Halloween (franchise)

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Halloween is an American horror franchise that consists of nine slasher films, novels, and comic books. The franchise focuses on the fictional character of Michael Myers who was committed to Smith's Grove Sanitarium as a child for the murder of his older sister. Fifteen years later, he escapes to stalk and kill the people of Haddonfield, Illinois while being chased by his former psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis. Michael's killings occur on the holiday of Halloween, on which all of the films primarily take place.

The original film, Halloween, was released in 1978. Written by John Carpenter and Debra Hill, and directed by John Carpenter, the sequels have had various writers and directors attached to them. Michael Myers is the antagonist in all of the films except Halloween III: Season of the Witch, which has no direct connection to any other Halloween film in the series. Carpenter, who had a hand in writing the first sequel, has not had any direct involvement with the rest of the films. The film series is ranked fourth at the United States box office – in adjusted 2008 dollars – when compared to other American horror franchises. The first Halloween film is credited with beginning a long line of slasher films inspired by Hitchcock's Psycho. The franchise began when the first novel appeared less than a year after the release of the film, and eight sequels have followed.

Contents 1 Films 1.1 Overview 1.2 Development 1.3 Crew 1.4 Music 1.5 Box office 1.6 Critical reception 2 Literature 2.1 Novels 2.2 Comic books 3 Merchandise 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Films

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[edit] Overview

The original Halloween (1978), written and directed by John Carpenter, tells the story of Michael Myers as he stalks and kills teenage babysitters on Halloween night. The film begins with six-year-old Michael (Will Sandin) killing his seventeen-year-old sister Judith (Sandy Johnson) on Halloween 1963. He is subsequently hospitalized at Smith's Grove Sanitarium. Fifteen years later, Michael (Nick Castle and Tony Moran) escapes and returns to his hometown where he stalks Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her friends as they babysit. The film ends with Michael being shot six times by his psychiatrist, Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasence).^[2] Halloween II (1981) picks up where the events of Halloween left off. Michael's body is missing from the front lawn, where it fell when Loomis shot him. Michael follows Laurie to the local hospital, killing everyone who gets between him and Laurie. The story reveals that Laurie is actually Michael's sister: she was given up for adoption as an infant. Michael corners Loomis and Laurie in an operating room, where Loomis causes an explosion as Laurie escapes. Michael, engulfed in flames, stumbles out of the room toward Laurie before finally falling dead.^[3]

The story line of the third Halloween film, subtitled Season of the Witch (1982), has no connection to the previous two Halloween films. Season of the Witch follows the story of Dr. Challis (Tom Atkins) as he tries to solve the mysterious murder of a patient in his hospital. He, along with the patient's daughter Ellie (Stacey Nelkin), travels to the small town of Santa Mira, California. The pair discover that Silver Shamrock Novelties, a company run by Conal Cochran (Dan O'Herlihy), is attempting to use the mystic powers of the Stonehenge rocks to resurrect the ancient aspects of the Celtic festival, Samhain, which Cochran connects to witchcraft. Cochran is using his Silver Shamrock Halloween masks to achieve his goal, which will be achieved when all the children wearing his masks watch the Silver Shamrock commercial airing Halloween night. Challis contacts the television stations and convinces all but one of the station managers to remove the commercial. The film ends with Challis screaming for the final station to turn off the commercial.^[4]

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988), as the title suggests, features the return of Michael Myers (George P. Wilbur) to the film series. The film reveals that Michael survived the fire in Halloween II but has been in a coma since that night. While being transferred back to Smith's Grove, Michael comes out of his coma and overhears that Laurie Strode, who died in a car accident, has a daughter, Jamie Lloyd (Danielle Harris). Michael escapes the transport heads to Haddonfield in search of Jamie. Fellow survivor Dr. Loomis also goes to Haddonfield after learning that Michael has escaped transfer. Eventually the town residents track Michael down and shoot him several times before he falls down a mine shaft.^[5] Picking up directly where the previous film ends, Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989) has Michael (Don Shanks) surviving the gunshots, and the fall down the mine; he stumbles upon a hermit who bandages him up. One year later, and showing signs of a metaphysical connection to Jamie, Michael tracks Jamie to a local child mental health clinic. Using Jamie as bait, Loomis manages to capture Michael. The film ends with Michael being taken into police custody, only to be broken out of jail by a mysterious stranger, all dressed in black.^[6]

Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995) picks up the story approximately six years after the events of The Revenge of Michael Myers. The mysterious stranger who broke Michael out of jail kidnaps Jamie Lloyd (J. C. Brandy) in an effort to obtain her illegitimate child. Jamie escapes with her newborn, with Michael (George P. Wilbur) in pursuit. Michael kills Jamie and continues searching for her baby; the infant is found by Tommy Doyle (Paul Stephen Rudd)—the young boy who was babysat by Laurie Strode in the first film—who brings it home for safety. It is revealed that Michael is driven by the Curse of Thorn, which forces a person to kill their entire family in order to save all of civilization. The mysterious stranger is revealed to be Dr. Loomis’s colleague, Dr. Wynn (Mitchell Ryan), who is part of a group of people who protect the chosen individual so that they may complete their task. With the help of Kara Strode (Marianne Hagan), Laurie’s would-be cousin, Tommy keeps the infant from Michael, who slaughters Wynn and his followers. Michael is finally subdued by Tommy, who injects him with large quantities of tranquilizers inside the Smith’s Grove Sanitarium. The film ends with Loomis walking back into the sanitarium to find Michael.^[7]

The events that transpire between Halloween 4 and Halloween 6 are effectively ignored in 1998’s Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later. This film opens twenty years after the events of the second film. Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) has faked her own death so that she could go into hiding from her brother Michael. Now working as the head mistress of a private school under the name Keri Tate, Laurie continues to live in fear of her brother’s return. Her own son, John (Josh Hartnett), attends school where she teaches. Laurie’s fear becomes reality when Michael (Chris Durand) shows up at the school and begins killing John’s friends and eventually he and Laurie come face-to-face. Laurie manages to get John and his girlfriend (Michelle Williams) to safety, but decides to return to the school to face Michael once and for all. Laurie succeeds in stopping Michael, but not satisfied until she knows that he is truly dead, Laurie steals his body and decapitates Michael.^[8] Halloween: Resurrection (2002) picks up three years after H20, and reveals that Michael swapped clothes with a paramedic—crushing the paramedic’s larynx so that he could not talk—and that was who Laurie killed. Unable to deal with killing an innocent man, and the fact that Michael was still out there, Laurie is committed to a mental institution. Michael (Brad Loree) shows up at the institution, but Laurie captures him. Her fear of making the same mistake twice gets the better of her, and when she attempts to remove Michael’s mask he surprises and kills her. Michael travels back to his family home in Haddonfield, but finds a group of college students filming an Internet reality show. Michael proceeds to kill everyone, until he is finally electrocuted by the only surviving student, Sara Moyer (Bianca Kajlich), and the show’s creator Freddie Harris (Busta Rhymes).^[9]

A remake of the original Halloween was released in 2007. This film focuses on the events that lead Michael Myers (Daeg Faerch) to kill his family. It also identifies Laurie as Michael’s sister early on, which was something not done in the original film, but was retconned into its sequel. Michael shows early signs of psychopathic behavior at the age of ten, possessing an affinity for torturing and killing animals. On Halloween, Michael murders a school bully, his sister, and her boyfriend, as well as his mother’s boyfriend. He does not harm his infant sister, but acts more as her protector. Committed to Smith’s Grove Sanitarium, Michael closes himself off from everyone, only concerning himself with his papier-mâché masks. Seventeen years later, Michael (Tyler Mane) escapes and heads to Haddonfield to find his younger sister, with his psychiatrist Dr. Loomis (Malcolm McDowell) in pursuit. Michael finds his sister living with the Strode family. After killing all of her friends and family, Michael kidnaps Laurie and attempts to explain through the use of a picture that he has kept of himself and Laurie that she is his sister. Unable to understand, Laurie fights back; she is saved by Loomis, who guns down Michael in an empty pool. Michael returns, kidnapping Laurie again, but this time the two fall over a balcony. With Loomis’s gun pointed at an unconscious Michael’s face, Laurie begins firing through the empty bullet casings until firing the last remaining bullet just as Michael’s hand grabs her wrist.^[10]

