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With the 1980s heading towards their close, many felt the slasher genre had begun to outstay its welcome. Halloween had come first, but the […]
Halloween H20 : Twenty Years Later is, in some ways, almost as satisfying as John Carpenter’s original Halloween (1978). The fact that it ignores […]
With the unprecedented success of 1978’s indie shocker Halloween, executive producer Moustapha Akkad naturally wanted more. A reasonably reluctant John Carpenter and Debra Hill […]
The success of Halloween II naturally raised the question of what would happen next. Having reduced Michael Myers to a scorched mess, John Carpenter […]
Halloween: Resurrection was released on the 12th of July, 2002, the eighth and final instalment in the original series. Jamie Lee Curtis reprised the […]
With its predecessor, Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers having detonated at the box office like the dampest of squibs in 1989, producer […]
Horror Island, released by Universal in 1941, makes the absolute most of its co-stars Dick Foran and Peggy Moran. Known for sparking off one […]
