Cinema Dissection: Halloween

Film Talks

After John Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13 screened at the Milan Film Festival, producers Irwin Yablans and Moustapha Akkad approached the director to helm a low budget exploitation flick to be entitled The Babysitter Murders. Carpenter and his then partner Debra Hill ran with the idea: writing the script in 10 days, retitling the film to reflect its setting on the spookiest day of the year, and, with the help of a spray painted Captain Kirk mask, crafted one the most relentlessly frightening films of all time. And while not the first slasher film, John Carpenter’s Halloween firmly established the sub-genre as a popular, and lucrative, box office draw; Michael Myers blazed a trail followed by Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, and Ghostface.

Join facilitator and SIFF Programmer Dan Doody for a scene-by-scene—or should that be a slash-by-slash—breakdown of the night he came home!

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