Of course, there’s another facet of the series’ enduring popularity that can’t be overlooked, and that’s the cat-and-mouse game between Laurie and horror’s most implacable killer. Of course, this cyclical quality may also be why Halloween is so enduringly popular - you definitely don’t need to have seen every film in the franchise to understand what’s happening, or to enjoy the next one. After that, the franchise goes haywire, spinning through one-offs, sequels, and remakes that perpetually overwrite each other. The only thing we can say for sure about the timeline is that the first two films are paired and occur in sequential order on the very same night. He then co-wrote and co-produced a sequel with his collaborator Debra Hill, but their subsequent attempt to keep the series from becoming formulaic would end up sending it meandering off in random, truncated directions.Īs a result, where most horror franchises stick to their main story concept and expand it over time, the Halloween franchise keeps getting lost and restarting itself - hence the shaky continuity of the latest film.
Though the original film, Halloween (1978), is Carpenter’s signature film, it’s the only one in the series he directed. Of all iconic horror franchises, none is quite as quirky and erratic as this one. Jamie Lee Curtis in the role that would make her the ultimate scream queen.Īs Laurie, Curtis has battled the unkillable, silent but single-minded Michael Myers across five of the 11 films in John Carpenter’s Halloween franchise - including the newest entry, a sort-of sequel, sort-of remake directed by David Gordon Green that’s out this weekend. The tale of Halloween in Haddonfield, Illinois, has been told and retold: the night in 1963 that an angelic 6-year-old Michael Myers, dressed in a clown suit, brutally murdered his teenage sister, followed by the night 15 years later, again on Halloween, when he broke out of a mental institution in his famously mutilated William Shatner mask to terrorize the virginal babysitter Laurie Strode, a.k.a.
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