Fitting for the scariest time in October, John Carpenter’s classic Halloween is on TV today. Every horror fan must have seen the classic, which was shot incredibly cheaply at the time.
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While the big franchise finale Halloween Ends is currently playing in cinemas, you can watch the original classic on TV tonight in keeping with the spookiest holiday of the year.
Tonight at 10:05 p.m. RTL II’s Tele 5 is airing John Carpenter’s horror masterpiece Halloween – The Night of Horror, which gave birth to Michael Myers as a slasher icon. Every horror fan must have seen the film, which was shot comparatively cheaply at the time.
Halloween is a horror milestone – despite the extremely low budget
After murdering his older sister as a young boy in 1963 and being committed to a sanitarium, Michael Myers manages to escape 15 years later. Back in his hometown of Haddonfield, he stalks young Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), eventually hunting her and her friends down in a murderous frenzy.
Watch the trailer for John Carpenter’s Halloween:
When John Carpenter made Halloween decades ago, he had just $325,000 to his name. The director made the most of the low budget and staged his horror film as an object lesson in eerie atmosphere and gripping suspense.
While Michael Myers’ legendary mask was made from a cheap Captain Kirk mask for $1.98, Halloween thrives on John Carpenter’s incredible, self-composed score in addition to its powerful images full of slow-creeping horror. Everyone surely knows the ingenious Halloween theme nowadays.
Add to that Michael Myers as one of the most fascinating horror apparitions. Especially in John Carpenter’s original, the serial killer remains an enigmatic phantom until the end, alongside the traumatising opening sequence, whose expressionless mask hides pure evil.
