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 ...

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

On January 16th, 1948, the horror film world was given its greatest gift, even if it didn’t know it just yet. It wouldn’t ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As we said in our ranking of the Halloween movies, this is a relatively simple film, "yet it evokes such primal fear, shattering ...

This legendary filmmaker is responsible for plenty of classics, but also some duds. Here are his contributions to sci-fi, ...

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 ...

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, ...