Halloween, the first Modern Slasher Series- October 13
Aaron Perez 10-13-2026 Image Credit: Compass International Pictures Few horror icons have cast a longer, colder shadow than Michael Myers. The silent, white-masked figure who first stalked the quiet streets of Haddonfield, Illinois, in 1978 remains one of cinema’s purest embodiments of evil. John Carpenter’s Halloween didn’t just launch a franchise—it helped define the modern slasher genre. What followed is a sprawling, often contradictory saga of sequels, reboots, and alternate timelines that has kept “The Shape” returning for nearly half a century. The Night He Came Home: Halloween (1978) On Halloween night 1963, six-year-old Michael Myers murders his teenage sister Judith in their Haddonfield home while wearing a clown costume and mask. Fifteen years later, the now-adult Michael escapes Smith’s Grove Sanitarium on the eve of Halloween 1978. His former psychiatrist, Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasence), who has long believed the boy is pur...