[edit] Development

After viewing John Carpenter's film Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) at the Milan Film Festival, independent film producer Irwin Yablans and financier Moustapha Akkad sought out Carpenter to direct for them a film about a psychotic killer stalking babysitters.^[11] Yablans explains, "I was thinking what would make sense in the horror genre, and what I wanted to do was make a picture that had the same impact as The Exorcist."^{[citation needed]} Carpenter and Debra Hill began drafting a story titled The Babysitter Murders, but the title was changed at Yablans request, suggesting the setting be changed to Halloween night and naming it Halloween instead.^[12] Mustapha Akkad fronted the $325,000 for the film's budget,^[11] even though he was worried about the tight schedule, low budget, and Carpenter's limited experience as a filmmaker. He finally decided to finance the film after Carpenter relayed the entire film to Akkad, "in a suspenseful way, almost frame for frame", and opted not to take any fees for directing the film.^[12] The low budget forced wardrobe and props to be crafted from items on hand or that could be purchased inexpensively; this included the trademark mask worn by Michael Myers throughout the film. Production designer, art director, location scout and co-editor Tommy Lee Wallace created Michael's mask from a William Shatner Halloween mask, purchased for $1.98.^[11] The limited budget also dictated the filming location and time schedule. Halloween was filmed in 21 days in the spring of 1978 primarily in South Pasadena, California. An abandoned house owned by a church stood in as the Myers house. Two homes on Orange Grove Avenue in Hollywood were used for the film's climax.^[13]

"We investigated a number of 3-D processes [...] but they were far too expensive for this particular project. Also, most of the projects we do involve a lot of night shooting – evil lurks at night. It's hard to do that in 3-D."

— Debra Hill (writer/producer) on putting Halloween II into 3-D.[14]

Following the success of Halloween, Yablans and Akkad began working on Halloween II, which boasted a much larger budget than its predecessor: $2.5 million. Irwin Yablans and Moustapha Akkad invested heavily in this film, even though John Carpenter refused to direct. Most of the film was shot at Morningside Hospital in Los Angeles, California, and Pasadena Community Hospital in Pasadena, California.^[14] There was initial discussion about filming Halloween II in 3-D, but the idea never came to fruitation. After Halloween II was released, Carpenter and Hill were approached about creating a third Halloween film, but they were reluctant to pledge commitment. The pair agreed to participate in the new project only if it was not a direct sequel to Halloween II, which meant no Michael Myers.^[15] Most of the filming took place on location in the small coastal town of Loleta in Humboldt County, California. Familiar Foods, a milk bottling plant in Loleta, served as the Silver Shamrock Novelties factory, but all special effects involving fire, smoke, and explosions were filmed at Post Studios.^[16]

After Halloween III was released, Michael Myers was brought back into the franchise with 1988's The Return of Michael Myers, where he has stayed for the remainder of the series. Four more sequels would follow, between 1988 and 2002, after The Return of Michael Myers before the series would take a break for five years. On June 4, 2006, Dimension announced that Rob Zombie, director of House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects, would be creating the next installment in the Halloween franchise. Bob Weinstein approached Rob Zombie about making the film, and Zombie, who was a fan of the original Halloween, and friend of John Carpenter, jumped at the chance to make a Halloween film for Dimension Studios.^[17] Before Dimension went public with the news, Zombie felt obligated to inform John Carpenter, out of respect, of the plans to remake his film.^[18] Carpenter's request was for Zombie to "make it his own [film]".^[19] During a June 16, 2006 interview, Rob Zombie announced that his film would combine the elements of prequel and remake with the original concept, and there would be considerable original content in the new film.^[20]

Zombie wanted to reinvent the character, as he felt Michael, along with Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, and Pinhead, had become too familiar to audiences, and as a result, less scary.^[21] The idea was to delve deeper into Michael Myers's back story. Michael's mask was even given its own story, to provide an explanation as to why he wears it, instead of having the character simply steal a random mask from a hardware store, as in the original film.^[22] Zombie wanted to bring Michael closer to what a psychopath really is, and wanted the mask to be a way for Michael to hide.^[18] Moreover, Michael would not be able to drive in the new film, unlike his 1978 counterpart who stole Loomis' car so that he could drive back to Haddonfield.^[22] Zombie also wants the Dr. Loomis character to be more intertwined with that of Michael Myers, as opposed to what Zombie saw, in the original film, as showing up merely to say something dramatic.^[21] Although Zombie was adding new content to the film, he chose to keep the character's trademark mask and Carpenter's theme tune intact for his version.^[20]

