halloween
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Halloween II 1981, directed by Rick Rosenthal Rating: 9/10 Coming out only a few years after Halloween, Halloween II picks up immediately after the first movie ended, and so spends a lot of time in the hospital while Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) is recovering and where we learn more mythology of Michael Myers. This movie is definitely
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Halloween 1978, directed by John Carpenter Rating: 10/10 The question of where slashers started is up for debate, whether it was Black Christmas in 1974, Peeping Tom in 1960, or earlier (I feel like Agatha Christie’s 1939 novel And Then There Were None qualifies as a slasher…), but Halloweenremains as the peak of the format and what really drove the craze, and
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Spooky season is my favorite season, so this month each Wednesday I will be uploading two reviews since horror is probably one of the most well-represented genres in my collection (partially thanks to a single box set that contains 200 horror movies). On October 2, I will be posting a classic horror film and its
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