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Retirement age can’t keep the original Michael down: Castle, now 71, puts on the mask one more time in the new “Halloween” (in theaters Oct. 19).

Director David Gordon Green’s sequel, which picks up four decades after Carpenter's original film (and disregards the installments in between), sends Myers on another murder spree through suburbia, though former baby sitter Laurie Strode (Curtis) has been preparing for his return.

While actor/stuntman James Jude Courtney is the main man in the mask now, handling the role's physical rigors, Castle cameos as “The Shape” (how Michael was billed in the 1978 film’s credits) in a crucial scene where Laurie finally sees him again in an upstairs window, on the prowl. She shoots the window out, but it turns out she just saw his reflection in a mirror, which shatters.

“It has all kinds of connotations, I think,” says Castle, who gave Curtis “a big hug” when they saw each other on the South Carolina set. “She said, 'Is this nuts or what?!’ So that was kind of what it felt like: What the hell, this is going on again 40 years later?”

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