Tag: Halloween

  • Low Budget Horror Movies That Made Millions

    Low Budget Horror Movies That Made Millions

    Horror movies for the most part tend to have microscopic budgets. Even relatively speaking, considering most mainstream movies cost many multiples of millions to get off the ground. With that said, some horror movies go on to make a tidy sum at the box office, while others make a downright killing. These 19 horror titles took…

  • ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ Trailer: Leatherface Returns After 50 Years Of Hiding In Legacy Requel

    ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ Trailer: Leatherface Returns After 50 Years Of Hiding In Legacy Requel

    Ready for another legacy requel? Aka, a film, much like “Halloween” (2018), that disregards the entire canon of all the sequels that have arrived since the original opened and takes place after the events of the first film, acting as a new “proper” sequel? That’s “Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” from a filmmaking team that includes Fede…

  • Fairview Trailer: Welcome To Fairview, A Place Of Freedom And Punching Stuff

    Fairview Trailer: Welcome To Fairview, A Place Of Freedom And Punching Stuff

    When there’s no more room in Hell, the IP will walk the earth. It’s all about look-backs and revivals these days. The slasher subgenre is enjoying resurgences of its “Scream,” “Texas Chainsaw,” “Candyman,” and “Halloween” franchises, while streaming services are banking on nostalgia with the ’80s-stylized “Stranger Things” and a revival of the iconic “Unsolved Mysteries”…

  • Scream Spoiler Review: A Bloody Good Legacy Sequel Takes Aim At Toxic Fandom

    Scream Spoiler Review: A Bloody Good Legacy Sequel Takes Aim At Toxic Fandom

    With Jamie Lee Curtis returning to “Halloween,” “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” dusting off the Ecto-1, and the “Jurassic Park” universe ever-expanding, it was only a matter of time before “Scream” got in on the legacy sequel game. The fifth film in the franchise is the first since original director Wes Craven’s death, and as such, has a…

  • How Halloween Became The Unofficial Sequel To Black Christmas

    How Halloween Became The Unofficial Sequel To Black Christmas

    You might think of “Halloween” as the patriarch of the slasher film sub-genre, but John Carpenter’s iconic horror movie has a formidable older sister. Before Michael Meyers was stalking the streets of Haddonfield, there was a psycho prowling a college campus, killing off sorority sisters one by one. “Black Christmas” might not always get its…

  • Lucy Animation Studio Brings the Magic of ‘Halloween’ to Colombia

    Lucy Animation Studio Brings the Magic of ‘Halloween’ to Colombia

    Lucy Animation Studio’s Colombian cartoon “Halloween” was one of two feature films, alongside Star Toons Animation’s “Chaskis – Mensajeros del sol,” honored with the MIFA/Annecy Award from this year’s Ventana Sur Animation! sidebar. Teams representing the two films will receive full accreditation to Annecy 2022 and its MIFA marketplace, where they will pitch as part…

  • Ghostbusters: Afterlife Director Jason Reitman Addresses Whether Ghostbusters II Is Actually Canon

    Ghostbusters: Afterlife Director Jason Reitman Addresses Whether Ghostbusters II Is Actually Canon

    For many long-running film franchises, it’s become a thing now where the latest sequel and/or soft reboot often chooses to overlook previous installments, drawing a line between its narrative and the first or second movie and skipping over everything thereafter. “Terminator: Dark Fate” did it, as did the 2018 “Halloween“. They were talking about doing…

  • ‘The Exorcist’ and ‘Frankenstein’ Top John Carpenter’s Favorite Halloween Films

    ‘The Exorcist’ and ‘Frankenstein’ Top John Carpenter’s Favorite Halloween Films

    Director John Carpenter has directed some of the most iconic horror films of all time. In fact, his 1978 feature “Halloween” is as synonymous with the spooky season as trick or treating. But what movies is Carpenter planning to watch this Halloween?Le Cinema Club, a curated streaming platform that screens one movie a week for…

  • Halloween Spooks the Box Office as ‘Dune’ Drops 62 Percent

    Halloween Spooks the Box Office as ‘Dune’ Drops 62 Percent

    Halloween on a Sunday made a slow box office all but inevitable. Studios avoided programming top new films and created the self-fulling prophecy of a $66 million total, by far the lowest in the strongest month this year.It represented 57 percent of the closest weekend in 2019, bringing the four-week comparative rolling average to 75…

  • The Tournament Of Terror Results: Alien Is The Greatest Horror Franchise Ever

    The Tournament Of Terror Results: Alien Is The Greatest Horror Franchise Ever

    For the past two weeks, we have pitted the greatest horror franchises of all time against each other in /Film’s Tournament of Terrors. And they have fallen one-by-one. A few dark horses were defeated early and a few top contenders lost some very tight races (no one here saw “Halloween” going down so early). And…