10 Horror Movies That Tried To Be The Next Halloween
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John Carpenter’s Halloween reinvented the slasher genre, and created a template Hollywood immediately tried to duplicate. The 1978 low-budget classic proved that a simple premise, a masked killer, and a calendar date could be turned into a cultural phenomenon. Soon an explosion of seasonal slashers openly chased Halloween’s success by recreating the formula.