Halloween (Original) Always known forever as the film that turned the tide for American horror movies, this 1978 release from master director John Carpenter made for an extremely low budget of $325,000 wound up being the highest grossest independent film of all time and moreso created and inspired the so-called “slasher” genre, where one filmmaker […]
Halloween 2 Horror sequels became so frequent at one time to so many horror movie classics that they literally became a subgenre onto their own, with the various chapters in each “franchise” becoming of such various quality that deciding which ones were the best became a virtual guessing game and point of debate among hardcore […]
Halloween 4: The Return Of Michael Myers Managing to be at the same time a loving homage and a near ripoff of the Carpenter original, the fourth entry starts off with a strong atmosphere as we have it explained what happened with Myers and Loomis over the last ten years, leading up to Michael’s escape. […]
Halloween 5: The Revenge Of Michael Myers The fifth entry in the series takes some MAJOR risks, and many of its ideas are hit or miss, but this entry seems almost refreshing after the dead weight of Part 4, because it feels like they tried something different. After making us ludicrously believe Myers spent a […]
Halloween 6: The Curse Of Michael Myers (Producer’s Cut) When it comes to retconned and redone movie franchises (usually in order to force a continuation of the series by sacrificing pure continuity), no timeline has been more tampered with than that of Halloween and that’s not even counting Rob Zombie’s remakes of Parts 1 and […]
Halloween 8: Resurrection In many ways the “official” end of the line for what constituted the Original Halloween Series and also of course an endeavor on the part of the franchise’s since passed away Executive Producer Mustapha Akkad to keep it all going despite any and all sense of continuity and story sense being retained […]
Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later 20 years after the game changing horror movie revelation that was John Carpenter’s Halloween, a decision was made (for the first but not the last time for the franchise) to completely “retcon” and reboot the series with an “alternate” timeline that was to explain that Michael Myers had not been […]
Hang Em High Eastwood’s first American western is an interesting precursor of his later Unforgiven, with its subtle themes of anti-violence and to an extent rallying against capital punishment itself. The opening five minutes are certainly evocative, showing Eastwood driving some cattle and rescuing one out of the water before being surrounded by a vigilante […]
Hansel And Gretel: Witch Hunters Revisionist remakes / reboots / updates / retellings of classic stories seemed to have experienced a slight resurgence in the last 10 years with one of the better received having been Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, based mostly on the idea that the film was played off in such an ominous, […]