Halloween Ends as well.
Kyle wrote on her Instagram on September 19, 2022, “Lindsey and Laurie are the original survivors of this and you know, it’s only fitting that all these years later we’re here together.” We’re in a very special situation, especially after watching how Lindsey and Laurie’s relationship and Kyle and Jamie’s have developed over the years. How many people can say that this is their third movie together after playing these characters in 1978?
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