Want to start an argument among a group of horror fans? Ask them what they think about Rob Zombie’s Halloween.
That’s briefly true of the mostly dreadful Halloween: Resurrection, too, at least until Michael finally kills Laurie early in the film. (Its meta touches extend to casting Curtis’s mom, Psycho star Janet Leigh, in a small role.) After a while, however, it just becomes a pretty standard ’90s slasher movie, though Curtis’s presence helps. Scream writer Kevin Williamson made some uncredited contributions to Halloween H20, which helps explain the film’s knowing tone. The popularity of Scream and the late-’90s slasher revival it heralded all but assured that Halloween would make a comeback. This corner of the Halloweenverse seems to have died with him. The last entry was released posthumously. Loomis in each, lending some gravity to an increasingly silly and convoluted story. By far the most convoluted corner of the Halloweenverse, these films feature a Druid cult, a mysterious man in black, psychic powers, and, in the long-delayed Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, Paul Rudd playing the grown-up version of the little kid Laurie was babysitting in the 1978 original. In the meantime, Laurie marries, has a kid named Jamie (Danielle Harris), then dies in a car accident, leaving Jamie in the care of her unsuspecting adopted parents. In this trilogy, which picks up where Halloween II leaves off, Michael spends the next few years in a coma. Turns out Michael Myers wasn’t dead after all.
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989) Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) How unconnected? A television can be seen advertising the original Halloween. It’s unconnected, however, to the other Halloween films. Roundly dismissed at the time, Halloween III has since rightly picked up a cult following. Working from a plot by British science fiction great Nigel Kneale (who had his name removed from the film) it tells the story of the sinister Silver Shamrock Novelties company whose president (Dan O’Herlihy), in an attempt to create a Celtic-inspired pagan sacrifice on a massive scale, uses computer technology to create Halloween masks designed to kill children. Halloween III: Season of the Witch became the first and only entry in this reinvention.
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His plan: turn Halloween into a kind of anthology series in which each new film told a different story. Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)Ĭarpenter thought he was done with Myers after Halloween II. Michael seems to die a definitive death at the film's end and these two movies combine to tell a self-contained story that could easily have been the end of Michael Myers. Some, but not all, sequels would run with some, but not all, of these new twists. Loomis (Donald Pleasance), Michael’s doctor-turned-relentless-pursuer uncovers a vague connection between Michael and the Gaelic festival of Samhain, suggesting he might have some kind of supernatural powers. Picking up mere moments after Halloween’s final scene, II makes two major additions to Halloween lore: 1) Laurie learns she’s Michael’s sister, adopted by another family after Michael’s institutionalization. Here’s a guide to understanding where each film falls within it. Yet that simple idea has spawned a sometimes baffling horror multiverse that’s home to several parallel realities. The original Halloween’s basic premise doesn’t stretch much further than the title Carpenter and co-writer Debra Hill gave the first draft of their screenplay: The Babysitter Murders.
HALLOWEEN 3D ZOMBIE MOVIE
It’s a series with three films called simply Halloween (and two called Halloween II) that’s united by little more than the presence of a masked killer named Michael Myers - except for the one movie that doesn’t feature Michael at all. In the process, the Halloween franchise has created a continuity so knotty it’s sometimes hard to figure out how one film connects to another, or if they connect at all. (A 13th, Halloween Ends, is due next year.) It also, even more unexpectedly, launched a film series that would span four decades and encompass, with this week’s release of Halloween Kills, 12 films. The 1978 film Halloween became an unexpected hit that made director John Carpenter’s career and kickstarted the slasher sub-genre that would pretty much define horror movies well into the 1980s.
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