![]() ![]() The story follows a doctor investigating the brutal murder of a patient, which leads him to a small town that manufactures special Halloween masks, before he eventually uncovers a conspiracy that will change the world forever. In fact, things briefly get meta when it’s revealed that the original Halloween is a film within the reality of part three. Hence, Halloween III: Season of the Witch was born, with a storyline unconnected to the previous movies. They wanted to make an anthology series centred on the holiday itself. Since the studio was still interested in making Halloween a franchise, Carpenter and producing partner Debra Hill tried a different tact for the third entry. He once labelled it, “An abomination and a horrible movie,” and made sure the film ended with Michael blown to smithereens so he couldn’t return again. ![]() Most surprising is Carpenter’s return as executive producer and composer, since Michael’s creator has been absent from the franchise for over three decades, having not wanted it to become a series at all.Ĭarpenter has long eschewed sequels, outside of Escape from LA, and has spoken many times of how his involvement with 1981’s Halloween II – where he acted as screenwriter and producer – was purely contractual. The fanbase recently got a shot in the arm with the announcement of the next Halloween, which boasts one hell of a line-up: David Gordon Green directs, Danny McBride is co-writing, Blumhouse are producing, Judy Greer is co-starring and even Jamie Lee Curtis is returning as original final girl Laurie Strode. Michael himself has gone from the spectral bogeyman of John Carpenter’s peerless original to a lumbering punchline eternally doomed to return for mediocre sequels. Fans of the Halloween series are a loyal bunch, having stuck with it through Michael Myers joining an ancient Celtic cult in part six, massive continuity flubs between entries and Michael getting his ass kicked by Paul Rudd, Busta Rhymes and even Donald Pleasance throughout various sequels.
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