Halloweens

Image: Blumhouse/UniversalA full year after Halloween Ends had come out and brought the reboot trilogy to a close, Miramax snagged the TV rights for the iconic slasher franchise. You wouldn’t think this series would ever leave the TV space, but that’s apparently what it’s doing, and it’ll have its own space where Michael Myers can do his thing. (Murder. That thing is lots of murders.)Will We See More of Uhura's Relationship with Spock? | io9 InterviewTalking to Deadline a few days ago, Miramax’s worldwide TV head Marc…

It’s a curious celebration, Halloween: a night ostensibly dedicated to death and haunting that has somehow become an occasion for all things autumnally cosy. (Growing up in a country where Halloween fell in the bright blush of spring, it made even less sense.)Halloween night itself may have served as the baleful setting for many a blood-freezing horror film – most obviously, and effectively, in John Carpenter’s original Halloween, which locates a sense of tingly, dangerous desolation in the banal Halloween festivities of…

Michael Myers first bounded onto the screen in 1978’s Halloween, with the creamy-white William Shatner mask adorned by the silent and deadly killer. He’s seemingly unstoppable, kills with the joy of a first-timer, and is always reaching his KPIs (killing performance indicators), but how on Earth does Michael Myers keep managing to do it? Why is nobody ever stepping in to stop the guy who keeps murdering masses? Well, perhaps the truth is out there and we’ve only just scratched the surface. A new fan theory…

The horror genre has been on fire for years now, consistently making great money at the box office. Some of the best horror movies returned to theaters thanks to legacy-quels, with that trend being kick started partly thanks to the wild success of the 2018’s Halloween. The sequel featured the return of Jamie Lee Curtis as well as OG Michael Myers actor Nick Castle. And now The Shape himself has shared the special way he’ll appear in Halloween Ends.Two actors have played Michael Myers throughout the current trilogy. While…