[edit] Crew

Film	Director	Writer(s)	Producer(s)
1. Halloween	John Carpenter	Debra Hill & John Carpenter
2. Halloween II	Rick Rosenthal
3. Halloween III	Tommy Lee Wallace		Debra Hill & John Carpenter
4. Halloween 4	Dwight H. Little	Alan B. McElroy	Paul Freeman
5. Halloween 5	Dominique Othenin-Girard	Michael Jacobs, Dominique Othenin-Girard & Shem Bitterman	Ramzi Thomas
6. Halloween 6	Joe Chappelle	Daniel Farrands	Paul Freeman
7. Halloween H20	Steve Miner	Robert Zapia & Matt Greenberg
8. Halloween: Resurrection	Rick Rosenthal	Larry Brand & Sean Hood	Paul Freeman & Michael Leahy
9. Halloween	Rob Zombie		Malek Akkad, Andy Gould & Rob Zombie

[edit] Music

John Carpenter composed the music to the first three films. For Halloween, Carpenter chose to use a piano melody played in a 5/4 time rhythm instead of a symphonic soundtrack. Critic James Berardinelli calls the score "relatively simple and unsophisticated", but admits that "Halloween's music is one of its strongest assets."^[23] Carpenter stated in an interview, "I can play just about any keyboard, but I can't read or write a note."^[12] In the end credits, Carpenter bills himself as the "Bowling Green Orchestra" for performing the film's score, but he did receive assistance from composer Dan Wyman, a music professor at San José State University.^[11][24]

The score for Halloween II is a variation of John Carpenter's compositions from the first film, particularly the main theme's familiar piano melody played. The score was performed on a synthesizer organ rather than the piano used for Halloween.^[25] One reviewer for the BBC described the revised score as having "a more Gothic feel". The reviewer asserted that it "doesn’t sound quite as good as the original piece", but "it still remains a classic piece of music".^[26]

Music remained an important element in establishing the atmosphere of Halloween III. Just as in Halloween and Halloween II, there was no symphonic score. Much of the music was composed to solicit "false startles" from the audience. The soundtrack was composed by John Carpenter and Alan Howarth, who had also worked on the score for Halloween II. The score of Halloween III differed greatly from the familiar main theme of the original and its first sequel. Carpenter replaced the familiar piano melody with a slower, electronic theme played on a synthesizer with beeping tonalities.^[27] Howarth explains how he and Carpenter composed the music for the third film:

"The music style of John Carpenter and myself has further evolved in this film soundtrack by working exclusively with synthesizers to produce our music. This has led to a certain procedural routine. The film is first transferred to a time coded video tape and synchronized to a 24 track master audio recorder; then while watching the film we compose the music to these visual images. The entire process goes quite rapidly and has 'instant gratification', allowing us to evaluate the score in synch to the picture. This is quite an invaluable asset."^[28]

[edit] Box office

The Halloween franchise—when compared to the other top-grossing American horror franchises such as A Nightmare on Elm Street, Child's Play, Friday the 13th, the Hannibal Lecter series, Psycho, Saw, Scream, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and adjusting for the inflation—is the fourth highest grossing horror franchise in the United States (approximately $495.6 million).^[29][30] This list is topped by Friday the 13th at $585.8 million,^[31] followed closely by the Hannibal Lecter film series with $557.1 million.^[32] The Nightmare on Elm Street series is third with $500.3 million,^[33] followed by Halloween, and then Scream with $380.6 million.^[34] Psycho at $356 million,^[35] Saw with 306 million,^[36] The Texas Chainsaw Massacre with $302.3 million,^[37] and the Child's Play film series with approximately $173.2 million round out the list.^[38]

