THE OVERLY COMPLICATED HISTORY OF THE HALLOWEEN FRANCHISE
Halloween (1978)
When the original Halloween hit the silver screen in 1978, it terrified audiences with its masterful tension and truly terrifying killer. The story was simple yet utterly effective. Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again. Alongside the instantly recognizable theme, this movie introduces us to Michael Myers as a sociopathic child who kills his older sister, for which he is committed to a sanitarium. At age 21 Myers escapes, in order to find his sister, Laurie Strode, played by the scream queen herself, Jamie Lee Curtis. Halloween instantly established itself as a true horror classic, and would go on to influence numerous modern classics we know today.
Halloween 2 (1981)
The anticipation for the sequel to one of the best horror movies was through the roof, especially with Carpenter returning to write the script. However, like most sequels, Halloween 2 suffered from trying to up the ante and make everything bigger and scarier. The sequel loses the incredible tension of the original, instead focusing more on the
