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#30 as going to be saved for tomorrow, but isn’t that on everyone’s list as #31?

Halloween - 1978

The night HE came home. While many think that this was the first slasher film, they are partially right. It wasn’t the first slasher, but it was the first that made the slasher genre big business by becoming a box office and cult smash hit. John Carpenter and his Casio keyboard’s 3-note music score made the epic horror film in Halloween and creating the legend of Michael Myers.

This was to be the first of the series of movies in the Halloween series and still the best one (which is how it usually is in the series films). While Nightmare got cornier and sillier, and 13th got farther and farther from the point, Halloween just became fucking confusing. I liked how they brought in the idea of a cult called the Thorn later in the series, but it just was never developed enough.

But yeah, nothing beats an intro where a kids dons a clown mask and stabs his family and we see it all through his eyes.

WARNING - DO NOT ATTEMPT TO WATCH THE REMAKES. They will rot your brain.

Fun Fact:
The stalker/slasher was never referred to as Michael Myers in the credits, it was merely named The Shape.

When Halloween was released on television there was a lot of the movie cut out due to the graphic nature. Carpenter shot additional footage and found deleted scenes to add more story for the TV version. This cut is actually pretty decent and one that all Halloween fans cherish in their collection.

There is a copy floating around of a producer’s cut of Halloween 6- Curse of Michael Myers, called Halloween 666. It adds almost 30-40 minutes of additional footage that makes the film understandable and much more watchable than the theatrical version.

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