Halloween
Watching the original Halloween in 2018, it can be hard to appreciate exactly what was so scary about it in 1978. We’ve seen so many derivations of it and we’ve seen it referenced, analyzed, parodied, and homaged so many times that going back to the source is bound to be a little anti-climactic. It certainly was for me, a guy who had not yet been born in 1978. John Carpenter’s Halloween wasn’t the goriest, the trashiest, or the kitschiest. Yet it essentially spawned an entire genre: the slasher film. And here we are in 2018, still making Halloween movies. Or at least, David Gordon Green and Danny McBride have made a Halloween movie. It’s an unlikely combination of content and creator, but an intriguing one. Also see "The 'North Carolina Mafia' Do Horror: Danny McBride Explains How He Ended Up Writing Halloween" (Movies & TV, Oct 11).
by Vince Mancini