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Halloween: The Troubled History Behind the Franchise

posted 6 years ago by TMC-4 (19411)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwT2Wqfa3mk

While Halloween wasn’t the first slasher film, it was the first smash hit slasher and along with 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre's' Leatherface, ushered in a whole era of masked and deformed boogie men at the cinema and video store throughout the 80's and 90's.
But beyond the 1978 masterpiece, the franchise quickly became a mess. With its creator trying to change its purpose to an anthology series and quickly giving up, to a series that was rebooted and rebooted time and again with an increasingly large list of colorful characters involved in production.
Including the 2018 movie, the franchise has been restarted no less than five times. In this video, we will examine the history of Halloween, the many behind the scenes fights, and what future the most recent franchise rebirth will bring.

[–] pioneergrrrl (2389) 5 years ago

Well the first movie actually has some big political undertones. It was made in the late 70's when the disability rights movement had acchieved special education and deinstitionalization.

Michael Meyers was a child w mental disabilities who was locked up for his and everybody's good. Unlike boo radley in to kill a mockingbird, he is dangerous and violent. He escapes his doctor who was supposed to be taking him to court and returns to the community and house where he commited his original crime....and resumes.

Really it's not that gory compared to others. Or even stuff like Terminator. It's kinda even interesting.

After there the franchise loses steam.