Since John Carpenter's cutting-edge classic horror flick Halloween hit theaters in 1978, the murderous Michael Myers has never lurked too far away from the screen. The new Halloween will mark the 10th sequel for the franchise, but this has a special significance that no other follow-up has included.
We've seen so many derivations of it and we've seen it referenced, analyzed, parodied, and homaged so many times that going back to the source is bound to be a little anti-climactic. It certainly was for me, a guy who had not yet been born in 1978.
I have been struggling to translate my horror at current political events through a popular culture lens because that's what, for better or worse, Americans do. The best I've landed on is, oddly enough, John Carpenter's 2001 underrated flop Ghosts of Mars, a film in which mining colonists unleash a well of ancient and violent ghosts from the pits of Mars to possess the citizens of an ostensibly peaceful society.
So you've been invited to a Halloween party and are in dire need of something to wear - but you don't want to buy the same costume from Amazon as everyone else. We've got you covered, with 11 last-minute and pop-culturally relevant costumes for 2018 .
The face of Universal's Halloween Horror Nights may well belong this year to Eleven, the young leading lady of "Stranger Things." The character, played by actress Millie Bobby Brown, appears all over the souvenir merchandise for the event.
Sure, it is another example of celebrities telling us how our guns are bad as they perform on screen with the same, but there is some deeper obliviousness at play here. the millennial demographic launched into the kind of blowback that gets described as "flamed", "dragged" and any other manner of mob aggression.
When people imagine the distinctive visage of Frankenstein's monster, they often picture the iconic flattened forehead, deeply sullen eyes, and neck punctuated by two protruding bolts. This is thanks to Jack Pierce, the makeup artist responsible for conceptualizing an array of ghouls for Universal Studios in the 1930s.
When people imagine the distinctive visage of Frankenstein's monster, they often picture the iconic flattened forehead, deeply sullen eyes, and neck punctuated by two protruding bolts. This is thanks to Jack Pierce, the makeup artist responsible for conceptualizing an array of ghouls for Universal Studios in the 1930s.
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