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Any Halloween fan wanting to know more about the rest of the night HE came home should check out Pat Jankiewicz’s interesting retrospective in the current issue of Fangoria. Director Rick Rosenthal reveals how behind-the-scenes battles between John Carpenter and Dino De Laurentiis changed what scenes made it into the final film. Dean Cundey and [...]

Retro Slashers is interviewing the talented and beautiful Danielle Harris and we’re opening the door to you to ask a question! Email us or post in the comments below and 24 hours from now we will gather the best questions!

With only student films to his name, USC graduate John Carpenter had achieved minor acclaim with his exploitation thriller Assault on Precinct 13. For his next project, a producer had approached him about writing and directing a movie about ‘a babysitter being stalked by the boogeyman.’

Surely by now you know of Retro Slashers‘ love for the HALLOWEEN comics from Devil’s Due. They’ve been the only place in the entire universe – real as well as fictional – to get further chapters of the franchise starring Classic Michael Myers. You know, walks, shaped like a normal man, wears a non-descript clean [...]

Today Fangoria’s Michael Gingold posted an article about the ultimate set of unedited negatives from John Carpenter’s HALLOWEEN (1978) that ended up in the hands of Synapse Films’ Don May Jr in 2006. Unfortunately since 3 years ago, the news has not differed in that there is still no future written in stone for this [...]

Praise be Thorn! As we recently suggested, it’s now confirmed that we’ll be able to get the third and final issue of HALLOWEEN: THE FIRST DEATH OF LAURIE STRODE soon enough! For those not in the know, this mini-series covers the in-continuity but up till now unknown circumstances in which Laurie faked her death and [...]

Director: Rick Rosenthal Writers: Larry Brand, Sean Hood Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Brad Loree, Busta Rhymes, Bianca Kajlich Rating: R (USA), 15 (UK), MA (Australia)

Director: Steve Miner Writers: Robert Zappia, Matt Greenberg, Kevin Williamson Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Adam Arkin, John Hartnett, Michelle Williams Rating: R (USA), 18 (UK), M (Australia)