The Perfect Horror Movie That Inspired Countless Imitators
The original <em>Halloween </em>painted a frightening vision of suburban life. None of its sequels has managed to do the same.
by David Sims
Oct 15, 2021
2 minutes
The 1978 film , for all its notoriety, seems almost quaint compared with the countless that have followed it. In John Carpenter’s singular masterpiece, we watch a masked serial killer named Michael Myers murder four people in the fictional town of Haddonfield. In the opening scene of , the latest edition in this indestructible franchise, a group of plucky firefighters rescues Myers from a burning building. He promptly annihilates
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