Film	U.S. release date	Box office revenue			Reference
		United States	Outside U.S.	Worldwide
Halloween	October 25, 1978	$47,000,000	$8,000,000	$55,000,000	[39]
Halloween II	October 30, 1981	$25,533,818	-	$25,533,818	[40]
Halloween III: Season of the Witch	October 22, 1982	$14,400,000	-	$14,400,000	[41]
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers	October 21, 1988	$17,768,757	-	$17,768,757	[42]
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers	October 25, 1989	$11,642,254	-	$11,642,254	[43]
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers	September 29, 1995	$15,116,634	-	$15,116,634	[44]
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later	August 7, 1998	$55,041,738	$17,958,262	$73,000,000	[45]
Halloween: Resurrection	July 12, 2002	$30,354,442	$7,310,413	$37,664,855	[46]
Halloween*	August 31, 2007	$58,272,029	$19,810,316	$75,418,461	[47]
Halloween film series		$275,129,654	$58,124,070	$333,253,724

*Note: Updated April 1, 2008. Please update if necessary.

[edit] Critical reception

Critics have suggested that Halloween and its slasher film successors may encourage sadism and misogyny.^{[citation needed]} Others have suggested the film is a social critique of the immorality of young people in 1970s America, pointing out that many of Myers' victims are sexually promiscuous and substance abusers, while the lone heroine is depicted as chaste and innocent.^{[citation needed]} While Carpenter dismisses these analyses, the perceived parallel between the characters' moral strengths and their likelihood of surviving to the film's conclusion has nevertheless become a standard slasher movie trope.^{[citation needed]} Critics credit this film as the first in a long line of slasher films inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960).^{[citation needed]}

In addition to weak box office returns, most critics gave Halloween III negative reviews. Whereas Halloween had broken new ground and was imitated by genre films following in its wake, this third installment seemed hackneyed to many: one critic suggests that if Halloween III was not part of the Halloween series, then it would simply be "a fairly nondescript eighties horror flick, no worse and no better than many others."^[48]

[edit] Literature

[edit] Novels

When the original Halloween was released in 1978, a novelization of the movie followed just a year later. Written by Curtis Richards, the book follows the events of the film, but expands on the festival of Samhain and Michael's time at Smith's Grove Sanitarium.^[49] Halloween II and Halloween 4 each received novelizations as well. Jack Martin would write Halloween II, which was released alongside its film counterpart. Martin included an additional victim of Michael's in this novel.^[50] Halloween IV, released in October 1988 and written by Nicholas Grabowsky, also followed the events of the film in which it was adapted from.^[51]

Over a four month period, Berkley Books published three young adult novels written by Kelly O'Rourke; the novels are original stories created by O'Rourke, with no direct continuity with the films.^[52] The first, released on October 1, 1997, titled The Scream Factory, follows a group of friends who set up a haunted house attraction in the basement of Haddonfield City Hall, only to be stalked and killed by Michael Myers while they are there.^[53] The Old Myers Place is the second novel, released December 1, 1997, and focuses on Mary White, who moves into the Myers house with her family. Michael returns home and begins stalking and attacking Mary and her friends.^[54] O'Rourke's final novel, The Mad House, was released on February 1, 1998. The Mad House features a young girl, Christine Ray, who joins a documentary film crew that travels to haunted locations; they are currently headed to Smith Grove Mental Hospital, where they are confronted by Michael.^[55]

[edit] Comic books

The first Halloween comic was published by Brian Pulido's Chaos Comics. Simply titled Halloween, it was intended to be a one-issue special, but eventually two sequels spawned: Halloween II: The Blackest Eyes and Halloween III: The Devil's Eyes. All of the stories were written by Phil Nutman, with Daniel Farrands—writer for Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers—assisting on the first issue; David Brewer and Justiniano worked on the illustrations. Tommy Doyle is the main protagonist in each of the issues, focusing on his attempts to kill Michael Myers. The first issue includes back story on Michael's childhood, while the third picks up after the events of the film Halloween H20.^[56]

One Good Scare was released in 2003; it was written by Stefan Hutchinson and illustrated by Peter Fielding. The main character in this comic is Lindsey Wallace, the young girl who first saw Michael Myers alongside Tommy Doyle in the original 1978 film. Hutchinson wanted to bring the character back to his roots, and away from the "lumbering Jason-clone" the film sequels had made him.^[57] On July 25, 2006, as an insert inside the DVD release of Halloween: 25 Years of Terror, Hutchinson released Halloween: Autopsis. Written by Hutchinson, and artwork by Marcus Smith and Nick Dismas, the story is about a photographer assigned to take pictures of Michael Myers. As the photographer, Carter, follows Dr. Loomis he begins to take on Loomis's obsession himself, until finally meeting Michael Myers in person, which results in his death.^[58]

