Tag: Halloween franchise
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Forget the modern reboots for a second. Strip away the tangled timelines and the increasingly elaborate explanations for why Michael Myers just won’t stay dead .If you want to understand the moment early-80s horror changed gear, when the slow tension of the 70s gave way to the bloodier energy of the slasher boom, you have…
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In 1978, a young, cigarette-smoking film geek named John Carpenter sat down to make a babysitter murders movie. What he actually unleashed was a lean, stalking nightmare, less a movie and more a cold breath on the back of your neck. He took the tropes of the drive-in, blood, boobs, and boogeymen, and filtered them…
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John Carpenter and Debra Hill had no idea back in 1978 that they were changing the horror genre. They set out to make a scary movie about babysitters being stalked on Halloween night. They weren’t thinking about sequels – let alone 12 of them. They weren’t thinking about Corey Cunningham’s awful night of babysitting, heavy…