Halloween (1978)
While it can’t claim to be the
first slasher movie, having been
preceded by the likes of Peeping Tom, The Texas Chain Saw
Massacre, and Black Christmas,
John Carpenter’s Halloween is
certainly the most influential.
Laying down a new template for
the genre, it inspired countless
imitations, none of which would
come remotely close to replicating its chilling atmosphere.
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Carpenter had been approached by producer Irwin
Yablans to write and direct a
cheap horror movie, Yablans
having been highly impressed
with Carpenter’s work on the
low budget Assault on Precinct
13. Enlisting the aid of then
girlfriend Debra Hill, Carpenter
wrote a script in a few days, originally with the rather uninspired
title of ‘The Babysitter Murders’.
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