In 2008, Stefan Hutchinson released the first issue of his new comic book, Halloween: Nightdance. This is a four issue mini-series, and it does not contain any characters—other than Michael—from the films.^[59] The four issues are titled, "A Shape in the Void", "The Silent Clown", "A Rainbow in One Color", and "When The Stars Came Crashing Down".^[60] The first issue, "A Shape in the Void", takes place on October 31, 2000, so that it falls between Halloween H20 and Halloween Resurrection. Issue one follows Michael as he stalks Lisa, a fifteen year-old girl with insecurities and "a chronic fear of darkness".^[59] Hutchinson explains that Nightdance is an attempt to escape the dense continuity of the film series and recreate the tone of the 1978 film. Michael becomes inexplicably fixated on Lisa, just as he did with Laurie in the original Halloween, before the sequels established that a sibling bond was actually his motivation for stalking her.^[61] The upcoming Halloween 30th Anniversary Special comic book from Devil's Due will celebrate the franchise's thirtieth anniversary with a collection of short stories inspired by John Carpenter's original film. Writer Stef Hutchinson explains that H30 came about because, unlike previous decades, there was no Halloween film coming out in 2008 to celebrate the occasion.^[62]

[edit] Merchandise

The Halloween franchise has also seen profitability through various merchandise like toys, dolls, statues, model kits, bobbleheads, snow globes, movie posters, masks, T-shirts, hats, and more. Michael Myers has made appearances in the form of dolls and toys from McFarlane Toys, Sideshow Collectibles, and NECA. Even Dr. Loomis has been immortalized in plastic alongside Michael Myers in a two-figure set produced by NECA.

The Michael Myers mask has been reproduced over the years by Don Post, the mask company responsible for the creation of the masks from several of the Halloween films (the Silver Shamrock novelty factory seen in Halloween III was actually shot on location in one of Don Post's factories). While Don Post reproductions of the Michael Myers mask are still commonly found in costume stores every Halloween, the license to produce Michael Myers masks has since been given to Cinema Secrets, the company commissioned with the creation of the Michael Myers mask for Halloween: Resurrection.

The Halloween series also lives on in DVD form. Many versions of the original Halloween (often including special extras like free merchandise or additional footage missing from previous DVD releases of the film) as well as several of its sequels have been published by Anchor Bay Entertainment, Universal Studios, and Dimension Films. On October 2, 2007, the original Halloween was sold on Blu-ray for the first time by Anchor Bay Home Entertainment. In December 2007 there were reports that the Producer's Cut of Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers might get a DVD release in the future.^[63][64]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official site
• Official MySpace profile
• Halloween at the Internet Movie Database
• Halloween II at the Internet Movie Database
• Halloween III: Season of the Witch at the Internet Movie Database
• Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers at the Internet Movie Database
• Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers at the Internet Movie Database
• Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers at the Internet Movie Database
• Halloween H20: 20 Years Later at the Internet Movie Database
• Halloween: Resurrection at the Internet Movie Database
• Rob Zombie's Halloween at the Internet Movie Database
• Halloween at John Carpenter's official website
• The oficial website for Halloween Comics
• Covers the long-running franchise of tales
• Interview with Tony Moran, the original Michael Myers on a Food is Not Love Bloody Mary Tyler Moore episode

v • d • e The Halloween series Films Halloween • II • Season of the Witch • The Return of Michael Myers • The Revenge of Michael Myers • The Curse of Michael Myers • H20 • Resurrection • Halloween (2007) Characters Michael Myers • Samuel J. Loomis • Laurie Strode • Jamie Lloyd • Other characters People Moustapha Akkad • John Carpenter • Debra Hill • Rick Rosenthal • Irwin Yablans • Rob Zombie Media tie-ins Halloween: 25 Years of Terror • Comic Books • Novel Adaptations • Video Game Related topics Curse of Thorn • Haddonfield • Smith's Grove - Warren County Sanitarium