it was inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s
Psycho and defined the slasher genre
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be taking a look at the Halloween film
franchise originally titled the
babysitter murders 1978 Halloween was
written and directed by the master of
horror John Carpenter the movie told the
tale of Michael Myers a disturbed
six-year-old boy who murdered his older
sister on Halloween in 1963 after a
15-year hospitalization Michael escaped
and ventured back to his hometown where
he began stalking a girl named Laurie
played by newcomer actress Jamie Lee
Curtis the 1981 sequel Halloween 2 began
the involvement of other less known
directors while Carpenter continued to
stay involved as the co-writer and
producer in this popular entry in the
franchise Myers continued to stalk
Laurie and audiences discovered that
Myers had been adopted and that Laurie
was his biological sister at the
insistence of John Carpenter the third
instalment season of the witch kept none
of the elements from previous films
aside from the name Carpenter felt that
the series had the potential to branch
into a holiday themed anthology series
as a result it did not feature Michael
Myers or have any connection to the
established storyline it even went so
far as to abandon the slasher genre
which the franchise had pioneered amidst
public confusion over the state of the
franchise the studio acted quickly in
order to restore the popular elements
once found in the series Halloween 4 was
then appropriately titled the return of
Michael Myers carpenters involvement in
the franchise was then further reduced
to a supportive writing credit the film
followed the premise that Myers had been
in a coma since his last screen
appearance awaking 10 years after the
events of the second movie Myers
discovered that Laurie had died in a car
accident however she had given birth to
a daughter named Jamie who then became
his next target only one year after its
release the studio felt that the slasher
film craze was starting to fade so they
pushed Halloween 5 into production
without a solid script this was the last
film in the series with which Carpenter
had any involvement in 1995 the friend
rights were sold to Dimension Films who
were quick to exploit the franchise they
advertised Halloween 6 as six times the
terror six times the fear six times the
thrills of the original Halloween the
film was a commercial failure but did
add an interesting twist to the
character with the revelation that he is
driven by a curse which forces him to
kill his entire bloodline it told him to
kill his family its failure at the box
office resulted in the creation of
1998’s Halloween h2o a semi sequel that
began an alternate timeline that picked
up 20 years after the second film and
ignored all the films that came in later
to add credibility to the series and
reconnect with fans of the original John
Carpenter versions the role of Lori was
reprised by Jamie Lee Curtis rapper LL
Cool J was also cast in the film to help
generate public interest
h2o sequel Halloween resurrection was
the final film within the original
franchise the film received terrible
word-of-mouth and the studio’s inclusion
of Tyra Banks and Busta Rhymes did not
do much to win over audiences in 2007
and 2009 the series saw a complete
reboot when Rob Zombie was brought on
board to retell the events of the first
two original films with more gritty
cinematic realism and violence zombie
chose to explore the myers character’s
backstory in greater depth he added a
new layer to the franchise by having
Laurie’s character share similar
psychological problems with her brother
despite the 2007 film performing
admirably at the box office the 2009
sequel tanked as a result of the reboots
failure Rob Zombie has refused to come
on board for a third film while
Dimension Films went ahead and announced
the next entry will be presented in 3d
the project appropriately entitled
Halloween 3d will seek to capitalize on
the tremendous financial success of
other recent 3d horror films
Psycho and defined the slasher genre
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be taking a look at the Halloween film
franchise originally titled the
babysitter murders 1978 Halloween was
written and directed by the master of
horror John Carpenter the movie told the
tale of Michael Myers a disturbed
six-year-old boy who murdered his older
sister on Halloween in 1963 after a
15-year hospitalization Michael escaped
and ventured back to his hometown where
he began stalking a girl named Laurie
played by newcomer actress Jamie Lee
Curtis the 1981 sequel Halloween 2 began
the involvement of other less known
directors while Carpenter continued to
stay involved as the co-writer and
producer in this popular entry in the
franchise Myers continued to stalk
Laurie and audiences discovered that
Myers had been adopted and that Laurie
was his biological sister at the
insistence of John Carpenter the third
instalment season of the witch kept none
of the elements from previous films
aside from the name Carpenter felt that
the series had the potential to branch
into a holiday themed anthology series
as a result it did not feature Michael
Myers or have any connection to the
established storyline it even went so
far as to abandon the slasher genre
which the franchise had pioneered amidst
public confusion over the state of the
franchise the studio acted quickly in
order to restore the popular elements
once found in the series Halloween 4 was
then appropriately titled the return of
Michael Myers carpenters involvement in
the franchise was then further reduced
to a supportive writing credit the film
followed the premise that Myers had been
in a coma since his last screen
appearance awaking 10 years after the
events of the second movie Myers
discovered that Laurie had died in a car
accident however she had given birth to
a daughter named Jamie who then became
his next target only one year after its
release the studio felt that the slasher
film craze was starting to fade so they
pushed Halloween 5 into production
without a solid script this was the last
film in the series with which Carpenter
had any involvement in 1995 the friend
rights were sold to Dimension Films who
were quick to exploit the franchise they
advertised Halloween 6 as six times the
terror six times the fear six times the
thrills of the original Halloween the
film was a commercial failure but did
add an interesting twist to the
character with the revelation that he is
driven by a curse which forces him to
kill his entire bloodline it told him to
kill his family its failure at the box
office resulted in the creation of
1998’s Halloween h2o a semi sequel that
began an alternate timeline that picked
up 20 years after the second film and
ignored all the films that came in later
to add credibility to the series and
reconnect with fans of the original John
Carpenter versions the role of Lori was
reprised by Jamie Lee Curtis rapper LL
Cool J was also cast in the film to help
generate public interest
h2o sequel Halloween resurrection was
the final film within the original
franchise the film received terrible
word-of-mouth and the studio’s inclusion
of Tyra Banks and Busta Rhymes did not
do much to win over audiences in 2007
and 2009 the series saw a complete
reboot when Rob Zombie was brought on
board to retell the events of the first
two original films with more gritty
cinematic realism and violence zombie
chose to explore the myers character’s
backstory in greater depth he added a
new layer to the franchise by having
Laurie’s character share similar
psychological problems with her brother
despite the 2007 film performing
admirably at the box office the 2009
sequel tanked as a result of the reboots
failure Rob Zombie has refused to come
on board for a third film while
Dimension Films went ahead and announced
the next entry will be presented in 3d
the project appropriately entitled
Halloween 3d will seek to capitalize on
the tremendous financial success of
other recent 3d horror films
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