US Edition47 Years Ago Today: John Carpenter's 'Halloween' Slashes Into Theaters, Launching a Horror Revolution
With a $325,000 budget, Halloween grossed over $47 million domestically, launching a franchise and setting the blueprint for slasher horror films, experts say.
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30 years ago, Wes Craven and Eddie Murphy teamed up for an underrated horror masterpiece
Ryan Coogler’s Sinners may have made Black vampires cool again, but the roots of Black vampire cinema stretch back to the Blaxploitation era, most iconically with 1972’s Blacula. In that film, William Marshall’s character is bitten by Dracula and, even worse, cursed with the demeaning name “Blacula.” Originally written as a jive-talking stereotype, Marshall transformed the role into something regal, giving his character an 18th-century backstory…
47 Years Ago Today: John Carpenter's 'Halloween' Slashes Into Theaters, Launching a Horror Revolution
On this day in 1978, a low-budget thriller forever changed the landscape of horror cinema. John Carpenter’s Halloween premiered in theaters, introducing audiences to the masked killer Michael Myers and propelling a young Jamie Lee Curtis into stardom in her feature film debut. Co-starring the legendary Donald Pleasence as the tormented psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis, […] The post 47 Years Ago Today: John Carpenter’s ‘Halloween’ Slashes Into Theater…
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