Horror movies are Awesome but they are even better during Halloween. You have an opportunity to catch all kinds of scary movies on TV you've never seen before. This year believe it or not i watched the original Halloween Movie all the way through for the first time. What made it even more interesting to me was learning a little bit more about the movie afterward on the History Channel.
This movie really was the first of its kind. Halloween (the holiday) up until this point in history had been primarily focused on keeping kids out of trouble. Halloween themes, including movies and costumes were geared toward children. It wasn't until the 1960's when grown ups started to celebrate Halloween in their own way. When John Carpenter created Halloween in 1978 it was the first movie, meant for an adult audience, to use the holiday as a backdrop.
On an interesting note, in an interview with John Carpenter he said that the Michael Myers mask was a last minute edition to the movie so they picked up the first mask they could find which happened to be a horrible rendition of Captain Kirk from StarTrek.
Yep, this is one of the greatest slasher films of all times my friend. I too watched pretty much the marathon Halloween, 1,2,3,4,5,6 that they were showing on AMC. Damn good times.
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