Tag Archives: Halloween

In a recent interview with Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo, Jamie Lee Curtis revealed that the 2018 remake/reboot/sequel/reanimated corpse of Halloween (2018) underwent re-writes before making it to the screen. Most significantly, the opening of the film changed from a ...

When we are introduced to Dr. Sam Loomis in the original Halloween (1978), we’re being thrown into the middle of things. We’re meeting a man at the end of his rope, a man who might very well be minutes away ...

I approach the month of October with very much the same enthusiasm as most people do Christmas; I start looking for new pumpkin carving ideas in July and picking out what horror films to watch in August.  I also have ...

We’re a competitive lot, oh we of the Antipodes. We love a good stoush. We love formalising a good stoush and we like our stoushes punctual. Just take a look at the zeal surrounding the yearly event that is the ...

Every neighborhood has one. That guy with the mismatched porch furniture and the occasional broken toilet adorning the weed garden, the overgrown foliage that probably isn’t even native to the area, and the stolen street signs leaning up against the ...

The Halloween season is all about having a good time, and what’s better for having a good time this time of year than spooky music? It’s a damn crime that Halloween music isn’t played every month of the year like ...

Halloween (1978) is a simple story. It’s about, as Ghostface put it in Wes Craven’s Scream (1996) a guy who “has the white mask and stalks the babysitters.” That’s truly the gist of it, and yet this is a film, ...

At the beginning of the newest Halloween entry, two investigative journalists are sitting inside Laurie Strode’s (Jamie Lee Curtis) compound, hoping to get a few words from her about the ordeal she suffered forty years prior. They ask her if ...

When they were making Halloween, nobody really knew if it was going to work. Not John Carpenter, not even producer and franchise godfather Moustapha Akkad. It wasn’t that the film was necessarily bad in their eyes, but they had no ...

The Halloween season is magical for its multitudes of possibilities. It’s hard to come up with a major holiday that gives such free reign to explore fear, surprise, and celebrate the thinning of the veil between the living and the ...