Michael Myers

There’s an alternative universe where they never made a straight sequel to 1978’s Halloween. Instead, the franchise continued with John Carpenter’s original anthology concept. Every few years or so, we’d get another spooky story on…

To state the obvious, we never needed a sequel to the 1978 original Halloween. The essence of Michael Myers’ frightening presence, the murderous void that guides him and makes him known as The Shape, had…

Along with the highly-anticipated release of Halloween Kills, comes the desire to revisit past films in the franchise. Coincidentally, Halloween II, one of the best chapters in the Michael Myers lore, turns 40 this month. Kind…

Spooky movie season is officially here. While Halloween might be a few months off, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is already spreading the spooky spirit. It’s a fresh cinematic take on a controversial children’s…

Before the release of the already hugely successful Halloween sequel/reboot by David Gordon Greene, I wrote a two-part article on the Halloween franchise as a whole. In these articles I conveyed to my fellow readers…

In case you haven’t noticed, horror is kind of a thing these days. The last few years have been very kind to the genre. In fact, you might even say that we’re in a golden…

It was only a matter of time before the Halloween franchise had another chance to simultaneously scare and please audiences around the world. But unlike many cynical cash grabs of recent memory that came about from needlessly…

Last week Halloween (2018) proved to be a monster success when it hauled in $75 million+ over its debut weekend. The film also opened to rave reviews, something that the franchise has failed to do…

“The strongest human emotion is fear. It’s the essence of any good thriller that, for a little while, you believe in the boogeyman…” In this part I will cover what I consider to be the…

I’ll be honest, as a horror-geek, the Halloween franchise is one of the hardest to get through. This is only because the original has been such an inspiration to the genre, to the slasher icons…