The original "Halloween" from 1978 earned around $70 million against a $325,000 budget and there was one key tool that ...

John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978) gave an entire generation the fright of their lives, even as it invented a new genre: the slasher. While some of the slashers this movie inspired (most notably Friday ...

Watching Michael Myers stalk and slash his way through the streets of Haddonfield is always a scary good time, but there's something about queuing up the Halloween movies in October that just hits ...

When the first Halloween movie premiered in October 1978, it would end up changing the horror genre forever. John Carpenter's classic introduced Michael Myers (a.k.a. "The Shape") and Jamie Lee Curtis ...

As many horror fans might be able to tell you, no one was terribly excited to make "Halloween II." John Carpenter's 1978 "Halloween" was a runaway success, making $70 million on a minuscule $300,000 ...

Why did cult director John Carpenter quit Hollywood? John Carpenter is behind multiple legendary 80s horror and sci-fi movies. Most notably, he worked on “Halloween” (1978). Not only did he direct it, ...

John Carpenter is a living legend, a fact that is not up for debate. We all know this and have various films helmed by him that made us the way we are. Which is why Halloween month belongs to him and ...

John Carpenter. His name is synonymous with horror, Halloween, and films that define modern horror cinema. And just like one of his leading ladies, Jamie Lee Curtis, the director, writer, producer, ...

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Cineverse (Nasdaq: CNVS), a next-generation entertainment studio, has announced today that this Halloween, legendary filmmaker and composer John Carpenter ...