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Perhaps the most influential and successful independent film ever made, HALLOWEEN is the movie that put director John Carpenter on the map as a viable filmmaker. An exercise in simple, pure horror, HALLOWEEN takes us into the world of a mad killer, Michael Myers, who at a very young age stabbed his older sister to death. Locked .. Read more

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  Reilly was 'scared witless' by Halloween movie

  • 18 Oct 2009

  Actor John C. Reilly was scarred for life as a child when his mother took him to see gruesome slasher movie Halloween on the scariest night of the year (31Oct). The Boogie Nights actor recalls how he and his younger brother were taken to see the 1978 horror film, about a masked murderer, before they were even teenagers - and were left "scared witless" by the John Carpenter movie. And Reilly blames the terrifying experience for "damaging" his fragile mind. He says, "I was 12 years old and my... Read more

  

  Halloween remake scares its way to no.1

  • 04 Sep 2007

  A remake of the terrifying slasher flick Halloween proved a hit with US audiences this weekend and overtook Superbad to become the number one film in the country. According to industry source the Hollywood Reporter, Halloween generated around $26.5 million (£13.13 million) in receipts and is expected to continue its success in the forthcoming days. The original, directed in 1978 by John Carpenter, saw Jamie Lee Curtis being stalked by a mysterious and rather deadly clown-faced man in a... Read more

  

  Halloween teaser now online

  • 02 Aug 2007

  If the original Halloween wasn't scary enough, a remake is scheduled to hit cinemas this autumn and a new trailer for it has hit the net. Directed by Rob Zombie, Halloween follows the story of the original John Carpenter movie, which terrified audiences when it was originally released in 1978. The film follows a deranged psychopath who mercilessly stalks his victims before murdering them - usually with a rather large kitchen knife. And while the 1978 version played on audience's fears by... Read more

  

  50+ Women in Film

  • 08 Nov 2010

  Life begins at 40 – but if you’re a movie actress, that’s also when your career gives up the ghost. At least, that’s the way things used to be. Not for everyone of course – there were always bit parts for grannies, and occasionally a star of significant magnitude might parlay her fame into a second career as a horror icon (Bette Davis; Joan Crawford). But those were the exceptions. More typical was the case of Janet Leigh: a Hollywood starlet groomed at the tail... Read more

  

  Next two Saws get a director

  • 19 Jul 2007

  In what may be a real competitor for horror franchises of years past, the Saw series is set to run for two more instalments with a new director coming aboard the project. Psychologically chilling, the first Saw movie introduced a character who set up his victims in horrendous situations - with the only way out being to kill someone else. However, three years on, the fourth film is set to hit cinemas in October and it has been reported that the fifth and sixth are to be directed by David Hackl,... Read more

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