Halloween

Halloween is an American horror franchise begun by director John Carpenter's 1978 film Halloween, which follows the masked killer Michael Myers as he stalks the fictional town of Haddonfield, Illinois on Halloween night, and which is widely credited, alongside Black Christmas, with establishing the conventions of the slasher film genre, including its use of a masked, largely silent killer and a resourceful final girl, played in the original film by Jamie Lee Curtis. The franchise has produced thirteen films across several continuities, including direct sequels, a mid series reboot directed by Rob Zombie and a 2018 legacy sequel that discarded the intervening sequels to serve as a direct follow up to the original, and it has expanded into novels and comic books. Made on a budget of about 300,000 dollars, the original film grossed some 70 million dollars and remains one of the most profitable independent films ever made relative to its cost, and Carpenter's minimalist piano theme is among the most recognized pieces of horror film scoring.