Year Began: 1978
Number of Entries: 10
John Carpenter’s horror film gave bloody birth to the slasher-film genre of the 1980s. Michael Myers, the movie’s mute, slow-walking, unstoppable killer, directly inspired Jason Voorhees in the dozen-film strong Friday the 13th franchise. Halloween‘s 10-entry series includes two remakes by heavy-metal rocker Rob Zombie (an unsurprisingly fantastic horror-film director) and a sequel — Halloween III: Season of the Witch — that has absolutely nothing to do with any of the other films. It’s about creepy Halloween masks and Michael Myers is nowhere to be found.
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