'The boogeyman' is paying Lowcountry residents a visit in new 'Halloween' trailer

Forty years after Michael Myers first began killing teens in the fictional town of Haddonfield, Illinois, the 'Halloween' film crew have taken the infamous killer's story to the Lowcountry.

An alternate reality continuation of the series that began in 1978, the slasher movie was filmed a few months ago in North Charleston.

The chilling trailer for the film was released on Friday and depicts parts of the Charleston metropolitan area, the Post and Courier reports.

Jamie Lee Curtis stars as Laurie Strode, who was terrorized as a teen by Myers, a murderous psychopath commonly referred to in the original film as "the boogeyman."

The trailer shows Curtis, again as Strode, in Charleston Mayor John Tecklenburg's neighborhood, bent on ridding the world of Myers for good.

The scene that reveals the killer's famous mask was filmed in the courtyard at Military Magnet Academy in North Charleston. It's used in the film as the mental institution from which Myers escapes.

Teens are shown walking down the streets of Charleston's Hampton Park Terrace neighborhood gossiping about Strode's story. Children are later shown trick-or-treating on the same streets.

Roads near the city's Huger and President streets were blocked off for filming, according to The Post and Courier.

But if blocked roads were cause for any resident frustration, that frustration was likely lessened by the excitement and anticipation once Curtis dropped a selfie on social media from the film's Lowcountry set.

The film's release is set for Oct. 19, 2018.

This story was originally published June 8, 2018 at 3:42 PM with the headline "'The boogeyman' is paying Lowcountry residents a visit in new 'Halloween' trailer."