Day 31 Trick or Treat

In 1978 John Carpenter put a man in plain coveralls, a William Shatner mask, and created the Halloweenseries. Little did Carpenter know that his $325,000 movie would earn over $150million and spawn a new genre of horror films, after this no teenaged babysitter would ever be safe on the big screen again.

When Halloween was set to be broadcast on television in 1981 the censors deemed several sequences of the film to be too graphic for viewing audiences. Coincidentally Halloween 2 was being film at the same time, and additional footage was shot to replace the sequences the censors did not approve of. This version of the film features the replacement footage as well as the original footage, creating an extended cut of the film with more details on the background and mental illness of the killer.

Ladies and Gentlemen, it has been a pleasure sharing 31 of my favorite horror films with all of you. I feel that the past 31 films are some of the best (and worst) fright films that the cinema has offered us, it was not an easy list to assemble, and I am well aware that I left out many classics. Thank you for joining me in this trip through cinema horror.

Happy Halloween, and if you see a hitchhiker on the side of the road, next to an insane asylum, down by the abandoned amusement park, off the corner of Terror Drive and Dead Mans Notch, stop and pick him up. After all, he might have candy.