Tag: Halloween
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Halloween Review: The 1978 Original Doesn’t Quite Live Up To Its Legacy
Halloween (1978) has a perfect credits sequence for a film centered around that holiday. It also has a chilling first scene, as the jack-o’-lantern segues into a first-person perspective of someone spying on Judith Myers and her boyfriend on Halloween night. Film students eager for a lesson in suspense need look no further. The length…
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Four Practical Ideas That Could Fix the Slasher Movie (Hint: It’s Time to Get Weird Again)
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Why Did Audiences Hate John Carpenter’s The Thing at First?
Today, the films in John Carpenter’s self-proclaimed Apocalypse Trilogy –The Thing, Prince of Darkness, and In the Mouth of Madness – are beloved entries in the pantheon of American horror movies. The Thing especially has become a masterpiece that has surpassed the reputation of the film it was remaking, to the point that it can…
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Why Friday the 13th Is the Best Slasher Franchise
In the mighty sea of film, countless sub-genres have chopped and screwed the capital “G” genres into smaller, more specific territories. Within the history of horror, the terrain has been divided up into monster movies, zombie movies, paranormal movies, and many more. Perhaps the trashiest and most fun of all is the slasher subgenre, movies…
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Some Of John Carpenter’s Inspiration For Michael Myers’ Character Came From A Sci-Fi Classic
As the old saying goes, “success has many fathers, failure is an orphan.” John Carpenter’s 1978 classic, “Halloween,” is the very definition of a successful film: it made so much money that it held the record for the highest-grossing independent movie of all time for numerous years, and it became so influential that it not…
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Original Texas Chain Saw Massacre House Is at Risk of Being Torn Down
Though this October does belong to Michael, as he’s basking in one of his many final films Halloween Ends, might we take a moment to pause and reflect on another silent killer? In 1974, a visionary by the name of Tobe Hooper unleashed his debut feature film onto the world, changing the face of horror…
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Halloween Ends Is the Heaviest Film of the Franchise
Throughout David Gordon Green’s entire new Halloween trilogy, we are regularly reminded that it has been forty years since Michael Myers (James Jude Courtney/Nick Castle) first came home. The 2018 reboot that followed decades of remakes and reboots would go on to embrace John Carpenter’s original vision. It’s a solid story with bits about grief…
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Halloween Ends: Laurie Strode Deserved a Better Ending
Forty years, seven movies, three separate timelines and one powerful actress at the heart of it all: Jamie Lee Curtis has officially said goodbye to her character of Laurie Strode. She solidified a name for herself in 1978 with John Carpenter’s original Halloween and brought to life the most influential final girl in horror movie…
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From ‘Housewives’ to ‘Halloween Ends,’ Kyle Richards Comes Full Circle
As one of the longest reigning queens on Bravo’s “Real Housewives” franchise, Kyle Richards has found great success on camera, even if it wasn’t exactly what she imagined for herself as a kid. The “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” fan favorite began her career as a child actress at just five years old, following in…
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‘Halloween Ends’ #1 in Theaters While on Peacock: This Is What Win-Win Looks Like
With 41.25 million, “